The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-02-18
go GEM STATE

The discovery of valuable streal
,f high grade silver IN the Red Prince
nine near Pocstello is reported. 4
company will be formed to finance
'urther developments.
Word comes from Washington that
Senator James II. Brady is very Sc
fiously i'll. He has returned to Wash
| ngton from Florida and has been or
Tered to take an extended rest.
The Civic club of Pocateuo will
make a special effort to aid the city
council in the coming bond election
or the purpose OF purchasing a pub
ic park site at cost of $4,000.
| There are now in Canyon county
sighty-five individuals or firms who
larry permits to have alcohol or liq
Tors In their possession for scientific
mechanical or sacramento purposes.
The Bull movable school, held un-
Ter the auspices of the agricultural
extension department, the Bull Com
nercial club, the Bull public school
md others, was held February Z TO IL.
A crew of fifty men and a train of
.hree engines with just enough cars to
make home for the crew was util-
zed in opening up the Mackay branch,
which had been snowbound for three
weeks.
Over quarter of a million dollars
ire realized annually in Gem county
rom the sale Of fruits. Last year
nom Emmett there were shipped
over $50 cars of fruit, including thir-
zen carloads of melons.
The interstate commerce commits
sion authorized the Union Pacific and
Oregon Short Line to carry hay and
grains at reduced rates for 80 days
The order is for tbs relief of stock
men in the states recently snowbound.
The public utilities commission met
1t Pocatello to consider he application
Of the city for certificate of con-
yenience and necessity for the con-
struction of a water system. Many wit
nesses were examined on both sides.
After a week of fruitless search,
he men who were engaged in drag
ying the Boise river below Fairview
avenue bridge at Boise, for the body
Of Elmer Shoemaker, who was drown
I'D near the bridge January 80, gave
lp the task.
After bootleggers and other viola
tors of the law had entered pleas of
guilty before the district court in forty
out of fiftysix criminal cases, four
prisoners cut their way through the
bars of the county Jail at Pocatello
and escaped,
At the end of the month of Janu-
airy, according to the report of State
Treasurer Eagleson to the governor,
he balances in the various state
funds totaled S709,9S2.S6 as against
s732,4346S on hand at the beginning
of the month.
January was the record breaking
month fer the Carnegie library at
Boise. Never in any previous month
has there been so many readers, the
attendance almost doubling that of
other months. This is thought to be
due to the closing of saloons.
That the city of Caldwell spent
goodly sum of money on its roads
and streets in the past month is
shown by the monthly reports of the
clerk and treasurer. The amounts ex
pended in sanding thoroughfares are
81 100 for labor and 500 for sand and
gravel.
The area of Gem county is 573
square miles, containing 105,117 acres
of land divided as follows: irrigated
lands, 50,054 acres; dry farm lands,
81 033 acres; grazing lands, 1858
acres and mineral lands, 1,347 acres.
The assessed valuation of the county
is $3,466, 739.40.
Cyclone Workman threw Gus Pap
pas, at Preston, in two straight falls,
the first in fifty minutes and fifteen
seconds and the second in fifteen min
utes and five seconds. In both falls
the head SCISSORS and double arm bar
were used. Pappas challenged Work
man to return match
There was but on clear day at Pc
catello in the month of January. The
for the month averaged 251
inches, and at one time there was
mantle of seven inches covering the
district. Train service has been in
terrupted to greater extent than
at any time for humber or years.
During 1915, in the Boise land dis
trict, comprising the counties of Ada,
Adams, Boise, Canyon Elmore, Gem,
Idaho, Owyhee and Washington, pat.
ents were issued for nearly one hun
1red thousand acres of the national
making this amount available
Tor purposes of taxation.
The women's clubs of HALEY are
uniting for the purpose of making
Baby week" in that city complete
success. The clubs which have joined
N the movement locally are the Civic
club, Home Economics
association, the kindergarten club and
the Daughters of the Pioneers.
Orville Payne Johnson, an idaho
pioneer, died at San Diego, February
10. Mr.. Johnson was Wen known as