The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
PACIFIC COAST NEWS
White Gets Political Job.

steal Bill Hart's Outfit.
SANTA CRUZ, Cal.-Thieves recent
ly stole William s. Hart's cowboy out
tit, including saddle, bride, hair ropes
and other traps.
David WarfieId Injured.
LOS ANGELES, Cal.-David War
field, the actor, was struck by motor
truck and sustained broken left leg
and decorations of the nose and lips.
Anti-Red Flag Law Is Void.
SAN FRANCISCO.-Portions of a
Los Angeles ordinance prohibiting a
display Of the red flag and other radi-
cal activities were recently declared
unconstitputional by the state supreme
court
Pastor Killed by Auto.
LOS ANGELES, Cal.-The Rev.
Edwin G. Little, pastor of the First
United Presbyterian church. was
struck by an automobile in the down
town section Monday and died in the
receiving hospital a few minutes
later.
City Ownership Pays.
SAN FRANCISCO.-The municipal
railroad of San Francisco, during
slightly more than seven years opera
ton, has earned nearly $4,5OO,OOO in
excess of operating costs, according to
figures given out by the chairman of
the supervisors finance committee.
Motorist Kills Woman.
PORTLAND, Ore.--Mrs. Amelia
Newbury of Aberdeen, Wash, was in
jured fatally and her 9-year-old daugh-
ter, Grace, was knocked down here
while crossing street in the. business
section of the city by an automobile
driven by Charles Wheatley
Autos Trapped in Wires.
LOS ANGELES, Cal.-Five automo-
biles were trapped in a mass of tangled
wires Sunday when an unusually high
wind snapped off Is telephone poles in
a row along Slauson avenue, one OF
the principal motor routes of the city.
Four of the persons in the automobiles
were injured.
Nab Alleged Auto Thieves.
SEATTLE.-James P. Taylor, "a,
and G. H. Mckay, 80, are held here
at the request of Vancouver, B. c., au-
thorities, who notified Seattle police
they held warrants for the two men
charging grand larceny in Connection
with the theft of a number of auto
mobiles alleged to have been stolen
in Washington cities and later sold in
British Columbia.
$3,4oo,ooo For shipyard.
WASHINGTON-An offer of So, ,4OO,-
900 has been made to the shipping
board by David Rogers for the Skin
ner and Eddy Shipyard No. at Sc
attic. Chairman Payne says the board
was considering the offer, but that the
present operators would also be given
an opportunity to bid. The govern
ment purchased the yard two years
ago for $3,S74,0OO.
Canada Don't Want Him.
VANCOUVER, b. C.-Resolutions
protesting against the admission to
Canada of Alvo van Alvensleben, form
er financial agent of the kaiser, have
been adopted by the Great War Vet
Grams Association here. Won Alven-
sleben, recently released from Fort
Douglas prison, Salt Lake City, is at
Seattle and is to attempt to recover
a fortune he invested in Canada be.
fore the war.
Bee Causes Auto Fatality.
SALINAS. Cal.--Clarence Curtis,
Healdsberg, was killed in an automo-
bile accident on the San Juan grade
near here recently because of a
humble bee, according to his wife, who
was injured in the same accident.
Mrs. Curtis said she was driving the
car when her attention was distracted
by bee alighting on her husbands
knee. The next thing she knew the
machine was overturned at the foot
of an embankment, her husband was
dead underneath and she was being
picked up by passing motorists.
Four Lost From Submarine HI.
SAN DIEGO, Cal.-Lieutenant Com
mander James R. Webb and three
members of his crew were lost when
the submarine HI went aground at
the entrance to Magdalena bay, Lower
California recently.
The other dead are H. N Giles, ma
chinist mate; M. H. Dealman and ].
Hoffman, seamen. Their bodies were
reported to have been buried by the
survivors in the sandy beach of Santa
Margarita island, at the mouth of
Magdalena bay, about go miles south
of San Diego. 1t is believed the HI
can be saved.
100000 RANCH DEAL
Spokane, EIlensburg Men Buy Mon