Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1921-04-08
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.


James Upton one of the oldest
settlers in Idaho county passed
away at his home in Whitebird
last Saturday.
Another story is to be added
to the Bollinger Hotel at Lewis
ton making the hotel a four story
structure.
Prof. Fred Rantz, principal of
the Nezperce school was selected
by the Nezperce school board as
their superintendent for the
year 1922.
Vigorous protest will be made
by the chambers of commerce of
Moscow and Lewiston over the
proposed increase in passenger
fares between Spokane and
Lewiston.
One of the largest crowds that
ever gathered in Moscow was
present at the Inauguration of
DR.. A. II. Upham as president of
the University of Idaho. 62 col
leges and universities being re-
presented.
Approximately 100000 young
trees, mainly for shade and orna-
mental purposes, will be sent to
people of the state this year
from the university, Dean F. G.
Miller, head of the school of
forestry, estimated today.
The new administration build
ing at the Lewiston State Nor
NAL school, costing $150,000 in
dependent of furnishings, will be
completed and utilized for the
closing exercises of the present
session of the institution in June.
The Northern Idaho News,
owned by the Bonner Publishing
company, was turned over to
Charles E. Hicks on a four-year
lease. Mr.. Hicks goes to Sand
point from Moscow, but he has
also been a publisher of weekly
papers in Oregon.
The home of Probate Judge
Ellis and its entire contents was
destroyed by fire at Nezperce.
No one had been in the house for
three days, the family having
been in the country. According
to reports the fire started from
some mysterious source and also
appears to be spite work.
Blowing the entire top and
back of his head off with soft
nozed Savage bullet fired from a
38-caliber Winchester rifle, Ches
ter Baker, age "a, committed
suicide at the home of his cousin
Isham Morgan, a bachelor farm
er on Texas Ridge six miles from
kendrick, Sunday evening.
A telegram was dispatched to
Tex Rickard at New York City
Saturday by J. H. Sexsmith,
wealthy Spokane lumberman,
and owner of the Alan racetract
near Coeur'dAlene in northern
Idaho, offering to outbid by
$4,000 any offer that may be
received for the Dempsey Carp
enter championship fight.
The body of Corporal Orville
Martin arrived in Lewiston Sat
urday from France. Corporal
Martin, son of Z. II. Martin of
Winchester, was a member of
battery ID, Sixth field artillery,
and died July %, 1918, from
wounds received in action. The
funeral was held at Lewiston
from the Vassar chapel.
An effort to have the license
to practice medicine in Idaho is
sued to DR.. c. X. Henkle of Troy,
Cancelled for "unprofessional and
dishonorable conduct" is being
made by John Nisbet, prosecut-
ing attorney of Latah county,
according to word received from
Boise, where the papers have
been filed with the secretary of
state.
An architect from Marquette.
Michigan. has been at Standpoint
for several days loading ID car
loads of selected spruce, larch
and black pine logs for shipment
to summer resort in Michigan
where a New York banker will
build a half million dollar log
cabin. The architect came to the
Inland Empire for the material
because in this section, as he
says, "can be found the best
grained, firmest and straightest
trees i'm the entire United States.