Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-10-01
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.


ranch near Genesee last week
destroyed some $50 sacks of
wheat belonging to Gamble &
Wahl. The straw stack was al
so destroyed.
The uniform system of county
bookkeeping, introduced by the
present state department of
finance, is now in complete op-
Grafton in the 44 counties of tie
state, according to B. E. Hyatt,
In the last 20 months Bonner
county has received $7860 in
fines, bond forfeitures and in
the value of automobiles, as re-
suit of the sheriff's Offices ar
rest of bootleggers and blind
piggers.
Silage which is being put up
on the University of Idaho col
lege of agriculture's experiment
tai farm will average ten tons
to the acre, according to an an
noumcement made by E. J. ID
dings, dean of the college of
agriculture.
Charging breach of contract,
Walter Eddy of Lewiston ap-
pealed to the Idaho Public utili-
ties commission for an order
compelling the Lewiston-Sweet-
water Irrigation company to re-
pair and put in operation an ir-
rigation system.
I Trial in the case of c. S. EN-
bree, now under detention in
Wallace and said to be one of the
most dangerous radicals in the
United States, has not yet been
definitely set, according to r. o.
Jones, commissioner of law en-
forcement.
Beginning Friday Lewiston
people must pay 16 2-3 cents a
quart for milk, as against the
present price of 13 2-7. Deal
ers complain that the high price
of feed and labor has caused
them barely to break even on
their business, if not actually
suffer a loss.
Henry Thiessen of Tammany
has sold his Hereford bull,
Prince Rupert, 80th, No. 544903,
to Herman Norby of north Lew
iston, who now has a herd of 35
or 40 fine animals. This animal
won several grand prizes last
year and is often referred to as
the $4,000 bull"
AS a result of the election of
the Rhodes scholar for 1920 and
1921, Ernest X. Kindley, son of
the former president of the u.
of l., and Edwin d. Ford, ir., of
Weiser, were chosen as Idaho's
two representatives, the first
for the year 1920 scholarship
and the second for the 1921
scholarship.
Every son of Idaho interested
in baseball is watching Walter
Johnson. Sent up to the top of
the national league from Weiser
he has held this position under
the spotlight for years. Now he
is making the fight that so many
of the great pitchers have been
compelled to make, and in this
fight he has the good wishes of
all Idaho.
Idaho is likely to rival the
famous moonshiners of Ken
lucky if the number of stills be-
ing discovered in the wilds and
mountains continue to be ur-
covered. The state law enforce
ment department is having its
hands full locating stills, des-
troying and confiscating the
moonshine as well as prosecut-
ing the offenders.
After standing three weeks in
a dry, abandoned cesspool about
eight feet deep, without food or
water, a Guernsey COW, seven
years old, was discovered last
week by L. G.. Thomason of
Standpoint near that city and
was subsequently rescued from
her near sepulchre. That her
life was saved is perhaps due to
the fact that she could stand and
had little space for movement.
The supreme court of Idaho
affirms the decree of divorce
granted in the district court of
Kootenai county to James F.
Callahan. wealthy mining man
of the Coeur d'Alenes, against
his wife, Helen Elizabeth Calla-
han, but remands the question of
$4,000 alimony allowed Mrs.
Callahan back TO the district