Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1921-12-23
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items Of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben.
eft of Our Readers.

William Carlock of Bonners
Ferry was seriously injured SUM-
day when the breech block of a
rifle he was trying out blew off
and struck him below the eye,
breaking the cheek bone.
Two suits of clothes, two over
coats, shoes and other merchan-
disc to the aggregate value of
about 5000, We're taken when the
Sogard store at Culdesac was en-
tered some time Sunday night
by a thief who gained entrance
by prying open the front door.
The Purity creamery of Mos
cow, Robert Woods and II. E.
Hamer, owners, opened for busi-
ness Friday. Men have been
busy all fall constructing the
building and installing modern
machinery. 1t is estimated that
the completed plant cost $40,000
Slashes in salaries of county
employees and dismissal of sever
al department heads, expected to
result in saving to the taxpay-
ers of between $4,000 and
$4,000 a year, were Thursday
ordered by the Twin Falls county
board of commissioners. Re-
ductions were made effective
January l.
Senator Gooding Friday re-
commended to the president the
appointment of Col. E. G. Davis
of Boise to be United States dist
rict attorney for Idaho and un-
der the patronage agreement be-
tween the Idaho senator's. Senat-
or Borah will endorse the recon-
mendation on his return to Wash
ington.
Official advices given out
state that 100000 will be avail
able for road construction during
1922 on the neutral zone, cover
ing the Salmon river canyon
from White Bird to the falls of
the little Salmon river, and a
contract for completion of this
work will probably be let and
work inaugurate next February.
1t will take S18,080 to repay
damages which DIR. ]. B. Buch-
anan, of Nezperce, alleges he sus-
tanned in September, 1920, when
he claims to have been struck
by an automobile driven by a
man named Williams for the
Star Dray company of Lewiston,
according to a suit started in the
district court of Nez Perce c0un-
ty by him against the dray COM
pany.
A coroner's jury at an inquest
at Vassar's undertaking rooms
in-Lewiston over the body of
Susie Williams, an Indian woman
who died in a hospital Friday re-
turned verdict that Mrs. Will
liams came to her death as a re-
suit of injuries suffered on or
about Demeber 10 at the hands
of her husband, Amos Williams,
at their home at Spaulding. Ida
no. The testimony showed that
she was struck, choked, knocked
down and otherwise abused.
Vincente Ramirez, convicted
of murder in Madison county in
1918, and who has had a number
of respites while under sentence
of death, will not be hanged, but
will serve the remainder of his
days in the penitentiary. The
Idaho supreme court Tuesday
handed down an opinion in which
it held that it had power to re-
call the remittitur handed down
. in the case some time ago, and
also that it had power to modify
the sentence from the death pen
atty to that of life Imprisonment
, at hard labor.
} Announcement was made Sat
} urday by the depositors' COM
. mittee of the Union State bank
l at Nezperce that practically all
: of the depositors had signed
= waivers giving up so percent of
their deposits to absorb the bad
paper of the bank. In order for
the bank to become reorganized
, and again open its doors. the re-
: quirement was made that the de-
: positors must waive the 80 per-
e cent of their deposits. The next
r step in connection with the bank,
it is thought, viii be the reorgan-
I ization of the hank at an early