The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1923-09-07
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FOR BUSY READERS.
RESUME OF THE WEEKS
coiNGs IN THIS AND OTHER
COUNTRIES
important Events OF the Last Seven
Days Reported by Wire and Pre-
pared for the Benefit of tho
Busy Reader
WESTERN

the economic loss in Omaha's water
famine was declared TO have amount
ed to more than S5.000,O00. Dr. A.
NJ Pinto, city health commissioner,
also warned that danger of n typhoid
epidemic Is increasing hourly. The
famine was caused by Missouri riv-
er caven, which filled city mains with
mud Tuesday.
Decision to open 42,700 acres Of
public lands in California and Colora-
do for homestead entry by former SER
vice men was announced Wednesday
by the interior department The
tract includes $4,000 acres in Imperial
county, Calf. near the towns of West
.moreland and Dixieland. and 400
acres in Mnntrose and Gunnison coun-
ties, Colorado, near Ouray.
Fertile farms and ranches in the
Arkansas valley in southeastern Colo
RADIO experienced one of the worst
floods In recent years Wednesday
night and early Thursday morning
when an immense irrigation reservoir
on the Apshapa river north of Fowler
cracked and precipitated great rush
of water down the valley.
Robbers blew two safes In jewelry
manufacturing shops at Los Angeles,
Friday night and escaped with jewels
valued at 500 900, according to the
police estimate. The robbers over
powered the night Waterman, tied
him to a chair, forcing him to witness
their operations.
The Equity Packing company of
Fargo. North Dakota, whose affairs
have been involved in controversy for
several years, has filed petition adj
hitting its insolvency.
GENERAL
First Lieutenant Walter r. Hirsch-
emiller, service officer in the army
air service, was killed and eighteen
other reserve officers in training at
Camp Mead, Md, were injured Thurs
day in the collapse of an old barn
in which they had sought shelter from
the rain.
Two marine officers were instantly
killed and another probably fatally in
jured when two planes in which they
were flying. collided at an altitude of
approximately 5000 feet. plunged to
the ground.
Eastern, southern and mid-western
states, Thursday, shivered and dom
ned overcoats as further records for ]
cool August weather were broken and 1
light frosts were reported in section
gripped by the cool wave. I
The Cuban government Thursday
became the first of Americas wartime
debtors to pay off the total amount !
of it's loan. The second and final '
payment on the balance of S6,9SS, 900, !
owed by Cuba was paid to the treasury
by the National City Bank OF New 7
York, acting for the Cuban govern /
ment.
All records for a flight across the :
continent were broken Friday when !
Pilot Wesley l.. Smith of the air mail a
service landed at Hampstead field, =
New York at 11:14 o'clock eastern :.
standard time. completing a relay
nail flight from San Francisco in %
hours and IA minutes.
Scale committees of the miners Fl
lnion in three anthracite districts of "
Friday, authorized their 4
,fficers to order all miners to cease n
work on September /. n
One man was killed. another was >
probably fatally wounded and an I'M u
.nown number of others were injured
L midnight Saturday when citizens OF d
'arnegie. a suburb of Pittsburg, and f
ohed members OF the Ku KluS Khan t
dashed at the Glendale bridge over s
,hartiers creek. fr
A westbound mail train on the Chi :,
ago Burlington & Quincy railroad v
iunged into the ditch at Russell,
pwa. early Saturday when one of the OF
rucks of the coal tender was deraEed es
nd tore up a section of track. ds
Nine persons. including a family Of -
I've. were drowned sunday when
lirty-foot gasoline launch sunk in the
Mississippi river near South St Paul. sa
lot passenger of the launch surviv- a
d. The catastrophe occurred as re
arty Of picnickers was returning to WI
le Twin Cities from Pine Bend. ds
A negro mob was formed IS miles
est of Goldsboro, n. c., ito GET eA
ebert Hood, a white farmer who was pe
cquitted by jury of the killing of -
negro Hood was informed of the 90
ten.ion Of the mob and escaped. mr.
Huge drums at the Far Rockaway no
orkshops of the Commercial cable ia
mpany began unroll'ng the eigh- FL
erth cable across tile Atlantic Sat m'