Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-12-22
news AROUND
THE STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

Caught in the collapse of a
barn roof at his home on Lofts
bay, nine miles up Coeur d.
Alene lake, Howard Shewfelt.
l9, was almost instantly killed,
Monday.
Mrs. Laura Butz, who has
been identified with kellogg
schools % years, and superin-
tendent for several years, has
accepted the position of assis-
tant state superintendent of
schools.
j. B. Burney of Sites reports
that, for so early i'm the winter.
there have never been better
snow roads for shedding into the
Elk City mining country. Sleds
have been i'll service for week
and the snow is well packed.
A verdict for DR.. S. c. Faust
of Deary was returned by jury
Saturday at Moscow i'm district
court in the case of Rodney p.
Drury, minor, who charged un-
skillful and negligent treatment
of his foot and asked damagea
of $4,000. 8
A resolution was adopted by
the Occur d'Alene school board
whereby the board took actiona
not to employ after this year
married women in the schools cS
teachers, and further resolved
that if an employed teacher mar:
ries, her contract automatically
becomes cancelled.
Herman 1Icppner, an. hornpnd
resident OF the G1rcsn& r.
for the past 20 years, dlc 4
home in Genesee Decefl3k1 X
1922, of cancer of the liver after
a period OF i'll health extending
over two years. The deceased
was born in Germany, Septem-
ber %, 184S.
An oil drill was unloaded I'M
Culdesac Tuesday and will be
put in place Immediately for
operations on the Lee Finney
allotment one-fourth mile south
east of the school house. The
installing is in charge of DIR. w.
II. Arnor of Lewiston, who is
promoting the work in Culdesacss
and who has secured oil leases on
several tracts near that city.
That a man residing in east
Lewiston, where his children
were starving, was the persoI1
who stole the exhibit deer be
longing to the Idaho fish and
game department, and on dis
play at the Anderson, Bolick e.
kavanaugh store two days thiM|
week. is the information gatheiN
ed by the Lewiston sheriff. r.
office and conveyed to Gam
Warden A. r. Johnson, Friday
Because he is 76 years of ag
and a frail constitution, George
Smith, a veteran of the Civi
war, was permitted by Judg<
Raymond L. Givens of Boise d
plead guilty to a misdemeano
Tuesday instead of felony
when he was tried on a charge d
manufacturing intoxicaft In
liquor for beverage purposes
Smith pleaded guilty, was SEN
fenced TO two months in tn
county Jail, and fined $50.
At a special meeting of Tho
stockholders of the Tanarac& =
and Custer Consolidated Mininf
company Monday at Wallace acs
ton was taken that confirmed
the proposal of the board OF
directors to increase the capita&
stock from 100000 shares, pat
value 81 each, to 5000, ,00Q
shares, 81 each. The board OF
directors were requested to issuS
a stock dividend of 166 per cent
on December 30 to shareholders
of record December %, following
which the board took such ao
ton.
Kenneth Clarence, the a
months-old son of Mr.. and MRS
Clarence Mckenzie of Standpoint.
Idaho, died from suffocation
during the early hours of Mon
day morning. The babe was
born August s. The father,
who is employed in the woods.
was absent at the time of the
tragedy the mother was sleeping
with the little one beside her.
Due to the cold of Sunday night,
she kept the babe too well cover
ed and suffocation resulted.
When she awoke Monday morn
ing, it was to find the infant
dead.
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