Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-12-10
news AROUND
THE STATE
Items Of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.


of alfalfa and clover seed and
took second, third and fourth
prizes in seed wheat at the in
ternational seed and grain show
that was held in Chicago Nov
lber 27 to December 2.
A total of $3,688,616 and some
odd cents was collected in Idaho
~ the internal revenue office
rom October l, 1919, when the
office started here, to June 80,
1920, ACCORDING to figures made
ublic Saturday by Lewis Will
liams, collector of internal reve-
nue..
E. r. Whitla, special deputy
commissioner of commerce and
industry in charge of the Coeur
d'Alene Bank and Trust compa-
ny at Occur d'Alene has served
notice that he will pay 10 per
cent of the deposits to depositors
of the bank who are not indebt-
ed to the institution next Sat
urday.
With a record of only four
days of business, the new Lewis
ton Savings and Loan company
shows so members with total
stock subscriptions of $48, 900,
there having been 480 shares of
stock subscribed for at 500 each
This means alreadv minimum
pledged income of $3.50 a month,
or $500 a year.
Reorganization of the North
west Live Stock association at
Lewiston, preparatory to incor-
poration as a stock company has
been completed. The association
will be Incorporated for $50, 900
and more than $50, 900 in shares
of $100 each has already been
pledged. Shares are sold on
the basis of $40 annually for 10
years.
The postoffice at Meridian,
Idaho, was burglarized some
time Sunday night or Monday
morning and between $500 and
$500, mostly in stamps. taken
from the safe. The yeggmen
gained entrance by bursting the
back door the lock being torn
off. The safe was broken ap-
parently with chisels and sledges
and completely rifled. The COM
bination YVES not touched but the
hinges of the door were chisel-
ed off.
The Lewison club of the
American Association of Engine
ers is sending to each state sena-
tor and representative in Latah,
Nez Perce, Clearwater, Idaho
and Lewis counties, a copy of
Western Highway Builders"
a magazine of highway construc-
tion. calling their attention to
certain articles bearing on wages
of the engineer, and submitting
new wage schedule for the con-
sideration of the legislature, for
ten years.
Idaho farmers may be treated
to further advance in freight
rates, of from s to 10 per cent,
if there is any truth in an article
appearing in the Chicago Packer
from Washington and states
that there is deep disappoint-
ment over the net return from
the increased railroad rates,
which have failed, thus far, it is
declared, to yield more than rs
per cent of the amount of reve-
nue. that was calculated upon
when the horizontal 25 per cent
increase was authorized"
Matt Dowd former well-known
Lewiston business man who for
feited $500 bond and disappear
ed in November, 1918, while
waiting trial on statutory
charge, arrived here this morn
ing in custody of Sheriff Porter
Shaffer. Dowd was arrested in
San Francisco on bench warrant
last week, having been traced to
that place from points in the
northwest. The charges against
Dowd were based on evidence in
probate court of Mary Evans
and Inez Platt, minors, against
whom the statutory offense was
alledged. The girls later were
sent to the state reform school.
JUDGE Scales released Dowd on
Qeonn oaoh bond Cat.,v.dou and