Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-10-27
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items Of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben.
eft of Our Readers.

IN tne next 10 days to ship the
lettuce and apples which must
move.
District court convenes in Lew
iston, Nov. 13 with the following
cases on the docket: 159 civil
cases, 13 criminal. The calen-
dar also shows % divorce cases.
Edward L. Wiggin, one of
Lewiston's best known residents.
died at the family home in Lew
iston, Thursday, the cause of
death being attributed to fatty
degeneration of the heart.
M. F. Hartnett, well-known
bricklayer and stonemason and
for 20 years a resident of Lewis
ton, died some time between IL
and 2:15 O'Clock Thursday from
the inhalation of the fumes of a
chloroform-camphor liniment
which he had spilled in his bed.
A runaway Ford car Friday
crashed through the big plate
glass window of the Butler
Hardware at Nezperce and but
for pillar might have continued
through the store. The only
damage was the less of the plate
glass and broken lamp and a
bent crank on the car.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Hunt
pioneers of North Idaho and
homesteaders in the early days
in the Winona country left Lew
iston Monday for San Diego,
CAL, to make their home. The
former is 80 years of age and his
wife 72. Mr.. Hunt came to
Lewiston in 1862.
In a downpour of rain more
than 1000 University of Idaho
students put on Thursday night
probably the greatest Idaho-W.
S. c. football game rally. Stu
dents were soaked as they
marched singing through the
streets but their spirits were not
dampened by the adverse wealth.
er conditions.
More than 80 percent of the
people of Idaho are i'm favor of
the direct primary system, stat
ed Senator William E. Borah,
following his return from
speaking tour into the northern
part of the state. He found on
his northern trip, he stated, that
his estimate of 80 percent made
when he came home from Wash
ington could be increased to 80
percent or more.
Washington State college de-
feated the University of Idaho
ut football Friday 18 to 9, win
ming by two touchdowns, made
in the fourth period. A blocked
Idaho punt with recovery by w.
S. c., gave the ball to the Cou-
gars at the opening of the period.
Bray, on the fourth down, went
over one foot for a touchdown.
Idaho opened an aerial attack,
Hickey caught @ forward pass
and raced 25 yards for touch
down and final score of the
game.
Grant Hamblin and Mrs. Jas.
Sampley, former wife of Ham,
bin, were placed in Jail Sunday
in Lewiston charged with the
murder of Miss Lillian Mitchell,
10, waitress in a restaurant, who
died from gangrene and periton-
tits following an illegal operation
which, in her dying statement
Friday night, according to the
authorities, she alleged was per-
formed by Mrs. Sampley, assist
ed by Hamblin, in rooms adjoin-
ing Hamblin's barber shop at
Culdesac, Idaho.
Accompany is now in course of
being incorporated in Lewiston
for the purpose of conducting a
silver fox farm located at Pierce,
mountain town about 80 miles
northeast of Orofino. The ami
mails to be raised for commercial
purposes will be the silver black
foxes. The location is said by
those acquainted with this indus
! try to be ideal. the winters in the
Pierce Country being long and
cold, which conforms TO the life
of the furbearing animals to be
propogated, while the summer
, months there are cool The eli
matte conditions have much TO
do with the quality of fur taken