Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-05-28
news AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

More than so Boise people
were served with formal notice
Wednesday afternoon that they
must appear in police court to
answer to charges of breaking
the city's speed laws.
Idaho potato growers are
planting but 95 per cent of last
years potato acreage, or a total
of 81, 200 acres, according to a
crop report issued here recently
by julius ii. Jacobson, federal
crop Inspector. Last years
acreage was $4,000.
p. l.. Neil, former well known
postoffice inspector, of Boise,
has been appointed by Governor
Davis to membership in his cab
met, as successor to the late J.
r. White, and will hereafter hold
the portfolio of state commits
sioner of public welfare.
Hugh Sproat, president of the
Idaho Woolgrowers' association,
in discussing the effect of the
present drive on the high price
of clothing, intimates that If the
manufacturers should get wool
for nothing the price of clothing
would still be high to the con-
sumer.
| Concerted action against pro-
moters of stock sales is to be
taken by state authorities, act
ing under the Idaho blue sky
laws. This announcement has
been made from Boise, following
the filing of complaint against
an oil company, operating at Ida
no Falls. Many arrests, it is
said, are scheduled to follow.
Information was filed in the
District Court of Latah county
this morning charging Gilbert
Swenson of Troy, Idaho, with a
statutory offense against his
sixteen year old daughter. The
defendant pleaded guilty to the
charge and the court set We'd
. nesday morning at 900 o'clock
for passing sentence.
At a meeting of stockholders
of the Lewiston Hotel company
Tuesday all arrangements were
completed for Immediately start
ing construction. Permanent
! directors were elected, these be-
;. ing A. E. Clarke, Frank Thomp-
E son, r. c. Beach, E. M. Ehrhardt
4 C. ]. Breier, William Thompson,
T. ]. H. Miller, S. Salsberg, Lloyd
f Harris, f. L. Afford, ]. E. Kin
e caid, L. A. White, M. A. Means,
n A. A. Seaborn and r. S. Erb.
e Wallace Curry, 6-year old son
= of Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Curry, of
: Reubens, died at the White hos
e pital Wednesday afternoon from
e burns received at the family
home at Reubens Sunday when
| the child threw a cup of gasoline
o into a stove containing fire. The
gasoline exploded, igniting the
q clothing of the child and when
J. the parents rushed to his rescue,
G he was so badly burned that lit
tie clothing remained on the
q body.
J. Felix Jovanovich, alleged |. W.
W.. who attempted to commit
" suicide for the second time
!, Thursday afternoon, was report
:, - ed to be much improved yester-
, day, Although he had severed
the right jugular and had lost
an immense amount of blood
Is good care and prompt infusion
= of two quarts of saline solution
'e quart at a time, have brought
& about such an Improvement thai
le his condition was reported very
= hopeful last night.
District court convened a
Lewiston Tuesday for a briei
e session, and interest centered il
n the suit against w. II. Stober
s. an employe of the Camas Prairie
W railroad, who was arrested las
'e November on a charge of Grimm
in al syndicalism. In moving dis
ID missal County Attorney Lee MI
in Carthy stated that at the tim'
e. of Stober's arrest on charges
k preferred by E. Parmalee, it wa'
in believed evidence would be found
at to warrant a trial but that sucf
f. evidence failed to materialize.