The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-09-08

cash and stamps.
The net receipts for the Payett,
national forest during the fiscal yea
ending June 30. 1916, amounted tc
$12,622.25
bear and two cubs were killed
last week by J. Nicholson on hi.
ranch near Northfork The animals
were raiding Michelsen's hogs.
DR.. j. e. Crouch of Payette has
been named lieutenant in the medi
cal corps of the Second Idaho in
fantry regiment by the war depart
ment.
For a load of Turkey red wheat
brought to Nampa by o. T. Anderson
the Nampa Milling & Elevator com.
pany last week paid the record price
Of 81 per hundred.
The resignation of Major w. II. Tu,
key, ranking officer in the medical
corps of the Second Idaho infantry
regiment, has been accepted by the
war department to become effective
September Is.
The Jerome Pickle works. launched
/
at Jerome last spring, promises to
become quite an industry. About five
acres adjoining the town was put
INTO cucumbers and the yield is show.
ing satisfactory results.
With hands and arms badly scar
red. the result of half hours fight
IN the dark with rabid coyote, Bud"
JOY of Mulda, Cassia county, arrived
IN Boise last week to receive the Sc
rum treatment for rabies.
Caldwell is to have a style show.
Believing that the women of Ca1d-
well would appreciate an event of
this kind, six progressive business
establishments of the town have ar
ranged to hold a show on September
IL and IL.
Hundreds of sheep in the Wood
river section have died from poison
said to be mainly from eating wild
or choke cherry leaves. The raw
ages have occurred in focks feeding
along Beaver. Camp, Poison, Rock
and Willow creeks, within the limits
of Blaine county.
The net receipts for the Caribou
forest during the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1916, amounted to $19,235.72.
vi this amount, the sum of s1S,65l .O4
was paid in by stockmen for grazing
privileges; $4101S was received for
the sale of timber, and $74.5O from
special privileges.
A new law passed by congress per-
mits entrymen who have ACQUIRED
less than 800 acres of land under
The enlarged homestead act to
make additional entry of land not
contiguous to their present home
stead, providing there is no land
open to entry adjoining.
H. Harland, newly appointed regis
.er of the state land department. has
assumed his new duties. Prior to
moving on an Idaho fruit farm ten
years ago Mr.. Harland was a govern
nent postoffice inspector and is thor
oughly familiar with the clerical work
hat must be handled in the registers
office.
Plans are being made for creating
a drainage district of the overflow
lands of the valleys of the st. Joe, st.
Maries and Occur d'Alene rivers, for
me purpose of dredging the Spokane
river at its inlet from the Occur |
d Alene lake in order to secure
larger opening for the escape of the
spring floods.
About 100 land owners in the Boise |
valley, who opposed the contract for
he drainage work by the government |
md the purchase of water rights for |
he Nampa and Meridian irrigation |
district, have taken a writ of error to |
he supreme court of the United |
States from a decision of the su.
)reme court of Idaho.
bar of lead weighing forty |
pounds, being the first metallic lead
Produced in the Occur d'Alene min
ng district, was presented to the
1hamber of Commerce OF Occur
PAlene by the Chamber of Commerce
II Kellogg at the thirteenth annual
miners picnic and smelter celebra-
ion, which was held at Kellogg.
At the meeting of the Pocatello
club on August 20. Ezra
deeker, 81 years of age and one of
he pioneers who came west with an
* team in 1852, gave an interesting
ak in behalf of bill now pending
efore congress for the improvement
nd permanent maintenance of the
Id Oregon trail, to be known as
Pioneer Way"
Mrs. K. A. Thomas. while driving
cross the Snake river bridge at Weis-
r, was thrown from the vehicle in
Which she was seated, due to the
of the horse attached to
he rig by passing auto. sustaining
broken hip.
For his thirty-fve-acre potato crop,
TO 1900 sacks, or $500
ushels, Roy Shelp of Deer Flat, re-
eived $1,000 and for his fourteen-acre
rop A. B. Raymond received $1,000,
he latter crop amounting to about 200
ushels per acre.