Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-01-16
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

The 17-acre tract west of the
Camas Prairie railroad at Voll-
mer has been decided to the city
and will be known as Necessary
Addition.
The store that will handle
army goods for sale in Lewiston
will open the latter part of this
month at the Snake and Clear
ter river metropolis.
A handsome $4,000 apart
ment building will be erected in
Lewiston this year by Frank
Thompson on the site of the pre-
sent home adjacent to the Fifth
street park.
A jury in the district court
of Latah county reached a ver-
dict of acquittal in the case of
the State of Idaho VS.. Carl New
man, charged with a statutory
offense against Rubie Triplett,
a 14-year old Lewiston girl.
In Judge l. C. Hattabaugh's
court in Lewiston Mrs. Sarah
Snyder, mother of Gertrude and
Rose Snyder, who were recently
before the court on delinquency
charges. was found guilty of
contributing to the delinquency
of the minor daughter, Rose,
who is Is years old.
j. Y. Haight, chief deputy in
ternal revenue collector for the
ten northern counties of Idaho,
with offices in the federal build
ing in Lewiston. has not yet re-
ceived the blanks for the 1919
tax returns, payable between the
dates of January l last and the
coming March Is.
Henry M. Good of Richfield,
Idaho, age 40, and George
Powell, age 10, of Caldwell, Ida
no, were killed and 81 freight
cars were demolished when a
string of % freight cars on the
Oregon Short Line broke loose
and ran away down Medbury
hill, west of Glenns Ferry.
That Idaho-grown wheat is
equal to the best in the world
has been manifested at the In
ternational Hay and Grain show
held in Chicago last month when
sample of Early Baart was
awarded third premium in world
competition. The wheat was
sent from Camas county.
Moscow's bank deposits set a
new record with a total of
So, 3,482,703, almost $40O, 900
larger than when the November
call was made, at which time the
deposits were higher than had
ever been known. The loans
and discounts amount to So, ,727,-
: 610 and the cash on hand to
S714.776.
: Agricultural lands are due for
a boost in valuation for tax as
: sessment purposes when they
are listed this spring. Before
the close of their annual session
d. at Boise, assessors of the state
e adopted a recommendation by
, the committee on land valuations
pledging themselves to show q
! substantial increase in the value
of such classifications of land in
t 1920 over the equalized valua.
f tion of 1919.
e Kendrick, the ninth and last
: highway district formed il
3 Latah county, is the only one
e which failed to vote bonds fol
I highway construction. The elec
+ tion held last Saturday resulted
8 in the defeat of the bonds by on,
l. vote, the affirmative lacking
just one vote of having the nee
j. essary two-thirds majority. TIL
l. vote in Kendrick precinct wa
r 1872 for and rs votes against tn
IS bonds.
.e Scarcity or absolute want o
D hay is causing neglect of horse
A. all over Lemhi county and man,
ID of the range horses, usually pas
IN tured or fed during winter, ar
starving to death. Even stock
men having hay feel that the
n, cannot afford to feed horses, an
st nobody is willing to take ther
ID for the price of the feed bill
n Numbers of the suffering an
re mails have strayed into town
of yuhoro thav have nayvad IN lawn