Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-12-19
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

Train service between Pull
man and Genessee has been re-
duced to one mixed train day.
This now leaves Genesee at 8 A.
M. and returns at 5 P. M.
p, P. Grant and Emil Sayko,
the two miners who spent two
weeks entomed in the Hunter
mine, at Mullen, Idaho, were re-
leased from the hospital this
week.
Joe FarTar, member of the
Nez-perce basketball team, was
stricken with appendicitis at
Culdesac Friday evening and
was taken to Spokane for an
operation.
Idaho is to have prohibition
director whose duties will consist
in enforcing the dry law. He
will draw a salary of $500 a
year and make his headquarters
at Boise, Idaho.
Clarence Bittle, who was re-
Gently bound over to the district
court at Lewiston on the charge
of contributing to the delin-
quency of a minor, was sentenc-
ed to serve five months in Jail.
The night train service on the
Palouse line between Lewiston
and Spokane will be restored
Thursday, December 18, accord
ing to w. J. Jordan, general
agent of the Northern Pacific.
The tractor school at the Uni
versity of Idaho opens its short
course on Monday, January IL,
and will continue until Saturday,
January 81. The work is to be
divided into three periods of one
week each.
One of the laborers on the
Kooskia-Lowell highway near
Kooskia was caught in a rock
slide Saturday morning while
going to work and received in
juries that resulted in the loss
of his left arm near the elbow.
Friends at d o'clock Monday
afternoon going to a cabin in
town occupied by Roy Hartman,
an employe of the steel gang of
the Craig Mountain Lumber
company, found his dead body
on the bed. He had apparently
succumbed to an attack of heart
disease.
Idaho school children volun-
! tarily saved $31, ,460.33 during
} September, October and Novem-
ber by the purchase of Thrift
Stamps and War Saving Stamps,
: declared Miss Ethel E. Redfield,
state director of thrift educa-
!; ton, in quarterly report issued
Thursday.
o. P. Hendershot, recently re-
! leased as state director of fairs,
= informed Miles Cannon, state
, commissioner of agricult u e,
. that he will be glad to render to
|, that official Immediately upon
!, his return from Chicago a full
!, itemized statement showing the
!. financial condition of the state
! fair of Idaho for 1919.
p Smallpox has become quite
, prevalent throughout the state
of Idaho. In fact, it is now
O raging in epidemic form. From
q partial returns of the various
= counties throughout the State
n over five hundred cases have
= been reported during October
and November.
e Setting aside 1,116,000 acres
of land in the Thunder mountain
t region as additional forest re-
: serves, the federal government
h has made available for the state
: of Idaho $4,000 acres of new
: school lands. The forest bill
e after having passed both houses
] of congress, quietly became a
+ law through default by Presi.
k dent Wilson. Federal regula.
Y tions provide that bill passed
e by congress shall become a law
S automatically if, after ten days
o the president has failed either tc
= sign or to veto it.