Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1921-11-25
NEWS AROUND.
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

The University of Idaho de-
feated Gonzaga university 6 to 0
at Spokane, November 18th in
hard fought football game.
Idaho orchardists are becom-
ing alarmed over the destruction
of trees by field mice and many
inquiries for information on how
to combat this pest are being re-
ceived at the state department of
agriculture.
Times may be hard in some
places from a financial stand
point, but not so at Genesee,
where the ladies of the Catholic
church recently held q bazaar,
from which they realized S700
says the Genesee News.
Males of Idaho outnumbered
females by 35,972, according to
the report of the federated CEN
sus for 1920. The report, just
made public, gives 233,919 as the
male population of the state and
197,947 as the number of fe-
males.
L. N. Swift, president of the
Farmers State Bank, at Nep-
perce, for the past Is years has
resigned his position with that :
institution and departed for
Berkley, California to make his
future home. c. w. Kettrnan,
cashier of the same institution
has been appointed as Mr..
Swift's successor.
Fem Batty, formerly of
Grangeville but now making his
home at Los Angeles, California
lost a purse containing two dia-
mond rings, valued at $1,000,
travellers checks in the sum of
5000 and some currency, in Lew
iston. He has offered reward
of $3.50 for the return of the
purse.
Commissioners of the Central
highway district at Craigmont
are asking for bids for the sale
of $4,000 worth of highway
bonds, the remaining portion of
the $150,000 issue authorized
March |, 1921. They are offer
ed in denominations of $1,000
each and bear interest at 6 per
cent, payable semi-annually.
Bids will be opened December 10.
Announcement of the last
warrant call against the high
way fund was made Thursday
by d. F. Banks, state treasurer.
The amount of the call is $712,-
554.38 and is set for November
28. On that day all warrants
up to and including No. 80, ,495
will be paid at the office of the
treasurer. From that date the
highway fund will be on a cash
basis.
Damages of $4,000 were
awarded Chatterton & Sons, a
Michigan corporation, against
the Mark P. Miller Milling COM
pany of Moscow by a jury in the
federal court. Chatterton &
Sons asked $4,000 damages as the
result of the Moscow company's
breach of contract in failing to
provide a car of beans of the
standard prescribed in the con-
tract.
A fathers search for his son
after the pair, on a hunting trip,
became separated in the wild
region along Bear creek, north of
Colburn, Idaho, ended Saturday
noon when the father, Charles
Robinson, after tramping the
region for more than three days
without food, discovered the boy,
Francis, unconscious, a few
minutes before the latter died of
hunger and exposure.
The Nez Perce Trading COM
pany at Nezperce Friday made
an assignment to its creditors,
following a conference with per-
sons holding the largest claims
at Lewiston. The action is the
result of alleged speculations of
Ernst Wienss, former cashier of
the Union State bank, who made
spectacular escape recently at
Spokane from Sheriff w. j.
Smith of Lewis county. Wienss
who organized the trading COM
pany and was manager for some
, time, is alleged to have used the
| credit of the concern to obtain
: money for his private use. The
: assets are reported at Sal, 900
and liabilities at $4,000.