Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1921-03-25
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

Highway up the South Fork of
the Clearwater river, from
Rocky point to the Castle creek
ranger station, now is 80 percent
complete. The job will be fin
ished by April IL, it said.
The Hercules and the Tama-
rack and Custer, two of the big
gest silver-lead mines in the Ida
no Occur d'Alenes, closed down
Sunday, letting out about TOO
men. Metal market conditions
are said to be the cause of the
action.
briggs high school won the
basketball championship of the
state 80 to ID by defeating Boise
high school players in the final
game of the University of Idaho
annual interscholastic basketball
tournament Friday night at
Moscow.
Matt Dowd was acquitted by a
jury in district court at Lewis
ton Thursday on a statutory
charge after less than an hours
deliberation. The courtroom
was crowded with curious spec
tators. Dowd for many years
was prominent in business there.
w. II. Ball, 26, a Pauline farm
er residing near American Falls
after shooting and slightly
wounding F. Blant, another
farmer, on the highway near
Pauline, barricaded himself in
his cabin and shot three other
men of a posse which besieged
him.
Governor Davis and Reclama-
ton Commissioner Swendsen
left Saturday for Washington to
assist western senators and re-
representatives. in drafting the
new reclamation bill to be pre-
sented at the special session of
congress which opens on April
IL.
Grangeville turned out en-
masse Friday evening to witness
the basketball contest between
the fat Elks and the lean Elks
of Grangeville, the event having
been arranged as a benefit for
the high school basketball team
fund. The Fats" won the
game by score of 7 to 6, after
thrilling play.
A quarter of a million dollars,
representing one-tenth of a fed
eral appropriation of two and
one-half millions, has been OBJ
tanned for the farmers in the
drought stricken areas of Idaho,
for the purchase of seed with
which to start another crop.
The money will be available with
in the next 10 days.
Candidates for third grade
teachers certificates in Idaho
will not be permitted to teach in
the fall of 1921 unless they pass
the preliminary examinations to
be held in all the counties on
June 3 and a. This informa-
tion was contained in a state
ment made Saturday by DR.. f.
A Bryan, state commissioner of
education.
p. l.. Neil, commissioner of
public welfare, was i'm Orofino
two or three days the later part
of the week from Boise taking q
preliminary survey of the i'm.
provements to be made during
} the summer at the North Idaho
sanitarium, the late Legislature
making an appropriation OF
$105, 900 for this purpose. Ar
J additional ward is to be built, 9
larger barn erected and the irf.i
CATION facilities extended to COW
er the land under cultivation OF
the south side of the Clearwater
river.
, Walter Kline, one of the few
. remaining prospectors of tn,
early days of Idaho, has JUS
, been admitted to the county
farm, thing he has dreaded
for many years. The old man
, who had spent more than 81
years "in the hills" seeking gold
aways optimistic, always certain
that this year ] will strike i
: rich," was taken to Moscow from
Kendrick by Sheriff Wood. AL
most 80 years old, and nearly
blind, he is unable to take carS
r of himself and for the last thret
t years has made his home witt
: Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Ivy, pro
5 prietors of a hotel at Kendrick