The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1922-07-07

S"Dc11icmeht vi lunub belonging
the First National bank of that tow
was arrested and turned over to go
srnment officials at Portland, Oregol
With the shearing season nearing a
end In the Idaho district interest Ia
conferred on the shipment from tn
Gray's Lake region of 100000 pound
Of wool sold to st. Louis for SO cent
pound. The lot was the largest shiI
ment and was brought TO one week
shipments totaled thirteen cars, 81
Louis and Boston dealers getting tn,
bulk.
A civil service examination to fill thu
postmastership at Salt Lake will b,
held July %. The office, which pay
k6OOO, Will not become vacant unit
September 5. In the examination o.
candidates education and training wi,
constitute twenty of the hundred
points the remaining eighty points
owe business experience and fitness.
AS regards metallurgicaI operations,
1922 will probably occupy a unique
place In mining history. in that two
large milling plants OF the most mod
ern type have been put In operation.
n first new mill to start treatment
Of ore during the year was the Silver
King Coalition Mines company's plant
AZ fark City; the second. that of the
Utah Consolidated Mining company.
Excessive heat and deficient moIs-
fure, with danger of premature ripen
ing and shrunken yield, have had much
10 az with making wheat go higher in
price.
AFTER completing a 150-mile trip over
land from Filler, Idaho. the wagon train
successful bidders on the Elko-Hal-
leck road contract, has arrived at
Coin, four miles east of Elko. A
camp has been built, and the first
earth moves on the $1,000 link of
the Victory highway east OF This citv
II is expected that the entire twenty
mile strip of graveled highway will be
completed this season, with perhaps
the exception of the work incident 10
"ettlng down the suface of the gravel
topping.
GENERAL
Adoption Of q program for a non
partisaa political campaign this fall 70
elect the friends of organized labor
an overwhelming defeat of the
radical forces that favored recognition
OF the Russian soviet government.
marked the closing session Monday of
me American Federation of Labor con
vention a~tCincinnati.
An Invisible peril that has been lurk-
ng for months, menacing thousands :
n lives and perhaps causing death in :
many causes, was barred when the =
View York World obtained the admis- :
ion OF the department of agriculture :
mar II has condemned as unsafe a vast I
Iuantity of chloroform sold from the
rmy surplus stores. This chloroform. Y
nut up IN small tin containers and in is
ended Tor an enestheSia, has been =,
attributed to surgeons and to hospi. C,
ais throughout the county, and there ,,
no way of telling at present how re
luch of 1t has already been used in :,
onnection with operations. About y,
ooO'0Oo cans are said TO have been CT
I'D and it is estimated that possibly
n~e-quarter of it has decomposed to
ich an extent that to administer it to
patient would be to invite death. n
William Rockefeller, who with his 70
der brother, John d., built up the
imily millions i'm the oil Industry
of pneumonia complicated by a :"
of kidney trouble. at his III
untry estate overlooking the Hudson ia
yer from North T%arrytown. He was I
years old.
Len Small was acquitted .,
a charge OF conspiracy to embez- n
= Illinois state funds, after one of -,
e most sensational trails in the his N
~ of Illinois. The jury was out 30,
ly an hour and thirty-flve minutes. nm
" co
OF nerve on the part of Sheriff a.,
alvin Thaxton of Williamson county -
inois and the killing Of two union 90,
ners by guards were two Of the he,
assigned for the massacre of the
enty-ffve strikebreakers in a report an,
de over fong-distance telephone 10 the
General Black by Major Gen the
] Milton ]. Foreman. fire.
Generally favorable conditions for c
harvesting of grain n hay and a n
the cultivation of crops. except In sho'
1e northeastern and north central fit!
were recorded by the weather thir
eau in its weekly weather and crop six
Iew. iron
fifty thousand workers of the mems r.
hing industry left their jobs lish