The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1910-10-21
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN sRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given in q Few Lines.
INTER-MOUNTAlN.


low workers could rescue them, both
men were fatally burned.
Settlers are blamed for forest fires
In Colorado, it being charged that GER
tain settlers have maliciously started
fires after the rangers had gotten the
| fires under control
That the coal mines of Colorado are
not and cannot be properly inspected
according to law, under present condi-
tons, is the statement made by State
| Mine Inspector John ID. Jones.
Thomas ]. Karrick. aged IA, son Of
Mrs. Sarah e. Karrick, supervisor of
art in the public schools of Salt Lake
City. was murdered by burglar that
the lad found robbing his home. The
murder occurred at noon, and no one
saw the criminal and there is scarce
ly any clue as to his identity.
DOMESTIC.
prize fighter, known as KID
Fisher, was killed in the tenth round
Of a fight at Memo. Okla Fisher aied
few hours after the fight
Forty-three persons were injured
when a passenger train went through
bridge near Compton, Oklahoma
H. B. Smith, a wealthy druggist of
Norwich, Conn, who went to Alaska
to hunt big game. and Alfred Lowell,
eldest son of one of the founders of
Seward, were drownd in Lake Kenia,
Kenia peninsula, October II, while re-
turning from moose hunt in the
mountains
The United States army transport
Sheridan has arrived at San Francis
co from Manila with 300 soldiers, re-
turning from service in the Philip
pines, and 100 cabin passengers.
Captain w. r. Bledsoe, rs years old,
Instructor in history in the New Mex
lean military institute. was found dead
in his room at Roswell, N. M. Death
was caused by an overdose of strych.
nine.
James e. Woods, an inventor, was
caught in the shafting at factory at
Aurora, ILL.,, and whir.ed to death He
had just completed an invention of a
corn husking machine, and Aurora
hnanciers were ready to buy his pa
tent.
Tyrus Cobb has been declared cham
pion batsman Of the big leagues, de
teating Larry Lajoie by small mar
gin, and wins the automobile Lajoie,
however, will b. 'sivcn duplicate Of
the machine.
Dr. w. II. Sledge of Mobile, Ala.
has been arrested on an indictment
charging murder in the second degree
as the result of the death of Miss Bur
CESS, who made an ante-mortem
had been performed.
An attempt to rob a passenger train
near Hepburn, Okla, failed when a
water train ran into a pile Of ties
piled across the tracks. The water
train was not damaged and the pas
senger, due in twenty minutes, was
stopped before it reached the spot
In a fight between George Johnson.
a negro, and a posse at Huntington,
w. Va, two persons, including John
son, were killed, two fatally injured
and five seriously wounded.
That there is about as much danger
Of war between England and Ger
many as there is between Mars and
he United States. and that the build
ing of warships is running the Gun
tries of Europe. is the observation of
President David Starr Jordan of Lee
and Stanford university, after a visit
to Europe
The work of educating the negro
has progressed so steadily in the last
zen years that on y 43 per cent of the
race in the United States at present
ire illiterates, accord ng to Mrs. EN-
ma Erskine Hahn OF New York city.
who addressed TIE students of the
national religious training school at
Durham n. c., on Wedne sday
Theodore Roosevelt made an aero
plane flight at ST Louis on Tuesday
and said il was the finest experience
ne ever had had He travelled twice
around the aviation field at Kinloc5,
eighteen miles west OF ST. Louis, in
three minutes and 20 seconds.
Charles Fischer. aged II, was swung
writhing and screaming from the side
walk in New York City by a mas who
used the boys BODY to check a bullet
ared by Harry Greenwald an expugil-
list. The missile pierced the child's
brain and he died within an hour.
Senator Timothy ID. Sullivan-"Big
Tim"-has startled some of the fol-
lowers of the Bowery by declaring
openly in favor of woman's suffrage.
He advocates submitting the question
Of giving women the ballot to refer
andum vote.
over 100 negro loafers and Migrants
were rounded up in Savanna, Ga. by
the police and locked up. The pur-
pose of the raid was to force the idle
negroes to g to work for themselves
or to help put ;he grand prize automo-
bile course IL condition for the race
next month.