The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1918-01-18
In THE GEM STATE


livestock, engineering and irrigation
societies of Idaho is to be held at Idaho
Falls January IA to 10.
Owing to the unusually open winter
ranchers in southern Idaho are becom-
i.ag considerably concerned over the
sale of their sulplus hay.
1t will cost the city of Nampa S199.9l
to insure it's appointed employees with
the state Of Idaho July L. 1918, under
the new casualty insurance law.
According to reliable information, 1t
is altogether probable that special
war session of the Idaho legislature
will be convened early in February.
A. c. Townley, president of the
Nonpartisan league, is coming to Ida
no the middle of this month to de-
liver a series of speeches in the Snake
river valley.
Two masked robbers with automatic
revolvers held up six men in the I'm
derwook Typewriter agency at Poca-
tello and forced them to give up their
valuabes, amounting to about $50.
Ground was broken at Twin Falls on
January 8 for the construction of a
i Sac, 900 three-story brick apartment
house being built by Mrs. Mary Hick-
Ter, owner and manager of Hickler's
cash store.
Orders to intern George Seaman,
native of Germany, recently arrested
at Pocatello, were received from Wash
ington last week. Shortly before his
arrest Seaman was employed in the
sugar factory ut Blackfoot.
An Indian woman was burned to
death at her hut near. Blackfoot on
the Snake river when she rushed back
into the blazing structure for the pur-
pose of saving gold coins to the value
of $40 which she had hidden in the
place.
A further raise in tobacco, due to
the war conditions, is announced by
dealers in Boise. Five-cent cigars,
which were not raised few months
ago when other tobacco mounted i'll
price, will now be sold at cents
each.
w. T@Bartles, a farmer living some
}, five miles northwest of Wendell, has
been arrested on the charge of having
beaten a woman named Lois s5isk, who
claims Bartles beat her after she hac
, shot one of his dogs that had at
tackled her
J Clarence Roe, wealthy rancher ol
!, Idaho Falls, is reported to have lost 6
t tin box containing S7700 in gold, tht
, box being taken from him by MAI
: who stumbled against Roe as he was
. carrying the money on the street IL
Pocatello at night.
The Idaho Woolgrowers' association
which held its annual session at Boise
last week, elected the following Off
GERS for the ensuing year: President
Hugh Sproat, Mayfeld; vice president
John Skillern, Boise; secretary treas
urer, John 1ddenbaugh.
i Frank Brim, the Is year-old Cald
well boy charged with manslaughte
as the result of the death on Octobe
! of Walter Freeman from gunsho
wound received during an altercatio
:, !. with Brim on the evening of Angus
= 10, will be tried next week.
:, With the hope of some day exper
! encing the romance of sending out q
IS. O. s." message from some ship i
a distress, sixteen young men and
. sweet faced girl have entered the sp'
) cial school of radio telegraphy installe
g at the Idaho College of Technology 4
Il Pocatello.
nf and rnprfh
dies from Canyon county last yea
totaled 1915 cars, according to r.
port showing the business of tf
county during 1917. This is SS4 MOI
~ cars than were shipped in 1914 an II
crease of 612 over 1915 and 66 moi
le than were shipped in 1916.
t. During the farmers and hous
II keepers week at Moscow, January
y to February 4, the principal emphas
II of every lecture delivered and evel
" topical discussion held will be place
u upon the changes and readjustmen
necessary to meet the emergen'
10 situation created by the war.
rs There are no actual figures ava
able showing the number of Idaho mi
who enlisted III various brthcueS
~ the army and navy, but that the nul
ber was large is we'll known. 1t
between 1900 and 2000. On basis
nm 1900, the grand total of men contrl
=, uted since the war started Is 5729.
ra The fight over the new workmeI
-, compensation commission of Ida
-. reached ii climax at Boise last we
:. when the executive board of the Ida
10 State Federation of Labor filed
80 tition with Governor Alexander ask
~ the removal from the board of Geor
~ II. Fisher of Bancroft, its president.
Thus far there has been but little
mand for S15 hay and farmers in sol
ri communities are joining forces in ser
- ing representatives to Texas and otf
~, markets to seek purchasers. 1t
-, stated that about twenty-five carloa
~ of Idaho hay have recently be
-, shipped to Texas and other southt
states and that 1t has netted the gre
ers about S14 per ton.