Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1921-12-09
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben.
eft of Our Readers.

VI. ID. 1ultSple dIlQ W1e Ol
Lewiston brought suit against
AL Menard, proprietor of a stage
line between Lewiston and Spo-
kane, In Judge Hattabaugh's
court in Lewiston, for the loss of
suitcase. They were awarded
judgment of $35 and costs.
Captain Ephriam w. Baugh-
man, age SO, veteran steamboat
captain of the northwest, died
Monday at Moscow. Captain
Baughman crossed the plains
with an OK team, arriving in
California in 1850. The follow
ing year he went to Portland and
soon after began his career as
boatman on the Oregon rivers.
Idaho Sensation" 970-
pound purebred Hereford steer
calf owned by the agricultural
college of the University of
Idaho, won second place in COM
petition with approximately 400
fat steers at the International
Livestock show, recently held in
Chicago, Dean e. j. Iddings of
the college reported on his re-
turn to Idaho.
The third party movement,
Lacked by the committee of 48"
is under way in Idaho. Leaders
in the movement predict the
liberals will have a full congress
sional and state ticket in the
field for the next state election
and that in four years the third
party will hav: gathered under
its wings practically all of the
progressives in the republican
and democratic parties as well as
the nonpartisans.
Robert Neil Irving" of Ru-
pert, left halfhack of the Univer-
sity of Idaho eleven, il to be the
first name engraved on the
James e. West trophy shield.
This was the decision reached
unanimously by members of the
varsity football squad as a re-
cognition of Irving as "the men,
Der of the squad giving the
greatest service, help and in
spiration during the season to
the team"
After 18 months delay, due to
adverse market conditions, the
board of Independent school dist
rict No. l, Standpoint. has sold
one hundred forty thousand dol
lars worth of bonds jointly to
the Bonner county National
bank of Standpoint and the Spok-
ane & Eastern Trust company of
Spokane. The bid was par, plus
800 premium, the bidders to
stand the expense of printing
the bonds.
Miles Cannon, state commits
sioner of agriculture, charges
that eastern fruit commission
men are holding cash belonging
to Idaho fruit men to east finan-
cial conditions in the east. The
allegation is made in connection
with the case of George Myers
of Middleton, a fruitgrower in
the southwestern part of the
state. He sold his fruit but so
far has been unable to recover
the amount commission men
agreed to pay.
| Idaho may inflict the death
penalty for first degree murder
or the jury may punish the Of
fender by Imprisonment in the
state prison for life, writes Roy
l.. Black, attorney general, in
answer to a query from M. A.
Rauhoff of Blue Island, Ill. Mr..
Rauhoff asks whether or not
Idaho has abolished capital pun
ishment. The statute provides
both forms of punishment and
the jury maydecide which shall
be inflicted.
Counsel for Mrs. Southland,
Guthrie. Mills & Hicks, Thurs
day filed application for a new
trial in the district court at Twin
Falls. The application consists
of 55 typewriter pages, and al
leges misinterpretation of law
by the court, especially with res
pect to admission of testimony
relating to the deaths of Mrs.
Southard's brother-in-law. Ed
ward Dooley, and her husbands,
McHaffie and Lewis. The SUI
nreme court will he asked to re-
view the case if the application
for a nnw trial 10 danind Eufhrio