Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1921-04-22
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben.
eft of Our Readers.

The County Commissioners of
Lewis County have again renew
ed a contract with C. Fl. Behnke,
as county farm agent for the
coming year.
What is said to be the largest
still ever captured in Idaho since
the prohibition law went into
effect was seized at Standpoint
Friday by F. M. Breshears, head
of the state constabulary.
The Craigmont Lumber COM
pany, which resumed operations
a few weeks ago with a limited
force after being shut down for
several weeks, announce that on
April 25 they will put 100 addi-
tional men to work in the camps
and by May 2 they expect to be
running six days in the week.
John klinger, a stranger ap-
parently about 65 years of age,
committed suicide at Bonners
Ferry Saturday afternoon when
he lay down on one of the pass
ing tracks of the Great Northern
with his neck resting on the rail,
and permitted an outgoing
freight train to decapitate him.
He had about $40 in currency
and silver and a pass book on a
Vancouver, Wash, bank in the
name of John Langworth.
The Kettenbach company, F.
w. Kettenbach and w. F. Ket-
tenbach, have sold to the Clear
water timber company 10000
acres of timber land in the Clear
water district. Announcement
of the sale was confirmed upon
the return of the Messrs. Ketten-
bach from Spokane, where the
negotiations were concluded FRI
day. No specific statement was
made as to price but is is UNDER
stood the consideration was ap-
proximately $500, 900. The hold
ings were unencumbered and
embrace some of the choicest
timber in the big Clearwater
belt.
The women of Mullan have
actively entered politics by plac-
ing q ticket in the field for the
coming village election to be held
on April SO. The women held a
massmeeting and nominated the
following, who will run on the
independent ticket. Mrs. B. F.
Tolbert, Mrs. Archie Gillis, Mrs.
T. d. Ammo, Mrs. c. w. Ingram
and Mrs. William Johnson. Only
one man was present at the
meeting. He offered his SER
vices as chairman of the meeting
but was informed that his assist
ance would not be required. He
took his hat and quietly depart
ed.
AS the result of burns sustain
ed last Friday at the roundhouse
in East Lewiston, when his jum-
per coat and gloves caught fire
when he lighted his torch in the
firebox of his engine, jefferson
. Cornett. one of the best-known
railroad engineers of the inland
empire, died at 1890 o'clock
Saturday noon at the st. Joseph
. hospital. The jumper and gloves
had been washed in gasoline and
this was the cause of the acci-
dent. Fellow employees of the
railroad company hurried the
! suffering man to the hospital
, and for a period it was thought
he would recover.
The Idaho supreme court has
affirmed the decision of District
: Judge Wallace N. Scales uphold
ing the validity of the Nezperce
f; county bond issue of $400, 900
, which was authorized in October
1919, for the construction of
highways and bridges in that
} county. The case was submitted
. to the higher court on briefs
! several weeks ago. The princi-
/ pal contention raised against the
7 validity of the issue was that in
: stead of the notices of election
E specifying the particular voting
!. place in some precincts, the term
/ was used usual voting place, "
4 that in some precincts notices
: were not posted within the time
: required and in some precincts
no notices were posted. 1t was
set out on the contrary that
notice by publication had been