The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1918-11-01
IN THE GEM STATE

Idaho exceeded Its Liberty Bond
quota for the fourth Liberty Loan cam
paign $1,500,OO0, according to figures
prepared by Monte B. Gwinn, state
chairman.
Public lands in Bannock county win
hereafter be leased only to bona fide
residents Of Idaho for grazing pur-
poses, according to\a decision reached
by the state land board
A census of the students at Caldwell
buying war savings stamps showed the
school was nearly 100 per cent. Stud
ents have been buying thrift stamps at
the rate Of $50 day for the last two
weeks.
Out Of IS class ! registrants of the
class Of September II, 1913, submit
ting to physical examination at Twin
Falls. last week. 76 have beenepassed
by the local board as being qualified
for general military service.
| Henry Book was arrested at Grang-
erville on charge of disloyalty and
sedition. He waived preliminary ex-
animation and produced $1,000 cash
| bond. His case will be heard by the
federal grand jury in November:
Private George Alridge, mentioned in
the casualty list as severely wounded,
is the first Ada county drafted man
to be reported as being in the midst
of dangerous fighting. He was tn
Quoted October 3, 1917, from Ustick.
The hearing in the case of Carl II.
Davis, Nonpartisan league manager for
north Idaho, on the charge of making
seditious utterances was called at Lew
iston last week. Davis waived exam
nation and his bond was fixed at
$500.
Word has been received at Malad of
the death of John Daniels at Camp
Fremont, Cal. The young man has
been at Camp Fremont {or the past
two months. His death was caused
by pneumonia, superinduced by Span
ish Influenza.
Contractor Boomer has two steam
shoyes at work on building the State
highway along Salmon river besides
having opened up half dozen camps
for employment of men and teams. The
first seven miles of the road south of
Salmon will be completed and sur
faced within a month
Eleven business men Of Pocatello.
who recently have enlisted in the tank
service OF the army, have received no.
tice to report for duty at Gettysburg,
Pa, within seven days, and are max
ing preparations for a hurried depart
ure. These men are middle-aged and
have had wide experience.
On October %. seventeen young men
from Pocatello and Bannock county en-
trained for Fort Rosecrans, California,
for general military service. The usual
reception was rendered the departing
bows in an open-air meeting by city
and county officials, and luncheon
was served before their departure.
School children of Boise, during
their enforced vacation, are asked tx
gather dandeion roots and Jimsol
weeds from the lawns and vacant LOT:
of the city, which If shipped within thu
next month win bring a guaranteed
price of % cents pound for dande
lions, and 13 cents for Unison leaves.
Teachers temporarily out of employ
ment because of the health board
order closing schools during the Span
ish influenza epidemic will not los
their pay where they have contract
!. not making other provisions in case
, Of this kind. Miss Ethel +. Redfeld
state superintendent of public instrue
ton, announces.
Potato growers should be on thu
$ alert for Colorado potato beetles II
, their shipments, Harveryf Alfred, direc
] tor of the state farm markets bureau
. announced last week. Warnings tina
the beetle is beginning to work il
some parts of Idaho, Arizona, Oregon
4 and Washington have been issued Z
| quarantine inspectors.
/, August c. Allen, believed to be tn
:. second shell shock victim from tina
section Of the state, sent home Wit
an honorable discharge, is in Boise re
a ceiving special treatment. private A
S len was drafted from kimore count
8 and was in the first detachment o
!, American boys that was sent TO tn
front early in the spring.
John Richards, a~uegro, was hurne
u TO death in a fire in an east side room
: ing house at Pocatello, when flame
n practically demolished an old fran
buildng. George Smith, owner of tn
roomlng house. and his Wife are cor
: fined in hospital as result OF u
[ juries sustained when they jumpe
: out of a second-story window.
n The authorities of Gooding colleg
are congratuating themselves that n
. case of influenza has appeared at tn
o institution Every precaution is bein
taken to prevent the disease frol
: reaching the college. All teachers VII
!, have been residing in the city are mo-
living in the college dormitory. an
here is no visiting between the co
iese population and that of the city.