The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-09-01

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production of 700 bushels OF white po-
tatoes from thirty acres.
An automobile hit boulder in the
road near Dietrich and was wrecked.
the occupants being injured, but none
seriously.
| The farmers in the King Hin irri-
cation project, near Gienns Ferry, are
again threatened with shortage of
water for the balance OF the irriga-
ton season.
Frank Guidici, the Eight Mile
rancher who was missing from his
home for two days, is now in the Gus.
tody of the sheriff. He is believed to
be demented at times.
Fire which started in shavings in
the boiler room of the Duluth sawmill
at Harrison resulted In the destruc-
ton of the mill. The loss Is $4,000,
with insurance of $4,000
Lemhi county Is preparing to sur
vey that portion of the proposed route
OF the Boise-Butte highway which
passes north from the Custer county
| line to the Montana boundry.
1t is said that many of the farmers
who are in a position to hold their
crops are unwilling to contract at
present prices, in the belief that the
recent advances in the market will
continue.
| Threshing is now in progress
throughout the wheat belt in southern
Idaho. Local buyers report gooo yields
in the irrigated districts, but that the
dry-farm yield is generally somewhat
below the average.
| The report of the investigation OF
| the King Hill irrigation project made
| by the commission of three has been
completed and forwarded to the sec
| rotary of the interior. The King Hill
project is now state property.
Vivian Hovey young rancher Of
the Sage creek district, twenty-six
miles north of Salmon, was shot and
kifed by Stonewall Ballinger, a half
breed Indian, after dispute over a
stock range. Ballinger fled to the
mountains.
The governor announces that he
will ask the legislature to make an
appropriation for the purpose of buy
! ing and preserving the site of old Fort
Lemhi, near Tendoy, as a memorial
to the first white settlement that was
attempted in Idaho.
Three Twin Falls congregations
have outgrown their church buildings.
Recently the Baptists sold their church
to the Latter-day Saints. Last week
the Baptists purchased the present
Presbyterian edifice. A new rresby-
terrain church is planned.
1t is authoritatively announced by
the state game department that it will
recognize the first day of September
as the open date for the shooting OF
duck, goose, snipe, plover and swan.
| The federal law, however, fixes Octo-
Der / as the opening date.
The Western Potash company with
| headquarters at Idaho Falls, has been
organized and proposes to operate on
the great sagebrush areas in the
southeast, burning sagebrush in port
able burners and having extracted
from the ashes 20 per cent potash.
A verdict of murder was bought by
the coroner's jury at Twin Falls
against Harold and Lynn Lovelace,
brothers, IL and IL years old, respec-
lively, who have confessed to shoot
ing and killing Thomas Hamill, man
ual training teacher of Carson, New.
| Conditions in the Wood River Sec
ton regarding the sheep industry are
becoming very acute. The high prices
of sheep and mutton and the natural
| increase of the bands combined have
led the sheepmen to increase their
bands far beyond the capacity of the
range.
1t is being charged that hunters in
southern Idaho go across the state
line into Utah for game when bust
ness grows dull in this state. After
0agging coyotes in Utah the scalps are
sent to Salt Lake and the feet cut off
and forwarded to Boise, where bounty
| Is collected.
With THE Best for Idaho Children
as its slogan, the teachers joint in
stitute of Ada, Adams. Blaine, Boise
Canyon, Gilmore, Gem, Owyhee and
Washington counties, comprising the
southwest section of Idaho, will be
held in Boise at the high school build
ing September to 8, inclusive.
Boise automobile dealers and their
district agents have sold more auto
mobiles in the last 80 days. in pro
portion to the industry's output, than
in any precious 90day period. 1t is
estimated that no less than 200 car
loads of machines have been shipped
! into this territory in that time.
In a petition filed in the supreme
court d. l.. Rhodes of i0aho City
county attorney OF Boise county, asks
an alternative writ OF mandate direct
ed against the state board of equali
cation compelling that body to spill
the taxes returned from the railroad
property among the counties through
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