The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1923-10-26
TELEGRAPH|C TALES.
FOR BUSY READERS.
4 RESUME OF THE WEEKS
ooiNGs IN 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

-Four members Of the train crew O
3. p. train 70, were killed by trail
robbers at tunnel 10, seventeen mile
south of Ashland, Oregon, Thursday
the engineer and fireman were sho
by the robbers. Mail Clerk Doughert,
Darrtcaded himself in his car and tn,
robbers either threw a fused explosiv,
through a window or set off a blast a
the door In an effort to gain entrance
The car was wrecked, mail pouches
burst and torn and a stove insid,
overturned. Fire followed. Whether
the mail clerk was burned to dealt
or died OF the shock of the explosion
cannot be determined. His body wa,
charred beyond recognition. All tn,
mail In the car was destroyed.
Plans for the deliberate Staying Of
prominent residents of Coos county
with their families we're laid by Ar
thur Oovell, AZ, a crippled a~strologer
according to his reported confession tc
authorities at Mansfield. Oregon. With
his 10 year nephew, Alton Covell, he Is
held in the county jail because Of his
indictment by the grand jury ON a
murder charge In connection with the
death Of Mrs. Fred Covell. Sept. 2,
last.
All stores were flooded and numer-
ous residences were partly submerged
by a nine-foot wall OF water which
swept through parts of Woodward,
Okla, Saturday, when the Northern
Canadian river overflowed from recent
heavy rains. according to reports
reaching over crippled wires Monday.
Scores OF persons are said to have
been made homeless, although no lives
are believed to have been lost. Ex-
tensive damage, as yet unestimated,
was caused.
The steamer Stanley Dollar whose
cargo was reported Attire, arrived in
San Francisco harbor Saturday with
the cargo still smouldering. The yes.
sci was locked near the harbor fire
boats as a precaution.
Olive street and Olive way in Seat
tie have been renamed Harding way,
under an ordinance of the city coun-
Gil. Along these two -thoroughfares
the late President Harding received
the greetings of thousands Of child
rem on a visit to Seattle less than a
week before his death.
GENERAL
Conductors, trainmen and yardmen
of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe rail-
way presented demands to officials of
the railroad at Galveston, Friday, for
wage increases averaging 70 per cent
above the present scale. Enginemen
also are contemplating a demand for
an increase, it was said.
Foreclosure of So 50 900 bonds of
the Keokuk & Des Moines railroad is
asked in a petition filed In federal
court at Des Moines, Iowa by attor-
neys for the Farmers Loan and Trust
company Of New York. The term OF
the bonds expired September 20. The
road involved runs from Des Moines
to Keokuk and is leased and operated
by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Railway company.
An entire block Of residences and
business buildings have been del
stroyed by fire, which broke out Sat-
urday night, at the edge of the main
business district of Nogales. Sonora,
Mexico, across the International boun-
dairy. No lives have been lost, accord
ing to reports.
Six were slightly injured Saturday
night near Pleasant Hill. Mo-, when
the Missouri Pacific passenger train
enroute to Kansas City. was wrecked.
The home Of Charles Pearce, pro-
hibition enforcement officer at Smith
field, Ohio, was blown up Wednes
day by dynamite. Pearce, his wife
and baby escaped serious injury.
The blast partially wrecked the city
hall opposite the Pearce home.
Jim Henry Mass, negro, killed
negroes and her himself early
Wednesday at Crockett, Texas. He
the home of a negro preacher
where he slew him and another negro,
and then went to a second home
a bullet ended the life OF al
negro. He returned to his
home and killed himself.
Three armed men early Monday
held up the night manager and sew
eral other employees of the fashion
able Ritz-Carlton hotel at New York
and robbed a jewelry store in the lob
~ of $4,000 worth of gems. L
Famed by winds hundreds Of for
sst fires burning In Wisconsin woods
dangerous proportions, We'd
Five towns were threaten
ID by the flames and navigation on
he Great Lakes was hampereo by
he ball Of heavy smoke. Units Of
he Wisconsin National Guard we're
out by Governor Blaine to as
,ist In fighting the fires.
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