The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-12-05
TELEGRAPH|C TALES
FOR BUSY READERS
a RESUME OF THE WEEKS
oOiNGs IN THIS AND OTHER
COUNTRIES
important Events Of the Last Seven
Days Reported by Wire and Pre-
pared for the Benefit of the
Busy Reader
WESTERN

WESTERN
When Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross
to be inaugurated governor of Wyon
ing January 5, the ceremony will /
as simple and brief as the occasio
will permit. Mrs. Ross will be /
mourning for her husband who die
less than eight weeks ago Their
will be nothing in the way of merri
ment.
Alleged refusal of the Souther
Pacific company to grant conference
with engineers national brotherhood
over increased wage demands hav
resulted in the polling of secre
strike vote over the entire system
it is announced.
Splits asking judgments aggregat
ing Sl6,687 against Rudolph Valen-
tino, motion picture actor, were filec
In superior court at Los Angeles by
assignees of Robertson & Webb, film
booking agents, who allege the money
is due them for obtaining employ
ment for Valentino with Famous
Players Lasky corporation in Novem-
Der, 1921.
Peter Allen, 10, and Ernest F.
label, 33, were killed at Butte, Mont.
when the cage on which they were
being lifted, with twenty two other
men, from the 2900-foot level of the
Mountain Consolidated mine of the
Anaconda Copper company, was
hoisted into the sheave wheel at the
top of the gallows frame.
Orders issued last June for the de
struction of alleged boil weevil in
Tested cotton crops in the Postvalle
area near Tucson, Arizona were de-
clared Unauthorized, illegal and
void" in a report filed in United
States court at Phoenix by H. L.
Partridge, special master in chan
Gerry.
Elko county, Nevada desert, en-
bracing thousands of acres in the
eastern part of the country, is the
mecca of the sheepmen of Utah and |
Idaho, besides large number of |
local sheep owners. Sheriff Harris
is now checking up the sheep and
reports that thousands are being
driven or shipped to the desert for
the winter months. The recent storms
insure plenty of moisture for the
sheep.
Hearst hall, University of Califor-
MIA women gymnasium and center of
women's activities, planned as a me
mortal to the late Phoebe Apperson.
Hearst is to be a $1,00O,O0O structure.
This was revealed by President w.
w. Campbell of the University at a
meeting of the board of regents at
Stephens union on the campus.
GENERAL
The Boulder dam bill, which is
10 be taken up again next week by
,he house committee on irrigation.
will not pass congress during the
short session if Representative E. o.
.eatherwood can prevent it. The e
Utah congressman, who exposed the 5
nquities OF this bill during the hear
ngs last session, showed wherein that !.
'ill might operate to impair the
lights of Utah and other states of the
upper Colorado river basin, returned I
o Washington determined to carry !,
n from the point where ne left off :,
Shen this legislation was sidetracked !,
asst June.
Hamilton Holt, former editor of the
Jew York Independent and well
nown league of nations advocate. r
ras unanimously nominated for Unit y
d States senator by the Democratic a
tate convention at New Haven, Conn. Il
he nomination was by reclamation.
The election of Mrs. Miriam A. m
erguson, Democrat, as governor of .
exas at the November election pi
i'll not be contested. This announce q.
ent was made after a two-day con q
'rence of state Republican leaders. w
Farmers in Manitoba, Canada, just hs
ross the line from North Dakota,
e threshing in the snow, according
reports received at Grand Forks, eN
. d. The grain is being hauled Sc
sleds. ne
go
From present indications the water II
ortage that visited Salt Lake last ne
INNER viii not occur this coming Sc
ar as the snow fall in the noun DIR
ms near town is extremely heavy tir
r this time of the year. of
Mrs. Fannie Christian of Rozel,
an, has been elected to two offices "a.
justice of the peace and town :.
ip constable-although she had not 81
en- a candidate for any office, the tot
fetal canvass of the November del
,ction disclosed. ew
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