The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-04-28

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The three-yearold daughter OF Char
les Smith OF the Franklin district fell
from a drill on which whe was riding
with her father and broke her left
arm.
James Beckman was arrested 1t
Twin Falls. charged with being the
owner OF a suit case containing nifty
three pints OF whiskey, shipped from
Salt Lake.
The potato cellars OF Idaho are now
( shipping the last of the 1915 potato
crop to the eastern markets and a
number OF refrigerator cars are being
used in that traffic.
| Alton, the 4-year-old son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Andrew Fuhriman OF Franklin,
was SO seriously injured by being run
over by manure spreader that he
died from his injuries.
whiskey were found by the county Of
ficers in a COW stable at nixon, but
he officers have been unable to find
an owner for the whiskey.
The trip of the get acquainted"
special train which the Pocatello Com
mercial club had planned to take a
large crowd OF boosters to Twin Falls
Ind many other towns along the route
has been postponed.
In the three months of January,
February and March the Mountain
States Telephone & Telegraph COM
pany office at Caldwell put In 80 new
telephones, equalling the record for
the entire year of 1915.
One hundred dollars an acre is the
price paid by j. w. Epler of Twin
Falls for the 40-acre tract two miles
east of that city owned by the coun-
ty and known as the poor farm" prop
erty, which was sold at public auction.
warm debate took prace in the
Pocatello city council over the open
ing OF Sunday picture shows, which
want to open free of charge, taking
what is given at door by people. The
matter was referred to the city at
torney.
Though attendance at the state con-
yention of Parent-Teacher circles held
in Caldwell last week was not so large
rs that of last year, the 1916 assemb.
Iage set new record for the amount
Of business transacted and for en-
thusiasm.
The authorities of Idaho Falls are
searching for Alice Empey, the T.
year-old granddaughter of Joseph EN-
place, who disappeared on April &c.
The child Is believed to be the victim
Of a kidnapping plot.
1t is reported from Twin Falls that
the potato supply in that vicinity of
the state has almost been entirely
shipped out. The shipments from
southeastern Idaho and Oregon to
California have been so large that the
market in that state is swamped
The man who claimed to be AL
Ringing, who desired to purchase
2,l00 acres of land near Pocatello for
large western winter quarters for his
circus, is alleged to be a CRATER of
some sort. He had disappeared from
Pocatello before Ringlings could be
communicated with.
Not dissenting vote was cast in
the bond election held by the Caldwell
irrigation district on the proposal to
issue bonds in the sum of 5000, and
but one qualified elector failed to
cast a ballot
Two men suspected of robbing the
Bownerman Lumber company a. Poca-
tello were arrested last week. Loot
found on the men was identified as
that stolen from the lumber company,
the police say.
j. l.. Hosler of Five-Mile, his wife.
mother-in-law and two children mar
rowly escaped serious injury in an
auto accident as the result of a bar
ricade acrss the main paved road at
Cole school house, built by gang of
boys.
Pocatellans witnessed an unusual
scene last week, when members of
the sheriff's staff had spring house
and emptied the contents Of
several months accumulation of bot
ties of contraband intoxicants into the
sewer. This had all been taken from
bootleggers.
Mayor Williams vetoed the ordi- |
nance permitting Sunday movies at
Pocatello, on the grounds that the pc
tition was illegal, that it would be !
unfair to other business houses which |
were closed on Sunday and that it |
would lower the standard or morals |
Of the city.
II. l.. Hopes, until recently auditor |
of JEFFERSON county. was arrested at |
his home at Rigby. on an embezzle- |
ment and fraud charge of raising |
county warrants. the specific charge |
being that 50 warrant issued for
postage had been raised to $12.
Hopes declares his innocence.
The state of Idaho will sell 5000 |
acres of land in the vicinity of Burley,
April %. The land is under the Mini. |
ioka reclamation project recently COM
Dleted by the federal government, |
,ne of the first federal reclamation
projects in the United States under
which state lands may receive water.