The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-10-10
Western Brevities
from the Many
Western States


was adopted by unanimous vote of
Twin Falls municipal commission, at
regular meeting here.
Los Angeles-Mrs. Rosanna Moore,
II, mother Of Tom, Owen and Matt
Moore, motion picture actors died at
her home here.
Boise, Ida.,-Idaho will issue no
quarantine against Texas compod.
tiles at the present time because of
foot and mouth disease, it was an
nounced by Mark A. Means, commits
sioner of agriculture.
Woodland, Calf, Two bandits
staged a sensational holdup in the
Bank of Italy, forcing the clerks to
open the vault. They locked eight
bank employees in the vault and es-
capped with $4,000 in cash and Sc
curities.
Goldfield, -Seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars damage was done by
fire here which destroyed an en-
tire business block in the center of
the town.
San Francisco, Mrs. Jerome X.
Landfield of Burlingame, wife of
Prof. Jerome K Landfietd, formerly
princess Louba Lobanov Rostovsky
and lady-in waiting to the czarina of
Russia, has taken up career of
saleslady in one of San Francisco's
leading department stores.
Portland, Ore.-A plague resem-
bling foot and mouth disease has
been discovered among mule deer In
Klamath county, Ore, near the Cali
fornia line, according to report
made by M. ]. Barnes, deputy game
warden at Klamath Falls, to the state
game commission office here. Sew
entytwo deer were dead in Oregon,
in Klamath county; seven more were
reported dead at Groh's ranch, south
of Klamath Falls.
San Jedro, Cal.-Selection of Ter
minal Island as a site for naval air
station and fleet supply base was an
nounced here by Captain Stanford E.
Moses, commander of the battle fleet
air forces.
Sioux Fals,l S. D.-With the arrival
og carload of gasoline consigned to
the state, Warden George Jameson
of the South Dakota state peniten-
tiary announced that state sale of
gasoline at Is cents gallon will be
gin at the penitentiary grounds.
State sale is being inaugurated here
for the first time since its renewal
over the state last spring, under or
iers from Governor w. H. McMaster.
Sioux Falls, S. oh. F. Hall of
Sioux Falls, manager of a municipal
roedo show being staged here, and
several performers at the exhibition
we're arrested at the rodeo grounds
~ DR.. t. H. Kindred, humane Off
'er and Arthur Anderson, deputy
heriff. They are charged with cruel
y to animals and their arrest was
he outgrowth of a dispute between
odeo officials and humane officers
yer the "bulldogging" and roping
vents of the rodeo program.
Anchorage, Alaska.-The Sustina
alley is celebrating with an exhibi-
ion and fair its first decade of agri-
ulture. In the ten years since the
aunching of the Alaska railroad pro-
sct by the government, sufficient
and has been brought under cultiva-
ION to assure a display equal to that
many northwestern states.
Portland, Ore.-Fossils of another
TRANCE animal which used to roam
ne wilds of eastern Oregon years
go have been discovered. A group
University of California biologists
I'VE found the skull, tooth and sever
bones of an elotherium, a squat
ig-like creature which probably ex-
ted in the tertiary age. The skull
as about the size of that of a horse
Scept that it was flatter. One of
he teeth was about two inches in
ameter and about three inches long.
Wendell, Idaho.-A. F. Achinger.
oneer settler of this section who
red alone on ranch about six
lies east of Wendell died Tuesday
ght at a Wendell hospital, from
rms received when he attempted to :.
ght his fire from five gallon can
coal oil. The oil exploded and the
an, mass of flames, jumped into
nearby ditch, and later was brough:
the hispital
Pendleton, Ore.-Paddy Ryan of
leyenne won the championship in
e worlds bucking contest here
turday and with it the Roosevelt
ophy for one year, prize saddle
Tarded by the roundup, and $3.50 in
sh. His victory came when he
lde spectacular ride on u Tell
n, before cheering throng of
900 people.
Portland, Ore,-Preparations for
, intelligent direction of tourist
vel to the northwest next year are