Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-10-08
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

eide Wednesday night in the
county Jail at American Falls
by hanging himself by his sus-
penders.
ii. +. Samuels has filed with
the secretary of state his formal
notice of withdrawal as a candi-
date for United States senator
on the Non-partisan ticket.
Idaho farms and ranges are
now producing an annual wealth
of 40.000,000, according to a
report issued from the office of
the governor.
More than 100 cars of pota-
toes have heen shipped from the
South Side Minidoka project al
ready this season, according to
one estimate.
Idaho returns to status of
second in rank among wool pro-
ducing states of union. 2I,7O2,-
600 pounds We're produced in
this state in 1920.
Dimes, saved during a period
OF ten years, were used to pur-
chase a railroad ticket from
Boise to Indianapolis for the re-
cent Grand Army of the Repuh-
lie encampment by the wife of
civil war veteran.
The Utah-Idaho sugar factory
of Idaho Falls is expected to
start the fall run of grinding
beets at once, which is somewhat
earlier than usual. The yield i'm
this locality is heavier than it
has ever been.
G. b. Lyons, who farms east
of Moscow, Idaho. has averaged
nearly 45 bushels of peas per
acre on 60 acre plot. He at
tributes these unusually good
results to extra care i'm selecting
seed and very thorough prepara-
tion of the land prior to seeding.
Students of the University OF
Idaho are rallying to the assist
ance of Latah county farmers
who have not threshed wheat.
A number of men from the uni
versity have already gone to the
field and more will he dispatched
as necessity arises.
Don Jain. age 16. while hunt
ing in the hills south of Genesee
Saturday received a charge of
birdshot about the head and face
from the gun of a companion,
William McCreary, who did not
see the victim because of some
brush.
Drake Bros, who are building
up splendid herd of Herefords
on their ranch west of Kamiah,
last week bought a new bull to
head their herd, paying round
81 900 for the animal. The pur-
chase was made of Herman
Nordby of Lewiston.
Approximately 80 per cent of
the prune packing in Idaho has
been completed, according to the
report of Miles Cannon, state
commissioner of agriculture.
Fruit men in all sections OF the
state are very well pleased with
the crop, both as to quality and
quantity.
William Travers, division en-
gineer of the Oregon Short line!
and Roy Cornelius, a motor car
mechanic of the same road, both
residents of Pocatello, Idaho,
were burned to death in q fire
which destroyed the hotel at
Robinette, Oregon.
ii. j. Feinberg, representative
of the Rice-Stix company of st.
Louis, Mo-. reports while going
down the Clearwater grade from
NeZ Perce to Kamiah his car
went over the embankment and
was badly wrecked. Mr.. Fein-
berg escaped with minor in
juries.
Assurance that the affairs OF
the Commercial Savings bank of
Mountain Home, Idaho. which he
closed Tuesday, should soon be
Strengthened out and that the
institution would resume busi-
ness without loss of the depos-
itors' money, was given by bank
Commissioner John G. Fralick.
A new executive has been
selected for the University of
Idaho at Moscow in the person
of DR.. A. Fl. Upham, late vice
president of Miami university.
Ohio. Dr.. Upham is expected
to assume the presidency on
December / on the conclusion of
a great building fund campaign
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