The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-03-14
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FOR BUSY READERS
A 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


AXE clubs training season wer
chronicled at Fresno, California whe
Rudy" the Bee trainer, was Gale
upon to care for two skinned an
caloysed fingers. sustained by Pitcf
ers John Singleton and Harve
o'Neil while pitching horseshoes in
newspaper tournament
Lewis Carr Butler, vice presiden
and cashier of the defunct First Ma
tional Bank of Rock Sprinks, Wyo
was found guilty in federal distric
court on three of ten counts of an in
dictment charging embezzlement ant
misapplication of the funds of the
bank.
ator who was shot through the lung
New Years night at Los Angeles by
Horace A. Greer, chauffeur for
Mabel Normand, motion picture act
ress, left the hospital a few days ago
and is reported to have gone on a
hunting trip.
Declaration that he and his as
sociates are going to resist the gov
ernments effort to enjoin US from
proceeding with the work at Diamono
creek" was made at Phoenix, Ariz.,
when Informed that he had been made
defendant in a suit to halt construc-
ton of the Diamond creek dam on
the Colorado river
l.. b. Lockhart, former president of
two Montana banks, was arrested by
deputy sheriffs at Los Angeles on a
Geographic warrant from Great Falls,
Mont. The charge against him was
not revealed but the fugitive warrant
authorizing his arrest fixed his bail
at S1S600. in default of which he was
lodged in the. county Jail.
A motion removing L. l.. Doheny
as second vice president of the or
ganization was adopted by the Cal
ifornia Democratic state central COM
mittee in meeting here. The motion
also included a request to Doheny
that he resign from the committee.
GENERAL
A supreme court jury returned a |
verdict in favor of Beverly ID. Harris,
former vice president of the National |
City bank of New York in the mar
riage annulment suit brought by him
against his wife, Eleanor Elaine Lee
Harris, on charges that she misrep-
resented her origin before their mar
riage
Hurting 300 pound bombs from a
height of several hundred feet, two
Martin bombing planes piloted by
army filters successfully attacked the
zee gorges in the Platte river near Co
Neb., sixty miles west of
omaha averting temporarily at least,
'urther flooding of lowlands. {
Prince Wolfgang Won Hessen, ne
thew of the former German emperor,
las arrived at New York. He said t
here was no romance connected with a
IFS trip and that he planned to visit i
riends. 4
Miss Leila Lewis, %, former book,
.eeper at the First National bank of
It. Paul, Mimi, was charged with
econd degree forgery by bank off n
ials following her admission to au- a
horities that by manipulation of al
ummy account she obtained $4,000 of
he banks funds in the last two years. :
The first step of the $4,000, 900 agri- D
ultural credit corporation toward To- d
alizing its program of agricultural
nd banking relief in the northwest
-as taken Friday at a conference at j
ismarch, ~ D., between officials of u
lat state executives of the corpor- %
ton and members of its North Da- .
Ota advisory committee. L,
pl
MIS-. Bertha Horchem' member OF ki
a air circus was instantly killed at n
le municipal flying field at San 81
ntonio. Texas, when the left wing of
sr plane crumpled as she went into -
op at 1900 feet. The plane crashed Oh
the ground twenty feet in front dc
the hangar and into the edge os the 81
owd of 5000 spectators. tn
Thirty-two hundred women sat in" o,
what is said to be the worlds
rgest card party ever staged in a
ON at Cleveland, Ohio. Eight hun lie,
ed tables covered the entire vast ae
'or of the public auditorium when DO
e bridge games started. The prizes gi
IRE eight hundred pieces of cut glass 81
embroidery one for each table. ley
Jack Dempsey, worlds heavyweight
ampion has left the Polytechnic hos ga
al at New York after a confine- eIe
mt of a week following an operation 10
: hemorrhoids and an abscess.
Mrs. Letitia Lindsey. 40 mother OF &c
ige Ben Il. Lindsey of Denver's oe'
yenile court, died at a hospital at Sai
nver Sunday morning following
iden attack of pneumonia. Mrs off
ldsey came to Denver from Jack tina
/, Tenn. in 1877. with her husband, 15s
ndy Tunstall Lindsey. Funeral sin
vices will ha hold Tuas5ov wOl