Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-03-12
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

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says w. ID. Humiston, secretary
treasurer of the North Idaho
Forestry association.
William II. Emery, constable
of Priest River precinct and
prominent citizen of that village
where he has a soft drink estab-
lishment and barber shop, was
arrested Saturday on the charge
of bootlegging.
The big new rock crusher for
Moscow highway district has
been installed on the Byrns farm
south of Moscow and as soon as
the power arrives will begin
work crushing rock for the high
ways TO be built there.
Forty inmates of the state in
sane asylum at Blackfoot, many
of whom are believed by state
officials never to have been in
sane. have been removed from
that institution and placed in
the state home for the feeble
minded at Nampa.
Minors under lS who smoke
or use cigarettes, cigars or to-
bacco in any form upon public
highways or other public pro-
perties may be declared "delin-
quent" and committed to re-
formatory, according to ruling
m a de by Attorney General
Black.
AS the result of raids made
by Deputy Sheriff w. E. Dag
gett, Special u. S. Agent James
Rice and J. Y. Haight. deputy in
ternal revenue collector at
Lewiston, two 50-gallon barrels
of mash and a half gallon of dis
titled spirits were seized at a
cabin occupied by Frank Duroco,
while at the home of Jim Yeott,
Chinese gardener, a quantity of
corn mash was secured.
The war department Friday
issued a statement showing that
of105.337 Idaho men who reg
istered under the draft law at
the outbreak of the war 1484
shirked their duty and are now
carried as deserters or draft
dodgers. OF this number 1876
deselters have been apprehend-
ed and their cases disposed of.
while 698 are still at large, and
their cases still pending.
Thomas T. Kerl, a wealthy at
torney of Occur d'Alene, at one
time a candidate for congress-
man from this state, was dis
barred from practicing law in
the state of Idaho, by order of
the state supreme court. Kerl
was made defendant some time
ago in a sensational divorce trial
at Coeur d'Alene. December IL,
1918, Kerl was convicted in the
, federal district court at Omaha
on the charge of sedition and
, was fined $4,000.
| University of Idaho will en-
) deavor to have Neil Irving, one
} of the best all-around athletes
in the west, entered in the Olym-
: pic games at Antwerp. Irving
is regarded as the best javelin
/. and weight man in the west,
having record of ITO feet with
= the javelin and AZ feet with the
5 shot. He will be sent TO Pacific
coast meets where he will con-
: test with the best men in these
: events on the coast and his
+ friends have strong hopes he viii
win a place in the Olympic team
The democratic state commit
S tee, which met at Moscow Fri
j day at the call of State Chair
man Jerome J. Day selected
e Lewiston as the place for hold
L ing the state delegate convention
s which will nominate delegate:
& TO the national convention. The
y date for the Lewiston conven
ton is June Is. Idaho Falls
y was given the state nominating
n convention which is set by law
y for Aug. %. There will bt
seated in the Lewiston conven
ton 318 delegates or three times
II the number that go to the Idaho