Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1921-08-05
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben:
eft Of Our Readers.

II any ldrfner IlnQS n new
weed on his place or any poison
GUS or unsual plant, the depart
ment of botany of the university
will be glad to tell him, free of
charge, what it is if he will send
a specimen for Identification.
BY cool headed teamwork and
remarkable courage, Governor
D. w. Davis and J. N. Apgar,
deputy game warden of Stanley
Basin, saved Otto NJ. Jones, state
game warden, from drowning in
Reddish lake on Saturday, July
23rd near Stanley, Idaho.
Judge Wallace N. Scales of the
Tenth judicial district court den-
led motion of the defense for a
new trial in the case of Il. S.
Barton against A. S. Hardy and
A. N. Dyer, executors of the
estate of the late Wallace Scott.
Barton sued for $4,000 last
May and was awarded $4,000.
Announcement has been made
that Lewiston's first annual
water fete will be held August
26 and 27. 1t is proposed to in
clude every branch of water
sports and they will be open to
amateurs only. Arrangements
are being made to bring SWIM
mers from Spokane and Coeur
d'Alene for exhibition features.
Ross X. Parker, a rancher
at Idaho Falls, was killed by
lightning when it struck shovel
he was carrying over his shoul-
der and passed through the
length of his body. When Parker
failed to return home neighbors
formed a posse and found his
body in a wheat field where he
had been irr'igating.
A coroner's jury at Couer d.
Alene reached verdict that the
unidentified man, whose body
was discovered in about four
feet of water in Casco bay OH
Lake Occur d'Alene, came TO his
death at the hands of unknown
assailants. The man had been
shot in the head and his body
weighed down with sacks con-
tanning bricks.
The Buffalo hump area, 3d.
$50 acres in the heart of the
Nez Perce national forest, is
again part of the forest. 1t
was segregated in 1905 on ap-
plicatiOn of mining men. The
bill providing for the change has
passed both houses of congress
on petition of stockmen asking
that the area be included in the
forest.
Application for a charter for
new bank at Orofino has been
filed with J. G.. Fralick, state
bank commissioner, at Boise.
The capital stock will be $4,000,
fully paid with a surplus of
$4,000. The stock has been
oversubscribed by 65 TO 10 of
the substantial farmers of Clear
water county and Orofino busi-
ness men.
James Penman of Elk City
and Banks, Ore, has sold the
Homestake gold mine, in the
Orogrande mining district, to
the Homestake Gold Mining Co.,
for S25, 900. Final payment on
the property was made this week
and two mining deeds, covering
four unpatented and two patent
ed claims, were filed in the office
of Henry Telcher, county record
er of Idaho county.
The First State Bank of Bon
ners Ferry was robbed Thursday
by two men who took all the cur
rency in the safe and then locked
Assistant Cashier Hansen and
Mrs. Mae Stewart, bookkeeper,
in the safety deposit vault, and
made their getaway without be-
ing noticed. The robbers were
later captured by posse headed
by the sheriff. About $4,000 in
currency and $4,000 in Liberty
bonds were taken.
Thought to have been started
by ashes dropped from the
steam tractor which was runn-
ing the separator, fire destoyed
$50 sacks of grain, a large straw
stack ard burned 20 acres of
stubble threatening $50 addition
al sacks which were in the sack
pile at the Boxarth ranch about