Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-08-11
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items Of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Bep-
eft of Our Readers.

Moscow district are proving bet
ter than anticipated.
Killer dogs wrecked havoc
with a flock of university prize
sheep early Sunday morning
when they made an attack upon
the band kept in the pasture.
Fred Lukens, superintendent
of schools in Grangeville for sew
eral years, has announced his
candidacy, on the republican
ticket, for the position of secre-
tary Of state for the state of
Idaho. subject to the republican
safe convention to he held at
Wallace ON August %.
II. V. Allingham, of wide ex-
perience in the "art preserva-
tive" who some time ago bought
the Peck printing plant and has
since been trying to make ends
meet there, recently decided
Winches.er offered a better field
and is now moving his plant to
that place and will soon begin
the publication of paper.
A smut explosion and fire
which destroyed the threshing
machine and a small quantity of
wheat at the setting, occurred
Saturday on the John Maynard
ranch in the Tom Beale section
near Culdesac. The machine,
which belonged TO James Leitch
of Nezperce, was running in a
J field of smutty club wheat when
the explosion took place.
Pelton Dunhan, seventeen
year old youngster, who has been
making his home in Winchester.
was arrested and taken to Nez-
perez, where he was held on a
charge of desertion from the
United States Marines. He will
Re taken by Deputy Sheriff Ben
Lair of Nezperce to Spokane
where he will he turned over to
the Marine officers at that
place.
Deposits of public money in
Idaho made prior TO February
%, 1921, are special deposits,
and in the event of the failure of
the banking institution in which
they are placed, are to be con-
sidered as a trust fund which
must be repaid before any other
depositor is satisfied. This is
the ruling of the supreme court
Thursday in the case of the Eide
lity State bank of Orofino again.
st the North Fork highway dis
trict in Clearwater county.
Arthur V. Shaffer, who lives
on Flanagan creek, near Pot.
latch, i'm Latah county was
trampled to death by an infuri.
ated bull, Friday evening. He
was leading the bull, which had
, been dehorned, when the animal
became angry and knocked him
down, rolling him with his head
end trampling him, until life was
. extinct. Mr.. Shaffer's mother
. SO years of age, was a helpless
witness to the tragedy from the
opposite side of the fence. The
frantic woman did everything in
, her power to drive the animal
away, but was unable to even
, attract his attention from his
murderous work.
Alleging gross mismanage.
ment on the part of the directors
1 of the Bannock National bank OF
1 Pccatello, which suspended bust.
ness on May 13, 1921, R. T. Cur.
!, tbs, receiver of the bank, filed
: suit in the United States district
court seeking to recover more
: than 100000 from the direct
+ ors. The complaint charge:
e that the directors permitted tn,
$ banks affairs to be controlled by
the president, S. L. Reece, wher
n they knew Reece was dishonest
incapable and inefficient" tha
n certain directors declared a div
d idend on December 81, 1919. at
e time when there We're no net pro
fits and the total assets were les!
than the liabilities; and that b.
II the making of false statement.
l. they concealed from the banks
o stockholders and creditors ant
s from the comptroller of the cur
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