Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-04-28
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items Of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

eIlt OF Our Hea0er6.
Indians in the state of Idaho
in the future can fish and hunt
without a license according to
the treaty of 1856, says the
United States district attoreny.
A bond issue of $50, 900 to be
used in building the Nezperce-
kamiah highway is the PROPOSE
tion now occupying the attention
of voters of the Kamiah highway
district.
The Orofino Tribune and the
Clearwater Republican were
merged Tuesday, the Clearwater
Publishing company purchasing
the subscription list and good
will of the Tribune, which will
be discontinued.
Leona r. Hollingsworth, aged
10 years, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. h. M. Hollingsworth Of
Kamiah, died Monday in a Lew
iston hospital following an opera
ton for appendicitis. Miss Hol-
lingsworth was attending the
Lewiston State Normal school.
The business men of Kamiah,
Idaho, are well satisfied with the
outcome of the towns first ''bar-
rain day." Despite bad roacs
the town was well filled and
large volume of business was
transacted. A free auction sale
was an added feature on the pro-
gram.
Owing to the heavy blasting
on the Clearwater near Myrtle,
the nonhatching of eggs this
spring is being seriously felt by
owners of both incubators and
setting hens. The eggs simply
refuse to hatch. Heavy thunder
storms occurring during the i'm
cubating period is said to have a
like effect.
The announcement comes from
Potlatch that the big plant of the
Potlatch Lumber company at
. that place will resume operations
on Monday May l. The mills
at Elk River, owned also by the
Potlatch company, will be put in
operation as soon as it can be put
in readiness, which it is thought
will be sometime during May.
Two hundred fifty thousand
bushels of Washington an d
Idaho club and red wheat, valued
at approximately 1926 900, will
be loaded and shipped from the
port of Seattle about May / for
marketing in Europe, Walter j.
Robinson, secretary of the WASH
ington-Idaho Growers associa-
ton, announced Wednesday.
, Gordon Akers, age 6, son of
) Mr.. and Mrs. M. F. Akers of
, Lewiston was run down and Kill
; led by an automobile driven by
! Peter Arp, an elderly man, of
Charleston, near the Akers home
: Monday. The boy walked into
/. the street as Mr.. Arp was driv-
: ing east at slow speed. 1t is
: said that the boy walked directly
in front of the car, which passed
t over his body, but the driver
stopped when the rear wheel
struck the little fellows body.
Idaho state game officials
erected a dam in Asotin creek
recently designed to permit trout
I and salmon to ascend the creek
] to the spawning beds but to eff
: fectively bar suckers. The ex-
J. pertinent has been successful and
e countless thousands of suckers
gathered at the foot of the dam.
S Hundreds of persons gathered to
d witness the unusual spectacle
and were permitted to capture
}, the suckers i'm unlimited quan.
! titles. Farmers caught wagon
T. loads for fertilizer with grab
:, hooks.
e Forty candidates were initiat-
e ed by the Knights of Columbus
u at Moscow Sunday. The event
. !, was the biggest in the history OF
u that council. Twenty-Five candi.
dates were Moscow men, eight
were from Uniontown, five from
Cotton, one from Genesee and
e one from Lewiston. The first
n degree was conferred by the
# Uniontown team and the second
e by the Genesee team, while the
t Lewiston team, with z. j. Bro
e gan in charge, and Charles r
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