Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-12-08
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

Eight pardons were granted
by the state pardoning board
yesterday.
Idaho is said to hold the
worlds record for the largest
brook trout ever caught, an
eight-pound specimen, 20 inches
long, canght by Erich Peterson
of Rexburg.
More than 5000 babies have
been born in the state of Idaho
up to November 10, according to
the monthly report of the hu-
reau of vital statistics which re-
port brought the total for the
year to 9243 or an average of
about $40 a month.
ii. +. Samuels, unsuccessful
progressive party candidate for
the governorship of Idaho in the
recent election, announced that
he had purchased control of the
Nampa (ldaho) Weekly Record
and that it would be renamed
the Idaho progressive.
Issuance of am advertising
book, setting forth the resources
of the 10 northern Idaho coun-
ties will be acted upon by the
north Idaho Chamber of Com
merce, which will meet in Lew
iston Monday and Tuesday, ac-
cording to Secretary B. F. Saw
age Of the Lewiston commercial
club.
State lands aggregating 140.-
600 acres were exchanged We'd
nesday for forest service lands
of the same acreage, when the
state board of land commission
ers approved the transfer by a
Alto l vote. The transaction,
state officials say, will mean
thousands of dollars in addition
al revenue to the state.
Judge F. S. Dietrich fined
Dave Osborn of Coeur d'Alene
500 for possession of utensils
for manufacturing moonshine
and 5000 for manufacturing
moonshine and six months in Jail
He gave him 5000 and 80 days
for maintaining a nuisance and
fined him 500 for possession
of moonshine.
G. F. Barrett of Washington,
ID. c., national president of the
farmers union, and internation-
ally known authority on farm
problems and organizations, was
chief speaker at the meeting
held in Craigmont of the tri-
county convention of the farm
ers union. Representatives frcm
Idaho, Clearwater, and Lewis
ton unions were present at the
meeting.
Lloyd Rathbone and Mrs.
Grace Whiteman, formerly of
Redding. California, plead guilty
to charge of adultery before
Probate Judge d. V. Dowd at
Nezperce Monday and were
each sentenced to 80 days in the
county Jail, and Rathbone fined
$50 in addition. The parties
were arrested by Sheriff James
Smith Saturday at Camp No. l
of the Craigmont Lumber COM
pany, where they were living as
man and wife.
Luther j. Goldman, predatory
animal inspector of the federal
bureau of biological survey for
the state of Idaho, was asked by
Governor d. w. Davis to vacate
the office in the capitol which
had been placed at his disposal
by the state administration. The
action was taken because of
Objectionable and indiscreet
language used by Mr.. Goldman
in correspondence, wherein he
applied opprobrious epithets to
Miles Cannon commissioner of
agriculture, and severely lectur-
ed Governor Davis.
Robert II. Stevenson, who
served when a young man as
political editor of the Cincinnati
Enquirer and was then an init
mate associate of President
Harding, died in Twin Falls,
Tuesday, having been suddenly
stricken Sunday night. Mr..
Stevenson occupied a seat at the
reporters tables at every nation
al political convention for more
than twenty years. He had
been a resident of Idaho since
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