Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-02-13
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.


Bureau has placed an order for
1000 ounces of strychnine and
200 ounces of Saccharine to be
used in poisoning squirrels.
Charles A. Grove, five years
deputy state treasurer of Idaho,
resigned his position Saturday
in order to become identified
with the Randall -Dodd Automo-
bile agency at Boise.
Governor Davis issued his
"Arbor day" proclamation Sat-
urday, specifying such days as
local superintendents of schools
may designate for planting of
trees and celebration of the COM
ing of springtime and the birds.
Hope of finding the body of
Charles Gordon, 17-year-old
trapper, who has been missing
on the Oregon side of Snake
river since December 2, has been
abandoned by party of search
ers who secured the mountain
country for several days hunting
for the boy.
A slump in Idaho livestock
values was reported Saturday by
Julius III. Jacobson, field agent
of the Idaho crop reporting serv-
ice in a comparison of 1919 val
ues with those of January 1920.
Horses have dropped $12 a head,
mules 81, cattle $3.50, sheep ST.
80 and swine $1.80
Idaho county is entitled to
three delegates in the forthcom-
ing state Democratic convention
and four delegates in the Repub-
lican convention, according to
apportionment of delegates
among the counties, as made re-
Gently, by Robert o. Jones, sec
retary of state.
Monday night bids were OPEN
ed for the city hall and postoffice
building that will accommodate
the new town of Craigmont, en-
bracing the consolidated towns
of Ilo and Vollmer. The plans
for the city hall building were
prepared by Architect r. S. Lor-
ing of Lewiston.
The sales of army supplies in
the government store, which
opened at Lewiston last week,
are proving so much more than
was expected that the manager
has made a second trip to Port
land to order additional supplies.
Three more carloads will be ship
per from Portland to Lewiston.
The possibilities of hog raising
as a side line of general farming
is again demonstrated by the ex-
perience of George Dougherty,
who lives near Moscow. He
realized $504 from II head, al
most $50 each. The animals
were under six months, and were
finished on home grown corn
and tankage.
Elmer White, a logger is in the
county Jail at Moscow, to await
examination as to his sanity.
He was brought from Deary by
Pat Malone, deputy sheriff, who
arrested him at camp six of the
Potlatch Lumber pany,
where he had Cleaned out the
camp" according to the deputy
sheriff's statement.
Need of higher salaries for
sheriffs to enable them to meet
the high cost of living was given
unanimous approval at the sher-
ifs and peace officers conven-
tion at the state capitol Saturday
through the adoption of a sec
ton to the report of the legisla-
tive committee providing that
the salary of sheriffs be changed
from $500 maximum to 81 800
minimum according to the size
and work of the counties.
The entire holdings of the
Coeur d'Alene Lumber company,
; comprising 10000 acres of land
. in Benewah county, Idaho. most
ly timber, with approximately
500, 100000 feet stumpage, to-
gether with a mill at Occur d.
; Alene, was sold last saturday to
Fred Herrick of st. Maries, Ida,
for a consideration of 81, 200, 900
: The Coeur dAlene Lumber COM
!, pany was owned by the Largey
estate of Butte Mont.