Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-01-30
news AROUND
THE STATE
Items Of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben.
eft of Our Readers.

experienced in Lewiston, at least
81 900, 900 of new work being in
sight for the year 1920.
Revenue officers seized enough
whiskey to stock a small saloon
when they arrested a man CIV
ing the name of H. r. Chase at
Boise last week. The liquor was
valued at $4,000.
Homer Groves confectionery
store at Julietta was broken in
to some time between one and
five O'Clock Tuesday morning of
last week and cash to the
amount of about $115 taken
from the cash register.
Idaho licenses of seventeen
dentists were revoked by the
state dental board this week
when the dentists failed to re-
spond to a summons to show
cause why their licenses should
not be revoked for fraud.
Twenty members of Lakota
tribe of Red Men of Wallace were
badly shaken up, and at least 2
more or less seriously injured,
when an auto stage in which
they were driving to Burke was
struck by heavy Northern Pa
cific ore train at Gem.
! The University of Idaho re-
ceived as a present from the
] Hercules herd of Shorthorns,
owned by Day & Rothrock, two
high grade Shorthorn steer
calves. These will be added to
4 the university steer herd and
placed on the show circuit as
. fat steers next fall.
!. Fifty registered bulls have
l. been placed in Benewah county,
Idaho, as the result of a farm
bureau campaign for broad STAN
e dardization. Most of the ami
: mails are the property of bull
n associations, Eleven cooperative
:. shipments of cattle, worth $12,-
500 were made last year.
y A Nez Perce rural school dist
rict. joined with another to form
. high school district, will not be
permitted to withdraw there
from, Notwithstanding that the
2 high school costs it $2700 annu-
u ally, while only two students
! from the complaining district at
;. tend it. So ruled Attorney
;. General Black Friday. One
q district includes the town of
Reubens, Idaho, while the other
is purely rural.
One of the greatest surprises
II in southern Idaho for some time
~ ~ was sprung when the John A.
NJ NJ Regan post of the American
20 legion, headquarters Boise, went
~ on record as opposed to the re-
" clamation of what is known as
40 m the big Bruneau irrigation pro
"a ject comprising some 100000
at acres of land to irrigate which
9 plans are now under way to Sc
cure the necessary capital, esti-
H. mated at between $60,000,00(
q. and $100,000,000.
s. Idaho garages cannot legal!
v: sell denatured or wood alcohol
II, basis of the poisonous "coroners
cocktails" that claimed man.
lives last Christmas and New
Year. Officials of the stat
%. law enforcement department
en- made public Friday a ruling O
in the state attorney general hold
re- ing that, Notwithstanding 1t
of use in automobile radiators t
a prevent freezing, wood alcohol
to not properly a commodity fo
ire sale by garagemen.
les Arthur C. Tracey, auditor {
it Valley county, of which Cascad
of is the county seat, has resigne'
ir- following examination of h
i've accounts by examiners of til
The state department of financ
BUS who discovered discrepanci'
amounting to approximate
5000. This money could not
accounted for, it is said. tt
the books of the county We're ba
all anced by Mr.. Tracey paying ov'
no to the county the amount of Il
ury shortage. The board of count
nty commissioners of Valley count
..:oI ux>xo;..<nI Co,J Eitchan o..dif,