Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1921-08-19
news AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Benz
eft Of Our Readers.

A granary and $50 sacks Of
grain on the R. s. Curless place,
four miles northeast of Reubens
were Destroyed by fire, thought
to have been started by a spark
from the steam tractor which
was running the separator.
The State of Idaho expects to
dispose of its $4,000, 900 bond is
sue voted by the state legislature
last winter. A party of promi-
rent financiers from the east are
at the present time making a
tour of the state with the idea
of getting first hand informa-
ton.
Lead mines in the Occur d
Alenes which have been operat-
ing under difficulties for several
months, probably will take on a
new ease of life because freight
rates on pig lead from Brawley,
Idaho, to the Atlantic seaboard
will be reduced from $22 to $16.-
so a ton.
Idaho will have car lotemove-
ment of approximately 800 cars
of apples or an apple crop of 3d.
$4,000 bushels while eastern
states will have a short crop this
year, according to a special APP
pie report issued Wednesday by
Julius ii. Jacobson, federal agl'i-
cultural statistician Of the Idaho
crop reporting service.
Beneath a wooden culvert,
about four miles up the Lewis
ton Hill highway, smashed open
and chiseled and battered almost
beyond recognition, Ira Phillips,
a rancher on the Lewiston Hill,
found the safe which, containing
about $120 and some papers was
carried bodily out of the Para
mount theater on the night of
July 18th at Lewiston.
Petitions are in circulation in
Boise city to recall Mayor
Eugene B. Sherman, elected last
spring. Those back of the petit
tion claim they have the sigma
lures of some 400 people. Over
100 are required before the re-
call can become effective. Those
who claim to he familiar with
the situation assert that the re-
call cannot possibly become ef-
fective and that even ii the ie-
quired number of petitions are
secured another election would
only result in the reelection of
Mayor Sherman.
President George E. Erb, of
the public utilities commission
and Leonard Way, chief of that
body's transportation depart
ment, left for Washington, D. c.,
to represent Idaho and her ship
ping interests at a general hear
ing of hay and grant freigh
rates before the interstate CON-
merce commission. The hear
ing, which is to open on August
Is, was called on the initiative
of the interstate commerce COM
mission and will deal with the
economic situation in every part
of the United States as affected
by prevailing freight rates on
hay and grain.
DR.. Frank E. Wood, dentist.
who until a few years ago resid-
ed in Grangeville, played a stel-
lar role in Seattle Monday, when
he identified, by means of dental
work, the body of a woman
found in a trunk taken from
Union bay, as that of Mrs. Kate
Mahoney, missing since April
Is. The woman's body had been
eaten by quicklime, and was be-
yond recognition. DIR. Wood
positively identified dental work
in the woman's mouth as work
he had done for Mrs. Mahoney.
DR.. Wood, since his departure
from Grangeville, has been prac-
ticing dentistry in Seattle.
In an opinion handed down by
Dean Driscoll, first assistant at
torney general of Idaho, at
Roisa IL 10 bald fhat livaSfo~k
kept in a county less than ten
days is not taxable as migratory
stock in that county. In the
opinion, Mr.. Driscoll quotes the
Idaho statutes defining the term
migratory livestock" in which
it is stated that the term refers
to "such livestock as is kept,
driven or pastured or suffered to
range or Craze for periods of not
less than ten days in more than
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