Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-09-05
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

| 1OoIlO VIII DGCOIIl0 separate
internal revenue district October
l when it will be detached from
Montana from which internal re-
venue collections in this state
have been regulated.
A bridge on the johnson rail-
road through Tammany was
burned out Sunday night, the
ties for half a mile were destroy
ed and a large amount of pasture
land was burned over as result
of a fire started by a locomotive.
l. H. Nash, state land commits
sioner, conducted a sale of state
lands last week at Orofino, dis
posing of approximately 1000
acres in subdivisions of 40-acre
tracts. The land sold for $40
and SIS an acre.
An important meeting of the
directors of the Northwest Live
stock show was held at Lewiston
recently when the premium bud
get of $4,000 was approved.
Among the steps taken was the
election Of F. S. Randall to the
directorate.
Notice was given that the Vol
liner postoffice is to be discon-
tinued, effective August 80. Due
to such protest being made by
it's patrons the office was not
closed and will continue to run
until an investigation can be
made.
DR.. Charles C. Smith must
stand trial in Owyhee county
district court on the charge of
murder as the result of shooting
Howard Bellore, a youth 21
years on the night Of August 18,
as the boy was entering his
melon patch.
When arranged last week in
Judge Hattabaugh's court on the
charge Of stealing an automobile
at Lewiston Clifford Dougherty,
Roy Ordis and L. A. Mitchell
pleaded guilty and were taken to
Grangeville where sentence was
passed upon them by Judge Wal
lace N. Scales in the district
court. The judge sentenced the
young men from 2 to ID years in
the state penitentiary at Boise,
Idaho.
The link Of highway between
Uniontown and Lewiston Hill
state highway will be completed
before winter, according to in
formation given out. Grading
has been finished on the road
and surfacing has been started
and is progressing rapidly. With
the completion of the strip Of
road there will be a hard surfac-
, ed highway from Spokane to
/ Lewiston and cars will be able to
cover the roads at all times of
the year.
So serious has become the
: scarcity of men who will accept
> employment in fighting fires
that E. C. Pulaski, forest ranger
at Wallace is seriously consider
ing invoking his legal authority
to draft men to asst in sud-
DUNG forest fires. Pulsaki says
that he is weary of asking able
bodied men to assist in this work
at good wages and have them re-
! fuse and laugh in his face. I'm
! der the Idaho laws he has autho-
rity to draft men for this work
in event of an emergency.
An inter-racial marriage en-
tered into by Charles Uang, Chi
nese, and Daisy Multi, American,
both of Deer Lodge, Mont, caus-
ed an afternoons sensation IN
, Standpoint last Tuesday. They
chose Standpoint as their we'd
ding place because it was the
nearest Idaho county seat town
.. to the Montana line, the fusion
, of Mongolian and Caucasian
, races being forbidden by state
!, law in Montana. The ceremony
was performed by Probate Judge
, Whitaker of Bonner county.
+ The largest bond election ever
held in the state was in Ada
county Saturday when the peo-
e 'ple of that county voted $1,000
}, 900 in bonds by vote of SOFT
e for and 619 against. The ma
n jority in favor of the bond was
r 80 per cent. The proceeds from
0 the sale of the bonds will be used
4 for road improvements within
tas county.