Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1921-12-16
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben.
eft of Our Readers.

Governors Mabey of Utah,
Davis of Idaho, Carey of Wyom-
ing, and Dixon of Montana, with
governors of 18 middle west and
southern states, were dinner
guests of President Harding at
the White House Thursday night
BY order of the state land
board, grazing fees on state
lands have been reduced from
10 cents to 2 cents an acre, the
new rate applying to leases now
In force. Lower values of land
prices and livestock We're given
as the reason for the reduction.
Budgets for 1922 for the high
er educational institutions as ad-
oped by the meeting just closed
of the state board of education
are invariably smaller than those
for 1921, though in most in
stances adequate, according to a
summary of the boards actions
given out by DR.. Enoch A Bryan,
commissioner of education.
Through Senator F. r. Good
ing the Idaho Wool Growers As
sociation Saturday addressed an
appeal to the interstate COM
merce commission to continue in
definitely the 20 per cent freight
reduction on livestock shipments
which went into effect Septem-
ber 20 as an emergency rate.
Unless the commission directs
otherwise the rate will end De-
cember 20.
Il did it myself" was the ad-
mission made Monday by Lang
Davis, Kooskia's painter and
paperhanger, who was found
early Saturday morning with a
wound in the side of his head
caused by a bullet from a 22-cal-
iber rifle. Davis made the ad-
mission during a brief flash of
consciousness, and said that
worry over domestic infelicities
had caused him to attempt to
take his own life.
Dorothy Evelyn, three year
old, and Esther June, one and a
half years old. the daughters Of
Mr.. and Mrs. X. Darrell Wooden,
were burned to death Wednesday
afternoon at the camp of the
Idaho Gold & Ruby Mining Co.,
at Leonia, Idaho, the Wooden
home having caught fire while
the mother was at a neighbors
house on an errand. The re-
mains were burned beyond re-
cognition.
Litigation between. the Fed
eral Mining and Smelling COM
pany and the Star Mining COM
pany for alleged trespass on Star
ores in the mines near Wallace,
Idaho, that has been under way
since 1917 was ended in a settle
ment made Friday of the Star
suit for an accounting in the fed
eral court at Occur d'Alene. The
settlement is for a $3.50 900 cash
payment to the Star on the Iron
Crown claim and a portion of the
Grouse claim of the Federal at
100000.
Personal property assessments
on bank stock of Latah county
banks were fixed, for the pur-
pose of taxation, at sc and two
thirds per cent of their actual
value, by action of the Latah
county commissioners, sitting as
a board of equalization on the
personal property tax roll, late
Thursday afternoon. This ac-
ton revises the system os as
sessing bank capital stock and
bank surplus and puts the
assessment of this property on
the same ratio as the other per-
sonal property of that county.
A fine of $40 was imposed in
probate court Thursday against
! Kirby L. Torrance, editor of the
American Falls Press, for refus-
ing to answer questions of the
; prosecuting attorney, relating to
/; the source of information sur.
, rounding the published story en-
titled "One Hundred Stills In
5 Power County" The fine came
; as a sequel to the inquisition o1
November % when Mr.. Torrance
was placed in the stand and re
: quired to testify concerning ths
1 story. He said he was unable Il
Il reveal the sources of his infor
: nation for reasons of persona
9 honor and business and newspap