Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-04-14
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

Water is again flowing through
the village water mains at Peck,
alter a period of over 3 months
freeze up.
!. Steve Purdy, age IA. was fined
81 and costs by Probate Judge
Martin of Standpoint Tuesday
when he pleaded guilty to a
charge of beating up" Herman
Dobroth. a young man in his
twenties on Saturday.
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho will be
host in July to the Northwest
Association of Sheriffs and
Police, which accepted the invi-
tation of the Idaho State
Sheriffs' association to hold
their first semi-annual conven-
tion with them.
The first shot, of any magni-
tude, on the Stites-kooskia con-
tract was put off last Sunday af-
ternoon by Contractor Sam
Baudrye. Five holes, averaging
about 20 feet deep, were shot
and approximately 1000 yards of
rock moved.
Major A. J. Pinkham, 85 years
old, member of the first consti-
tutional convention of Idaho and
afterwards secretary of state
for Idaho, died at Walla Walla
Saturday. At one time he was
secretary to Governor Ogellsbey
of Illinois.
The Lewis county board have
given their official approval to
the proposed highway from Nez-
perce to Kamiah and will vote
the necessary funds but provide
that the kamiah highway COM
missioners must supply them
with full information as to the
proposed routes.
A new development PROPOSE
tion that means much to Lewis
ton and Charleston and vicinity is
the decision of the Oregon Pack
ing company to enlarge their
facilities for the handling of II
large peach crop and to contract
for the planting of 200 acres, and
the taking of the entire crop for
fifteen years at $50 a ton.
For the year 1921 142 grazing
permits were issued by Nez
Perce national forest officials for
7764 head of cattle and horses.
To date this year 118 applica-
tions have been received for 1884
head, a decrease of 1880 head.
Grazing fees this year amount to
$4821, a decrease of $1,000 from
last years fees.
The National Confectioners' as
sociation, through its Boise at
torneys. has served notice on the
state of Idaho that an action
may be filed against the COM
missioner of public welfare in a
, few days to test out the right of
the state to withhold from sale
, some 5000 pounds of candy al
! legged by the state not to conform
, to state and national pure food
, laws.
First degree murderers were
much in evidence on the list of
prisoners at the state peniten-
, tiary who asked for pardons
Wednesday at the April meeting
q of the board in Boise. Six such
|. prisoners filed their application
A for a state pardon but all were
{ denied. The board spent the en-
: tire day considering 83 applica-
g tions which were presented when
the members convened in the Oh
n flee of Gov. d. w. Davis We'd
nedsay morning. OF these Ia
4 were either granted a full par
: don or pardoned conditionally.
Y An old she-wolf, an outlaw of
: the range in Caribou county and
d a dread to all stockmen, is dead.
: She was killed in her den with
4 six pups March &c, by w. F..
e Cozzens, a hunter working for
the United States biological sur
d vey. For years this menace has
t prevailed in eastern Idaho, and
!, despite numerous attempts to ex-
: terminate her, she always man.
f aged to escape with her life, but
r every getaway she made cost her
i a litter of puppies and her mate.
s For three successive years Mr..
e Cozzens has trailed the killer To
e her hiding place, and succeeded
in killing her mate and taking