Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1921-09-23
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Benz
eft of Our Readers.

Nezperce will hold its annual
fair and stock show October z
and 8.
i A meeting of the county COM
missioners of the entire state of
Idaho is being held at Standpoint,
Idaho this week.
Contracts for the construction
of six miles of the north and
south highway in Adams county
from Fruitvale to Council will be
advertised next week for letting
October IL, according to an
nouncement Friday from the bu-
reau of highways.
The lewiston Charleston Tri-
State fair and roundup closed
Saturday afternoon, and the pro-
gram was witnessed by over
5000 persons. The fair was
success Financially and otherwise,
and the weather was ideal
throughout the week. The larg-
est attendance was Friday, more
than 10000 passing the gates.
Trial of Mrs. LYDIA Southland,
charged with first degree mur-
der of her fourth husband, Ed
ward F. Meyer, last fall, will op-
en- in the district court at Twin
Falls Sept. 26, according to an
nouncement by District Judge
William A. Babcock after Mrs.
Southland had pleaded not guilty.
The state board of equaliza-
ton has raised the Lewis county
assessment only $4,867. .95 and
this on furniture and fixtures OF
picture shows, theatres, banks,
etc, which is so small that it
amounts to practically no raise
at all. Farm lands and all other
property in the county were left
without change from Mr.. Rat
lifts report.
Work on the Idaho North and
South highway is being pushed
as rapidly as possible and 1t is
expected that the road viii be
completed between Genesee and
Moscow within the next six
weeks or two months. The Gene
see end will be completed in
about 10 days, the remaining
work TO be done on the Moscow
end.
The University of Idaho which
opened its doors Monday at Mos
cow for the Inauguration of the
school year of 1922 will be
mentored by a faculty of 116.
The faculty is not increased in
numbers this year, but there has
been many changes in the per-
somel, caused mainly by the fiji
ling of positions, left vacant by
designations. The enrolment
this year will be approximately
900.
George A. Horal, cashier of
! the. Stockmen's National bank of
!. Nampa and vice-president and
cashier of the defunct First
National bank of Fairfield, had
four separate indictments con-
tanning one or more counts re-
turned against him today by the
federal grand jury. The indict-
ments charge Horal with misap-
plication of funds in amounts of
/ $4,000, $4,000 and $685. 900
from the Stockmen's National
bank for the, benefit of the Fair
field bank, making false entries
to deceive the comptroller of
currency and misappropriating
funds of his bank to his personal
use.
Ah Heng, a chinaman, about
80 years of age, passed down the
Clearwater branch of the North
ern Pacific last Wednesday from
J Greer to Lewiston, it being his
first ride on railroad train. All
: Heng had been a resident of the
Pierce mining district for SIS
years. travelling all the way from
! China to Lewiston by boat,
, thence from the latter place to
, Pierce by such primitive modes
of travel as prevailed in the
early history of this section of
Idaho. All Heng is returning
: to the "Flowery Kingdom" in or
der that his body may be laid to
{ rest in his native land at the end
: of his earthly career; moreover
it is cheaper for his transporta-
/ tion alive than as corpse, it be-
: ing the universal custom to re-
; turn the bodies of all deceased
Cinnamon to the land of their
nativity whenever possible.