Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-09-29
news AROUND
THE STATE
Items Of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ber.
eft Of Our Readers.

ers last week cancelled their
contract to pay $1,000 toward
the soldiers memorial monu-
ment for Lewis county.
Fire of undetermined origin
Tuesday destroyed the mill and
grain elevator of the Idaho Falls
and Elevator company. Damage
is estimated at $125,00
George York, the IL year old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. T. B. York
of Elk City. died Tuesday at the
st. Joseph hospital as the result
OF an accidental gun shot wound
in the abdomen, received last
Sunday, when he was trying to
operate revolver.
Through the courtesy of the
Union Pacific railroad the Uni
versity of Idaho will be able to
ship a carload of purebred live
stock to the state fair at Boise,
September $3.50 for exhibition
and demonstration purposes. ac-
cording to Dean Z. ]. Iddlings
of the college of agriculture.
Back in Boise for the first
time in AZ years, Ed v. Price,
former cowboy and stage driver
OF Idaho, now millionaire clothier
OF Chicago, is visiting some of
his old haunts and cronies of
those early days. Mr.. Price
motored from Chicago and has
Portland his objective point.
F. II. Rehberg. clerk of the
Kamiah highway district. re-
Gently received the $50, 900
bond issue in its octual form for
the signatures of the district
officers. There ere. fifty of
them. each for 81 900, to each of
which is attached the coupons
for the interest, which is payable
semi-annually.
Senator Gooding left Wash
ington for Idaho Friday evening.
Senator Borah will start west
the first of next week, going by
way of New York. Representa-
tives Smith and French will
leave in the early part of next
week. Mr.. Smith plans to start
his campaign October a, and will
be on the stump continuously
after that date until the election.
Lewis Cady, a graduate from
the University of Idaho in June
and recently appointed an as
sistant instructor, may lose the
sight of one eye as the result of
an explosion in the university
laboratory Sunday. Cady was
conducting an experiment with
mercury when the test tube ex-
ploded and either some metal or
glass penetrated the eyeball.
Workmen engaged in excava-
ton work on the state highway
uncovered near the old Conway
place at Culdesac, a demijohn
filled with whiskey and a quart
bottle of the same, and two bot
ties of beer. 1t was learned
that the liquor was buried some
eighteen years ago. The imple-
ment used in the excavation
struck and broke the demijohn,
spilling its contents.
More than 270 pioneers of the
Inland Empire met at Lewiston
recently at the first organiza-
ton of the Northern Idaho
Pioneers society. Aaron Parker,
Grangeville pioneer newspaper
man AMI Indian fighter of 1876,
was elected president, and Mark
Means, Lewiston, 1880, vice pres
dent. Lewiston was designated
at the permanent depository of
the society and plans were laid
for starting a museum to be
housed in the state normal
school.
The highest priced piano ever
brought into Moscow was deliv-
cred 1T the university auditori-
um Friday. The piano is a
Mason & Hamlin grand and cost
$3.50. It is in ebony finish and
is a decidedly handsome piece of
furniture, as well as giving out
the most beautiful tones. 1t will
he used in the artist course at
the university this year. In the
past it has been necessary to
rhip in an instrument from Spok-
me for each number of the art
ist course, end this has been ex-
pensive and to an extent unsatis-
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