The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-05-09
TELECPAp H|C TALES
FOR BUSY READERS
A RESUME OF THE WEEKS
DoiNGS IN THIS AND OTHER
COUNTRIES
important Events Of the Last Seven
DAYS Rcporte'' by Wire ard Pre-
pared for the Benefit of the
Busy Reader
WESTERN

The body OF William Orvis Nelso
who mysteriously disappeared near
three weeks ago was found near Win
nemucca, New. in the river weighte
dow with big stone in a sack wire
on his back. The river has bee
dragged all the time since Nelson
disappearance and wire nets wer
stretched.
A lone robber entered the jewelr
store of Frederick Miller in the hear
Of the business district of Portland
Ore, and after binding the clerk
Leroy Robinson, waited for the arri
val OF Miller whom he forced to take
Jewels from the safe. He escaped
with loot estimated at $4,000, accord
ing to a report to the police.
A farm house. two barns and mum
erous outbuildings near Eriel, eight
cen miles from Woodland, Washing
ton were destroyed by forest fires ac-
cording to word received at Woodland.
A preliminary initiative petition has
been filed with the secretary of state
OF Oregon, calling for abolition of the
death penalty in Oregon. II sufficient
signatures are attached to the petit
tons the measure will be voted on at
the regular election in November.
The initiators include John S. Smith,
former warden of the state peniten-
tary.
Charles West, 35, of Bridgeport,
Neb., was shot and almost instantly
killed in raid on an alleged gamp-
ling game at Lavoye, forty-fve miles
north of Casper, Wyo., in the Salt
Creek oil field. John Newell, room
ing house proprietor of Lavoye, one
OF the two deputized to assist deputy
sheriff c. G. Vance in making the
raid, is said to have admitted firing
the shot and to have claimed it was
accidental.
No farmer of Nevada hesitates to
hire California laborer who shows
. certificate that he has been fumf-
gated at Gerlach, the most western
division point of the Western Pacific
m Nevada. Gerlach possesses the
best facilities for bathing and fumf
eating of any town along the line.
GENERAL
Wanda Stopa, who plumbed the a
Iepths of love. life and despair in the
asst four years of her twenty-three
ears of life and who DESTROYED a
rilliant and promising career when :,
he swallowed poison In the Statler !.
otel, Detroit, was quietly buried from :,
ne modest little home of her mother :,
Augusta street, Chicago. I,
One fireman was killed eight were
lJured and property loss of ap- is
roximately $1,000,000 was caused tn
hen fire starting in the heart of the I'll
lsiness district of Lowell Mass. 81
vept through five buildings, destroy hs
g two of the city's largest office A
lildings. theatre the knights of
olumbus building and a large garage. on
Robert ]. Sanderson husband of u
ma Wilcox Putnam, authoress. for sc
ally and publicly declared at New y
'rk that the alienation of affections w
arged with which his wife's name
IS linked last winter were utterly as
Sc. foi
ali
John c. Roberts owner of the st. Br
uis Star and vice president of t He
irrational Shoe company died at ale
Louis at the age of 20. Mr.. Roberts onl
S prominent in Missouri and ma tie.
nal Democratic politics and was fro
} of the friends and advisers of
'sident Wilson. mo
-rrested on charge of highway au =,
berry, Mrs. Anna Germann. %, and ro,'
J. Julia Vandyke, the same age, Dei
b of Yonkers. New York together L
Sullivan Belfi and Salvatore niti
palardo. also of Yonkers, were ar It
ned before Judge Seely. The bob Am
haired women were released on INTO
70 bail, which was quickly furnish the
resi-
betv
narles Peter OF Salt Lake City, has
ident of the Consolidated Mascot r,
ing Company pleaded not guilty Cool
n indictment charging grand lar latio
:, in New York. Peter Roeder from
planned that he had paid $4,000 at a
1000 shares in a mine at HALEY, ausn
o, on Peters representation that atior
was Fo'oVV'ooo worth Oh ore tend,
he mine ready for shipment. csc
alter f. DAILY, 55. for eighteen III
; first assistant United States
let attorney of Colorado. was
! dead in an alley in South Dem ieee,
Death was due to natural ana
g Char
o aviators. ]. II. Green and n stone
were killed at the loan,
! Lakes naval training station Gap;
Taudegan, ILL.,, when their sea being
crashed into tree from Char;
t of 1000 or 1900 feet. cruick- respe
formerly lived in Cedar Rap loar