The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-09-26
fELEGRApH|C TALES
FOR BUSY READERS
\ RESUME OF THE WEEKS
DoINGS 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

mine No. when the explosion er
tombed all at 11:45 o'clock the morn
Ing of September Is, at Kemmerel
Wyo., show that but forty seven me
were in the mine at the time of tn
blast, according to officials of tn
kemmerer Coal company, owners o
the property. The number of en-
tombed men was set at eighty-one il
earlier estimates by the company
Twelve men were taken out alive.
Nearly $4,000 acres of land in Elk,
and White Pine counties, Nevada
will be thrown open to preferential
soldier entry on September 26, bu
filings may be made prior to thai
date The land is being released
from stock driveway withdrawal. AT
ter December 81 any land not pre-
viously taken up by service men will
be subject to general entry
Nearly 100000 worth of construc-
ton is called for in building permits
Issued in the first half of September,
records in the office Of the city en-
gineer of Nampa, Ida, disclose. 1t
is considered probable that the total
for this month will aggregate nearly
ten times this amount as it is expec-
ted that within week or two per
init will be issued for the new Pa
cific Fruit Express car shops at a
cost approximating $450,000.
Nine Utah companies controlling
thirty sugar factories in Utah, chief
ly, and in Idaho, Washington and
Wyoming, will have paid farmers
$13,500,000 for sugar beets by Oc-
tober 10, the date of final payment
for beets harvested last fall, accord
ing to a report of Frank Andrews,
statistician of the United States de-
partment of agriculture.
Bright Angel trail, the winding
burro wpathway lying between the
burrow pathway lying between the
the Colorado river, will be sold to
the highest bidder at public auction
in Flagstaff, Arizona, October 25,
the Coconino county board of super
yisers decided.
Charles Novotny, driver of a Santa
Barbara national forest truck, is in
dignant. His truck was struck amid |
ship by touring car and his cargo
scattered over a San Tornado street |
crossing. "You might hurt somebody
driving like that" Novotny expostu-
lated Immediately after the accident
while he gathered up half a dozen
100-pound packages of sodatol. Soda
tai is INT minus the smell, but
lacking none of its decorating quail
ties.
Mrs. Rose Swatch, 20, and her
sister, Mrs. Anna Belle BATHS, 80,
were shot to death in the formers
apartment at Denver, Colo, while 9
year old Alice Swatch looked on
Mrs. Swatch was shot through the
head and Mrs. BATHS through the
abdomen.
Alfred Featherstone, at one time
reputed to be worth s25,O0O,000,
former Chicago manufacturer and
horseman, died at Santa Barbara,
Calf. He had lost his fortune and :
for the past two years had been
manager of a ranch in Montecito.
Seven persons were burned to C
death when fire destroyed the Louis
Spilchal farm home, sixteen mikes
southwest of Dickson, South Dakota
The victims were six daughters of d
Mr. and Mrs. Spilchal and Bergen q
Roller, 69-year-old father of Mrs. !
Spilchal. The girls ranged in age
from 8 to14 years.
GENERAL il
A patrolman defending the Italian "
aviator Antonio Locatelli, from an
attack from a frenzied mob of his q
who awaited his APP q
pearance outside the Manhattan op- :"
IRA house at New York, was stabbed q
.hree times with stilletto. Anthony p
Cioffe, AZ, who says he is a member s.
If the |. w. W., is under arrest. The c.
oatrolman is in a serious condition.
John t. Pershing ended his forty o.
wo years of active service in the y
lrmy at Washington with last sig k
lal honor paid him in the issuance of p
IN executive announcement by Presi- b.
lent Coolidge expressing the nations 5
for the service which d.
Won him leadership of the American z
orces in the world war. dI
Down streets banked with human
", past plazas packed with cheering sc
thousands, more than $4,000 members m
the American Legion marched at CO
It. Paul, Mimi, as at outstanding ~
vent of their national convention. =;
Joseph Kopusea, demented la ~
orer, attempted to burn himself to
cath at Chicago. He went to Mont
ose cemetery, where funeral was de
eing held, raked some sticks and tel
,aves together, poured gasoline over lg
is clothes and stood on the funeral Tic
vre as he struck a match bl,