The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1922-09-01
NEWS HISTORY OF
THE PAST WEEK

Been Happening Throughout
the World
WESTERN
The interstate commerce commi
sion has held that existing carloa
rates on apples from Idaho and Uta
points, by way of Salt Lake City, I
Bisbee, Douglas and Nogales. Ariz
are unreasonably high, and directe
that the rates be reduced to $1.401
per hundred pounds.
Never in the history OF the inter
mountain west have there been NOR
motorists touring than this summer
Since the latter part OF June the.
have swarmed into this district b,
the hundreds daily. All previous es
timated and actual records have beer
shattered by at least % per cen
increase.
News has been received by the for
sstry officials that examination fol
forest rangers will be held at the head.
quarters OF the various forestry super.
visers October "a. The service is
anxious to have as many qualified
men as possible enter the examina-
lions. An examination for scalers
will be held October % and 20, but the
places OF examination have not yet
been announced.
1t took mule driver, five city fire
men, veterinarian, hardware man,
blacksmith and about 1000 spect-
tors two hours and five minutes to
release a diminutive mule which
caught its foot In street drain pipe
at Kansas City.
Samuel M. yauclain, president of
the Baldwin Locomotive works. an
nounced receipt of an order from the
Union Pacific Railroad for Is locomo-
tives to cost 100000. Construction
Of these engines will begin at once.
After severely knitting Deputy War
den Arthur Muchow, four prisoners es-
capped from the South Dakota peni-
Tertiary at Sioux Falls, taking War
den George w. Jamison with them. |
The prisoners fled in motor car
parked by a tourist just outside the |
prison walls.
GENERAL
Repeublican leaders are alarmed
over reports that the president will
not seek another term.
Northwestern flour markets remain
very unsettled.
Three big steel corporations, en-
ploying nearly 100000 workers. have
announced 20 per cent wage increase
for all day laborers In their manu-
featuring plants.
Increased wages averaging AZ per I
cent and affecting between 10000 and |
10000 nonunion miners in Westmore- [
and and Fayette counties, West Vir- '
sfnia, were decided upon at a meet [
ng Of operators, it was officially an q
r
The state governments OF the Unit
ID States have a total debt of 81. OIL
'06, 9S1-2S, or $10.1S for every man, o
woman and child in the country, ac- r
ordfn0 a., ! n
tate finance just completed by the ?
Sank of America, New York. p
REIMBURSEMENT of wages bringing a
lose approach to normally as applied
D mining has resulted in a return of
he pendulum toward greater mining h
ctivity than has been experienced in "
ne history of Alaska since the boom
avs.
Mrs. Warren G. Harding, whose re- W
INT gift of 500 toward a fund to buy
ITS and hay for Glover, the 51-year
d horse, brought her an offer of hon II
airy membership in the Nyack So 1o
ETY. for the prevention of Cruelty
Animals, she accepted the honor \.
English women athletes won the
st international woman's track meet d,
Paris over competitors from the st
iited States, France. Switzerland wi
d Czecho-Slovakia. The American en-
Am was second. France third. Czecho "A
ovakia fourth and Switzerland fifth.
The 1922 area of sugar cane, not be
,luding sorghum cane, in the eight pc
ncipal states producing sugar cane OF
estimated by the United States de- ing
rtment OF agriculture to be $4,000 for
res, or about 80 per cent OF the tai
rvested cane acreage of 1921. This del
a preliminary estimate and includes Gel
acreage intended to be harvested Wa
seed and syrup. as well as for ma
gar. clal