Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1921-03-18
news AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

one-fourth OF the automobile
owners of Nez Perce county
have not paid their 1921 license.
M. P. Campbell, photographer
of Nezperce, pleaded guilty of
taking pictures of a nude woman
and was given five months in
Jail and fined 5000 by Probate
Judge G. Fl. Ellis:
Jacob Bare of Idaho City was
mourned as dead for q years by
his brothers and sisters in Bar
neard, Missouri, while unknown
to them he lived and prospered,
as owner of a sheep ranch in the
Boise basin.
Ten thousand leaflets from
the United States treasury de-
partment describing government
security investments, were Mon
day mailed to the various librai'i-
ans mall parts of the state by
Ethel f. Redfield, state director
of thrift in Idaho.
Governor Davis Monday gave
his approval to the resolution
authorizing the appointment of
commission to direct the seces-
sion movement of the ten north
ern Idaho counties. This resolu-
tion was passed by the legisla-
ture.
Pierre Corbett, age IS, a we'll
known halfbreed Nez Perce
Indian, died Wednesday at his
home at Kooskia. He is surviv-
ed by five sons, two at Kooskia,
one at Orofino and two at PEN
dleton, Ore. Mrs. Corbett died
three years ago.
The body of John Regan, in
whose honor the legion boys of
Boise City named their post is
being shipped back to his native
country and will be buried be-
sides the remains of his father
who died only a short time ago.
Lieutenant Regan was among
the first in Boise to enlist.
Automobile dealers in the
state of Idaho are not allowed to
use their dealers license on SER
vice cars, pleasure cars or on
cars owned by their wives, is the
information which Robert o.
Jones, commissioner of law en-
forcement, is sending to every
dealer in the state of Idaho.
Before the largest crowd that
has ever witnessed a boxing
bout in Wallace-1200 people
Puggy Morton of Los Angeles
Saturday evening won a techni-
cal knockout over Kid Bauers of
Burke in a scheduled 12-romd
headliner when Bauers' seconds
threw in the sponge in the four
tn round.
Persistency in the report that
dead Chinese and babies have
been found in the drinking water
supply of the city of Boise, caus-
ed DR.. F. w. Almond, medical
; advisor of the department of
public welfare of that city to
: make the following statement
. Tuesday: ''The report that dead
|. Chinese and babies have been
found in the drinking water sup
; ply of Boise is absolutely false
without foundation and should
not be entertained by anyone.
More than 80 Mexicans left
Twin Falls Tuesday when moi
of about $50 persons sought
vengeance upon Francisco San.
0 chez, a Mexican, who on Sunday
afternoon is alleged to have stab
0 bed G. c. Ackerman, a travelling
representative of a Des Moines
0 Iowa, house. Alderman dice
0 Tuesday, after which the sheriff
0 spirited Sanchez out of town t.
escape the mob's fury. The mar
0 stabbed by the Mexican haG
|l never met or seen his assailan,
0 according to press reports.
k Attorney Lloyd A. Fem oi
d Kooskia has been appointed spet
y ial deputy and placed in chargs
s of the State Bank of Sites. Mr.
: Fem will have control of the as.
e sets of the bank and proceed tc
: complete the liquidation of the
assets of the institution. The
property of the bank was turned
J. over to the special deputy the
r first of the week by E. V. Beck
e bank examiner, who took charge
r of the institution when it was
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