Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-08-22
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

Grasshoppers from Idaho
county have crossed the Lawyer
canyon and invaded Nezpercc Ill
swarms, causing havoc to gard
ems.
Such low stage of water he's
been reached in the Snake river
that it has been necessary to
make extensions of intake pipes
on the fruit ranches along the
lower Snake.
The Union Trust Co. of Spo-
kane was the successful bidder
last week for $50O,O0O of Canyon
county, Idaho, 515 per cent go!d
bonds of the Nampa highway
district.
Elmer Nichols is threshiag
260 acres of peas which so far
have averaged nine sacks of 14O
to $50 pounds each to the acre,
near Moscow. He viii probably
get more than $75 an acre for
his peas.
Fall wheat in the Troy, Idaho,
district is reported ranging from
38 to At bushels per acre, wi h
an average of 20 bushels for
spring wheat. Baled strS W,
formerly a waste product, is
bringing SO per ton.
The Idaho Power company,
which last year paid taxes on IN
assessed valuation of $6,500,000,
Wednesday, through it's tax ~
tolney, E. G. Kiersted, asked tie
state board Of equalization to fix
its assessment this year on is
gross earnings.
An increase in pay was gran.-
ed to all the city employees Of
Lewiston at a special meeting
of the city council. With a few
exceptions a flat increase cf
$3.50 was granted. The city
health officer was given SIS
increase, and the police judge
and the city attorney were given
an additional $40.
Martin Zacklich of Muller,
Idaho was seriously injured late
Monday of this week when ali
auto he was driving was strucx
by the Northern Pacific stub
passenger train short distance
west of Mullan and his car dem
Olished. He was dragged. by the
train for 200 feet, and two cars
passed over him.
On October 6 to 10, inclusive
Lewiston will be the scene Of one
Of the largest educational gath
erings ever held in the north
west. 1t is on those dates that
the Central Idaho and South
eastern Washington teachers IN
stitute will be in session. More
than 1000 educators are expect
ed TO attend this institute.
When the board of county
commissioners of Nez Perce
county meet Monday at Lewis
ton a petition was filed asking
that the board call an election
for authorizing the issuance or
bonds in the sum of 100000
for the construction of bridges
over the Clearwater river, these
to be links in the great Lewis
and Clark highway. The cleo
| ton was called for October 7.
= Prompt action on the part OF
the Nez Perce county farm bu-
reau probably served to check
= what might have proven a seri-
], Gus epidemic of influenza among
5 the horses of that section of the
country. The discovery of the
= incipient plague did not come
a about, however, until after two
;, valuable horses belonging to F
Wicks of Clifford has succumbed
e and others belonging to the
+ same owner were afflicted. II
n was the Wicks place that the
d malady was first found.
Legal proceedings were instl
tuted late Wednesday by Sheriff
j. II. Scott of Shoshone county
e against Probate Judge r. E
: Weniger, following the serving
c of 24-hour jail sentence by the
n sheriff upon an alleged contemp
: charge. Sheriff Scott made ap
plication for a writ of review o.
d the contempt proceedings t,
10 Judge Woods of the distric
70 court. 1t is reported that an at
" tachment was issued Thursda.
80 by Judge Weniger against tn
le sheriff's bank account to compe
the payment of the fine.