Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-12-12
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

$4,000 pounds of dressed tur-
keys were sent from Jerome,
Idaho this year.
Within the next week or 10
days the state highway commits
sion will call for bids on the con-
struction of a new highway
leading out of the Clearwater
river canyon at Greer.
The Bryc Post, the local
branch of the American Legion
at Nezperce, is to have its own
home-a club house, furnished
and equipped for the comfort
and entertainment of the soldier
boys.
The heaviest snowfall ever re-
corded so early in the season
since the weather bureau re-
cords Of snowfall, have been
kept in Boise, since 1898, fell
during the past three days, a
total of 11.3 inches.
According to news dispatches
the thermometer registered below
zero at the towns mentioned be-
low the past week: Moscow 8;
Vollmer s; Troy 20 to %; Wal
lace Z; Occur d Alene IA to 20;
Lewiston IL; Orofino II; Deary
18.
At Caldwell Lewis Kiblerer es-
capped from the canyon county
Jail Thursday night at 6 o'clock,
after throwing pepper into the
eyes of Deputy Sheriff H. D.
Andrews as he was locking the
prisoners in the cells for the
night.
With 100000 eggs of eastern
brook trout already in Idaho
hatcheries or under order, Geo.
H. Isaac, state fish commission
er, made public Thursday ar
rangements for a record-break-
ing year in fish conservation an
mails.
The fuel famine at Genesee
was broken Sunday by the ar
rival of one car of coal, which is
the first received there since Oct
ober. This, with the car of
wood coming will relieve the sit
uation in a measure and stop the
suffering which in several cases
had become acute.
Timothy Burke died Wednes-
day at Standpoint, death being
the elimination of an injury re-
ceived while fighting forest fires
in the employ of the Humbird
company last August. At that
time a falling tree struck Mr..
Burke and broke his back, re-
sulting in complete paralysis
from the point of injury above
the waist line, down.
A new record for quick justice
was established at Moscow when
John O'Brien, who robbed My
kelbust's store at Troy, was ar
rested at d o'clock in the evening
and pleaded guilty at 10 o'clock
the following day, was given
from 712 to Is years in the pen
itentiary at Boise. Judge Edgar
C. Steele of the district court
sentenced him.
Governor Davis, Attorney
General Black and Secretary of
State Jones, constituting the
state board of pardons, were in
session Wednesday from ten
o'clock in the morning to six in
the evening and in that time
took action on 33 applications
for pardon or parole. Of these
Is were denied, 15 were granted
parole and three cases were con-
tinued.
Emil Sayko and Peter Grant,
the two miners rescued last week
from the Hunter mine, are both
progressing favorably, although
they are still in the Providence
hospital at Wallace. In speak
ing of their condition, DR.. Leo
Quigley, the attending physician
said that both men had suffered
some from rheumatism, due no
doubt to the cold and dampness
to which they were exposed dur
ing their long confinement un-
derground. Both men are in a
highly nervous condition, but
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