The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-12-26
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RkeUME OF THE WEEKS
poiNos IN This AND OTHER
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enpertant Events Of the Last seven
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wEsrERN


The rail mill Of the steel plar
- the Colorado Fuel q Iron compan
yasunsd operations after being i'd
for several months. Five hundre
men started work and will be EN-
ployed in two shifts of eight hour
each, 1t was announced at Pueblo
Colorado.
John Ellegood, Sc, was killed, $40.
900 worth Of property was ruine'
and three Buildings were wrecked il
. double explosion at the Du Pom
Powder company's plant at Du Pont
Wash.
The conviction of L. H. Lathrop, S
3. Champlain and George w. Clark
officials Of the Northwestern I'm
provemsnt company Of Pocatello, Ida
no, on a charge of using the mails
70 dsfraud In connection with $780,
900 real estate transaction, was up
held by the United States circuit
court Of appeals at San Francisco.
Mrs. Nellie Taylor Ross, governor
elect Of Wyoming, will not attend the
ceremonies In January inauguraulng
Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson as governor
Of the Lone Star state, it became
nkown At Cheyenne, Wyo. The Wyo-
ming legislature will be in session at
the time and Mrs. Ross said she felt
she should remain at Cheyenne.
Matthew Decker, held as suspect
b the staying of Walter w. Power,
automobile salesman, was positively
identified in Los Angeles by Mrs.
Ethel Garcia as the man she saw
running from the scene of the killing,
1t was announced at the district attor-
ney's office.
Two more large Nevada wool clips
have been disposed of, according to
word received in Elko, the first bring
Ing the top price so far recorded of |
48 cents, and the second bringing 43
cents. The top price clip is that of |
Adams and McGill in White Pine
county, amounting to approximately
zoe, 900 pounds and is one of the larg-
sst in the eastern part of the state.
Effective Immediately an embargo
was declared by the California state
department. of agriculture on the inn
,ortation into California of live poul-
.ry consisting of chickens, turkeys,
reese, ducks, pheasants, pigeons and
yea fowl from the states of North Da-
'ota, South Dakota, Kansas, Illinois,
indiana. Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri.
GENERAL
The fourth Mrs. Willard Mack left
er husband in New York she said,
ecause he drank too much and now
ir. Mack has come TO regard her |
oint of view with favor. Mr.. and i
irs. Mack, before their attorneys, I
cached separation agreement and |
ne author actor producer told her he i
'ould provide her with every posi- S
lie comfort until divorce is OBJ t
iined h
A forty four word letter, reposing
! the eye of needle, has been re
lived at the Smithsonian Institute.
he microscopic missive, which was :,
mt to the institute for display be-
re the annual meeting of the board
regents, is so small it has to be a
agnified eighty eight times before D
can be read. 1t measures exactly n
1l.250th of square inch. The text v
the letter follows. This is )
ude, hurriedly prepared, large sam n
e of the micro-engraving, ! trust it J.
i'll contain a moment of interest to n
e regents and regret that time pre- 81
nts preparing an exhibition more
'rthy of their inspection. Believe d
to be, your cordially, Alfred Nc p
ven" S,
The Missouri Pacific railway, which, 81
rough recent acquisition of control .,
the Gulf Coast lines and the In =,
national Great Northern railroad =.
came the largest transportation ~
stem on the United States announ-
. the purchase of fifty additional :,
5000 freight cars ana ''
rty cabooses at an aggregate cost -,
about s9,000,000. on
James Higgeson, 81, of Oklahoma VIZ
~, conductor on a St Louis and TO
n Francisco train, was suffocated wi
lie directing passengers to safety up
EN- fire destroyed two coaches of tn
train. ed
The House committee investigating
shipping board received testimony cis
wing the board held SAB claims no
its deferred liquidation division ag- io'
'gting s11700O0, 10000 on which it pa
estimated only 100000 could be -. -,
|ected. n'
by number of univer- cit
: law school deans indorsing the
ID labor amendment to the consti- Sw
on were made public by the head adj
rters of the national organization sal