The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1923-02-16
!ELEGRAPH|C TALES
FOR BUSY READERS.
A RESUME OF THE WEEKS
poIN0s IN THIS AND OTHER
COUNTRIES
Important Events of the Last Seven
Days Reported by Wire and Pre-
pared for tho Benefit Of the
Busy Reader
WESTERN

-Four white men, the largest number
over legally executed IN Arkansas
Gas were electreeuted at the state
prison. Last-mipute appeals for ex-
scutive clemency made by Governor
AcRae, including a confession by a
brother of n of the condemned men,
were ~unavailing.
Dawn and the consequent appear
ance OF early risers foiled an attempt
to rob the Sandy City, Utah bank.
Obtaining tools and electric drills In
burglaries of a garage and q black
smith shop, yeggs. believed to have
been four In number, entered some
time during the night the store OF
James p. Jensen, next door to the
bank. For at least two hours, accord
fng to Investigators, they attempted
to gain entrance to the bank offices
or the side of the vault, as the case
may be-by tunneling through the in
teryening wall. They failed.
Prisoners of the jail at Lincoln.
Nebraska were found to be making
whiskey, when the 3ailer in his in
spection found mash and a still con-
cealed under a bunk.
Five defendants at lei Paso, Tex,
who were found guilty of placing
quicksilver in locomotives boilers
during a strike. were fined $500 each
and sentenced to 10 months in JAN.
Parties are searching the hills near
Redding, CAL, for a meteor which
was seen and believed to have fallen
between Redding and Baird.
Tests of the army's plans to pro-
tect the Panama canal will be made
when battleships, destroyers and
bombing planes of the Atlantic and
Pacific fleets will stage a Realistic
attack" on the Notifications at
Balboa.
The conference al Kansas City,
Mo-, OF governors Of eight western
states, called by Governor Blaine of
Wisconsin to discuss progressive leg
islation, has been postponed indef-
fnitely by the Wisconsin executive
1t was announced by Governor VIII
liam ID. Sweet of Colorado.
The Hotel F~onteneIle, Omaha's
most exclusive hosiery. faces a pos
sibfe closing for one year, under the
nuisance provision of the national
prohibition act, as the result of a
raid on the hotel by a squadron of
officers and agents.
O. III. P. Shelley, Montana member
OF the Republican national commit
tee, was found not guilty OF bride
in his second trial on charges
involving taking money from brew
cries and drug stores.
Twenty of the alleged Houston,
Texas rioters in the federal peniten-
tfary at Leavenworth have received
combinations OF sentences it was
announced officially.
GENERAL :
An explosion of gas In the purify 1
Ing plant OF the Springfield, Mass,
las light company, wrecked one sec
Hon of that structure spread damage :
widely through the business section.
Three persons we're killed, fifty were
injured. 4
Miss Rose Wendricks, Is recover- i.
ng from n OF the most remarkable :
operations ever performed in Wis
'onsin. Surgeons. IN attempting to
'emove a nail from her lung, moved '
he girls heart an inch and a half. .
Bread prices reached the lowest r
evel in Chicago In many months. A G
ounce loaf sold for three and I,
'ne-half cents. a
The Kentucky national guard have
cen called to Corbin, where the sit IL
alton following a gunfIght between s
abroad workers n special police 81
as gotten beyond the control of To-
al authorities. c,
Federal authorities have asked war -
ants for the arrest OF Otto Schroeder y
( Chicago, who is claimed to have
vadcd his income taxes. ~
The eight hour day, one OF the b,
rules for which the Broth al
Of Railroad Signalmen fought
'rdest in their hearing for wages CO
Id working rules, is granted them tn
the United States railroad labor in
ard In a decision issued. IL
Henry Clews widely known bank m
. died at his home In New York af- at
r an fitness of several months. III
The police boa Manhattan used
machine gun early Thursday In to
e capture of an alleged rum run to
r. the auxiliary sloop, Jennie N. ST
srrcst, in the East river. During mi
exciting chase around New York In
two belts of cartridges from FIR
machine gun were fired at the
eing craft. ws
negroes were lynched at MIL SO