The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1923-08-03
A RESUME OF THE WEEKS
OolNGs I'M THIS AND OTHER
COUNTRIES
important Events of the Last Seven
Days Reported by Wire and Pre-
pared for the Benefit of the
Busy Reader
WESTERN

'enueu lor total OF 217 miles
Daily reports on the potato mar
kets Of the country with special ref
eFence to southern Idaho and also
crop conditions and miscellaneous
shipping information will be broad
casted from Caldwell, Idaho begin
ming about August l, by the federal
department of agriculture.
The state of Idaho sold 236.27 acres
of state land in Canyon county Thurs
day, 1t was announced Friday bv 7
Ill. Nash, state land commissioner
Inc proceeds of the sale were 81
56912 Part of the land is located in
the alkali bottoms u miles south and
west OF Caldwell and the remaining
portion is along the Snake river. Mr..
Mash said the bidding was fair
Some OF the land sold for $36 an
acre.
The appointment of e. ]. Baird of
Soda Springs, Idaho as a deputy COM
missioner of reclamation was an
nounced Saturday by w. G. Swendsen
state commissioner of reclamation. |
Mr. Baird will also act as a water
master on the Bear river. AS deputy
commissioner he will have charge of
the distribution of the stored waters
in Bear Lake.
Rosie, monkey motion comedi-
enne, is back in her cage again at
Los Angeles resting from nobody
knows what she experienced while
lost two days in Griffith park, not
far from the studio where she ap-
pears before the camera. She gets
500 week. 1t took two blood
hounds to locate her hiding place in
the park.
The Los Angeles police department
soon will install twenty substations
at fire houses in various sections of .
The city, where one or more policemen
will be on duty at all times. The 7
city council has set aside $4,000 to C
start the work. p
Starting in 1902 with twenty-five =
lnimals, the Yellowstone National
park herd of bison has increased to
40, Horace A. Albright, superintend-
mt of the park, announced recently. f,
Ninety buffalo were born in the park A
asst winter, he said. There are 1900 IT
'uffalo in the United States at cl
resent, sufficient number to insure lii
hat the specias will never become
xtinct, Mr.. Albright says.
GENERAL I,
German marks dropped to 0O03M tn
snts, new low record for all time, re
| the New York foreign exchange M
arket Thursday. This is at the
tie of nearly 31S,O0O marks to the Re
merican dollar. me
Department of justice officials at pc
ashington said Thursday that libel co
its would be filed soon in the New lie
)rk federal courts by District At Oh
rney Hayward, to confiscate the
Iuor seized recently from foreign Elf
lers. Instructions have gone for ne,
lrd from Assistant Attorney General me
to Mr.. Hayward, with of
vice to limit the present proceed ING
IS at least to cOnfiscation of the ing
uor. of
The National Nonnartisan league is Gull
'ough with Minnesota for the pres res
at least and the great machine Oh
1t up by A. C. Townley, former A
Getting genius Of the league, exists Goa
more, according to several speak uni,
at the annual session of the SAT-
rking Peoples Nonpartisan league, sho
political movement of the State Ger
leration of Labor, which closed its exp
vention here Thursday. or G
of the federal govern A
ut "chargeable against ordinary mar
sipts" during the fascal year end occu
June 30, 1923, totaled $685. mort
O2O.26, according to an Official re- G
published Wednesday by the assil
sury. ton
he invasion of Port Arthur, Texas III
the !. w. w, TO all outward ap- temp
-ances has been called off definite ince,
ing
n elevated train of seven wooden JUST
crashed into the rear of sub Belfi
train Of steel coaches Monday at same
York Seven persons were re- these
ed injured. 40.
forts to launch the Ford for Pres Tn
boom in Lincoln Park, Chicago, erpoC
subdued by husky policeman after
lay, who may or may not have are S
for Ford, but whose first duty turn.
to enforce the rules against po- in tn
i speeches and political assem- Re,
in the parks. count
plan to withdraw 200,OO0,O00 Cover
els of wheat from the market and amour
II on farms until prices advance victim
Friday by o. Il. Brad the Il
president Of the American Farm can q
au federation at Chicago. perma