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

Nezperce train onto the depot
platform, at Ilo-Vollmer June 80
while on his way to Lewiston.
he had been in failing health
for several months and is said to
have been suffering from heart
trouble. The deceased had no
relatives in that section.
-Four valuable horses belong
ing to r. Bingham and Robert
Harris, farming together on Big
Bear ridge, in the southeastern
part OF Latah county, were
poisoned last week by eating
poisoned grain left in q wagon
The farmers had been poisoning
squirrels and left the inpreg-
mated grain in their wagon. The
horses were valued at $3.50 each
a total of $500.
Never before since irrigation
was commenced on a large scale
in Idaho with the single excep-
ton of a dry season 80 wears
ago have the farmers and
ranchers dependent upon small
streams for water experienced a
situation as serious as the one
which now confronts them. Melt
ing SHOWS from the mountains
have fed the creeks until late in
August in most localities and as
a general thing plenty of water
has been forthcoming to meet
demands in whole or part.
Dan J. Taylor of Lewiston
completed the cutting of $50
acres of Turkey Red wheat. $50
acres of which will return 25
bushels to the acre and the re-
mainder Is bushels. The Grain
was sown on fall ground that
had been planted to beans last
year. Mr., Taylor is highly
pleased with results considering
that the dry spell has been such
a prolonged one. Had seasonable
rains occurred the average yield
would have been an immense
one.
Fred Howard, who jumped
his bond at Nezperce, Idaho
while being held for trial in the
probate court on charge Of
adultery, was apprehended in
Whitman county, Wn., and held
at Starbuck, whence he was
brought back to Lewiston by
Deputy Sheriff Smith and lodg-
ed in the Lewis county jail Tues
day night. He is now under the
additional charge of forgery, on
account of two checks he put
out here just before getting
away.
One of the big road projects
which is about to be commenced
is the road to Greer on the Clear
water, through Fraser and
Weippe, thence to Pierce, in all
a distance ef 40 miles. From
Greer the survey extends to the
Oxford forest station, then down
the Orogrande river to the bun
galow on the North fork. This
road will serve splendid stretch
of country, where resources are
varied, farming land, heavy tim
ber, mining districts and it will
pass through fine scenery.
University Don," a Hereford
bull bred and raised by the ami
NAL husbandry department of
the University of Idaho, won the
grand champion honors for
northwestern Canada at big
cattle show at Saskatchewan
last week. Some of the best cat
tie in the United States and
Canada were. exhibited there,
but the Idaho bred bull took the
grand champion prize, according
to Dean E. ]. Iddings, expert
ment station director and head
of the agricultural college of the
university.
Idaho's 10000 allotment of
"hand grenade, War Savings
banks will be apportioned to the
counties according to the school
census of each, and county
school superintendents will de-
eide the winners of banks, ac-
cording to the recommendation
Submitted to State Director Al
len B. Eaton by the committee
of three county school superin-
tendents appointed to investi-
gate the best method of distri-
buting by the superintendent
convention held recently in
south Idaho.