Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-02-09

I, A mass meeting iof voters who be-
Iieve In Z net legislation Is called TO-
meet In low February IA
The postofIice formerly known es Jo-
seph has been changed 10 Ahsahka.
e. r.. Harris Is postmaster.
William Beasely OF Wardner has
been adjudged insane by Probate Judge
and ordered committed to
the asylum at Blackfoot.
The Idaho Independent Telephone
Company has force of men working
on its line from Boise to Pearl.
According to the report of the state
of public instruction,
there are b0.172 school children in
Idaho.
w. H. Cooper, the Owyhee convict
who was recently granted a conditional
pardon, to take effect April l, has been
paroled for 30 days.
There are now nine cases of small
pox in the part of the country around
Wallace, two of them at the hospital
and seven In Canyon Creek.
The town trustees Of Rathdrum have
declared quarantine against Spokane,
Butte, Harrison and Shoshone county,
Idaho
s. o. Tannahill has been arrested
at Lewiston on the charge Of forgery
sworn out against him by 8. G. Isa-
man, chairman of the board of county
commissioners of Nee Perez county.
This action Is the outgrowth Of for
mer suit to recover on fraudulent war
rants. Tannahill served one term as
assessor and one term as auditor of
Nez Perez county, and is one of the
most prominent politicians of the state.
The Moscow poultry show prize win
ners are all residents of Moscow. I'm
portant classes are we'll filled, leaders
being Wyandottes, Plymouth Rocks
and Langshans. DR.. w. w. Watkins
pen received the highest score.
There were IL of the leading wool
producing states west of the Missis-
sippi river in 1899, 650,000 sheep, a
gain over the year 1898 of about 3,000,'
900. Idaho is credited with having
2,311, $50 of tssam, an increase of 6O0,'
600 over 1898.
There Is no likelihood Of any cases
growing out of the Wardner riots be-
ing heard at this term of court, but
both sides were present to look after
them at the opening of court. The
state was represented by ]. H. Forney
acting county attorney, and the de
Tense by Peter Breen.
Judge q G Steele has announced tbs
following dates for holding the terms
Of court in Nez Perez, Idaho and Lataf
counties: Nez Perez county, March
and September 3; Idaho county, Apri
80 and October 8; Latah county, June
and November 10. The Supreme
court will meet in Lewiston April II
and October /. The United States
court will meet at Moscow May anC
October %.
WASHINGTON.
Chelan county is In the twenty.sixtl
class.
Citizens Of Spokane are forming I
driving club.
The arrangements for the poultr!
show at Walla Walla are being per
fected.
The month just ended was tn
warmest January on record in Spc
kane.
The Association of County Assessor
OF Washington meets at Ellensbur
Feb. 10.
George Lockwood has been arreste
on a charge of arson committed a
Waitsburg.
The Spokane smallpox epidemic
over and the physicians believe tina
they now have the disease we'll Il
hand.
| H. NJ. Pearson was drowned by fal
ing from boom of logs at the McII
tosh mill, four miles from Tenino, las
week.
Legislation against log rafting O
posed by the Seattle chamber of con
merce.
An ordinance increasing the salal
les of nearly all the city employees ha
been introduced in the city council G
Seattle. I
The Washington state republlca
convention to elect delegates to the n;
tional convention meets at Ellensbur
April 4.
The Rainier Chemical Works Con
pany has been organized in Olympus
with A. C. Stevens, formerly of Seattl
as president.
The contract has been awarded fo
1850 feet of cement sidewalks on I'm
versity Heights, Seattle. The contrat