The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1920-03-19


hospital at Blackfoot have been re-
moved to the home for the feeble-mlnd-
ed at Nampa
The FurchtBaker Aerial company
VIII have a large passenger plane on
exhibition and for pubic use at the mo-
tor show at Pocatelo, April 8 to 10.
The superintendent OF the Jackson
Lake reservoir reports q storage sup
ply of 122,570 acre-feet compared with
3OO,7SO acre-feet at the same date last
year.
Montpelier Is now in line for free
delivery of mail, and the Boosters
club has taken up the proposition of
naming the streets and numbering the
homes.
Lewiston has appointed motor
cycle policeman who Will patrol the
main streets Of the city with the duty
of enforcing the city traffic and speed
ordinances
Voters of the west end Of Twin Falls
tract have voiced sentiment in favor
OF issuing S22O,OO0 road bonds, the
vote at the bond election resulted in
1892 for ana 1874 against.
Effective April /, all mercantile nsti-
tutions Of Bull Will 90 on new working
hours. Stores will open at s a. H.
and close at 6 p. M, except Saturdays,
when the closing hour will be 8 p M.
Thirty-five OF Pocatello's best must
al M
of the ''Pocatello Bannocks" and will
make their initial appearance at the
opening of the big auto show On
April 6.
Bert Sparks of BONN, Mont, and
james OLeary OF Butte, Mont were
sentenced to serve from one to fifteen
years in the penitentiary at Boise for
breaking into q Chinese restaurant vt
Dubois March 8.
Officers made 4 raid on a hsuss ii
Jackson and secured eleven gallons of
moonshine liquor and some mash The
still was not found. A foreigDW was
nrrested. however. charged with unlaw-
ful possession o. iiltoxicsnrs.
Contracts aggrsRatinR 81, S.04
have been awarded by the state depart
ment Of public welfare to Contractor
Sells OF PocatellO for the ccASsruc
ton of Il new state natatOrlum on the
states land at Lava Hot Springs.
The officials of the Idaho Co-opera-
tive Beet Sugar company are said to
have reported favorably upon the plan
of building a factory on the Minidoka
project, provided sufficient local sup
port and encouragement are received
w. G. Swendson, state commissioner
of reclamation, states that in his next
report, which will be printed within
few days. there will he much valuable
data on stream measurements made by
state and federal agencies during the
past six years.
The board of county commissioners
in session in Paris, discussed the mat
Ter of granting Il franchise to the
American Phosphate corporation to
construct railroad spur up Montpe-
lier canyon to the phosphate property,
but deferred action.
William Galhraith has been SEN
fenced to serve from two and one
half to fourteen years in the state
prison for an alleged assault on his
wife with intern to murder. The
crime, il is alleged, was committed IN
Montpelier. February II.
The expansion of ice on Pnyette lake
has caused the lake to swell. Because
of the shoreward movement OF ice,
piles driven near the edge of the lake
have been tilted to an angle of AZ de-
grees and wharves and buildings along
the lake have been damaged.
Four children narrowly escaped be-
ing burned to death at the ranch of
L. ID. Lee, near Twin Falls, when a
barn in which they were playing
caught fire from lighted candle one
of the children had been carrying.
Stacked with several tons OF hay, the
barn burst into flames Instantly
nr. l.. c. Henderson. state veterln-
arian, is comforting with stockmen re-
garding the hog cholera situation in
the southern part of the state. Last
fall the disease gained quite start,
bur was finally put under control and
the state veterinary department has
been keeping close watch on it since.
Indictments We're returned by the
federal grand jury at Poeatello against
Fred Wheeler, Don Moore and A. Il.
Mcdonald. Wheeler and Moore are
charged with selling liquor to the In
dams and Wheeler pleaded guilty. Me-
Donald is charged with the causing of
unlawful issuance of free Transporter
ton in intereststate commerce.
Idaho farmers in the Snake River
drainage area must depend for suffi-
cienf water on the spring rainfall, ac-
cording to the reclamation commits
soner, who states that the data of
his office shows that the water stor-
age according to precipitation in the
headwaters of the Snake river is far
below that at this time last year.
A movement has been promulgated