The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1920-01-09
IN THE GEM STATE

OF weights ana measures
Leroy Falin, ii sheepherder. is in !
jail Mt Payette. charged with stabbinS |!
Gill Weeks, Il fellow employee. Weeks
will recover unless complications |
arise.
Harry Nj. Barr. an Oregon Short |
Line fireman, was fatally injured when
he was run over by his locomotive at |
American Falls. Both legs were sew
cred from the body.
The handsome home Of Senator
Harding of Oneida county at Malad
has been destroyed by fire. ihe house
had just been completed at. cost of
between $10,0JO and $4,000.
Lewiston hns had over 30 inches of
snow this winter. this being equivalent
to two and one-half inches of rainfall.
This is about one-sixrh of the average
annual precipitation for this region.
The building fund for the new Bap-
fist church at Pocatello has reached
the sum of S35.30O. This amount was
subscribed by members and tbe con-
gregation at the last two Sunday meet
ingS.
Local engineers have sent an invita-
tion to DR.. Elwood Meade. noted Amer
lean and Australian engineer, TO come
to Pocatello and address the Idaho
irrigation congress when it convenes
there January II TO IA.
Manuel Gonzales, a Mexican was
the first victim in Pocatello of wood
alcohol. Gonzales died on December
81 at the home of friend. The MeXi-
can was known to the police to be
addicted to wood alcohol.
Idaho has sold 646. 10S65 acres of
land since statehood, has piled up en-
dowment funds aggregating about Sl2.-
600 1000, and has still in her possession
unsold land sufficient to bring her en-
dowments to more than $6O,O00,0OO.
Friends of james Hovermale, who
shot and killed Myron Beach and then
shot his own wife at Felt. have started
subscription list with the intention
Of raising money TO employ counsel TO
defend Hovermale at his trial when ii
comes up.
The Idaho State Teachers associa-
ton at the close of a two-day con
vention at Boise, elected Frank w.
! Simmonds of Lewiston president for
the ensuing year and adopted resolu-
tions emphasizing the teaching of sane
Amerlcanism.
| After over year of discussion and
! planning by the Commercial club and
/ the city council, action has been taken
4 by the council of Lewiston looking to-
ward the immediate location and i'm
provement of site for an automobile
tourists camp.
Determination of water rights is
not proper function of the state pub
lice utilities commission. that body
told the Mountain Home Water Users
Protective association as it dismissed
the associations complaint against its
irrigation company.
The plant of the Oregon Packing
company at Lewiston has closed after
record breaking summer and fall.
In spite Of the fact that last summer
was very unfavorable for the growing
of tomatoes the packing plant had a
run of 10000 cases.
Governor Davis, heading a western
delegation some 20 strong (includinp
seven governors), will proceed from
Denver, Colo, January 10. in spe-
cial car to carry to the national con
gress at Washington, d. c., the out.
line of reclamation needs Of the irri
gated west.
LaVere Bennett and Earl Crotliers
aged Z and 5. respectively, of Jerome
secured a quantity of blasting powder
from a tent in which road making ma
terial had been stored and set 1t of
with IA match. The older boy was sc
badly burned that he died within
few hours and the younger suffered
severe and painful burns.
The state auditing committee ere
ated by the last legislature and au
thorized to expend $4,000 in auditing
the books and accounts of all stat'
departments during the years 1917
1918, claims to have already saved th,
amount of the appropriation and ha
expended less than half of the appro
priation made by the legislature.
That the corporation business 0
Idaho is growing rapidly appears evi
dent from figures that Secretary o
. State Jones has just made public The
show that the total capitalization o
licensed domestic corporations in Ida
no amounts to $507 547 ,039. Foreigl
: corporations qualified to transact bus
ness in the state have total capitals
: zation of $1S3, 1927 800.
Idaho woolgrowers, meeting a
Boise, gave approval to the action o
i. Attorney General A. Mitchell Paine
q in the direction of a divorce of mea
packers from other Industries an
: lines of business. Other resolution
adopted favor ten-year grazing permit
. on public lands federal arbitration G
: wage and labor disputes, segregatio
of horses and cattle on grazing area
= The grasshopper-killing campaign G
last summer in Lewis county save