Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-10-29
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

'AHS ssiu AiONhiS piStuiC tiiChtiC
was formally opened last week.
Organization of Pythian Sis
ters with forty-eight charter
members has been effected at
Rupert.
At Montpelier the Waterloo
mine of phosphate company is
employing thirty men and ship
ping 100 tons of high-grade rock
a day.
Potato growers in the Burley
district are begging for refrig-
orator cars in which to ship
their product.
Alfalfa weevil is known to oc-
cur in % counties in Idaho but
in only 10 of them has it become
abpnd'nt enough to cause seri-
Gus injury.
Inability to sell peas is n handi
cap that Latah county farmers
are experiencing for the first
time in the history of pea grow
ing.
The ornamental poles and
lights for Nampa have arrived
but the installation has been de-
layed by the failure of the cable
to reach the city.
Moving picture representa-
tives recently spent a week in
the Ashton country looking for a
suitable location TO stage James
Oliver Curwood's northern story
picture play.
Sam Bogard, 81 years old, was
found dead in his cabin near Ida
no City. He was lying on the
floor by stove, with some kind
ling in one hand, when found by
a neighbor, who had stopped at
the cabin to visit him.
J. p. Herman, living near
Standpoint recently sustained the
loss of $4,000 in currency, buried
treasure. Detectives from Spok-
ane have been at work on the
case but so far there has been no
clue to the theft of the money.
According to plans instituted
by President Frazier and the
| faculty of the Idaho technical
institute, at Pocatello, that in
stitution will ask for nearly a
half-million dollars for main-
tenance and improvements for
the next bienniumn.
Former Governor James II.
Hawley has just completed a
history of the state of Idaho
which will be one of his final
literary efforts. The history of
the state is brought down to
April /, 1919, and covers the
participation of this state in the
great war.
A jury was accepted by both
the state and the defense Satur-
day in the trial of Eugene Null
cathy of Kellog, charged with
the murder of Richard Viles,
. who was under indictment for
wronging young sister of the
defendant at the time the home
eide took place in a pool hall at
Kellogg last April.
Herbert (Joe) Mabie, North
ern Pacific conductor running
between kootenai and Paradise,
Mont, was killed at Paradise
Sunday by Gust Wagner, propr-
ietor of a pool room and soft
drink establishment in the Mon
tana town. The killing was one
, of the most brutal known in the
. Inland Entire in recent years.
The lifeless body of Godfrey
: Jarbo, proprietor of the Kamiah
hotel. was found in his room at
f, Kamiah by his wife, death en-
t suing some time during the
. night or early morning hours
from heart disease. Mr.. Jarbo
} retired as usual Friday night in
seemingly excellent health. He
t had not complained of feeling
e i'll to anyone.
Printing of ballots for the
coming general election in prac-
tically every county in Idaho was
halted Friday when r. L. Black,
t attorney general ruled it was
1 contrary to the election laws to
e have a circle printed at the head
: of the independent ticket there
: by enabling the electors to vote
!, a straight ballot. 1t is also un-
lawful to have the word ticket
after independent, he ruled