The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-10-17
TELEGRApH|C TALES
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 Pro-
pared for the Benefit Of this
Busy Reader
WESTERN

huge Moffat tunnel project, whic]
will provide America with her short
est transcontinental rail route ha
been completed, according to wore
received in Denver. Estimates wer,
made from official records of tn.
Moffat tunnel commission.
The Big Casino, famous the worlc
over as the center of night life in To.
nopah, Nevada during the boom days
Of that camp, bowed before the pro.
hibition law and will remain closed
for one year for having carried on
the old life. Judge harrington yer.
bally ordered in the federal court
that the place be closed for a year
and he announced that he will file a
written opinion in the case later.
Preliminary organizations of a
Pacific coast chamber of mines and
minerals, having as its purpose the
federation of all existing mining or
CARNATIONS in western states, Alaska,
British Columbia and Mxico, was eff
fected at conference of mining
executives at Sacramento, Calf.
Organized baseball should show its
appreciation of the act of Heinie
Sand, Philadelphia shortstop, in ex-
posing the attempt to bride him,
said George A. Putnam, discoverer of
Jimmy O'Connell and secretary of the
San Francisco club of the Pacific
Coast baseball league.
Three persons were killed when
steam boiler on a threshing outfit
blew up on the George Woolsey farm
near Steele, North Dakota.
While pushing a speeder car out on
the main line of the Union Pacific
at Black Buttes, Wyoming, Weller j.
Bishopp, 81, was struck by a west
bound engine and injured so severely
that he died on the way to the Wyom-
ing General hospital.
Earl Cooper won the 15O-mile
Raisin day classic at Fresno, Calf.
with Bennett Hill second and Tommy
Milton third. The time was l :25:13.
q new track record.
Winton, Wyoming has its own
water supply, the new system which |
has been under construction by the
Union Pacific Coal company during
the summer months having been com
pleted the past week. The water is
pumped from recently drilled wells in
that vicinity. Hitherto water has
been hauled to Winton from Rock
Springs by rail. The coal company
also announced the completion of a
water system at Hanna, where seven
miles of main were laid.
GENERAL
James Cruze, motion picture direc-
tor, will marry Betty Compson, film
star, late in October, announced Mrs.
Mary Compson, mother of the actress
at Los Angeles. Cruze is in Chicago
and is expected to return to Los An
yeles in a week.
superintendent of 1877 Indian {
schools with an attendance of more {
han 10000, were instructed by the I
Indian affairs office of the interior {
department. to extend the courses so
hat pupils may receive increased .
educational advantages.
Prohibition officials claimed to I
American liquor conspiracy with s1O,-
American liquor consiracy with $1O,- @
100000 involved when they towed in
o New York harbor the twin screw
British steamer Frederick B. with :
Is crew of % men and two women I
nder armed guard and with $780,
90 liquor cargo aboard.
Miss Gladys Kuh, a Tucker county,
'exas deputy sheriff, arrived at the
'arsons Jail early Tuesday and turn a
d over to Sheriff ]. B. Close, two {
LEGGED moonshiners she had captur- [
d on a lonely country road at mid r
light. The girl officer escorted her a
risoners in at the point of a pistol, p
eminding them that they had better "
e good because "a woman would not
ave any better sense than to shoot"
Eighty four thousand lives were b
st in the United States last year as m
lie result of accidents. The death c,
I'll amounted to 1862 per week, or D,
% day. Automobile accidents Il
eaded the list with 81 deaths day. F
alls killed 36 a day, drowning 10 te
nd railroad accidents 16. as
Federal Judge Foster of New York
pheld the indictment of CASTOR B. m
cans, former department of justice Ell
gent; his secretary, Elmer Jarnecke, m
I'd his attorney, Thomas B. Fielder, re-
! charge that they received money tv
hich they misrepresented was to be 81
ed in the bribery of former Attor- er
" General Daugherty and other
,vernment officials. err
A head-on collision between two 81
,uthern Pacific freight trains near al
scoste, Texas, cost two lives and tr