The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1923-01-19
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
A CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRiEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from all
Quarters of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines
WESTERN

Gently an accountant at the American
consulate at Warsaw, shot himself In
the consulate building.
Houses were unroofed, small build
1ngs we're demolished and other dam.
age amounting to thousands of dol
lars caused by a seventy-mile gale
which struck Denver late Sunday
night
The seventeenth session of the Ida
no legislature convened in Boise at
noon Monday.
Earl Gray a racing driver was ini-
stantly killed at the speedway in
Houston Texas on the last lap of the
second race OF the day.
After vote recount ). Lindsay,
was declared elected four-year county
commissioner at Salt Lake when
Judge NJ l.. Richie. decided that Jo-
seph Wirthln, contestant for the Of
flee. had failed to prove his claim to
the ommissionership.
Fire which threatened to destroy
the entire structure of the Eagle Rock
sub-plant of the Southern California
Edison company at Los Angeles was
extinguished after burning nearly
eight hours.
Emil Filman, 40, at Vancouver put
a stick of dynamite between his teeth,
lighted a fuse and blew his head Off |
The explosion shook surrounding
building.
Cities and hamlets between Eugene |
and Portland report extensive dam
ages from the FLOOD of the Willamette |
river which is now running 20 feet
above normal water mark at Port
land.
Sheriff Hugo Synhorst and two
members of posse led by him and
one bandit were wounded in a fight
between bank robbers and officers at
Maurice, Ia, near Sioux City.
Boulders, some as large as box cars
loosened by heavy rains. slid down
to the tracks of the o. w. r. &. w.
main line and interrupted service for /;
some time near. Hood River
Definite action has been started to-
ward recovering money for bond
holders OF approximately $1,000, 900
worth of city of Spokane improvement
bonds which were defaulted.
GENERAL t
Mrs. nj. Burk, a landlady at Chi
cago was sentenced to 200 days in
Jail for her refusal to keep her n
apartment house comfortably warm h
Attempts are being made to float v
the German liner Holsatla, aground
about 30 miles southeats of Maiami u
beach
For bravery In killing Jacob Spock =,
an ex-oonvict at Chicago police chief :,
Fitzmorris awarded salary increases :,
10 eight policemen.
A r. Haywood, chairman OF the
Utah Public Utilities Commission =,
lied Unexpectedly Tuesday at mis- o,
home in Ogden. Utah. n
More than fifty proclaimed eye n
witnesses to the Herrin riots were or ~
lereed to appear in court to testify
n the defense of five men charged ic
With murder. II
Tortures rivaling the old inquisi- tn
ION have been brought to light at so
3astrop, where the broken skeleton
f Watt Daniel one OF the men Kid ed
apped last August by masked raid he
rs, was sewn to o heavy cardboard sh
rune, and scientists fold how his on
zones were cracked and broken by no
cme machine of torture before e n
'as killed laI
William Raysdale, colored. was shot
nd killed at Muskogee, when he at ar
empted to escape from a police Of va
Ger. an
A police dragnet over the city of vi
femphis, has been spread for two
egroes, one of whom seized a white a
roman as she alighted from a street no
ar near the city, dragged her to a ac
avine nearby, cut. beat and attacked ito
er during hours in which he held
er prisoner. .,
Two are dead and several wounded act
S the result of clash between the sal
hites and negroes at Cedar Key, ed
la. DO
Three wagon lads OF police
ere called to suppress riot when GA,
score of prohibition agents raided tbe
e saloon Of Thomas Peak. in the ne,
art of Philadelphia -,
Failure TO find any common ground
bon which to base future negotia- -,
pms for working rules and wages
omed as distinct probability at -.
licago, az the conference OF oper-
ors and miners from fifteen bitun- II