The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-07-18
TELEGRAPH|C TALES
FOR BUSY READERS
A RESUME OF THE WEEKS
DoINGS IN THIS AND OTHER
COUNTRIES
important Events of the Last Seven
Days RePorte by Wire and Pro-
pared for the Benefit Of the
Busy Reader
WESTERN

Twenty-Five OF the thirty tnre
nurses in Nevada are employed a
st. Mary's hospital in Reno, accord
ing to a list of registered Nevadi
nurses received by Secretary of Stat
w. G. Greenhouse. Altogether Their,
are niety-eight nurses registered il
this state, but only thirty have
Nevada addresses.
Report from Cheyenne is that
State Treasurer John Snyder will
draw a check for 100000 July 1st
and apply it on the state highway
bonds. This makes total paid on
these bonds which were floated sew
eral years ago of $1,650,000, and
leaves balance due of $2,95O,0OO.
Of the apportionment among states
for federal highway construction for
the coming year, beginning July 1,
Wyoming will receive $936,372. This
announcement comes from Secretary
Wallace.
Lieutenant Russell l.. Vaughan
succeeded on his third attempt in
crossing the continent between day
light and dark, making the trip from
New York to San Francisco with an
average speed of more than 156 miles
an hour.
Burglars ransacked the home of
Jack Pickford, motion picture actor,
at Los Angeles and escaped with
jewelry valued at between $37 900 and
$4,000, according to the police. The
loss was discovered by maid upon
her return to the house after a Sun
day off.
H A. Cunard Cummins, charge de
archives of the British legation at the
City Of Mexico has crossed the border
into the United States at Laredo,
Texas. and left for San Antonio. He
refused to comment as to whether or
not his retirement from Mexico was
voluntary.
A record flight for the particular !
type of airplane used was made by
Lieutenant John S. Griffith, army air
service when he flew from Ell Paso, '
Tex. to Crisy field, San Francisco, in I
eleven hours thirty minutes actual t
Flying time the headquarters of the 5
Ninth army corps area has ANNOUNCE |
ed. I
Willie Leith, proprietor of a golfing Y
school, at Denver and widely known p
golfer was shot through o
the mouth and dangerously wounded
Turing quarrel with John H. Nor.
gan, one of the proprietors of an adj !,
Tertising agency. The shooting oc- u
urred in Morgan's office. Leith was g
AIKEN TO the general hospital and n
Iorgan was taken to the city Jail for .
A roundup of members of the /. :.
Y. w. in Oregon, Washington, Cal
ornia, Nevada and Arizona is to be
onducted by the United States de- al
of Justice, because of the ia
LEGGED activity of the organization in til
lese states in spreading the foot and ia
outh disease in California and ille- m
ally aiding in the general boycott of eli
alifornia goods, it was announced by Sc
rove L. Fink, assistant United Stat in
} district attorney of California is
Horace A. Greer, former chauffeur
r Mabel Normand, the screen ac- 90
ess was acquitted in Los Angeles r,
superior court on a charge of as "a
ult with intent to murder CORTLAND al
Dimes, Denver oil operator, only -
be Immediately rearrested for an ~
legged violation of the Wright act, a.
e state prohibition law. -
Josephine Bartholme, II year old 70,
RI, inmate of the juvenile hall at
e TO the Hope Development school tir
Playa del Rey, near here, May 81, mo-
len twenty-four lives were lost, ac- we
riding TO an announcement by Dis KOS
let Attorney Asa Reyes. seN
GENERAL i
Geo. Pressley's ill feeling against We ma
5 mother-in-law, who had twice a..
ade a refuge for his wife after ~ ~
arrels, was given by his neighbors 49,
the Iron county hills west of Bis
lrck, Mo-, as the cause of the
aths of his wife, son and himself. bar
Before the Rhode Island senate re Nar
lvened at Providence to resume its the
where they were broken boa
by disorder and gas fumes in the est
late last week, Governor William 10
Flynn issued a statement in which llinc
described the Republican senators OF
v at Rutland, Mass, as "fugitives kiiie
outlaws" 10 a
Black Diamond" famous ostrich TIC
Arkansas is dead. The passing so
he noted bird recalls the memoir pres
event at Greenville, Ohio, II 80
RS ago when "Black Diamond" ro,-t
nted a half mile in los, setting news
American record which still omar
O. for I
ie name of Woodrow Wilson was
n the spark that fired Demo- in I'll
c enthusiasm and sent the par city,