The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-03-17

1t is expected that over 5000 acre
OF beets will be grown In Twin Fall
county this season.
Pahsamaroi valley is growing con
stsntly in population, new settler
coming in every week.
The governor has issued procla
nation designating April to 9 a:
Western Consumers Week"
The Southern Idaho Y. w. C. A
conference was held at Caldwell las
week, three days session beini
held.
A true leapyear girl made her ap
pearance at Star On February 20
when daughter was born to Mr.. anc
Mrs. Jack Turpen
/ That blackleg is causing a loss Of
Serious proportions to cattle owners
in the northern part OF Ada county
is the latest report.
1t is reported that the herd of an
telope on the Pass creek bench are
starving and that coyotes have already
killed a large number.
INC " 1olc66H6 Eases DeIOTe lne
district Ourt at Pocatello during the
last twelve months total 1877, with
| fourteen cases pending.
A 5-year-old grade Holstein COW al
Bull has a production record OF 80.2
pounds of butterfat in twenty-nine
days, from 2,111 pounds if milk.
Bonneville county records show If
ty-four arrests for bootlegging and six
cases pending within the past year.
Most Of the defendants pleaded guilty.
The report comes from st. Maries
that deer have forsaken their noun
tain haunts and invaded the town,
some having been seen in the court
house yard.
The sugar factory to be erected
west of Twin Falls will be one of
the largest and most modern plants
in the west. The daily capacity will
be 1,400 tons of beets.
The village trustees of Star are Civ
ing their attention to The streets OF
the town and have a foHce or men at
work grading the streets and putting
them in better shape.
Joe Streng for twenty-five years a
wool buyer in Idaho, and one of the
best known men in the intermountain
country, died at Ogden, Utah, as a re-
suit of an elevator accident.
The Twin Falls Automobile show
will be held March 20 to 25, inclu-
sive, and it is expected that practical
ly every car represented in the stats
will be exhibited at the show.
George E. Crum Of Lewiston has an
nounced his candidacy for the Repub,
lican nomination for governor of Ida
no. Mr.. Crum settled in Lewiston ID
1899, coming to this state from Ohio.
The Fort Hall mine, near Pocatello.
which has been closed for five years,
was sold last week to a Butte COM
pany, and it Is announced that active
work will be resumed on the prop
erty
Since the disappearance of the re-
cent heavy snow, the work or complet-
ing the surveys heing made by the
United States reclamation service in
Black Canyon territory is being prose
cuted.
The Mountain Home High school
basketball boys have won the north
western championship, having gone
through the season in contest with
teams from other schools without a
single defeat
AS one evidence of the advent OF
prosperity in that section of the state
1t is reported that at the Sullivan &
Turner auction at Caldwell last week
all out $40 of the $4,000 total sales
was paid on the spot in cash.
By vote of twenty-five counties
to fifteen, the Democratic state cen.
trail committee rejected the preferen-
tial primary for the election of dele
gates to the national convention as
called for by the Baltimore platform.
The revolver with which 1t is al
legged Ernest Hardenburg shot and
killed Sam Richardson has been re-
covered and is now in possession of
the sheriff at Caldwell. The revolver
"oS iouiiu hooi INC otthc Vi the VI dk
edy.
Answering numerous inquiries re-
garding artificial coloring of apples,
the state CHEMIST has decided that
there is absolutely no way in which
the coloring of apples may be in
fiuenced, declaring Idaho's sunshine
is the best pigment.
Members of woman's club at Par
ma entertained their husbands with
music, recitations. stories and refresh
ments one night recently, but the la,
dies deny the imputation that it was
necessary to give the social in order
to see their husbands.
Never have there been so few pris-
oners as at the present time at the
county jail at Boise. The former aver
age, 1t is said, was from eight to
twenty-five. Since the state went dry
the number has grown less and less
until at the present time there are
but four county prisoners and one
held on federal charge.
New directors were eltcted; $4,000
was appropriated for premiums: dates
for the annual fair were confirmed
and other matters were disposed of at