Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-11-28
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

A post of the American Le-
gion is being organized among
Kamiah veterans of the late war.
The University of Idaho re-
ceived 1888 for four fat steers
sold at the Pacific international
Live Stock show at Portland, af-
ter the steers had won a number
of valuable prizes.
Suit for $6,OO0,OOO damages
and seeking permanent injunc-
tion was filed in the federal
court at Coeur d. Alene by the
Federal Mining and Smelling Co.
against the Hecla mining COM
pany both of Burke, Idaho.
Apportionment of Sis, ,767.60
of national forest earnings
among 80 Idaho counties that
will use the funds for road and
school purposes was accomplish
ed Friday by the state auditors
office, acting for the state
treasurer.
The result of efficient inspec-
tion of scales in Idaho by the
state farm market bureau are
startling. Approximately one
half of the scales tested have
been inaccurate and have been
condemned for repairs or con-
demned unconditionally.
County Attorney Leo McCar-
thy of Nezperce county has filed
an appeal in the Indian stick
game" case which was decided
by the district court in favor of
the defendants. The issue in
this case was whether the favo-
rite pastime of the Nez Perce
Indians could be classed as
gambling under the state law.
The man who is believed to
have acted as agent for the al
legged conspiracy ring" which
dealt in Idaho state dental Ii
censes, by Selling" them to ap-
plicants, is believed to be in the
custody of state authorities in
the arrest at Lewiston of A. v.
Fitzgerald, upon orders of the
state department of law enforce
ment.
F. S. Rice, who until three
years ago was treasurer of Ida
no county, but now a resident OF
Lewiston and who has mining
interests at Florence, having
just returned from a trip in that
section of the country reports
that there has already been a
fall of IL feet of snow in the
mountains, which has greatly in
terfered with the freighting in
of supplies.
Seven men, believed to be I.
w. w. agitators were lodged in
the county jail at Moscow Satur-
day night as a result of the raid
made in the timbered sections
of Latah county by deputy sher-
ifs assisted by members of the
: American Legion. In addition
to the men arrested more than
, $50 names of aliens who had
: been in this country from 5 to 2e
, years without taking out natura.
| lization papers were taken anC
will be turned over to the fedora
authorities.
Sixty thousand automobiles
l double the number licensed il
t Idaho, during 1918, are to be il
= use in the state during 1920, i
f arrangements of the secretary
of state are any augury. Blanl
1 forms sufficient to accommodate
= a registration of this total mum
t ber are being prepared at tn
z state capitol to be sent out t.
: county assessors. The 1872
licenses will be dark blue an
t white, the blue forming the bac
: ground and the white the letter
s and numbers.
d The number of prisoners re
n ceived at the Idaho state peni
tentiary during the period fror
d August l, 1919, to November q
: 1919, was 43, with four more i
IS different parts of the stat
z awaiting transportation. Thi
n number swells the population Q
the prison to 240, as against
population of 1913 on April II
T. 1919, which was the least nun
IS ber of inmates during the yeal
Of Of the 43 received from Angus