The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-03-14
Short News Notes
From All Parts of
IDAHO

freight depot in this city for the pow
er plant that is being installed at tn
Livingston mines on Railroad ridge
The equipment is being taken to tn
property by fleet Of trucks.
Twin Falls,-Plans have been mad
for the state declamatory contest L
be held In Boise the second week II
! April. District contests in each o
| the seven districts of the state will
be held the last week in March ant
subdivision on March IS.
Hailey,-Lack of snow and the OK
ceedingly mild weather has caused
the HALEY chamber of commerce
committee in charge of the win
ter sports carnival to abandon the
project this year. Next winter the
committee plans to arrange for an
earlier date to avoid the possibility
of snow shortage.
Wallace,-The Tamarack 4 Custer
Consolidated Mining company an
nounces 1t will pay a dividend OF
cents per share, amounting to to-
tai of one hundred thousand dollars
March 81.
Weiser Mrs. Thomas Mooney,
wife of Thomas Mooney. serving a
term in the California state prison
FOR alleged completely in the 1917 San
Francisco preparedness parade bomb
outrage, was in Weiser collecting evil
dence to be used in attempting 10 OBJ
tain her husbands freedom.
Mccall, Kent. driving as
Bosses entry, captured first place in
the 15-mile Mccall dog derby, the
closing event in the two-day carnival
here Saturday smoky" CASTOR, last
years United States champion, driv-
ing for Nampa, finished second. Sam
Trude driving for Ashton, came in
third.
Boise,-Ada county collected $11,-
394. so in automobile license fees dur
ing February, according to the month
Iy report of w. A. Kincaid, county
assessor. as compared with $54, 1925
for February, 1923. This brings the
total. collected for 1924 to $114.251. 25 |
rs compared with $110, 79S.1O in all of
1923.
Idaho Falls.-The Rigby sugar fac
.ory was sold to the Utah-Idaho /
Sugar company Saturday at sale
conducted by A. V. Scott, receiver for
he Beet Growers Sugar company,
'wners of the factory. The sale was
during bidding between
". H. Watts, general manager, and
:. w. Young, attorney for the Utah
IDAHO Sugar company. The bidding
pened at $650,000, the bid Of Young
nd was followed by bid of 100000
y Watts. 1t was then raised to
100000 by Young.
lacEfoot has been named successor
0 Eldon Shock as Burser of the
iaho institute, according to an an
by President C. R. Fra
err.
Boise.-Idaho will not permit baby 4
hicks to be shipped into the state
'om California it has been announ-
ID at the state department of agri-
llture. This decision was wired to
r. C. d. Carpenter at Petaluma,
who made inquiry a few
lys ago to find out whether the
ate would accept such shipments in
ew of the foot and mouth disease /
idemic that has broken out in Cal S
ornia. S
Boise,-Track laying gangs started =.
ork Friday on the Perkins end or
e Orchard-Boise main line, accord =
g to L. w. Althoff, resident engin-
r. The work from Perkins to the
denbaugh canal will be used, Mr.. c
,thoff said, as the railroad is under c
ntract to complete the bridges a
ross the Ridenbaugh and New York "
nails before May 1, and the rails +
e needed in order that the bridge Il
eel may be brought to the ground. a
city probably will n
sc the fiscal year, May 1, with a
rplus of $4,000 over the budget a
innate, the quarterly report of Mrs. Il
gela Hopper, city clerk, indicates. A
ere is a balance in the budget es- Ia,
late of $64,74S.2S, while monthly 10
,enditures have averaged approx to
tely $4,000 so far this year. The OF
ort is for the quarter ending Jan CT
y 81.
soise,-The big Black canyon dam OF
ng thrown across the Payette la
sr in western Idaho just above 70
town of Emmett to form a re- DR.
voir in which to impound water fl'
the use Of lands in the Emmett tn
ley will be completed in April of W.
J year. or
all rates charged
the Idaho Power company for all oh
ses of electrical service, including pit
rates now in existance and de- ms
ing them to be unjust, unreason- fol