The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-04-25
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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


OF the state supreme court of Califor
mia was named chief justice of tha
tribunal by Governor Richardson tC
succeed Justice Curtis d. Wilbur, who
was named recently as secretary OF
the navy.
United States Senator b. X. Wheel
er. prosecutor of the senate Daugher-
~ investigating committee, was in
dicted at Great Falls, Montana by a
federal grand jury on a charge of un-
lawfully receiving money as retainer
fees to influence the issuance of oil
and gas prospecting permits by the
secretary of interior and commission
er OF the general land office.
Postal receipts at Boise and Chey-
enne for March fell below those of
March last year. Last months re-
ceipts at Boise were $2O,192, or 500
per cent drop. and at Cheyenne they
Were $l1,102, drop of 17.S per cent.
Reno, with receipts of $12,95O, made
a gain of 17.13 per cent.
Earl Wilson. automobile racing
driver, was fatally injured when his
car crashed into the fence at Ascot
speedway at Los Angeles. He died
soon after reaching the hospital
where an operation was to have been
performed in an effort to save his
life.
His car buried a snow bank
when he was caught in a heavy |
storm on high mountain pass near
Egnar, Colo, while attempting to go
into Utah. William " Ton, 81, Pueblo,
wandered about in the mountains for
several days before being found by
forest rangers and taken to shelter
In spite OF all that could be done for
him he died from exposure.
David B. NJ. Aldred, railway postal
clerk of Cheyenne, is in custody on a
federal charge of embexzlement of
mail matter after a fire last week
which partly destroyed mail car
and its contents at Hanna, Wye. Aid
red, 1t is charged sold parcel post
mail from the damaged car to per-
sons at Hanna. He denies the charge
The state of Washington, Is stand
ing pat in its quarantine against the
section infected with foot and mouth
disease. DIR. Pelton of the agricultural
department said. The department had '
a request from Contra Costa county,
CAL, for permission to ship a carload
OF asparagus, but the request was
denied.
Although Mrs. c. R. Stone, 81 O
year old resident of Tupunga, a sub u
1rb, has lived within gunshot of Z
Hollywood's movie studios since the i
first crude pie throwing comedy a
lays, she saw her first motion pic &
lure at Hollywood last week. Il
GENERAL Il
Daylight saving time goes into eff ;,
ect in Chicago at 2 a. m, April 81. =
I also win be effective on the same =
late in New York City. !,
Customs officials are investigating c.
eports that a prominent Chicago 81
woman, whose name is not disclosed. n
s the owner of a recently imported
merald necklace, valued at 81 .5O0,-
700, on which the records are said 10 a
how that so per cent duty has not 4
cen paid. g
pi
A string bean on the sidewalk in
ront OF the Blotky Commission com
any's plant Omaha caused him to n
lip and break his leg. Adolph Sch IL
7artz, laborer, alleges in suit for GO
10000 against the company and the &c
wner of its building. trial of which CO
egan Monday in district court. SC
Jewelry valued at $4,000 was stol- co
n by burglars at Chicago, who cut ~
leir way through network of burg sr
II alarms and two brick walls of n,
,welry establishment district. They cd
verlooked 100000 worth of unset
The men worked undetect-
for hours police estimated. az
Two companies of the Kentucky co
ational guardsmen were ordered TO err
lie mining camp of the Liberty Coal
Coke company on Straight creek in Phi
ell county by Governor w. ]. Fields. du
n outbreak OF labor trouble was on
arked by killing OF one man and an
ounding of another Thursday 40
Joseph Howard Willard. United po
ates ambassador to Spain from ior
10 to 1921 is dead at New York. He ma
rs born in Washington in 1865. SIS
A gas leak was believed RESPONSE
2 for n fire which destroyed st. arr
mes Methodist Episcopal church az
Chicago, doing damage estimated ~
100000 The church was the home -,
the wealthiest congregation in arr
icago. c,,,
John w. Langley of TOW
ntucky was indicted by a federal
and jury at Ccvington., Kentucky POI
three counts. charging conspiracy kon
withdraw, sell and transport whis- qua
mo.