Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-01-23
NEWS AROUND
the STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben.
eft of Our Readers.

"Aoeoii 10 w oSIuIc u IuOO-
ern hotel that will represent a
total outlay of $475, 900, to oc-
cupy a site on Main street.
The Sites Enterprise was this
week sold by L. H. Rohrbeck to
A. j. Stuart its former owner,
some four years ago.
The influenza in a mild form
has made is appearance in Lew
iston and the authorities are
taking every precaution to hold
the disease in check. No serious
cases have been reported.
A body buried at Moscow %
years age is to be disinterred
and shipped to Spokane for
burial. The body is that of a
daughter of M. Bergersen, pio-
neer of that section.
Perry H. Sanger sold 24O
acres three miles west of Nez-
perce for $4,000 the highest
price so far paid for land
on that prairie. The purchasers
were Vern Swartz and Pm.
Harding. Mr.. Sanger bought this
land last spring and paid $50, 900
for it at that time.
The South Fork Mining &
Milling company, owning the
South Fork mine in the Ten
Mile section of the Clearwater
district of central Idaho, has sold
a block of treasury stock to east
en capitalists for $160,00O and
will begin the erection of mill
on the property as soon as spring
opens.
The annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Nezperce &
Idaho railroad company was held
at Nezperce Saturday and the
following directors elected: w.
F. Johnson. Charles F. Thomas,
P. w. Mitchell, Ernest Wienss
and c. w. Booth. The railroad
mentioned above operates be-
tween Nezperce and Ilo-Vollmer.
Last Sunday evening occurred
the death of Kentuck Corbett,
. an Indian Scout of Nez Perce
war times. He died at the home
of Paul Corbett, his grand-neph-
ew, at Kamiah, and was about
100 years old. During his time
he was very influential among
, the Nez Perce tribe and of valu-
able assistance to the whites and
Christian Indians.
The appointment of a commit
! tee of seventeen including two
= Women to arrange for the de-
mocratic national convention in
San Francisco on June %, was
annuonced by National Chair
= man Cummins, of which he is
chairman. The members in
clude J. Bruce Kremer of Mont
, ana and Robt. H. Elder, of
l Coeur d. Alene, Idaho.
State officials Wednesday
clapped as rigid influenza
quarantine upon the industrial
school at st. Anthony and DR.. E.
1 A. Bryan, state commissioner OF
/ education and the highest exc
cutive officer in direct charge of
y the school, requested probate
judges of every Idaho county to
t refrain from making additional
e commitments to that institution
s until the ban is lifted.
d Idaho's future highway devel-
r opment stands in serious danger
of curtailment as the result of
the present congress announced
policy of "retrenchment and
Il economy" and converted press.
= ure on the part of every individ-
n ual, every public and semi-publit
e organization, will be necessary
o to assure the passage of fedora
> and state appropriations liberia
l. enough to meet the demands.
4. Months and months of pros
g pecting has brought its rewart
to E. p. Adams and Walter v
Martin, at the Warren mining
camp in Idaho county, by rict
" gold strike where by the assay
is bring a report that same will &,
n $500 in gold values per ton. Th'
III discovery was made on Washing
20 ton Creek, a tributary to Warre,
re creek. two miles from Warren
Idaho.
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