Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-11-26
news AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

Harold Hurlburt, Lewiston
boy, is winning distinction as q
tenor singer in Rome. He has
just been appoined soloist in the
American church of Rome where
he is studying music.
The University of Idaho col
lege of agriculture team won
first place in the student stock
judging contests held on the OPP
ening day of the Pacific Inter-
national Livestock exposition at
Portland.
Idaho garages cannot lawful
y sell denatured or wood alcohol
IL use in the arts, is the answer
to a question put Friday to Roy
l.. Black, Idaho attorney general
by the department of law en-
forcement.
Three hundred forty-three
acres of land was cleared and put
into crops during the past year
i'm Bonner county as a result of
the use of as tons of dynamite,
it is announced by the county
agricultural agent in a bulletin
issued Friday.
Henry II. Bole, aged 70, min
ing man of the Pierce district,
died at his home in Orofino Mon-
day evening, November 18th, af-
ter four years of illness which
resulted in degeneration of the
spine and a general breakdown
which caused his death.
Ten cooperative community
shipments of cattle to the Spok-
ane Union Stockyards have been
made this fall under direction of
community leaders of the Bon
ner county farm bureau. A net
profit of $500 to 80 farmers in
eight communities has resulted.
Efforts on the part of the Of
flee of the state treasurer to dis
pose of all or any part of one
million nine hundred fifty thous-
and dollars worth of treasury
notes of both the highway and
the general fund, have been fu-
tile, it was announced Wednes-
day.
Hugh Carr, an employee of the
bridge and construction depart
ment of the Camas Prairie Rail-
way company, Saturday fell a
distance of 40 feet, from q rail-
road bridge near Reubens, while
employed in his work. He sus-
tanned fractured ribs and had
bruises.
Sixty elk are estimated to
have been killed in Idaho county
during the season which closed
November Is. The season OPP
ened October 1. Hunters are
declared to have carefully observ
ed the state game laws in pur-
suit of elk, and in no instance
has violation of the law been re-
ported.
Establishing a new precedent
in the history of the Idaho state
legislature, the appropriation
bill, which heretofore has been
presented to that body just a
few days before the session clos
ed, will be given to the Idaho
, lawmakers on the opening day,
it was announced at the office of
Roy l.. Black, Idaho attorney
general, Thursday.
Governor Davis has decided TO
/ appoint Albert ii. Featherstone
Judge of the First judicial dist
= rict for Shoshone county to sue
ceed Judge w. w. Woods, de-
/, ceased. Mr.. Featherstone at the
last general election was elected
, state senator from Shoshone
: county. Judge Scales of Grange
vile will be authorized to go to
4 Wallace and take charge of the
!, iudgeship duties while M +.
: Featherstone is serving in the
!. legislature.
: Friday Amel Olson of Troy,
: Idaho, filed suit in the district
court to annul the purported
marriage of his daughter, Nida
Olson, and Willie Fong. the lat
z ter Chinese. The action cites
!, that Nida Olson is the minor
l. child of the plaintiff, is but IL
|, years old, that the purported
:, marriage of the girl in Lewiston
It on Tuesday last was without the
# consent of the parents, these
y grounds. the complaint citing,
It warranting annulment of the
4. marriage under the Idaho stat
|e ute. Leo McCarty is the attor-