Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1921-09-02
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

The Kooskia Fair and Harvest
Festival will be held in Kooskia,
September %, 23, %.
r The Lewis County Fair As
sociation has decided to hold this
seasons stock show and fair on
Friday and Saturday, October
7th and 9Th, at the show grounds
in Nezperce.
Mrs. Byron Defenbach, age
81 died at Lewiston Saturday
after an illness of several weeks.
She was the wife of Byron De-
fenbach, the accountant who is
well known all over the state.
The mercury took a downward
trend Wednesday night says the
Genessee News and continued
its mad career until it reached a
point just half degree above
freezing-this registration be-
ing on the hill. There was con-
siderable frost in the flat but
owing to the dry weather little
or no damage was done.
Just as he had entered the
forty-thiId day of his fast, q,
Charles M. King, 53 years old,
died Friday morning in the home
of his cousin, Grafton F. john
son at Grangeville. King believ-
ed he was afflicted with stomach
trouble, and thought he could
effect a cure by refiaining from
eating. it is said.
The body of Henry George, a
NeZperce Indian who was killed
in action on the battle fields of
France is expected to arrive in
kamiah this week. George was
the only soldier from Kamiah to
lose his life on the battlefields
of France. The American le-
gion post is making plans for
the funeral, which will be held
from the Indian Second Presby-
terian church, with full military
honors.
Claiming that after they had
lived together for over 40 years
her husband, without cause or
reason deserted her and has not
returied for over a year Mrs.
Nina Schermerhorn filed a suit
for divorce from Charles Scher-
merholn in the district court at
Lewiston. They were married
in Lawrence, Michigan, on Dec
ember %, 1879. On November
|, 1920, he abandoned her. Clay
McNamee is attorney for Mrs.
Schermerhorn.
Prospects for a heavy enroll
ment at the University of Idaho
this fall were indicated by the
announcement that already 225
new students had sent in their
credentials from high schools or
/. from other institutions from
which they were entering. This
number not only is greater than
the corresponding number for
last year but also is in excess of
the number that had been re-
ceived when the university OPEN
ed last fall, according to an an
nouncement from the office of
Miss Ella Olesen, university re-
corder.
! Following the policy establish
ed two years ago, the state board
of equalization has again reduc-
, ed the tax levy for state pur-
poses, fixing it at 5.57 mills as
, against 7.50 for 1919, and $50
for 1920. This levy will raise
approximately $2,777,000 to
{ meet state expenses. 1t takes
, care of the ad valorem levy cal
[ led for by the last legislature,
T together with second, third and
, fourth state highway redemp-
, tion bonds, general interest and
; sinking fund. The levy is the
+ lowest the state has enjoyed for
7 years.
: Ferry Camille, an Indian, an
} inmate oil the county jail at
t Occur d'Alene was seriously cut
? by Bob Wright, former con-
vict of Walla Walla and now in
Jail on charge of an infamous
crime, committed at Dudley.
: Tuesday Wright asked Hill a
| trusty in the Jail, for the use of
+ his pocket knife to trim his toe
!. nails. Previously Camille had
: asked Wright not to use a bucket
J, for sanitary purposes. AS the
: Indian came out of his cell
D Wright cut him in the abdomen,
. throat and neck. Camille is now
at the point of death.