Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-12-01
news AROUND
THE STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

by the Lapwai Valley highway
district for the crushing of
1000 yards of rock for the Mis-
sion creek road. Porter & Read
Of Culdesac taking the bid at 65
cents per cubic yard.
A section of ten miles on the
North and South highway, ex-
tending three miles south of
winchester and seven miles
northwest of the top of the Cul-
desac hill, and the line between
Nez Perce and Lewis counties
has been finished.
Approximately 100 gallons of
illicit liquor confiscated during
the last several months by sher-
ifs and police forces at Twin
Falls, were poured into cutters
by members of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union in
connection with public demon
stiation staged on courthouse
grounds.
A petition for probate of the
will of Goswin Sievert of Gene
see has been filed in the Latah
county probate court by John
Meyer of Genesee executor. The
estate is valued at $4,000 to
$4,000 and is made up princi-
pally of bank deposits and 400
acres near Genesee. The largest
part of the estate is willed to
eight nephews and nieces at
Westfalen, Germany
The actual building of the
new grade from Kamiah to Nez-
perce started Monday. The con-
tractors are establishing their
camp and preparations are being
made for continuing the grading
as long rs weather conditions
permit. The Triangle Construc-
tion Co, which has just COM
pleted the North and South
Highway link from Craigmont
to Lawyers canyon has charge
of the Kamiah hill job.
George II. Watermen, convict
ed by Lewis county jury, of
irregularities in banking, and
sentenced to the state peniten-
tiary. and who was granted a
new trial by the state supreme
court, has been released from
the penal institution at Boise on
bond in the sum of $4,000. The
order of release and the bond
furnished were signed and ap-
proved by Judge Scales, the trial
judge. Waterman was released
on November 81.
Charles Dale of Spokane.
known as the King of Boot
leggers," was released Friday
from the Latah county Jail after
serving four months upon con-
yiction of violations of the pro-
hibition law. Dale was sentenced
from Occur d'Alene to serve
four months in the Latah county
jail. In a sensational confess
sion Dale, whose record in the
bootlegging business was re-
markable, admitted the inadvisa-
bility of the business and said
that he was through for all time.
Judge +. c. Steele of the dis
trict court for Latah county Fri
day entered an order dismissing
the case of the Genesee highway
district against Edwin Smolt and
William Smolt. The case as orr
ginally instituted charged the
wrongful collection of money
from the highway district by the
defendants in that warrants
were drawn TO the benefit of
William Smolt in payment for
boarding highway district en-
ployes while Edwin Smolt was a
member and secretary-treasurer
of the Genesee highway district.
DR.. T. p. Brown, chiroprac-
tor, was shot in the hand at
Winchester Saturday night by
c. V. Marquis in whose building
the doctor had his office. Mrs.
Marquis was assisting DIR.
Brown in the arrangement of
curtains in the office when the
husband, whose mind it is
thought was affected by a
stroke of paralysis year ago.
stepped from behind a portiere
further back III the building and
fired twice, one shot taking eff
feet in the hand. The commu-
nithy hold the mental distress
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