Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-12-05
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

Straw last week sold for SIC
per ton and grain hay at $36 per
ton at a farm sale near Nez
Perce.
The cannery at Juliaetta, has
closed for the season after dis
tributing about $4,000 for labor
and piling up an aggregate pro-
duction of 400 tons.
Clay Smith, a resident of Nez
Perce for many years died last
Friday morning from general
complications from which he
had been a sufferer for a long
period.
The Oregon Short Line rail-
road was ordered by the United
States railroad administration to
complete at once the spur tract
near Briggs, which will unlock
13 million tons of coal for use in
Idaho.
Miles Cannon, state commits
sioner of agriculture, has noti-
fled Governor Davis that he has
suspended the personnel and
activities of the state fair bu-
reau, including the services of
o. P. Hendershot as its head.
Robert 0. Jones, state law en-
forcement commissioner, called
upon Attorney Caminetti, feder-
al immigration commissioner, to
deport between 40 and 80 aliens
caught in the dragnet thrown
out in Idaho by the state con-
stabulary, against /. w. w.
Joseph Camper the miner shot
week ago at Burke in an alter
cation with Deputy Sheriff
Harry James as to whether or
not he should submit to arrest,
is reported to be holding his own.
His condition is said to be still
critical, but he has at least
chance for life.
Kellogg, Idaho, is taking steps
at once to provide a suitable
! camping ground for automobile
tourists next summer. The
monetary value of tourist camps
is becoming more generally un-
derstood and the number of
towns providing this class Of ac-
comoation in the Inland Empire
is steadily growing.
A new record for bank depos-
it's has been set by Moscow's
three banks. When the state
ment of conditions on November
II was called for & given it was
found that the three banks had
1886, 900 on deposit, which is a
new high record and the first
time they have ever gone above
the three million dollars.
A survey of the Lewiston
Orchards apple season, which
has just closed, made by H. H. S.
Rowell, a prominent grower of
the district, estimates the apple
) pack to be in excess of $50 car
, loads. A conservative estimate
of the receipts for this years
apple crop in the lewiston
Charleston valley is $500,000.
q At the special election held in
q the Grangemont highway dist
: riot in Clearwater county Tues
! day to vote on the issuance of
;. bonds for 100000 for road con-
a struction purposes, the neces-
. sary two-thirds majority was
= lacking by only two votes. Cold
/ weather and deep snow prevent
: . ed many from going to the polls
If Corn acreage in the state OF
q Idaho has increased from 1900
to $4,000 acres in the last five
,e years. This, according to {
" statement recently made by
to Professor H. w. Hubert of the
" University of Idaho, is the great
le est percentage of increase showI
er by any state of the northwest
It. for like period.
b. The most successful sale O.
Sc Indian heirship lands conductec
er by the Lapwai agency was ex
OF perienced yesterday when a to
ns tai of 81 lots were sold for ,
n total of $155, ,526.40, by Dr
On Breid, agent of the Nez Perces
There were 81 bidders for thes
tracts and a total of 1886, A
w was offered in these bids. Tn
er average price paid for the 257'