The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-05-05

AS the result of a contest between
me Reds and the Blues. the member
ship of the Nampa Commercial club
aas passed the 800 mark.
Construction of the new cheese fac.
tory at McDermott is well under way,
and it is expected that the plant will
De put in operation by May Is.
The senate has passed the house
pill which authorizes the construction
Of bridge across the Snake river by
Twin Falls and Minidoka counties.
The Idaho-Oregon Holiness school
At Nampa has reached the point
where it must either have more build
lngs and equipment or else stand still.
Joy riders stole Alfred Stones auto
| mobile from in front of his home at
Caldw ell, the machine being found in
ditch Jour miles from town, badly
wrecked.
DR.. w. N. Ruble, known among min
ing men as the inventor of the Ruble
elevator, machine which was a big
FACTOR in revolutionizing placer mining,
lied at Salmon
j. B. Smith, wealthy resident of
Hepburn, was killed at Renfro station
by an Oregon Short Line train. Mr..
Smith was walking on the track when
struck by the train.
Union baptismal services were con-
1ucted at the Boise river, Just south
of Eagle, on Sunday afternoon. About
-wenty converts of the recent revival
meetings were baptised.
Fred Willetts shot his former wife
from whom he was divorced, at his
sons place of business in Idaho Falls.
nficting fatal wounds, then turned
The gun on himself, committing sui
eide.
Dennis O'Mahoney reports the sale
Of the Red Prince mining property.
consisting of three claims, three miles
from Pocatello, to the Montana De
velopment company, for the sum of
forty thousand dollars.
Acting upon advice to the effect
that the dog which bit 3-year-old La
vo2ne Wilson of Twin Falls, had hy-
lrophobia, Mrs. Lee Wilson, the
mother, took the child to Boise for
special Pasteur treatment.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall
f. Dickerson of Weiser was totally
destroyed by fire. The Dickersons
were down town at the time, and as
there was no fire of any kind in the
mouse, its origin is a mystery.
Upon recommendation of Score
Wilson has excluded about 5,575 acres
Of land from the Targhee national for
est in Idaho. TO be subject to settle
ment from June 23 to July 20
Mrs. Juan Aclecoa, % years old,
wife of sheepherder on the Archa-
bal-Cleveland ranch at Ten Mile was
drowned in the New York canal when
team of horses he was driving be-
came frightened, and upset the buggy
in the canal
Run down and killed by a speeding
automobile, the occupants of which, in
order to conceal their crime, picked
up the body and carried it away with
them-that, it is considered by some,
IS the fate which probably befell g.
year-old Alice Empey of Ammon.
The Pocatello Water company has
refused the offer of $290,00O for the
water plant at Pocatello, which was the
value set by the public utilities COM
mission. Mayor Williams states that
the city will proceed to install NUM-
cipal plant, as $4,000 in bonds has
been voted and sold for this purpose.
The Custer mining district of Gus
ter county Idaho, is to be given a new
lease of life and the properties there
formerly owned by w. s. Mccormick of |
Salt Lake, and which were sold to
headed by W. H. Fits of |
Colorado Springs, who is closely iden- |
tilted with the heads of the Utah Cop. |
per company, will be developed.
The surveyor general has sent a
party of engineers to the Little Willow |
creek country, lying about 10 miles /
from Payette, to do the necessary sur
veying to enable him to make plans |
and estimate the cost of construction |
Of an irrigation system for that dis |
trict.
The request made by the Boise |
Merchants association for the street |
privileges Of the city during the
Fourth of July celebration in order 10
control the concessions that the Boise
merchants may derive all the benefits
rom the asles. has been granted by
he city council.
1t has been reported to the state
by a prominent sheep
nan that so many rabid coyotes are
n different localities of the state that
sheep dogs are becoming scarce. Each
line dog is bitten by a coyote it
must be killed to prevent a possible
development of rabies.
War is being made on bicycle riders
who take to the sidewalks in Nampa,
| nun<oer of arrests and convictions
icing made of late
The county officials confiscated two
'arrels of whisky that had been
hipped to Pocatello from Salt Lake
lnder the label, olive OIL"