The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-03-03
A.. TIE GEN STATE


All livestock organizations in the
state have pledged their support to
The campaign for the eradication Of
/ rabies.
! Salmon is destined to become one
OF the greatest sheep shipping points
/ in all the country, in the opinion of
well informed fockmasters.
The city council has ordered the
issuance of eighty thousand dollars OF
bonds for the purchase Of the pres
, ent waterworks system in Twin Falls.
At a recent meeting of leading citi-
zens, good roads association was
organize in Malad to be known as the
| Oneida County Good Roads asoscia-
| tion.
| The Bull Automobile association
| has been organized. There are about
| lbs automobiles in the Bull district,
| the largest percentage of them being
owned by farmers.
Walter Garron, in jail at Pocatello
| for applying air brakes to a train near
Soda Springs, so that he could alight,
sawed a bar off of his cell door and
escaped from jail.
| Stockmen and business men OF Nam
pa and vicinity have united in an or
ganization which will give the town
large and thoroughly modern stock
yard establishment.
A shipment of six dozen Bob White
quail is coming from Kansas City for
the fish and game department The
birds will be liberated in Lemhi Ban
mock and Twin Falls counties.
Pocatello celebrated Washington's
birthday in complete manner The
business of the city was practically
suspended for the day and the even
ing was replete with social functions.
William Weatherholt, an old-timer
OF the Squaw creek country, was
found dead in bed in a cabin on what
Is known as the old Bill Fuller ranch.
1t is thought he had been dead sew
eral days.
John Peters, a farmer residing near
Twin Falls, has been awarded dam
| ages In the sum Of $500 on account of
injuries received by him on defec-
tive sidewalk. He sued for the sum
of $2,SS2.
The directors of the Jerome school
district have decided to submit to the
voters proposition to vote a bond
issue of $40 900 to erect new high
school building at Jerome. The pres
ent school facilities are inadequate.
Farmers in the Salmon and LemIhi
river valleys are turning their atten-
ton to the production of hay, in an
ticipation of the growing demand for
winter feed for stock. Hay has been
high for the past three months, up to
$40 and SIS per ton.
The annual meeting of the forest
rangers of the northwestern section
of Forest District No. convened in
the rooms OF the Club of Commerce in
Idaho Falls on February % for
three days session, with over forty
| forest rangers present.
Plans fer the observance of Pioneer
day at Bull on April Is now indicate
that it will be the biggest event ever
pulled off on the Twin Falls tract
There will be monster parade, in
| 800 automobiles.
The body of Daniel Ask, the con-
tractor who met his death at Poca-
tello by being buried under tons of
earth and gravel while digging we'll,
was recovered two days later The
soil in which the well was being dug
was of such nature that one caye-in
followed another.
The little 11-year-old nephew of
Deputy Forest Supervisor H. G. Nc
Pheters met with an accident while
skiing on Trail creek The lad fell
and fractured his leg midway between
the knee and hip. When he fell the
skis turned under, twisting his leg,
causing the fracture.
The work of excavating for the
erection of the Fales Houston Pack
ing company's plant at Prospect, just
north of Pocatello, is progressing rap
idly. The building of this plant will
give Pocatello one of the most up-to-
date packing plants in the intermoun-
tain country.
At a largely attended mass meet
ing at Buhl of farmers it was decid-
ed to devote five days to road work,
the farmers to donate the time and
the use of their teams and men to
cooperate with the highways com
nissioners of the Bull highway dis
trict in repairing the roads of the
district.
The Franklin County Good Roads
association is planning to join the
Northern Utah Commercial clubs and
Good Roads association for the pur.
pse of permanently locating the Lin
coin and Yellowstone park highways
through Cache valley, thence through
Franklin county to Bannock county
on the north.
The first baseball fatality of 1916
( in the state of Idaho, if not in the
nation, took place last week in the
country two miles from Nampa. when
Mildred, the 6h-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Marek, was
ctrucl< pvpr tho heart with O haSaboIi