The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1910-11-04
IDAHO STATE NEWS


city officials.
w. D. Harris. who lives two and a
half miles west of Burley, has made
several hundred gallons OF fine mo.
lasses from cane grown on his land
this year
A shipment OF eleven carloads of
cattle and two carloads OF hogs was
sent out from Grangevile by buyers
who have been in that section buying
for several weeks.
Some miscreant has succeeded in
poisoning, In a certain section OF
Boise, during the past week, nine dogs
and fifteen cats. several of the ami
mails killed being very valuable.
The Idaho exhibit for the national
Horticultural show will consist of a
carload in all and will be the finest
exhibit of Idaho fruits ana grains
which has ever been shown in the
east.
The Grangevillc Light & Power
company has rendered a proposal to
The city council to increase the light
rate, provided five-year contract is
made.
The farmers of Camas Prairie coun-
try are engaged In digging the potato
crop, the acreage this season being
unusually large. Because of the pro-
ionged drought the yield is far below
the average.
Joseph Westerberg OF Rexburg,
l3-year-old scheolboy, was accidentally
shot by a companion while they were
out squirrel hunting The bullet struck
the boy In the temple, death result
Ing few hours later.
A full carload of apples, containing
$50 boxes. has been shipped from
Payette to Council Bluffs. Iowa. to be
exhibited at the meeting of the Ma.
tional Horticultural congress. which
meets there next month.
The meeting Of the Second District
Federation of Clubs at Shoshone last
week. proved to be one Of the enjoy
able annual gatherings Of this fedora
ton. Nine clubs of the district were
represented by twenty-six delegates.
The auction sale of Carey act lands
was held at Springfield on Thursday.
Water rights sold at prices ranging
from S15 to $50 per acre. Probably
the purchasers secured the best value
for their money that can be had today
In Idaho.
Prof. f. d. Farrell, director of the
southern Idaho agricultural extension
OF the University of Idaho, has an.
nounced that four movable schools OF
agriculture will be held simultaneous.
ly at Weser, Meridian, Wendell and
idaho Fails.
Present indications point to the
unpreventable freeing of all of the
prisoners now in the state peniten.
tiary who committed crimes before
the indeterminate sentence law went
into effect, but who were sentenced
under that law.
John Amestoy was in charge of
pack train, eight miles from Malad,
when the animals became frightened
and stampeded He was thrown from
his horse and dragged considerable
distance, sustaining injuries which
may result in his death.
Reports show that not more than Is
per cent of the grain crop of central
Idaho has passed from the hands OF
the farmers. The yield in the country
handled by the Lewiston buyers is es.
timated at 100000 bushels, includ
ing wheat. barley and oats.
That the Citizens State bank of
Standpoint, which has been closed for
the last ten days. will be taken over
by the Standpoint First National bank
is the statement of W. G. Cruise, state
bank commissioner, who has auditt6
the books of the two banks.
The PREPARATIONS for the good roads
convention. which Will convene II
Boise on October 25, are well under
way. and this meeting promises to be
a huge success, as there will prob
ably be eighty delegates present from
the associations within Ada county.
The Clearwater ferry, which has
been in operation since the early COS
when Lewiston was a small mining
hamlet, will be moved half a mile far.
Their up stream, affording a landing
for the north side on the Weaskus
tract, while the south approach will
be on Holbrook island.
Guilty of manslaughter was the
verdict of the jury at Occur d'Alene
IN the case of Russ ludlow, charged
with the killing of Sam Crone on
March 29. Crone and ludlow were
living near Hayden lake.
The boats of the Open River Trans
portation company will be placed in
service between Portland and Lewis
ton as soon as the stage of water is
favorable for navigation. j
Six billion board feet of lumber,
valued at about S15.OOO,OOO, was de
stroyed in forest fires in the national |
forests of Montana and northern Ida.
no. The total area burned over I'm
this one district was put at 1850 .Ool /
acres.
A successful raid of the blind /