Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-06-27
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

Clarence O'Neill and Vermont
Weeks, the young men who con-
fessed to committing burglary
at the Baldeck store last Decem-
Der in Lewiston, and who were
found also in possession of
goods stolen from a Moscow
store, win serve one to five years
in the state prison at Boise.
George Shattuck, a barber, re-
siding in Culdesac, has been
summoned To appear before Uni
ted States Commissioner Eugene
O'Neill on the charge of having
intoxicating liquor in his pos
session. 1t is said that a gallon
OF bay rum containing a high
percentage of alcohol was found
in an automobile.
A robbery committed at one
of the Craig mountain lumber
camps at Winchester this week,
near Winchester, netted three
holdup men nearly $1,000. Al
though there were 10 men at
earnp they were caught unpre-
pared and forced to deliver their
money to the three men, who
wore masks and covered the log
gers with their guns.
Roy Nail of Grangeville has
brought suit in the district court
at Grangeville against the Cam
as Prairie Railway company for
$1,000 as damages. Last August
in Grangeville an auto in which
Nail was driving was struck by
a freight car and he was carried
along the track for a consider
able distance. The claim for
damages is based upon the in
juries alleged to have been re-
ceived.
There are kept in the vaults of
the state treasury department in
this state securities valued at
$4,000, 900. This fact is
brought out in report that has
been filed by State Treasurer
Eagleson with Governor Davis.
The securities are so arranged
that they can be checked very
rapidly. The state has S8,21O.-
S63.1S invested in farm mort
cages and $2,669, ,953.39 in
school and other bonds.
The remains of Charles
Bangledorf, a pioneer of the up
per Snake river country, were
found in his cabin on the Idaho
side of the river above the
mouth of Red Bird canyon Sat
urday. An ugly gunshot wound
through his head told the cause
of the mans death, but the mes
sage received by Sheriff Porter
Shafer indicated there is doubt
as to wheteher it is a case of
murder or suicide. A coroner's
jury, however, brought in ver-
dict Of suicide.
Mrs. Eliza Spalding Warren,
of Occur d. Alene, age so, who
witnessed the Whitman massa-
ere, and saw the site of the city
of Portland when a log cabin was
it's only building was buried
from the Presbyterian church at
Occur d. Alene Monday. She
was declared to have been the
Oldest living white person born
west of the Rockies. She was
born November 10, 1887, the
daughter of the Rev. Henry
Harmon Spalding and Elizabeth
Hart Spalding, who, in company
with Marcus Whitman and his
wife came to the Oregon terri
tory in 1886.
The total enrolment of stu
dents. in summer schools in
Idaho this year will be larger
than the enrolment last season,
according to DR.. E. A. Bryan,
state commissioner Of education,
because there are four separate
schools operating in various
parts of the state instead of
three, as was the case last year.
The total enrolment of teach
ers in 1913 was 1876. The school
at Albion now has an enrolment
of 244. There are 156 enrolled
at Pocatello, 100 in Boise and
300 in Lewiston, according to
the figures reported from the
schools to Commissioner Bryan.
All candidates for grade certifi-
Gates must attend the schools in
this state. This is the ruling of
the state board of education.
The summer school at Moscow
has also reopened with an atten-
dance of So, which will be mat
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