Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-05-16
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for BEN
eft of Our Readers.

seven young men OF the 4St
and 91st divisions returned to
/ Nezperce last week from over
seas where they had seen heavy
fighting.
George Riggs Of Waha has
sold his 920-acre ranch to Han
zell brothers for approxin tel
i S65,000. Fenton & Day of Lew
iston negotiating the sale.
/ Two bond elections viii he
| held in southern Idaho this
! week one being at Nampa for
| S500,000 and the other IN
Qwyee county for 100000.
| The money raised at these cleo
lions will be used for road I'M
provements.
Two steamboats,, dragging
graphing irons, are searching
the Occur d'Alene river near
Gibbs station for the body of
Carl Berg, age LIZ, who was
drowned last Sunday evening at
$50 when the boat in which he
and another boy named Smith
were in capsized.
The executive committee of
the state board of education,
having charge Of the state nor
NAL building program, will meet
during the coming week for fin
al adoption Of the plans for the
new normal administration
building. Shortly after this
meeting the board will advertise
for bids, and it is expected that
construction will begin by the
middle of next month.
The capitol building improve
nent bonds carried last Satur-
day at Boise by a 80 per cent
vote, 1929 for to AL against.
The capitol building wings;
which viii cost approximately
100000 and are to be built DUR
ing the next two years, are as
sured to Boise. The state is pre-
pared to start building opera
tions Immediately. The city will
take quick action to have the
approach property vacated. The
bond was for the purpose Of
raising money to purchase two
blocks by the city of Boise ad-
iacent to the state capitol build
ling.
Moscow men may soon be
making engines for airplanes, in
accordance with an invention of
James H. Richardson of that
place. He has been granted
patents on his invention, and a
corporation has been formed for
the manufacture of the new en-
gine. He has also invented a
new steering gear for Ford au-
tomobiles.
The spring term of the feder-
al court opened at Moscow last
Monday. There are many sedi-
tion cases carried over from the
fall term. These are a number
of "bootlegging" cases and two
cases of food boarding that
have been postponed twice.
Judge Dietrich and the other
court officers will reach Moscow
Sunday. The last term of the
court was adjourned hastily on
account of the influenza situa-
ton, as number of jurors and
witnesses were taken sick while
attending court.
The most determined efforts
and the most thorough methods
ever employed are now being
used by growers of the Lewis
ton Orchards in this campaign
against the Goblin moth, which
is the most destructive orchard
pest in that locality. The loss
from this source alone last sea-
son was probably not less than
than $4,000. In some of the
larger fruit districts of the
northwest, the loss from the
same cause was estimated at
more than $1,000,000 last sea-
son.
Twenty thousand, one hun
dred sixty dollars will be paid
this year by the state of Idaho
for printing of the new code.
Contract to this amount was
awarded by Secretary of State
Robert 0. Jones to the Syms-
York Printing company. Des-
pite tremendous increase in the
costs of printing and supplies
the price secured by Mr.. Jones
is materially less than that paid
for printing of the revised code
10 wears ago, when the state
paid S4 a volume and the cost to
lawyers and the public was S11
a set.