The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1920-03-05
COAST NEWS
Seize 2s7 Cans Of Opium.

Seize 257 Cans Of Opium.
SAN FRANUSCO.-Seizure of 257
ans Of opium, valued at $4,000, from
he storage storerooms of the Pacific
Mail steamship Columbia is announced
by John s. Irby, port surveyor.
Loses euiion-DoiIar Suit.
LOS ANGELES.-Federal govern
ment claims to q quarter section OF
oil land valued at one billion dollars
were denied by United States District
Judge Robert s. Bean in a decision
filed recently.
Mushroom" Feast Is Fatal.
POMONA, Cal.-Miss Thelma Brown
Of Ell Cajon, CAL, a student at Pomona
college at Claremont, near here, died
Saturday as the result Of a "mush-
room feast" which she and three
other girl students held.
American Cable Restored.
SAN Observation-Disclosures of
the commercial Pacific cable from San
to Honolulu, Guam, Tokyo
and Japan, was announced Saturday.
The cable broke February 10 between
Midway Island and Guam.
Seize Liquor and Also Ship.
SEATTLE.-Federal officers recent
ly seized the halibut schooner Uranus,
its cargo. Of $4,000 pounds of halibut
and arrested Captain Carl p. Rekdal
and two members of the crew follow
ing the discovery on board of five
cases of Canadian whisky.
Clear Three Of DisIoyalty.
SAN FRANCISCO.-C. o. Swanberg,
Henry w. Westphal and Robert R.
Russ, business men, were found not
guilty in the federal court of a charge
of violating the trading with the enc
my act. The government charged they
sent money to relatives in Germany.
Killing Pig, Meets Death.
EVERETT.-Howarth Mutual, It,
year-old boy, living with his parents
at Ebey's prairie, WILDLY Island, was
accidentally killed recently when the
struggles of a pig he was killing de-
Elected his knife and he struck him
self in the thigh, severing an artery.
He died in Is minutes.
Seems Impossible.
SAN FRANCISCO.-An agreement,
effective April 1, which is counted
upon completely to stabilize labor con-
ditions in the building industry here
and to do away with strikes and lock.
outs, has been signed by the building
trades council and the building indus.
tries association, according to P. H.
Mccarthy, president of the council.
c. L.-Byron Free Under Big Bail.
PORTLAND, Ore.--Bonds of Carlos
L. Byron, convicted at Portland and
Seattle of %swindling by selling ficti'
tious rights to homesteads, whose
sentence was postponed by Federal
Judge Wolverton for three months, in
order that he might hold court at
Seattle, were raised from $4,000 to SO,
900. He is one of the most heavily
bonded men released in this manner
for his Seattle bail is $4,000 mere
Byron was sentenced to Is months
at McNeirs island and to pay a fine
of $1,000.
Wins Great Auto Race.
LOS ANGELES.-Jimmie Murphy
long known to automobile racing mer
as a mechanician, made his initia
western appearance as a driver Sat
urday at the Los Angeles speedway
and captured the 250-mile openin,
event there, thereby annexing $4,000
first prize money. Murphy came from
behind when Joe Boyer, who had beef
out in front for A laps, was forced tt
the pits by a broken connecting rot
that put him out of the race.
Murphy's time for the $50 miles wa.
2 hours rs minutes 1859 seconds o,
an average speed for the distance o
1882 miles an hour.
Ira Vail came in second, capturin,
$500 prive money, and Joe Thomas
raj third, winning $4,000.