The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-11-21
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FOR BUSY READERS
y RESUME OF THE WEEKS
oOINcs IN THIS AND OTHER
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important Events Of the Last Seven
Days Reported by Wire and Pre-
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WESTERN

Au0 pIOpOSdi 10 give oan TdnclSt
continuous baseball during the 19z
season of the Pacific Coast leagu
failed by a five-to- three vote I
pbtain the approval of the league
directors and club owners at the
meeting at Seattle. The propose
30 dispose of the Salt Lake team Z
Long Beach and to remove its bias
Of operations to San Francisco ais
failed to receive unanimous approval
Benjamin Bergman, prominen
merchant of Ruth, Nevada was he'll,
mp and shot to death by three un
masked men in his store. The stor,
was full of people at the time, bu
the men made their escape through
the rear door of the store and have
not yet been arrested. Forty-fivs
thousand dollars In the safe was left
untouched.
Fire attributed to spontaneous
combustion destroyed the coaling bins
of the Union Pacific railroad at La
Ealle, Colo, causing damage estim-
hteu AZ 9fO,OOO.
John A. Hicks, an inmate of the
county poor farm at Los Angeles
asks a divorce from his wife, An
ntete P. Hicks, and alimony of 500
month, in pauper's complaint on
file in superior court. Mrs. Hicks,
the complaint states, enjoys the in
come from property valued at $4,000
while the plaintiff ais compelled to
live on charity"
After eluding search for three
weeks, Jack Wilson, who is accused
of having robbed the State bank at
Alton, Wyoming, unwisely returned
to his old haunts, walked into a trap
set for him and is now in Jail. Sheriff
d. c. Oakley, hearing that Wilson
intended to return to Kemmerer, in
structed Deputy Sheriffs Lawrence
Miller and Rud Bennett to be on
watch. Wilson virtually walked into
the arms of the two deputy sheriffs.
Federal Judge Charles N. Pray al
Great Falls, Montana disqualified him
self from sitting as trial judge in the
prosecution of Senator B. K. Wheeler, |
who was indicted here last April on the
charge that he had accepted a fee
for representing a client before fed
eral department after his election to
the United States senate. Senator
Wheeler's trial will be held here in
December before a judge to be as
signed to the Great Falls court by
Senior Judge Gilbert of Portland.
While the nation was in a furore
hoosing president ard divers and
undry other public officials, there
we're five precincts in Idaho county,
IDAHO, whose calm remained unruf-
led, it developed. County Auditor
ienry Pelcher reported on the tele- :
hone fom Grangeville that in the .
i've precincts, totaling twenty-five re- !
istered voters, the polls had not beer !,
pened at all. !.
Fourteen miles of new road on the '
Jock Springs route to the
eliowstone park have been opened
traffic by the state highway de-
artment of Wyoming during the past II
eek. The new road replaces several .
ad grades in the only gap through a
lie White mountain ridge to the Eden NJ
alley on the old Oregon trail and =,
'ene of the massacre made famous :,
z "The Covered Wagon"
GENERAL =,
w. w. Irwin of Wheeling, w. Va, in
lst imperial potentate of the An bt
emit Arabic order, Mobiles of the III
ystic Shrine, died in a hospital at G
ittsburg, where he underwent an tn
eration several weeks ago He 81
rived as postmaster of Wheeling
ring President Wilson'S asminis h,
alton and was imperial postentate he
the Shriners of North America in in
10 and 1914. ~
Records of five years standing were \
lashed at New York by the enthu- u
Istic trading in the stock market, ~
sulting in the turnover of 2,335,S6V ~
ares of SOC separate issues. Since ~
: now famous liquidation market a
November II, 1919, when stocks
,lined 8 to 10 points in a day anc Ell
neral Motors led the way with a ice
drop of So points, there has not mc
IN such a volume of business on IN
New York Stock exchange. The I'd
h record of separate issues traded an
is SIT shares on Dec ember 20, 1u
3. lei
If the 435 members who were
ted to the house of representa- No
IS which will be sworn in when the If
ty-ninth congress assemblies in Ca
ember, 1925, sixty are raw re pei
is who have seen no previous le- mo
alive experience in Washington. IS
ion O'Bannion, several times tiv'
STONED by the police in connec-
with brewery and liquor viola .iol
S, was shot five times and killed ag
lis florist shop at Chicago. Two he
who fired the fusilade which mes