Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-10-31
news AROUND
The STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

Inc rlrSC NaClOnal Bank OF
Caldwell and the Bannock Nat
ional bank of Pocatello were au-
thorized by the treasury depart
ment to increase their capital
from $4,000 to 100000 each.
A. G. Kester, contractor on
the Waha highway work, stated
Tuesday that within a few days
crews would be at work. Camp
houses are now being establish
ed.
Orders for the arrest of Idaho
operators of unlicensed stage
and bus lines were issued Thurs
day of Robert o. Jones, commits
sioner of law enforcement. Of
ficials of the state constabulary
will enforce the order.
One of the heaviest court cal
endars of record in Nez Perce
county will be conducted by Dis
trict Judge Wallace N. Scales.
He convened the fall term of
court Monday at Lewiston. The
calendar shows a total of 1874
cases, 13 being criminal actions
and Isl civil cases.
O. r. Baum, of American
Falls, prominent Power county
attorney, was appointed Judge of
the fifth judicial district by
Governor Davis. He will take
the place of the late Judge j. j.
Gubeen Of Pocatello, who killed
himself at Portland last Wednes-
day.
A branch U. S. internal reve-
nue. office to handle the business
in the northern part Of the state
has been opened on the second
floor of the post office building
at Lewiston with Deputy Col
lector ]. Y. Haight, Of Oakley,
Idaho, in charge and Philip
Weisgerber, of Lewiston, as as
sistant deputy collector.
At a meeting Of the directors
of the Union State Bank at Nez-
perce it was decided to reduce
the rate of interest on regular
bank loans from 10 to 8 per cent,
the same to take effect at once.
The open season for China
pheasants and quail will begin
Saturday, Nov. 1, and under the
provisions of the new game law,
China pheasants may be killed
for the entire month while quail
may be killed only for the first
Is days of the month. The bag
limit on China Pheasants is four
birds per day and the quail bag
limit is eight birds per day.
Smallpox conditions of a start
ling nature were brought to
light Thursday morning in Can
yon county when DR.. r. H.
Young and G. Louise Riddle, of
the Canyon county farm bureau,
examined the 80 children attend
ing Central Cove school near
Caldwell and discovered that full
ly 30 per cent of the pupils have
been infected with the disease.
Idaho lost the foot ball game
to the University of Utah Satur-
day, score 20 to 0. The first
quarter resulted in Utah making
one touchdown and a goal. The
score stood at z to 0 in Utah's
favor during the second and
third quarters but in the fourth
quarter Utah made two touch
downs kicked one goal, final
score, Utah, 20; Idaho, 0.
In the very near future the
people residing in Ferdinand in
corporation will be called upon to
vote bonds sufficient to put the
state highway thru the corpor-
ate limits of the village says the
Ferdinand Enterprise. In this,
the federal government win go
us fifty-fifty on twenty feet of
the center of the street, no mat
ter what sort of construction
they decide upon.
Moscow is threatened with a
coal shortage. Only a small per-
centage of the people had laid in
their winter supply of coai and
several dealers are entirely out
of coal and say they do not know
when they viii get a new supply.
They have received word from
the mines that the strike has
been called for November l and
that it may be some time before
shipments of coal are sent for.
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