Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-06-18
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben.
eft Of Our Readers.

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of the University of Idaho were
made by the board of regents at
a recent session.
Physicians of Idaho assembled
in Coeur d'Alene last week to
discuss angles of the prevention
and cure of disease ranging from
bone surgery to treatment of in
fluenza.
Charges on making excessive
profits contrary TO the Lever act
were filed at Pocatello against
officials of the Utah-Idaho Sug-
al company, be fore United
States Commissioner Turner.
The steamer Northwestern,
now making weekly runs be-
tween Lewiston and Portland,
left Tuesday morning for Port
land with a large quantity of
freight and about so passengers.
The executive committee of
the Lewiston chapter of the Red
Cross announced today that a
specially trained social service
worker would be employed by
the chapter to do public welfare
work in the counties of Lewis.
Idaho and Nez Perce as soon as
a suitable person could be found
for the position.
0. II. Lipps, superintendent of
the Nez Perce Indian reservation
has issued notice of sales by
sealed bid of Indian lands. Up
until the hour of two o'clock in
the afternoon of July IL bids will
be received for tracts aggrega-
ing about 1000 acres while on
August 8 about LOO acres will
be offered.
In spite of much rain during
the last two weeks, the new au-
tomobile camping grounds at
Lewiston have proved a mecca
for tourists in that section. A
total Of So cars with 185 tourists
have registered with the park
keeper and 10 different states
are represented in this summary
of two weeks.
Weekly market bulletins CIV
ing full information of general
market conditions of agricultural
products. fruit, wool and live
stock, will be sent free to Idaho
farmers, fruit growers and
stockmen upon request sent to
Miles Cannon, commissioner of
agriculture, Boise, or Bert F.
Savage, director of agriculture
for north Idaho, Lewiston.
Ten Italians were placed under
arrest Tuesday at st. Maries for
illegal manufacture Of intoxicat-
ing liquor. The Italians reside
a short distance from town on
the Elk river railway. Their
place was searched by Sheriff
Wolfe, Chief of Police Steele and
Deputy Sheriffs Berg and Jones,
and it is alleged 95 gallons of
rasin wine, Dago red," were
found fermenting i'm a crude still.
Walking in his sleep, T. r.
Larson, well known Salt Lake
City travelling man, Monday
night at about 2 o'clock jumped
from the second story of the
Owyhee, at Boise, fractured his
skull and sustained injuries
which may result in his death.
He was rushed to st. Alphonsus
hospital and did not regain con-
sciousness until 6 o'clock Tues
, day evening.
An organized attack on the
alfalfa weevil which has done
inestimable damage in Idaho,
and had virtually ruined some
fields in the irrigated sections, is
being made from several differ
: ent angles by the University of
Idaho extension division and ex-
pertinent station. The 1919
legislature appropriated $50, 900
to combat the pest, which is rat
ed as among the worst that
threaten the agricultural inter-
ests of the state.
Commissioner Cannon receiv-
ed a dispatch from his deputy,
Bert F. Savage, director in north
Idaho, saying that a request for
! a refrigerator car for an invoice
, of lettuce worth $4,000 to be
J shipped from Lewiston to Mimi
; eapolis had met with the re-
, SPONGE that it could not be sup
piled by the American Railway
, Express company. Commission
/ er Cannon at once notified A. L.
, Freehafer of the public utilities
who at once got busy.