Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-03-05
NEWS AROUND
the STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft Of Our Readers.


point has announced his candi-
dacy for the United States
Senate on the Republican ticket.
Fourteen athletic exhibitions
held in Idaho during January
swelled the fund of the state
bureau of athletics to 3,148.09,
said Robert o. Jones.
p. II. Sanger of Nezperce sold
to Frank Chandler 100 acres of
land a mile from Nezperce for
Sl65.O0 an acre. Mr.. Chandler
also sold to George P. Johnson
240 acres for $4,000.
Mine owners in the Wallace
district announced effective
March |, wage increase of so
cents per day for all under
ground and surface men, bring
ing up the minimum wage scale
to $5.75 per day.
The inmates Of the state in
dustrial school at st. Anthony
now number 225. One year ago
the number was 14S. That sit
uation reveals the definite tend
ency of the Idaho youth toward
waywardness and the problem
the state faces.
j. G. Mattson who held a sale
four miles from Culdesac We'd
nesday stated that had he re-
ceived $1,000 in gross receipts he
would have heen satisfied. He
received $500. Indians bidding
for apple jelly ran the price up
to $3.50 for a quart jar.
A small pimple on the lip of
Miss Rose Geiser of Cotton, age
25, caused her death at a hospi-
tai in Moscow Monday evening.
The pimple came on her lip about
10 days ago. She was assisting
in calcimining and is believed to
have dropped some of the cal
cimne in the sore causing blood
poisoning.
John T. Webb of Clifford. =
former service man 23 years of
age, who resided with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Webb
OF Growers Point, was instantly
killed Sunday on the breaks of
Big Canyon when he fell over
bluff while coyote hunting. His
body was found by searchers
who were guided by his dog.
Druggists or pharmacists I'm
the state of Idaho cannot dis
pense liquors on physicians pre-
scription under the Idaho dry
law, irrespective of their COM
pliance with the requirements of
the federal law. This is the rul-
ing of Attorney General Black.
The question was propounded to
him in that form and Idaho's
attorney general positively re-
piled.
A farm sale conducted Friday
at the Perry Sanger place, two
and a half miles north of Mohler,
established a new record for
farm stock. Twenty head of
draft horses were sold at prices
ranging from $3.50 to $420
span. Cows brought 500 per
head, grade brood sows brought
$75 and the total receipts were
about $4,000 above the estimates
of Mr.. Sanger.
A contract for the building of
8.4 miles of the Clearwater high
way from Greer toward Fraser,
: known as the Greer grade will be
awarded to Stems & Carlson,
Spokane contractors, if they con-
sent to alterations in the speci-
fications to bring the cost within
the appropriation, the state de-
partment of public works an
nounced. The cost will be $780,
600. The Spokane firm was far
below the other bidders.
The annual interscholastic
basket ball tournament for the
state of Idaho. will be held in the
University of Idaho gymnasium
in Moscow Thursday and Friday.
} March 18 and 10. Eight high
school basket bali teams will
compete for the state champion
ship. These teams are to be
selected by elimination. Tourna-
ments will be held in the various
districts of the state to pick the
winning team to compete in the
| state championship tournmeHt.