Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1921-02-11
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items Of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft Of Our Readers.

Moscow is to have a Mormon
church which will give that city
Id churches of various domina-
tions.
John Quinlan, who at one time
was engaged in the mercantile
business at Kooskia, is now in
charge of a mercantile establish
ment at Cotton, Wash.
Nezperce was defeated Satur-
day evening for the second time
by the fast Culdesac team by a
score of IL to Id. The game
took place at Nezperce.
Suit for divorce was filed in
district court at Coeur d'Alene
by Miyoye Yamagouchi against
Bngi Yamagouchi on the ground
of nonsupport and desertion.
Both are Japanese.
I Mrs. Ruth Brooks, age 26,
wife of o. E. Brooks, rancher
residing near Standpoint died
Thursday from sleeping sickness
the first case of this disease in
that county. She was i'll about
six weeks.
Twenty-four candidates were
initiated by the Grangeville
camp of the Modern Woodmen,
Wednesday night. The largest
attendance in seven years was
recorded at the meeting. w. H.
Tyer, state deputy, was present.
A banquet was served.
One soul has made Pocatello
a city of the first class according
to the census figures of the
United States and a proclama-
tion issued by Governor Davis
Friday afternoon. That city
shows population of 1901,
which is one more than the num-
ber required by law.
Articles of incorporation of
the Kooskia Lumber and Shingle
company have been filed with
the county clerk at Grangeville,
with a capitalization of $4,000.
The incorporators are J. A.
McGhie, May McGhie and Z. M.
Griffith, all of Grangeville. Tn
mill at Koostkia will shortly
start up for the season.
A bill prohibiting the sale of
cigarettes in the state of Idaho
was introduced into the senate
of the sixteenth legislature We'd
nesday morning by Senator
Harding of Oneida county. It
also prohibits the use of cigaret-
tes, cigars or tobacco by minors
and provides penalty for viola
tion of any terms of the act.
James Marker, aged rs, and
father of 13 children died sud-
denly at his home in Charleston,
Tuesday evening, from heart
trouble. Mr.. Marker was one
of the first to take up a home
stead in the Nezperce country
when the reservation was
thrown open, he having sold his
old homestead few years ago
and removed to Charleston.
Frank Jones a farmer living
between Genesee and Moscow
recently returned from a hunt
ing trip on the North Fork
where he and his partner killed
cougars that will bring them
$3.50 in bounty money. Mr.. Jones
is veteran hunter and trapper
and estimates that one cougar
alone kills 72 deer in a season.
The bounty on a cougar is $50.
After an exciting day and
night chase through deep woods
and over portions of two counties
Deputy Sheriffs c. Summerfield
md Pat Malone of Moscow land
ed Charles Swecker and Andrew
Olson in jail on charge of man.
ufacturing liquor. A well equip
ped still and several gallons of
what is claimed by the officers
to be the best moonshine we
have ever seized" are held as
evidence.
Saturday Mrs. A. A. Powell,
living a short distance east of
Moscow, was trading in the
Farmers Union store of that
city when a woman approached
her, called her by name, and ask
, ed: Don't you know me?" Mrs.
, Powell admitted that she did
not when the stranger said: II
am your sister" She is Mrs.
Gunderson, who had come from
, Columbia Falls, Minn., to visit
her sister, whom she had not