Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-09-12
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

Charles H. CARLY, resident
of the Lewiston country for the
past SO years died at Lewiston
last week.
Clarence Hill of Caldwell has
been named an assistant in the
attorney generals office to sue
ceed Alfred F. Stone, resigned.
Unusual interest is attracted
in Statehouse circles here and
among party leaders to the
charge made that the present
administration proposes to weed
out all democratic holdover ap-
pointees and turn their positions
over to republicans.
w. A. Myers, former secretary
of the state dental board who
was arrested on the charge of
bribery. When taken into Gus
tody by Sheriff Emit Pfost and
Albert White, of the state con-
stabulary, Myers had ticket to
Chicago in his pocket. His bond
was placed at $500 which he
furnished.
Interest centers in the state in
the filing of articles of incorpo-
ration of the West Pearl Oil &
Gas company of Pittsburg and
the granting to that concern by
the state land board of a lease
to two sections of school land
near Oakley where oil wells are
to be sunk. Oil experts believe
they can find oil in that field.
With four entries in the Jer-
sey cattle show at the interstate
fair, Spokane, the University of
Idaho took four prizes-two
firsts and two seconds. The
awards were made Wednesday
and the university received the
notice of it's winnings Thursday.
The University got first on best
bull two years old and under
three and first on first senior
bull.
Leroy Jones, former state
game warden, now United States
marshal for Idaho, against
whom the state has filed a COM
plant to collect some $4,000
alleged TO have been found short
in the state game department,
has served notice that he will
make application on September
13, for a change of venue to
Gooding county.
The first case of it's kind to be
brought into the United States
district court this year was set
tied at Boise Friday when Judge
F. S. Dietrich, federal judge fin
ed w. A. Thomas 500 for neg
lecting to extinguish a camp fire
in Bear valley, which, on Sep
tember 2, burned over a radius
of 40 feet of brush land be-
fore forest rangers found and
brought it under control.
The safe of the Clifford Store
Company at Clifford, Idaho was
blown at an early hours Satur-
, day morning, the burglars Sc
curing cash, liberty bonds ana
war savings stamps to the
, amount of several hundred dol
lars. Entrance to the post Of
flee department OF, the store was
,, effected by means of a pass key
and the safe was taken from the
post office lobby to the store
warehouse where the door was
|, blown off.
State taxes to be raised in
, Latah county for the year 1913
are almost 200 per cent higher
than the taxes for 1918, the fig
ures being $161, 1893 for 1919, as
compared with $55, 1886 for 1918.
!, There is a serious shortage of
hay in Idaho. The deficiency
s. amounts to $4,000 tons. This
is also true of other northwest
ern states including Montana
Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Wash
! ipgton and Nevada.
Z Heavy rains in the Lapwa
valley last week resulted in a
washover on the Grangeville line
I near Bundy siding and traffic
+ was blockaded for a period o1
4 about three hours. The Grange
e vile passenger train had passed
+ the point of the wash-over be
n fore the storm but. the Lewiston
l. bound freight was held up unit
7. the track was cleared. The tracl
was covered for about 35 feet Il
# depth of two and three feet, th'
le wash-over being at point abou
5- 1000 feet below the Bundy sid