Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-04-23
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items Of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben.
eft of Our Readers.


bankers for Idaho will be held in
Moscow June 4 and s.
Lewiston's new proposed hotel
is now an assured fact having
raised $255, 900 for the building.
Claude Wing, fireman on a
Great Northern train, was seri-
ously injured recently when he
was struck by a mail crane while
leaning from the cab to watch
a hot box which had developed
on the train.
Governor Davis and approxi-
mately 100 other state officials
and employees, signed the over
all pledge. This makes nearly
800 signed in two days. The
supreme court is considering
signing in body.
DR.. S. A. Harrington of Plum
mer was given a preliminary
hearing Tuesday afternoon be-
fore Probate Judge Mitchell at
st. Maries on the charge of prac-
ticing medicine without state
license. He was bound over to
district court in the sum of $500
Rose Smith and r. T. Garrett,
pickets for the Cooks and Wait
ers' union at Boise, were arrest
ed Saturday upon the complaint
of the proprietor of the Silver
Grill, for flashing from a hand
mirror, the reflection of the sun
in patrons faces.
Stems & Carlson, who were
recently awarded the contract
for the construction of the Greer
grade state highway in the Clear
water district of Clearwater
county, are already on the work,
the crew numbering 80 men
while the force will be gradually
increased.
Barney Netler, resident of the
Lewiston county for many'years
is in serious condition at the
White hospital as a result of
poisoning by olives eaten in a
Lewiston restaurant. Mr.. Net
Ter was seized with cramps
shortly after eating the olives
and was in a critical condition
when taken to the hospital.
! Four of the five teachers of
the Reubens schools are quaran-
tined for measles. Many of the
pupils have been exposed and an
epidemic of the disease is feared
The four teachers referred to oc-
cupy a teacherage and only one
of them-Miss Rongsted-came
down with the disease and is
quite i'll.
An extensive survey made tC
determine the supply of farm
labor indicates that the presen,
, supply is only 3 per cent less
than year ago. In several
counties reporters indicate laboi
is being attracted to saw mills
factories and public and private
q construction by the shorter
| hours and better checks.
y Poison bait for killing grount
: squirrels no longer is mixed by
n the pound in Idaho, but by thu
( ton, according to the monthly
report of w. E. Crouch, roden'
control leader of the university
}. extension division, who repor
: the mixing of nearly % tons O
f oats with strychnine and sac
e charine last month.
Il A storm of protest from or
: ganized labor in Idaho has beel
:, aroused by the announcement
s that Secretary of Labor Wilson
y has suspended the immigration
h laws to admit Canadian am
l. Mexican laborers for the exclus
e i've purpose of cultivating, an
harvesting the beet crop in Co
orado, Wyoming, Utah, 1dah
and Nebraska.
l. New and stringent rules pu
y out by State Game Warden Ott
= M. Jones, require all hunters an
n fishermen to carry their license
r. with them or to chance arres
l. for hunting or fishing withor
lie a license. All deputies hay
is been instructed to ignore tn
le wellworn excuse: 81 left m
ID license at home," and the licen'
s. and gun or rod must stick +