Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1921-01-14
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items Of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

Expenses of the sixteenth ses-
sion of the Idaho legislature will
total more than $72, 900, it was
announced.
Because the sources of Boise
water are temporarily contami-
mated, citizens are advised to
boil their drinking water for Is
minutes.
The final presidential votes in
the state of Idaho is as follows:
Harding S8,321; Cox 46,576.
Eugene V. Debs received 38
votes in the state for president.
For alleged threats to kill his
brother, at Moscow, unless given
5000, Lester Berry must stand
trial in district court. Probate
Judge Adrain Nelson of Latah
county set bonds at $1,000, which
he was unable to furnish.
Bryan Dunning, son of Sheriff
w. F. Dunning of Bonner county
narrowly escaped death early
Saturday morning when the
large Nash auto he was driving
got beyond control, smashed
through the railing Of the county
bridge at Bonners Ferry and
plunged into the Kootenai river
about 40 feet below.
C. M. Butler of Sites, well
known Throughout this section,
died Monday in a Spokane hospi-
tai, where he had gone several
weeks ago for treatment. Mr..
Butler served six years as coun-
ty commissioner of Idaho coun-
ty, and also held the office of
U. S. Commissioner at Sites.
Albert III. Conner of Standpoint
speaker of the thirteenth Idaho
legislature and candidate for the
republican nomination for Unit
ed States senator at the Pocat-
tello convention in 1920 has been
appointed assistant attorn v
general to handle the legal af-
fairs of the public utilities COM
mission.
r. B. McKissick sold to the
Vollmer Clearwater company
Saturday 1000 bushels of wheat
from his ranch in the Tammany
section at $1.36. This makes
$4,000 bushels Mr.. McKissick
has marketed so far this season,
his crop being light this year on
account of smaller acreage than
usual having been seeded.
What is believed to be a low
record for the entire northwest
for fire losses during 1920 is
claimed by Moscow citizens.
Announcements is made today
that with a population of 1856,
as shown by the federal census
of 1920, the fire loss in Moscow
for 1920 was but 1924, or less
than SO cents per capita.
After an absence of two and
one half years and a trip around
the world Cyrus Hollingsworth,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. M. A. Hol-
lingsworth of Genessee, returned
home last Friday. Although
not yet over II years of age, his
experiences during his long alb
sence would parallel some of
. Robert Louis Stevenson's South
Sea island tales
Judge Scales heard the pro-
; ceeding brought by Leo McOarty
county attorney to annul the
marriage of Vida Olson, white,
} and Willie Fong, Chinese, and
the order of annulment was is
] sued. The marriage ceremony
of the couple occurred in Lewis
= ton on November 16, and upon
= the parents of the girl, Mr.. and
Y Mrs. Amel Olson, of Troy, being
5 advised, the father came to
4 Lewiston, secured the girl and
: brought the action for annul-
;. ment of the marriage.
s John Cummerford, aged 35,
C for 16 years an employee of the
Potlatch Mercantile company
store at Potlatch, was found shot
through the heart in the store
e at an early hour Monday morn
e ing. Before daylight GUNNER
= ford went to the residence of the
t man in charge of the store and
l. got his keys, saying he wanted
+ to get some medicine for his lit
S tie daughter, who has the whoop
8 ing cough. At $3.50 a. m,
e when the janitor opened the
a store, he heard groans and found
# Cummerford lying on the floor
in a pool of blood.