The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-07-01
IDAHO STATE NEWS

- cA0At VAdClt4 toiilhtAOiuH WI
on the construction of a giant fish
hatchery with a capacity of ten mil
lion eggs at Salmon a few days ago.
Forty acres have been secured by
the Wendell community which will be
developed for use as an aviation field.
fair grounds, ball park and tourist
camp.
A lone bandit who held up E. f.
Smith, cashier of the First State
bank at st. Joe. and forced Smith to
give him S3,922. escaped to the hills
afoot after locking the cashier in the
vault.
Idaho lambs are selling on the Chi.
cago market at as high as $3.50 per
hundred pounds this week. Good
Idaho spring lambs range from 60
to 20 pounds in weight off the range
at this season.
Mrs. RUB Bridges. aged thirty-two
who was committed to the Blackfoot
asylum on March 18th this year, being
brought from Canyon county, died
Tuesday morning from drinking de
natured alcohol at noon Monday.
Increased flow of the Boise river
from 17.720 second feet ut 3 O'Clock
Saturday morning to 1870 feet at {
o'clock Saturday afternoon, was re
ported Saturday night by ]. B. Bond,
manager of the Boise-Payette project.
Scenes at Camp Brady, the summer
encampment of the First Idaho nation
al guard, Monday, recalled the time
men the Boise barracks was the home
of the old regular cavalry. and the
sunrise gun" was the citizens alarm
clock.
A daily wage of 50 and board was
agreed upon as just wages at a meet
ing of the board of directors of the
Canyon County Farm Bureau at Cald-
well Saturday. This will probably be
the prevailing wage paid to hay hands
throughout the Boise Valley.
Preliminary organization of the
Utah-Idaho Joint Stock Land bank
created to extend long term credits
on agricultural real estate, is annunoc-
ed by the directors representing the
100 bankers of the two states who are
subscribing to the capital stock of
s25O,000.
Reports have reached Rupert that
Raft river is overlooking the bottom
lands and that several bridges have
o n out In spite of this, it is said
that crops are unhurt and THAI pros
poets are good for the biggest crops
in the history of the dry farmers in
that section.
For the frs time since 1913 Jack
son lake reservoir is full, according to
the Idaho Falls office of the United
States geological survey. This fam
u reservoir located in the Teton
mountains in Wyoming impounds wa
ter for irrigating the crops on thous-
ands of acres in southern Idaho, sew
eral hundred miles from the reservoir.
Governor d. w. Davis will present
the flags, which were purchased by
mercial clubs of the state, to the
commander of the battleship Idaho at
the review of the Pacific fleet to be
held at Seattle July A.. Governors
from all western states after which
battleships have been named will be
present.
A. S. Embree, I. w. w. leader was
sentenced to from one to ten years
in the state p~enitentlary at Wallace,
Monday, after having been found
guilty of criminal s~yndicalism. under
the idaho law Saturday. On the wit
ness stand Embree declared he filled
the place of william D. Haywood as
supreme officer of the I. w. w. fol
two months in 1918.
Payette is in the midst of active oil
development. The Idaho Oil & Gas
Co. as soon as the combination was
with the local company. at
once opened up commodious offices at
26 S. Sth ST., and brought in three
carloads of drilling machinery and
which is now unloaded as
on the old cannery grounds
of the depot.
Something less than 100000 in pur-
chases is announced this week by
the Reclamation Service. which has
again resumed the purchase of city
property that will be covered by the
American Falls reservoir, says The
Press of that city. Some $4,000 or
100000 in contracts will probably be
announced the latter part of the month
according to the U. S. Il. S.
Patents for more than 32,56S acres
Of Salmon lands from the United
States to the state were filed with
Auditor C. c. Sigglns at Twin Falls
recently in accordance with the re-
cent ruling Of the state land board
with approval of the interior depart
This, with school lands, win
make the available lands in the tract
.otal 10000 acres. After deducting 10
Der cent for laterals and roads, there
5 a total of $4,000 acres left.
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