Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1921-11-18
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben.
eft of Our Readers.

Disapproval of the issuance
of bonds to the amount of $685.
100000 for three separate meas
ures was expressed by the voters
of Lewiston in the bond election
Tuesday.
The contract for the surfacing
with crushed rock of 6.7 miles of
the Clearwater highway, known
as the Greer Hill section, in
Clearwater county, was given to
Bailey, Waters, Sly & Hutchin-
son of Pierce City. Their bid
was $500 per yard.
The Craig Mountain Lumber
company mill will resume opera
tions at Winchester Monday, aft
er having been closed down for
three months. The woods crews
are already at work and it is ex-
pected that a full force will be
employed at the mill.
Breaking through a fence at
a curve on. the Lewiston grade
Friday morning, an automobile
driven by an unknown party shot
off the grade and rolled 400 feet
down the hill before lodging on a
small bank and stopping. The
car was completely demolished.
The state of Idaho has spent
for all purposes from January l,
1921, to September 80, of the
same year $1,000, ,448.71, or more
than one million dollars a month.
This fact is disclosed in a study
of state expenditures made at
the direction of E. G.. Gallet,
state auditor.
Roy l.. Black, state attorney
general, has written an option
setting forth the steps by which
counties can obtain from the
state $1,000 with which to erect
memorials to those who lost
their lives in the World war.
The memorial act amended by
the last legislature carries an ap-
preparation OF $4,000.
Idaho's supreme court, con-
sisting of five members, was one
case further behind October l,
1921, than it was January | of
this year, according to a COM
parative statement compiled i'm
the clerks office for the first
nine months of 1921, and the
same period in 1920, when the
court consisted of three men,
bers.
One of he largest fines impos-
ed for violation of the state
game laws for many months was
collected Thursday from Frank
Periue at Boise who pleaded
guilty to the charge of having
five deer in his possession and
was assessed $500, or S100 for
each deer, according to a report
filed Saturday in the office of
the state game warden. Perjue
did not have a game license.
Tortured by pain and drag
ging his broken leg over the rug
ged slopes, Frank Spencer, odd
timer" and aged trapper in the
Payette national forest, half
crawled, half hobbled four whole
days from a peak near the head
of Goat creek, a tributary of the
Salmon, q distance of 13 miles in
the direction of Knox before he
was picked up, exhausted, by a
party of hunters Saturday noon.
Joseph Bengoechea, 62, four
years ago reputed TO be the rich
est man in Idaho, died Saturday
at Boise n poor man. He had
invested heavily in sheep and
lost all his holdings during the
recent slump in prices of sheep
and wool. He built fine hotel
and bank building in Mountain
Home and was interested in a
number of intermountain city
banks and in business interests
in Elko, New.
At least seven thousand fans
saw Coach Thomas Kellev's Uni
versity of Idaho football team
determine the football suprem-
acy of Idaho and Wyoming by
winning, 81 to 8, from the Uni
versity of Wyoming at Boise
Friday afternoon. These two
teams were made up for the
most part of men. who, three
wears ago, were fighting side by
side in a more dangerous "game"
and the contest came fittingly on