Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1921-02-04
news AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben.
eft of Our Readers.

The Vollmer mill at Kendrick,
Idaho is again operating with q
day and night shift.
The Idaho Leader official
paper in Idaho for the nonpartis-
an league has suspended publica-
tion. The paper has been pub
lished at Boise for almost three
years.
The Reliable Transportation
company is the name of freight
handling organization now MAX
ing preparations to establish a
truck line between Lewiston and
Spokane.
Standpoint and Bonners Ferry
are fathering a movement which
has for its purpose the making
of new state out of northern
Idaho and easern Washington
with Spokane as the capital.
Sure would make some state.
A meeting is to be held at
Lewiston Saturday for the pur-
pose of organizing a baseball
league, comprising towns of the
Lewiston and prairie points.
Among those interested in the
movement at this time are: Lew
s t on, Nezperce, Grangeville,
Craigmont, Winchester, Union
town, Kamiah and Kooskia.
Charles f. Elmer, state COM
missioner of public investments
and member of Governor Davis
cabinet in the state commission
form of government, dropped
dead in front of st. Johns cathe-
dral at Boise Saturday morning
while going from his home to the
state house to work. Heart
trouble was the cause of his sud-
den passing away.
/ Four suitcases, filled with OPT
um with valuation of approx
mately $4,000, were seized at
Nampa Tuesday. This in one of
the largest hauls of contraband
drugs ever made in the state and
is believed to be the work of a
band of Chinese who are smug-
Cling opiate drugs across the
Mexican border. The opium was
taken from two Chinese.
Asking $25, 900 damages, Miss
Lillian High charges that Fay l.
Anderson, son of wealthy par
ents, pioneers of Latah county,
is the father of her child,
almost 2 years old, in a trial
that began at Moscow behind
closed doors. The girl, who was
employed as a domestic in the
home of Anderson's parents,
claims that she was wronged in
April 1918. under protestations
of love and promise of marriage"
After spending 60 years of his
life in the Pierce City mining
camp, located on Orofino creek
almost directly east of the town
of Orofino, Wah Lee, an aged
Chinaman, pulled his stakes last
Tuesday morning and on the day
following he boarded the Clear
water branch line train at Oro-
fino, changing cars at North
Lapwai for Spokane, thence to
Seattle, thence to the Flowery
Kingdom from whence he came
more than 70 years ago.
The Latah county commits
sioners have fixed wages for
road work in Latah county this
year. They will be considerably
lower than last year Road
overseers are to be paid $4 day,
or so cents an hour; men work.
ing on the roads or doing other
labor for the county will be paid
$500 day, or 40 cents an hour
two-horse team will be paid So
and So additional for each team
driven by one man.
An effort to secure the release
of DR.. c. X. Hinkle from the in
sane asylum at Orofino through
a writ of habeas corpus in the
state supreme court, is to be
made by A. l.. Morgan, attorney
for Hinkle, who was sentenced
to two years in the asylum by
Judge Edgar c. Steele, of the
district court at Moscow. Hinkle
is a veteran of the world war
and had practiced medicine at
Troy, in this county, for many
years. He was charged with
: being addicted to the temper
ate use of narcotics or stimuli
ants to such an extent as to have
lost his self-cOntrol."