The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-12-12
Short News Notes
From, All Parts of
IDAHO

acres, situated along rivers and
streams in twenty states, it was
shown in a compilation by the interior
department. Arizona, with 1,049r969
acres, has the largest reserved area,
California is second with 976,095
acres, and other states totals are
Utah, 46S,678; Oregon, 467,237; Ne
vada, S00,270; Colorado, 298,376; Ida
no, 266,659; Montana, 214,SS0, and
New Mexico, 207,54s.
Moscow,-Vernon Stivers, quarter
back on this seasons University of
Idaho football team and regarded by
many as the best quarterback in the
Pacific coast conference, played
through the entire season after break
ing his neck. In one of the first
practice scrimmages of the season
Stivers, carrying the ball, was jam
med between linemen with head down,
so that his head was forced violently
against his chest. He fell unconsci-
GUS and when taken to a hospital II
was discovered that two of the verte-
brae in his neck had been forced apart
and showed out of place. An X-ray
photograph showed that one or the
vertebrae was touching the spinal
cord. For two days Stivers lay para
lyzed in the hospital and then ply
sicians succeeded in swapping the dis
located vertebrae back into place.
Following this Stivers recovered from
the paralysis. The fact that Stivers
had broken his neck was kept secret
by Coach Robert Mathews of the
Idaho team, and in every game Sti-
vers neck was tightly bandaged with
tape to prevent recurrence of the
injury.
Pocatello,-T. j. O'Brien ana Jack
Croft have been taken to the peniten-
tiary to serve 80 years, each on bur
glary and robbery charge.
Pocatello,-Mrs. Irene Welsh Girls
som, poet laureate of Idaho, read a
number of her poems at the monthly
of the high school Parent
Teacher association at the high school
Boise,,John F. Williams of Ririe,
was injured severely and Mrs. Will
liams, Bishop David Hughes of Sa-
maria, Idaho, and Mrs. Hughes were
bruised and lacerated when the auto
mobile in which they were riding
turned over on the Oregon Short
Line crossing near Collinston.
Boise,-Advanced proof sheets of
The proposal to present to the legis-
ature a resolution for the introduce
5oin of Bible reading in the public
schools are being sent out to patrons
~ the state board of education, it
vas announced at the office of the
BOARD in the statehouse. A thousand
persons in the state, selected by the |
BOARD, will receive the advanced |
heets, the forword says, and all are
Urged to give the matter considerable
'eading.
Twin Falls,-James Wilson Snod-
'rass, aged 81, frontiersman and
riend of Jim Bridger and Kit Car
on has just been buried. He was
present at the beginning of construc-
ion Of the first Snake river ferry.
Boise,-Suit to recover $18,880.65 |
rom Bonneville county was filed in
he United States district court by S.
(. Mittry and George Mattey, doing
usiness under the name of the North
,acific Copctr,ction cop,popu q Cali
ornia corporation. The company al
eyes that the county is this much
hort in paying for the construction
f new courthouse at Idaho Falls
everal years ago.
Idaho Falls,-Miss Dorothy Cage
as left for Washington, d. c., where
he has accepted position in the fill
lg department of the United States
avy. Miss Cage is the only daugh-
sr of John Cage, pioneer resident of
1aho Falls. She is graduate of the
of Idaho and last year was
mployed on the staff of the Lewis
On Normal school.
Boise,-The Rt. Rev. H. H. Fox,
uffragan bishop of Montana, will
ave Episcopal jurisdiction over Ida
o until the election of new bishop,
robably at the general convention of
he Episcopal church in New Orleans
4 October rs, 1925, according to word
,ceived by Dean Paul Roberts from
lie Ri. Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, presid-
g bishop of the church.
Soda Springs are to be
anted in the reservoir of the Utah
ight & Power company near Soda
prings. This assurance was receiy-
last week by Representative C. B.
'ilson, who recently took up the
after with R. E. Thomas, state game
arden.
Idaho Falls,-What was pronounced
e most unusual fire in the history
Idaho Falls was discovered when
e fire department was called to ex
nguish a blaze in the Hoff ware
'use on "Spud alley" 1t was found
at defective insulation had caused