Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-02-27
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items Of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

Two congressional medals OF
honor and % Distinguished
Service crosses were awarded
Idaho soldiers in the recent war,
according to report from WASH
ington.
The Decker Brothers, who
own several hundred acres of
land west of Kooskia, on which
there is a quantity of pine and
fir suitable for market, will soon
commence cutting the timber in
to lumber.
The sale of over $4,000 acres
of Nez Perce Indian lands on the
Fort Lapwai reservation is at
tracing attention. The sale will
be held April 90. The $4,000
acres are appraised at over
100000.
The house committee on public
lands has reported unanimously
the bill of Representative French
providing for granting certain
lands to Standpoint, Idaho, for
the protection of the water shed
and water supply system of that
city.
A fire at IL o'clock Sunday
night broke out in Harland Mos
er's residence at Nezperce and
completely destroyed the home
and contents. The family were
asleep in the house and barely
escaped. The loss is $4,000 with
$1,000 insurance.
The Mountain States Tele-
phone & Telegraph company, by
federal court order. must pay to
seven southern Idaho counties q
total of $63,911.06 in tax money
before its suit contesting the
legality of its assessment can be
continued.
Application from physicians in
various parts of the state seek
ing permits to issue prescrip-
tions for the use of alcohol. have
been coming into the internal
revenue office in increasing
numbers recently, according to
D. 0. Doherty, deputy revenue
collector.
The Nez Perce county farm
bureau is planning a campaign
to wipe out the ground squirrel
pest next month. Under the
lead of o. Fl. Lipps of Lapwai,
leader of the pest control prof.
ect of the bureau, an intensive
drive will be launched on March
l.
Idaho has received 1898, 1922
income from the national forest
reserve since the federal govern
ment in 1906, inaugurated the
policy of paying to the states 25
per cent of the forest earnings.
These figures were arrived at in
a compilation made Wednesday
in the office of the state auditor.
The completion of the war de-
partment's compilation of the
casualty figures for the entire
American expeditionary forces,
shows the total casualties of
Idaho troops numbered 1851, of
which number 400 lost their
lives, 933 were wounded and 8
taken prisoners by the enemy,
all of whom were later repatri-
ated.
Percy Waterman, 20 years old,
who Tuesday pleaded guilty on
preliminary examination to the
charge of committing a statu-
tory offense against a young
woman of the canyon section
near Kamiah, made his escape
from the custody of the officers
at Nezperce. 1t had been plan
ned to take Waterman to
Grangeville to receive sentence
at the hands of Judge Scales.
! Colonel L. V. Patch has decid-
ed to enter the race for United
States senator, severing all con-
nection with the present state
administration. His friends de-
clare that he will be in a strong
position. whether he is nominat-
ed for the senate or not. 1t
may be, some of them pointed
out, that in the final convention
lineup he will be in a situation
to do some very advantageous
dickering with the powers-that-
he.