Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-08-08
COUNTY SEAT NEWS.

county poor farm by the board
Of county commissioners, for a
period of two years.
James Aram and Frank Hoe
kett of the Joseph section ar
rived here yesturday, coming
out to arrange for the probating
Of the estate of Thomas Watkins
recently deceased.
Mrs. J. F. Finley, wife of our
county agent was an arrival
here last Sunday evening to join
her husband. They will take up
housekeeping as soon as a suit
able location can be secured.
Paul Dressed an old time res
ident of this place came up from
his home at Charleston a few
days ago and is now busily en-
gagged in repairing plastering in
the different buildings the roofs
of which were damaged in the
recent severe hail storm.
w. H. Giles, mining man, of
Newsome is in Grangeville on
business. Mr.. Giles who is oper-
ating the Moose Creek Placer,
says he is having favorable re-
suits in mining, but declares the
industry as a whole in central
Idaho is the quietest this sum-
mer he has observed during
twenty-five years he has mined
in Idaho county. Dry weather
has greatly reduced the water
supply for placer mining, Mr..
Giles said.
Frank Hockersmith of the J.
Frank Sims store, returned from
Moscow on Tuesday evenings
train, to which place he accom-
panied Mrs. Hockersmith on
Sunday. Mrs. Hockersmith who
has not been in good health for
some time past at once entered
the Gritman hospital and on
Monday morning underwent a
serious operation. The lady is
said to have revived nicely from
the shock and is now rapidly
recovering.
While moving away hay at
the Chas. Miller ranch north
; west from this city last Monday
Jack Lewis inadvertently fell
out of the NOW and landed on
his head among some horses. In
addition to having both his low
er and upper front teeth knock
ed out, his upper jaw was tract
ured. His face was also badly
skinned up. DR.. Stockton was
called and rendered the neces-
sary treatment and the young
man is now slowly recovering.
While coming to town last
week for repairs for some of his
harvesting machinery, Ed Sod
erburg was badly bruised by his
horse falling on him. The horse
stumbled and in attempting to
dismount the casting he was
carrying caught in his chaps and
he was pulled back to the saddle
and went down with the animal.
The place where the horse fell
was on a slope and they both
went down the hillside for sew
eral feet. His shoulder, arm and
one side of his face were badly
bruised but no bones were
broken.
While jumping off a hay rack
one day last week Ralph Weber
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Weber, prominent form folks
residing northeast of this city,
ruptured a blood vessel in the
bottom of his right foot. The
injured member caused him
considerable suffering and on
Friday Frank Van Deventer
went out to the ranch with his
auto and brought Ralph to this
city for medical attention and
DR.. Alcorn has since been treat
ing him. He is progressing as
rapidly as could be expected at
this time.
Joe Boissoneau, a wounded
Canadian soldier, who was ar
rested last week, on information
furnished by officials of the Sell
way National forest at Kooskfa,
was found guilty at a hearing
Monday before Justice of the
Peace Shaw at Kooskia, of the
charge of illegally obtaining
property from the government.
Boissoneau, it is said, was en-
ployed to fight forest fires in
the Selway forest, and provided
with railroad transportation
from Spokane to Kooskia, and
also, it is claimed, he procured
meals at the government camp,
and later did not work. He was