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

Border Days at Grangeville
will this year be staged on Sep
tember %, 20, 80. :
The Lewiston public schools
opened Monday with an enroll
ment of 1900. A force of so
teachers is employed to teach the
1900 students.
The village board of Orofino
has awarded a contract for
$15,22S to A. G. Kester of Lewis
ton for building about two miles
of cement sidewalks curbs, and
crosswalks, his bid being 25
cents a square foot.
Ernest Wienns, cashier of the
Union State Bank at Nezperce
has resigned his position to take
effect Immediately. +. b. Ty-
Ter. for some time connected
with this same institution has
been named as his successor.
The pouch containing all the
Boise land office returns for the
month of December, 1919, which
was lost in transit to Washing
ton, d. C.,almost two years ago
is reported found. The supposed
loss of these papers has caused a
great deal of worry to settlers
and persons filing on United
States lands.
Enroute from his home to
Wallace by auto stage. Junior"
McRae age Ia, son of A. p. Nc
Rae a pioneer of Mullan, Ida met
almost instant death Monday.
He was leaning backward out of
the car and his head came i'm con-
tact with a telephone pole at
narrow part of the road, just
outside the city limits. His scull
was fractured.
Acceptance by the Idaho state
bureau of highways of the
twenty miles of earth road on
the North and South highway
in the Salmon river canyon be-
tween Whitebird and New Mead
ows is announced by d. p. Olson,
director. Mr.. Olson recently Az
rived in Boise from an inspection
trip of the newly contiucted
highway wrok. Acceptance of
the work was also made by eng
ineers of the federal bureau of
public roads.
Hon. Evan Evans. newly-ap-
pointed U. S. collector of inter-
nal revenue for the district of
Idaho, has returned to his home
in Grangeville from southern
California. Mr.. Evans is ac-
companied by his daughter Mrs.
May Bleth. Enroute home, Mr..
Evans stopped in Portland, Ore.
He will depart shortly for Boise.
where he will assume charge of
the internal revenue office about
September Is, succeeding Lewis
Williams as collector.
For the first time i'm the his
tory of Idaho Jurisprudence and
so far as is known for the first
, time in. the history of the United
: States, the five members of the
: Idaho supreme court appeared
, as citizens before the state par
= don board Friday morning to re-
commend clemency for Vicente
Ramirez, conviced first degree
D murderer under sentence to be
\ hanged. Idaho's supreme court
in an opinion handed down May
{ rs, 1921, affirmed unanimously
: the conviction and sentence of
Ramirez, entered October 80,
I 1917, at Rexburg for the mur-
= der of Frank Biscarra another
p Mexican.
= While there is apparent need
e for greater reclamation develop
ment in the west, Secretary OF
e the Interior Albert Bacon Fall
|. who reached Boise Saturday tc
e start his tour of inspection OF
e Idaho government irrigation
: projects, finds himself confront.
Il ed with serious opposition il
Y congress to secure the necessary
II funds to do the work. He made
g this clear when interviewed up
S. ON his arrival. While he coulC
not state at that time what re
concentrations will be made Il
congress with regard to appro
A priations for western reclama
d tion projects, he said he is max
\. ing a personal, first hand stud.
4 of conditions as they actual,
E. exist and will be in a position OF
D. the completion of his trip d