Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1921-05-20
news AROUND
THE STATE
Items Of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

Inc OniO Matcn cOmpanyS
drive of approximately 5000, 900
feet of white pine logs will start
this week, when the rear of the
Shoshone Lumber company's
drive will have reached Joki, ID
miles above Enaville on the
North Fork river.
Burley high school Wednes-
day won the state high school
track meet at Moscow by an
nexing 42Ia points. Kellogg took
second place with 14Is Lewiston
third, 13; Moscow fourth, 12lh:
Boise, fifth. 12. Other teams
were close behind.
The plant, equipment, real
estate. good will and patents of
the Idaho National. Harvester
company were sold at auction
Saturday to Jerome j. Day, the
heaviest stockholder, for $685.
600. The plant was badly in
volved and the money received
from the sale viii pay off all
debts.
Samuel Guy, one of the best
known residents of the Pierce
City section. was discovered dead
in his cabin Sunday. death pre-
sumably having resulted from
heart disease. Mr.. Guy was
about his premises in the MORN
ing and did not complain of feel
ing badly, although he had not
enjoyed the best of health for
some time.
More than 100 signatures to a
petition asking the passage of
the Capper law prohibiting
gambling in grain futures have
been obtained at Moscow. The
petition was signed by business
men, farmers and citizens gen.
orally, few of those to whom it
was presented refusing to sign.
The petition will be sent to the
Idaho congressional delegation
with a request that they work
unitedly for its passage.
A large number of Nezperce
people went down to the Kamiah
grade Saturday, where they met
about an equal number of Kam-
iah people, and the two crews
spent the day JIM road construc-
tion. The Kamiah people COM
menced at the bottom and work.
ed up and the Nezperce crew
began at the top of the grade and
worked down, the two forces
meeting at noon. The work was
all donated.
Twenty-Five thousand, two
hundred and thirty-eight of
ldaho's AZ, ,106 farms are at pre-
sent under irrigation, according
to late bulletin issued from the
United States department of
commerce, at Washington. This
report includes data for the year
1920. This, the report shows,
is go per cent of the farms,
which, as a whole, must be ir-
rigated to produce crops. The
acreage in irrigated lands
amounts to AT of the land area
of the state.
Extradition papers for the re-
turn of Mrs. Lydia Southland of
Twin Falls, arrested Thursday in
Honolulu charged with the nur-
der of her fourth husband,
Edward F. Meyer, were deliver
ed by Sheriff e. r. Sherman up
on his return from Boise Satur-
day evening to Mrs. V. II. Orms-
by, of Twin Falls, and 45 minutes
later she was on board train
bound via Ogden for San Franci-
SEQ to Join her husband, Deputy
Sheriff Ormsby, and accompany
him to Hiwaii. returning with
the alleged murderess in her
! charge.
Arthur Fay, state organizer
for the American Legion, was
stabbed at Pocatello Thursday
morning by an unknown radical
} after refusing to leave town
after receiving a warning from
an alleged radical source. FAY
! was returning from the depot,
+, when he passed by an alley, He
E heard a movement in the alley
and turning quickly, met a man
with a knife in his hand, who
made a swift stroke at him.
] Fay received a nasty, long cut
r along the left shoulder. Fay
e started for the man and pursued
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