Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-03-19
news AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

1t is estimated that every
student enrolled in the Univer-
sity of Idaho is worth 81, 900 per
term to the city of Moscow.
Lewiston business men pro-
pose to build a hotel in that city
costing $500,000 including
the equipment. The hotel, as
proposed will contain 200 rooms
and will be modern in every re-
spect.
The Reubens council passed
on Monday night an ordinance
granting the Grangeville Elec-
trio Light and Power Co., a
franchise to do business in that
city.
County Agent Wade of Nez-
perce received car of pea seed,
which is to be distributed among
Lewis county farmers and used
by them in general test as the
practicality of peas as a sum-
merfallow crop on the prairie.
The army retail store which
has been conducted at Lewiston
for the last month, closed last
week. the total sales were given
as slightly under $4,000. The
remaining goods were taken to
the other nearby army stores.
Jack Gideon, serving a life
sentence in the federal peniten-
tiary, at Leavenworth, Kansas,
escaped from the prison farm
where he was a trusty, prison
officials announced. He was
convicted of robbing a mail train
at Moscow, Idaho, in 1904.
! When a tract of Wyoming
land comprising 80 farms of 80
acres each was recently opened
for entry, 1851 ex-service men
filed applications. Charles s. Hill
reclamation commissioner of
Wyoming, sent the figures to
Governor Davis Thursday.
The Stevens Mercantile COM
pany with headquarters at VIM
chester and with stores at Win
chester, Westlake and Ferdin-
and has purchased the S. J.Lind-
er stock of general merchandise
at lilo and will have a $4,000
! stock at that point within the
: next 80 days.
J. P. Sorenson of Nezperce
concluded a deal with John Stell-
mon by which he acquired $50
l acres of farm land in Montana
in the Great Falls district and
I Mr.. Stellmon takes over the Sor-
enson residence in Nezperce, the
livery stable business and three
registered stations. Norman
i, Stellmon, son of John Stellmon,
:. will conduct the livery business
! Delegates to Idaho party con.
). ventions, both regular and spec
;, ial, may call upon the state OF
! Idaho for railroad expenses, and
4 these expenses must be allowed
until the $500 appropriated fol
1 that purpose is expended. These
i facts were established Friday by
y an opinion from the office o.
= Roy L. Black, Idaho attone!
general.
A Faculty and staff of the Uni
# versity of Idaho, including th'
y experiment station and agricult
! ural college are to have a 10 pc
:, cent increase in salaries begin
g ming April l. This action wa
r taken at meeting of the exec
:. utive board attended by DR.. Z
,. A. Bryan, state commissioner o
~ education; Ramsey Walker, o
y Wallace; and President E. II
~ ~ Lindley, of the University o
:; : Idaho.
,e laundering is Idaho's mos
ct dangerous industry, Mininl
n ranks second. Thirty years ]
,e the workingman's most reckles
Is age. Most injuries in Idaho com
We from falling, rolling or FLYNN
III objects (stones, logs. pieces o
re machinery, etc. and hands an
IN feet are the members most ofteI
injured. These are interestin,
facts CLEANED from an annual re
n po,-t submitted To GOvernO