The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-05-16
Short News Notes
From All Parts of
IDAHO

DRY of Mr.. and Mrs. H. Spaulding
! the first white settlers in that sec
ton.
Pocatello.-A public meeting of the
qualified voters of the city has been
called by the city council for May %,
at which meeting the council will ask
for the authorization of an additional
levy to raise sufficient money fol
general revenue purposes for the en-
suing fiscal year. 1t has been de-
termined by the council that it will
require more than a 10-mill levy for
this purpose.
Electricity is spreading to
the farms of Idaho. 1t is believed
that between Is and 20 per cent of
Idaho farms are supplied with cleo
trio lights or electric power, or both,
and the demand is showing a steady
| increase. Lines are being extended
into new territory and new patrons
are being added to lines already built.
Boise Commissioner Mark A.
Means of the state department of
agriculture admitted that pressure is
being brought to bear for the modi-
fication of the Idaho quarantine
against California hoof and mouth
disease to admit fruits and vege
tables from the southern state. A
message from Secretary of Agricul-
ture Wallace at Washington has been
received, in which the statement is
made that there is no danger of in
lection being carried by products OF
the soil originating in areas which
are free from the disease.
Mackay.-Work has been started
on both ends of the cutoff from Lost
River to East Fork of the Salmon
river, by way of Peck's canyon. 1t
is estimated that the improvements
needed to put this road in good con-
dition will cost $4,000 1t is plann-
ed to have the road completed by
the latter part of July. The road
lessons the distance from Mackayeto
the Livingston mines IA miles.
-Pocatello lodge of Elks
burned the mortgage on the lodge
building with fitting ceremonies last
week, this being one of the incidents
of the three days Jubilee and
Mirthquake." The lodges indebted
ness has been discharged in less than
eight years and has been done on
payment plan.
Pocatello.-The special municipal
bond election held here last week re-
,eived the necessary two-thirds ma
iority, and, although the five ques-
ions submitted to the taxpayers in
yolved important improvements, lit
lie interest was taken in the election
md the vote was the highest in the
history of the city.
Idaho Falls.-The contract for the
of the road running
through the national forest in Teton ,
ounty and the reconstruction of the :
line creek bridge was completed at {
meeting held in Idaho Falls at 9
yhich the Teton county commissions /
RS, forest officials, Bonneville coun-
y commissioners and committeeman
rom Swan valley were present. '
Nampa.-More than 600 additional 7
equities of the state department of /
griculture were commissioned by s
lark A. Means, commissioner, to aid I
/ the states fight to prevent the
pread of foot and mouth disease
'om California to this state. These 8
wv deputies are officers and direc- L
RS of all cattle, horse, sheep, bull, II
vine and COW testing associations of L
lie state.
Boise.-W. F. Bergman, former =
shier of the defunct D. w. Stand y
ID bank, Blackfoot, was acquitted \
night by jury in district =,
urt after a trial lasting several -
ys on a charge of embezzlement to
connection with the alleged mis- mi
plication of a $500 Liberty bond.
Boise-Boise police made 1876 ar I.
SITS during April, of which so were Sc
lffic ordinance violations, the high =
number for any class of arrests, SnnfI
cording to report filed at the city gui
rk's office. During the month S48S
IS collected in fines, costs and bona X
FIXTURES. BU
Moscow.-John H. Bother, former
hier of the Potlatch State bank of ~
tlatch was sentenced to serve 20 so
lrs in the state penitentiary at -
Use, on each of three counts charg-
embezzlement by District Court RI
lge E. C. Steele. The sentences er-,
to run separately. Bother con- =
sed to the embezzlement of $780, ~,
and pleaded guilty when ar Ri
ged in court. shor
win Falls.-A raid on the newly BE-
pened Twin Springs resort near ~
in Falls just over the state line in y
yada proved that the one-time no.
Gus resort still lives up to It's
ne as a watering" place. One
bred ana twenty gallons of illicit
sky and 1873 quarts of beer were "
overed by the Twin Falls officers
raid on the nren,isas of t,,a 70