Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-05-19
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items Of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben.
eft of Our Readers.

Women far outclassed men In
scholarship at the University of
Idaho last semester.
Prisoners at the Idaho state
penitentiary are to receive
courses of instruction in all the
various branches of agriculture
in which the university exten-
sion division has specialists.
The two upper stories of the
Raymond hotel, a three-story
frame building owned by James
B. McGrane and conducted by
Ted Ward, at Fifth and Main
streets Lewiston was gutted by
fire early Friday morning.
AS a result of loss of six per
cent of the seeded acreage of
winter wheat in Idaho by "win-
ter killing" the May production
forecast for this crop is one and
ore-quarter million bushels less
than the 1921 crop of approxi-
mately 1O,25O, 900 bushels.
Sentence of not less than two
nor more than five years. inn
prisonment in the state peni-
tentiary was Friday imposed
upon Lee Poison, of Twin Falls,
who pleaded guilty of attempt
ing to extort 500 from Arthur
j. Peavey, a well-known business
man by threatening letter.
There is every possibility that
the people of the city of Lewis
ton will soon see in operation
bus line between the downtown
section and Normal hill, at
charge of 5 cents for the one way
fare, and another line operated
between the city and Lewiston
Orchards, the fare for which run
has not as yet been determined.
HALEY was selected by the Ida
no state Democratic committee,
in session in Boise late last week,
as convention city for the meet
ing of the state Democrats on
August % of this year by a un-
animous vote of the delegates.
Hailey's strongest opposition
was from Weiser, although the
latter city received only half the
votes cast on the first roll call.
A. V. Ball of Peck has leased
of Turner Bros. the mineral
rights on their 2,000-acre ranch
four miles southeast of Nezperce
and will at once open mining
operations with a view to devel-
oping a coal deposit. Ball claims
he has been investigating the
field for the past six months and
is satisfied he has a six-foot vein
there.
Six state high school records
were smashed and two tied i'm
the interscholastic track meet
won by Burley at Moscow Satur-
day. Wesley Doe of Burley es-
tablished three new state records
and tied his own record in the
50-yard dash. He took first i'm
five events and was high point
man with 26 Ia points. Burley
was high with 81 points, Moscow
second with 16.
The travel on the lewiston
Spokane branch is so light these
days that it is doubtful if the
trains are paying. The reason
is plain. Good weather and good
roads bring out the motor cars,
and between individual vehicles
and auto stages, the railroads
are bound to get the worst of it
when it comes to passenger traf-
fic. In all probability one Of
the daily passenger trains on the
Palouse branch will be taken off
if business continues to slump.
| In the district court at Sho-
shone, Tuesday, Max Welton
entered a plea of guilty to the
charge of having murdered Geo.
Lane April |, in the Shoshone
hardware store. Judge Ensign
fixed Monday, May 15, as the
date of passing sentence on
Welton. Welton is the 19-year-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. A. w.
Welton, highly respected ranch
ers living nine miles north of
Shoshone. There appears to
have been no motive prompting
the crime other than an insane
desire for notoriety on the part
of an overgrown boy with an