Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-01-09
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

ldaho's crops for the year
1919 were worth the enormous
sum of $114,0O0,000 is the state
ment of julius II. Jacobson,
agent of the Idaho crop report
ing service.
The old Indian agency proper
ty at Spalding changed hands
Saturday, Victor Spensley pur-
chasing it for $4,000. The
holdings embrace 300 acres and
a number of buildings.
Excavation work was started
on a new flour mill at Nezperce
last week. The old mill machin-
cry which was formerly in op-
GRAFTON there was removed by
the late l.. w. Robinson to Lew
iston.
Revenues amounting to $12O,
SOFAS were derived from the
sale of game licenses and per-
mits during 1919, declared Otto
M. Jones, state game warden, in
a public statement released Sat-
urday.
Some 25 passengers were STALL
ed between Ilo-Vollmer and Nez-
perce last Wednesday evening
when the engine on the Nezperce
road was derailed. Much trouble
has been experienced on this
road the last two months.
State legislators who have ac-
cepted state appointive offices
since the 1919 session face the
necessity of resigning their of
fices in order to take part in the
special woman suffrage session
called for February IL.
Willie Frank, a well known
Nez Perce Indian, died at his
home in Lawyers Canyon Satur-
day. following a long illness
brought about by an injury he
received several years ago. He
was was forty-four years old and
was born in the Kamiah valley.
Two garages, one at Malad,
and one at Rexburg, Idaho were
destroyed last week by fire. The
fire at Malad destroyed property
valued at 100000 and at Rex
burg the loss was placed at
S15O,00O. At Malad as auto
mobiles were destroyed and at
Rexburg so cars went up in
smoke.
One of the biggest real estate
deals recorded in Boise during
the past IL months was closed
last week when Scott Anderson,
prominent stock and sheep
man, and Crawford Moore, pres
ident of the First National bank
of Boise, purchased what is
known at the McCarty estate
valued at $428,00O.
A uniform wage scale agree
ment of board and 17la cents per
sheep was entered into between
the Idaho Wool Growers associa-
tion and the Sheep Shearers'
Union of America at the final
session of the two-day conven-
tion of the wool growers at
Boise. This scale is to apply
throughout Idaho for 1920, ac-
cording to the agreement.
Sixty-one years ago-January
, 4, 1859-Thomas Beall, the we'll
/ known pioneer of the Lewiston
country, made his first visit to
the present site of Lewiston. He
, came from Walla Walla as the
representative of Indian Agent
Cain of the Nez Perces to confer
, with the Nez Perce Indians re-
/ lative to the establishing of an
+ agency on the reservation, al
/ that time the agency being To-
= Gated at Walla Walla.
: An order has been made by
: the probate court of Lewis coun.
r ty authorizing the trustees OF
: the estate of the late ]. P. Vol
D liner to negotiate lease for q
tract of land lying between the
( towns of Ilo and Vollmer. The
] trustees are authorized to nego-
( tiate this lease for the period OF
Q their trusteeship or approxi'
e mately Is years. The procedure
( is a further step in the plan foi
|. the consolidation of the towns
k of 10 and Voilmer under the
name of Craigmont.