Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-10-17
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest Froia Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft OF Our Readers.


Alene last week, when all the
large stores there announced
that there was not a pound of
sugar to be had in the town.
What is perhaps the largest
sale of Indian heirship lands
called on the Nez Perce reserva-
tion has been advertised for
December 1, 1919. A total of
SO parcels of land are advertised
for sale, the aggregate acreage
being 3,890.61 acres and the ap-
praised value of this land is
$161, ,2O3.O5.
For the first time in three
months, whistles Sunday called
to work employees of mines clos
ed by strike of the international
Union of Mine, Mill and Smelt
Workers, at Wallace, the strike
having been officially declared
off last Wednesday.
Knowing that a cancer of the
throat with which he had been
suffering for several years was
fatal, William Whetsler for
many years respected citizen
of Priest River, stepped from
the dinner table Saturday, went
into an adjoining room and shot
himself through the heart.
Taking possession of farm
he had bought last July, and of
which he secured possession on
October 1, H. L. Haynes of Mos
cow made clean up of $9,712,-
so, after having plowed three
burrows and sold the land at
price that is still believed to be
cheap. He bought the land in
July for less than $120 per acre
and sold it for $142.5O.
According to the report of J.
H. Jacobson of the federal
bureau of crop estimates, Ida
hos total wheat production, as
indicated October /, is 1904
900 acres with an average yield
of 1871 bushels per acre. Last
year the average yield per acre
was 21.4 bushels, comparing
with 20-3 bushels in 1917; 1913
bushels in 1915 and % bushels
in 1915.
A total of 100 physicians in
this state have failed to renew
their licenses to practice medi-
cine and surgery in Idaho, and
if they do not make renewal to
r. o. Jones, law enforcement
commissioner, they run the
chance of being prosecuted for
practicing their profession with
out a license.
The $4OO,O00.OO bond election
in Nez Perce county held Oct. 7
! carried by a vote of A to 1. This
, amount voted by the county on
, Tuesday will be supplemented by
100000 provided by the state
! and 100000 provided by the
, federal government, making a
total of 81, 100000 available in
!, Nez Perce county for road and
bridge construction and improve
ment.
Timothy Regan, one of Boise's
most prominent capitalist and
business men and a pioneer of
the state, died at his home there
at midnight last Tuesday. He
was 76 years old and had been
rapidly failing since the news
came from France of the death
, of his son, Lieut.. John Regan,
who was killed in action. Mr.,
Regan was one of the early
miners in Silver City where he
made a fortune.
Charters of 500 Idaho corpora.
: tions, ranging in size and i'm.
) portane from the Boise Railway
company to the smallest mining
concerns in Idaho, were Wednes
day declared forfeit to the state
at A o'clock p. m. November 80
d Governor D. w. Davis and Robt
+ o. Jones, secretary of state
:. signed the order. Failure t
= pay the license tax or to file the
t annual statement required by
: law caused the sweeping order
l. All available men on the force
8 of Warden Guddy at the state
re penitentiary are engaged in {
g man hunt. Three convicts Jacl
K, Miller, Leonidas M. Dean anC
n George Smead escaped Octobel