Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-10-15
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items Of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

candidate for the legislature
Mrs. B. S. Howe.
More than 100 carloads of ap-
pies packed at the Apple Valley
packing house at Parma this
year will be exported to England.
Investments for September.
by the state department of pub
nc Investments, amounted to
1871, ,726.25.
August Johnson, teamster en-
ployed in the rock quarry operat-
ed by the Standard Asphalt Paw
ing company near Genesee, was
instantly killed when kicked by a
horse Sunday.
Federal officials, in co-opera-
tion with the Boise police depart
ment, seized opium valued at ap-
proximately $1,000 and uuanti-
ty of yen-sheee in a raid on a
Chinese store at Boise.
October 18 has been set by the
state utilities commission at the
date for hearing the supplement-
al application of the American
Railway Express company for
an additional 13R per cent in
crease in interstate rates.
Dean Z. J. Iddings of the Uni
versity of Idaho college of agri-
culture departed on a three
weeks trip which will take him
as far east as Springfield, Mass,
in the interests of the agricul-
tural college and the Idaho ex-
pertinent station.
Twenty men were given their
freedom from the Idaho state
penitentiary by action of the
board of pardons, Wednesday.
Seventy-five had applied for par
dons. This is 100 per cent more
than any previous year it is
said.
Matthew Phelps Fifield, 90
years Of age, one of the few men
to whom the discovery of gold
in California was confided be-
fore it became generally known,
and one of the oldest men I'm
Power county, died at Rockland,
October a.
The story comes from Warren
that Robert Curey fought and
killed a 2-year old black bear
with a four-pound AK. After
he hit the bear with the ak, it
took the ak from him, but by
using a pole he got the ax back
; and put the bear out of action.
The first five acres of the Joe
Taylor beet crop yielded 113 tons
OF beets, an average of % 3-5
, tons to the acre. The next plot
7 of two and one half acres will go
better. This bet crop is pro-
nounced by the company field
agents as the best crop of beets
in Idaho Falls district.
Advertised as the most inn
portant event of the athletic
,, school year, the annual football
game between the university of
Idaho and Washington State col
!, lege, to be played in Moscow,
Friday, October Is, is expected
,, to attract gridiron enthusiasts
|, from all parts of the inland en-
) pire.
Prem Moore of the extension
department of the state univer-
sity has announced series OF
: one-day schools throughout the
: state for poultry instruction
: These will begin first in the
> western part of the state and
: then gradually work eastwood
to Pocatello and Bear Lake
}. county.
y Total receipts of the Idaho
q state fair, according to a report
l issued by Treasurer John w
. Eagleson We're S35,458.73, a.
. compared with S23, ,129.64, taker
z in last year. The total collect
- ed by o. p. Hendershot, secre
tary of the fair, from January
to October 9, 1920, including
J. donations and receipts for con
h cessions, amounts to $14,286.88
IS Sales of Lewiston orchard
ID tracts totaling one hundre,
2 fifty thousand dollars We're mad
lie Saturday. More than 40 pc
le cent of the tracts, placed on tn
4 market by bond holders of tn
former Lewiston Orchards com
pany, passed into the hands o
q individual owners. Of 90 tract
Dr. listed the remainder will be sol
it in the next few days. Fort
Of tracts sold Saturday run from
to 80 acres.