The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-04-18
IDAHO BUDGET


locating Z site.
Farmers Of the Buhl section are find
ing market In the east for their hay
at $40 to $50 per ton.
Bootleg liquor amounting to 600
pints, and valued at about $4,000, was
destroyed at POcatello one day last
week.
| Two hundred and fifty men will com
prise X company OF the Third Idaho
national guard. the unit allotted to
Pocatello.
Nineteen l. w. VS. at the state pen
itentiary are receiving RELIEF from
the national organization. They are
getting 81 per week each, it is said.
Word has been received that the fly
ing circus, in the interest OF the Vic
tory Loan, was assured for Pocatello
and would arrive there ut 8 a. M, April
| 10.
A new Utah-Idaho Central railroad
company has been formed by the re-
organization and merger OF the old
company and the Cache Valley Rail
road company.
Proceedings are to he instituted
against the Oregon Short Line and the
Caldwell Traction company to compel
installation Of better exchange track
facilities at Caldwell.
A big wheat acreage IL promised for
the country Immediately surrounding
Meridian. Local cleaning mills are
running day and night to supply the
demand for seed wheat.
Approximately 5000 acres Of state
land, scattered over Minldoka, Cassia
and Twin Falls counties, will be sold
ut public auction within the next two
months, or us soon AZ appraisements
can he made.
More than $4,000 has been expend-
ed in Meridian and the immediate vi
cinity for residences since January l.
No houses are available there for rent
and the demand for additional house
room Is acute.
Idaho Is the most fortunate state In
the Union as far as the labor situa-
ton is concerned. At present Idaho
has plenty of work for every appli-
cant and in addition there is a Sigh,
labor shortage throughout the state.
The Gooding Parents association an
organization of the parents of the boys
who are and have been in the service
are making plans for reception in
June for all returned soldiers, sailors
and marines, after the Rainbow divi-
sion returns.
That the annual financial receipts
necessary to allow of Nampa being
designated as firstclass postoffice
are almost within reach Is indicated
by the postmnster's report for the
first quarter of 1919. which shows an
income of S9,472.41.
Every state office and institution
has been ordered by William j. Half.
commissioner of public works, to sub
nit to his department before May Z
Il complete inventory of all property
on hand, as provided in bill passed
by the recent legislature.
Mabel Powers, aged 10, was fatally
burned ut her home at Notus. The ac-
cident resulted from igniting a can Of
distillate which she and a playmate
found at her home when they came
home from school ana found no one at
home. The can exploded.
Instead of requiring the property
owners 10 pay the full amount for
cement sidewalks adjoining their prop
erty, when complered the city coun-
ell at Idaho Falls has arranged for
{sc,t Inc
ments In ten annual installments.
Property of the Great Northern
railway in Idaho, 1920 miles in the
northern part of the state, is valued
at $TOOS,9l7, based on first cost, or
$1,000, 445 deducting for depreciation,
according to statement of its physi-
cal valuation filed with the public
utilities commission.
In d complaint filed last week. the
Oregon Short Line railroad, which
possesses right of way through Cald-
well 200 ifet wide, asks the district
court to enjoin the city of Caldwell
from opening up Eleventh avenue for
traffic according to plans recently
adopted by the city council.
Work has begun on the tearing
down of what remains of the grand
stand ut the county fair grounds, sit
uated across the interurban tracks
from the College of Idaho, just west
of Caldwell, and marks the end OF
one of Caldwelrs institutions OF few
years ago, the Gem State fair
Lewis Logan sent up from Bannock
county for robbery will be released
in July, the pardons board having com
muted his sentence of from 20 to AZ
years to IL sentence of five years
There is said to be some doubt as 10
Logans guilt, the evidence against
him being mostly circumstantial.
Hereafter violators Of the pr0hibi
ton law will have federal sleuths to
guard against in the practice Of carry
ing Intoxicating liquors from Wyoming
into Idaho. Announcement was re