Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-08-27
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

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8O64 an increase of 3237, or 81
per cent.
Chas. Kelly, aged 20 years,
who has been resident of
Craigmont since 1906, fell dead
of heart failure in a grain field
near there just after beginning
work Tuesday morning.
The dates for the Kamiah
Fair have been set for Thursday.
Friday and Saturday, September
l6, II and Is, and the committee
of arrangements is making good
progress with preliminary work.
Fire which broke out about
two o'clock Tuesday morning at
the Bonners Ferry Lumber COM
pany's plant at Bonners Ferry
burned about 100000 worth of
finished lumber and lumber in
cars.
Freigt rates within the state
of Idaho were increased 25 per
cent and passenger rates 20 per
cent, subject to certain restric-
tions, by tentative order of the
state utilities commission Friday
morning.
Idaho will, it is said, have the
most equal representation in its
legislature of any state in the un-
ion. There will be IA senators
and 81 representatives in the
sixteenth session of the state
body.
c. Ii. Green, of the Standard
Asphalt Paving company took
initial steps inaugurating the
construction of five blocks of
macadam pavement at Craig
mont for which he has the con-
tract. The cost of the work
will be $4,000.
The secretary of the interior
has directed that patent in fee
be issued by the general land
office to 276 Nezperce Indians in
accordance with the recommend
ations of the competency COM
, mission which visited the Nez-
perce agency last year.
After Is years of continuous
service rs rural carrier out of
Moscow John Dunbar was retir-
ed August 20 and will receive
during the rest of his life a PEN
sion equal to Sc per cent of his
base pay per annum for the last
10 years, or about $432 a year.
| Clyde J. Vassar, age AZ, one of
Lewiston's most prominent citi-
zens. and well known over the
northwest, died Tuesday at
/ Whites hospital, following an
/ operation last Friday for APP
| pendicitis, Gangrene poisoning
: complicated the case.
Idaho potatoes, large ones, and
wrapped in tissue paper are SELL
ing in New York City for tewnty
five cents each, according to
? p. A. Williams. potato grower of
: Burley who recently returned
l from a trip east. Producers in
5 Idaho get on an average of So
. per hundred pounds for their
t crop, according to Mr.. Williams.
: The Johnson railroad to date
5 has handled 80 carloads of wheat
: comprising the first deliveries of
\ this seasons crop from the Oh
4 son and Tammany warehouses.
Last year, with a short crop, the
two warehouses accommodated
/ about $4,000 sacks while this
= year the number will probably
reach close to 100000.
s William Sutton. fisherman,
g was shot and fatally injured
e near Chatcolet, Idaho Tuesday
! by Captain Eli Laird, command
V er of a tugboat on the st. Joe
t river following a struggle during
= which Sutton, according to the
). stories of the captain and crew
e of the boat attempted to board
o the vessel amid threats against
|. Captain Laird.
d Working for Ii months ON the
case deputy sheriffs of Latah
l. county were rewarded last week
# by capturing a still in full opera
e tion in the deep woods on Gold
is creek, six miles from Potlach.
e and securing an almost new
lie Overland touring car in addition
n to the still and a lot of finished
e and half made illicity '.boose".
lie The man in charge of the still es-
capped i'm the underbrush and
N darkness. but later followed his
4 car to Moscow and gave himself
up and is in the county iajl.