Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1921-09-30
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items Of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben.
eft of Our Readers.

received Saturday direct from
Scotland by Sam Stoddard, herd
sman in charge of the purebred
stock on the university farm,
MI. Stoddard has four dogs that
he uses in handling stock.
Burton l.. French, Idaho's
representative in congress from
the first district, had the honor
ary degree of LII. ID. conferred
upon him by the university of
Idaho at the opening exercises
of that institution Tuesday.
At a meeting of the Clearwat-
er Highway district commission
ers, held on the 18th at Sites,
the levy was fixed for the CON-.
ing year at Ga cents on each
$100 of assessed valuation. This
is a cut of So cents from last
years levy.
The state board of pardons at
its next meeting, October 5. will
be asked to consider the case of
Robert j. Wadsworth, a former
soldier and patient of the United
States public health hospital at
Boise who has been sentenced to
serve from one to Ia years for
forgery.
Eugene M. Booth has been
awarded the contract for excava-
tion work for the new Lewiston
hotel. Equipment for the work
is now being assembled, and OPP
erations will begin October 1.
Mr.. Booth hopes to have the ex-
cavation work completed by Oct
ober Is.
Two fatal accidents occurred
at st. Maries Saturday. Kanute
Eide. bridge carpenter, 35
years old, was struck and killed
by a travelling crane. George
Thornton, 80 years old, blew the
top of his head off while clean
ing a shotgun. The coroner
held both deaths were accident
al.
Dave Matthews of Moscow
formerly a member of the Spok-
ane Aviation company. while
making a flight at Kamiah with
Ernest A. Erb of Greer as a pas
senger, Friday, hit an electric
light pole, which resulted in Mr..
Erb receiving severe cuts about
the eyes and forehead. The mach
inc was demolised. Both victims
are recovering.
For a cost of $4,000 we cam
not afford to have a mile of this
highway in the state of WASH
ington," said Governor ID. w.
Davis of Idaho, in discussing the
north and south highway at the
meeting of the Moscow Chamber
of Commerce. He expressed
himself in favor of making the
north and south highway an all
Idaho road.
Speedy western Justice was
. handed out in a unique manner
, at Idaho Falls Morday when
= District Judge James G. Gwinn
, held court in the smoking car of
a moving railway train to sent
ence a liquor law violater to a
, point where the judge was to
board. Court was called in the
| moving car and four miles farth-
Ell on the sheriff and his prison.
er left the train. The judge gave
him two months and fine of
500.
Lewis county is well repaid for
, her expense and labor in prepar-
! ing and putting on an exhibit in
the farm products display at the
! lewiston Charleston fair. She
was given third place in the list
of counties entered, Kootenai
Y winning first and Walla Walla
I second, and she might have
. ranked still higher, but she did
: not have the quantity nor var
y iety of display made by the two
; counties gaining the higher
y awards.
= After September 20, the Pot
: latch Lumber company announ-
y ces, the barns at Comp 6, Helmer
will be filled with logging horses
which are to be offered for sale
at $50 a head, says the Latah
e Press. These horses weigh from
l. 1400 to 1700 pounds each. The
rs company states that if business
d revives it will buy again, and
IS may buy the same horses back
e Cash or bankable notes at SIX
It per cent will be required of pur.
chasers.