Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1921-03-11
news AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.


1t is estimated by a cigar deal
er in Bonners Ferry that $4,000
cigaretts are smoked in that city
each month.
For being drunk and disor-
derby" and threatening to shoot
his wife, who has been cooking
in Moscow, George M. Grow was
sentenced by Probate Judge Mel
son to serve four months in the
county Jail. .
Tom lsaacs was fined 500
and costs at Kamiah last week
for killing a deer out of season.
Two-tirds of the cases coming
up for trial at the spring term
of the district court at Wallace
are for liquor violations.
DR.. Alfred Horatio Upham,
who became the president of the
University of Idaho the first of
last December, will be formally
inaugurated March 20 and 80,
according to an announcement
by l.. +. Parsons, executive Sec
retary.
Wednesday, March 2, while
working on the Southside high
way, just east of Myrtle, work.
men unearthed a human skeleton
buried beneath several feet of
soil and lying close up to a rocky
ledge overlooking the Clearwater
river.
Harry Stone, who recently
plead guilty in the district court
at Nezperce to charge of grand
larceny and was sentenced to
serve term of one to Id years
in the penitentiary, became
seriously i'll Monday while being
held in Jail at that place.
Fred H. Ball, age so, sales
manager of the Lewiston Mer-
camille company, wholesale groc-
ers, and prominently identified
with that line of business for
many years throughout the
country was found dead in his
apartment at Lewiston last
Thursday night, death resulting
from chronic appendicitis and
complications. Up to about
noon Mr.. Ball was feeling COM
paratively well.
Wallace was probably one of
the first cities of the country of
its size in which the inaugural
address of President Harding
was made public, owing to the
wireless apparatus of Fl. M. Hue
mann. Elmer Johnson, who
) during the war served as a radio
officer in the navy, took the ad-
dress, starting at 8 o'clock, as
sent out by the Arlington wire
less station.
Six days after the death of his
wife, Col. w. w. Hammill, an old
pioneer of the Nezperce country
died at his home in San Diego,
Cal. at the age of 83 years. His
daughter Miss Maude, at the
time of his death was on her wa
to Chicago with the remains of
her mother. Col. Hammill locat-
ed at Nezperce when the reserva
tion was thrown open, having
been a resident of that city until
few years ago.
, Members of the Grangeville
Commercial club, at the club
luncheon Wednesday noon, OPEN
ly indulged in cigaret smoking,
while Senator Seth ID. Jones,
lately returned from Boise,
where he attended the legisla-
) ture, was a guest. Senator
|, Jones voted in favor of the anti
! cigaret bill. Packages of cigar
: cts were passed by the club
/ members, and many men, even
: some who seldom use tobacco,
3 drew puffs from the cigarets
4 and filled the room with smoke.
e Andrew Jansen, court house
!, janitor at Orofino, found a black
!. snake in the basement of the
: building while making his rounds
3 The snake is over five feet in
t length and timber as fishworm
t after a spring rain. Finding OF
= the reptile does not signify that
f Orofino is "wet" or that st
Patrick's day comes this month
but that spring is here. The
o carnival company that visited
+ Orofino last summer lost Q
> snake from its collection and it is
e believed this is the one that es-
y capped. An attendant at the
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