The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-12-28
IN THE GEM STATE

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pupils Of the Franklin school, three
| times week.
Every attorney in Payette volun-
teered service to the registrants who
may need assistance in preparing an
sWers to the questionnaires.
Six balers are working on hay which
Will be exported from Canyon county
to Texas, where shortage has al
ready seriously injured the stock in
dustry.
Pocatello grocers all are now solid
ly lined up behind the ''cash and
carry" plan voted for unanimously by
more than 25O grocerymen of south
eastern Idaho
The killing of black bear has cost
the state $13,770 this year, since boun-
ties have been claimed on 1877 bears.
Most Of the bears were killed in Ida
ho and Bonner counties.
An interesting program has been ar
ranged for the third annual meeting
OF the Idaho State Library associa-
ton, which is to be held this year
at Pocatello, January 2 and 3.
Coyotes are apparently holding their
own in the state since claims for
bounties on 1881 have been paid on
animals killed within the last year.
The state pay $3.50 on coyotes.
The farmers in the vicinity of Shell
ley are experiencing great trouble, due
to the frost, in keeping their potatoes
from going bad, and have found it
necessary to sort them frequently.
Lucie Call, the 3-year-old child OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph A. Call, was
killed when a load of lumber Mr.. Call
was hauling turned over on the Boise
Smiths Prairie road at Long Gulch
A total of 2134 wildcats, 433 lynx
AZ cougars and SO wolves were killed
In Idaho during the past year. The
state pays $3.50 on wildcats, $3.50 on
lynx, $40 on wolves and $25 on cou-
gar.
Returned from a mission to Tahiti.
j. Leonard Davis of Blackfoot, relates
the experience of being aboard a
ship that was nearly lured to de-
struction by German raider in the
south Pacific.
calf donated to the Nampa Red
cross by Mrs. Erwin Bissett, was sold
at public auction for $11O. The pro-
ceeds Will be used by the Red Cross
chapter to purchase supplies for max
ing hospital garments.
Claims Tor hounties on predatory
animals amounting to S91 ,521 have
been filed with the state veterinar-
ian's department since January 1,
1917. OF the total claims for bounties
about $4,000 has been paid by the
state.
Despite the lack of interest on the
part OF the big bond buying houses
in the state hi ghway bonds offered for
sale by the state treasurer, Idaho will
finance its own road building. The
state land board has agreed to take
the entire $AO0,GD0 issue.
James G. Callahan, multimillionaire
mining man of Coeur d'Alene, who is
suing his wife for divorce on the
grounds that she magried him for his
money, has won the first round Of the
legal struggle. The demurrer of his
wife just been overruled.
Ten owners Of small flocks of sheen
aggregating about 24OO head, met at
Caldwell and reached an agreement by
which their interests will be consoli-
dated in order that costs for grazing
the sheep in the Payette national for
est may be borne comparatively.
Otto Keller of Boise was reported as
probably lost in the woods above Idaho
City, according TO telephoned infor-
nation received in Boise 1t WIS re-
ported that young Keller had gone
hunting about three weeks previous,
and nothing had been heard from him
since.
K. II. Park of Boise has been elect
ed president of the State Federation
of Labor, to succeed Il. f. Cation. who
resigned short time ago, in order to
devote all Of his time to the new
duties which he will assume January
l as commissioner of the Industrial ac-
cident board.
Mrs. ID. H. Haylett of Homedale
may lose several head of stock because
her pet shepherd dog developed rabies
and died violent death. They day
before the canine ran amuck he
nipped nearly all of the livestock on
the logs as he was driving them to the
barn from the pasture.
William A. Rankin, who was com
monty known by his friends as 'Docs'
Rankin, died of heart disease at a,
Boise hospital last week. He had
been pioneer of the west for more
than fifty years, and had taken an ac-
tive part in western history and de-
v@opmeat. He was 81 years of age.