Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-11-07
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

worth of fur each year from Ida
so is the estimate made by auto
rites in the fur buying business
of the state.
Somewhere, under the deep
mantle of snow that covers the
Sawtooth mountains, lies the
dead body of Joseph Unger,
Pittsburg capitalist and hotel
owner.
Milk condensation is being
taught at the dairy department
of the University of Idaho with
a new condensing outfit of lab
oratory size that has just been
installed.
The Potlatch highway district
in Latah county has called for
Saturday, November 9Th, a
special bond election to vote up
on the issuing of highway bonds
in the amount of $350,000.
Governor Davis of Idaho is
coming to Lewiston to attend the
Northwest Livestock show, Nov
ember 9-14,a nd so Idaho's chief
executive will be prominent in
the observance of Armistice day.
Jack Frost was charged Mon
day with the attempted ruin of
$50 0ocars of south Idaho potatoes
that are sacked and waiting for
cars to carry them to market.
Everett Sweeley, member of the
state public utilities commission,
Just returned from an inspec-
ton trip covering vicinities of
Twin Falls, Minidoka and Burley
made the chare.
Fred Gruber, who was senten-
ced to life Imprisonment, and
who escaped with another pri-
soner from the state peniten-
tiary November II, 1918, was
arrested a short time ago for the
theft Of an automobile. His
Identification papers were sent
to Leavenworth, where, by the
finger print Identification sys-
tenn, he was readily identified as
escaped from the Idaho peniten-
tiary.
The startling claim that a
clique of neighbors are planning
to kill him and his family is
made by w. E. Cooper Of Cope
land, Idaho, in a letter to Attor-
ney General Roy L. Black. Cop
per declares that on October 16
he bought some potatoes which
had been poisoned by a woman
with intent to do harm to him
self and family. He fed the
peelings to the family hog and
within Is minutes the animal
was dead according to his letter.
The stage of water in Snake
river is not favorable for navi-
cation to Pittsburg Landing, to
which point mail service was es-
tablished two weeks ago, from
Lewiston, but the little boat u.s.
ed by Brewrink & Sittkus, mail
contractors, has been able to
make two trips without Difficult
ty and the experiences of these
trips lead the contractors to be-
lieve that practically an all-year
service can be maintained. The
river reached new low-water
record this year.
The Lewiston lodge of the
Knights of Pythias has raised
$4,000 toward the purchase of a
residence adjoining the chill
dren's home finding association,
which will be used as an annex
to afford relief from the present
crowded condition of the home.
The residence is an attractive
home if three stories with II
rooms, and will cost $4,000. 1t
is expected that the remaining
$4,000 will be subscribed by the
other Knights of Pythias lodges
in north Idaho.
H. J. Mileham, the University
of Idaho student who shot him.
: self Thursday night with suicidal
intent, is reporting getting along
nicely. Mileham shot himself
because his young wife, to whom
he was secretly married at
= Pennington, Utah, on August Ii
: refused to come to Moscow to
r live with him. Mileham was an
r overseas soldier, was a member
r of the famous 91st regiment
was wounded in the Argonne
| forest and was onnt To tho IIni