Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-02-10
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben.
eft of Our Readers.


slides yet known was discovered
on Sunday by Lewiston Orchards
young people, who used the ice
covered paved road from the
Erb residence to the gates of the
city limits, affording continu-
Gus run for about two miles.
The Idaho Wool Growers as
sociation, at a meeting held in
Boise recently, went on record
as favoring abolishment of the
state game department, and that
all license fees be collected by
sheriffs and placed in either the
school or road fund of the county
in which they are collected.
Occupants of statehouse offices
received a sharp reminder Tues
day that electricity costs money
and that the fewer lights burned
unnecessarily, the more money
will he saved. This information
was disseminated by the various
Janitors, but it is not understood
by anyone that the idea originat-
ed with the custodians of the
building.
Nampa police, commenting on
stories told about bootleggers
retiring after having made fab
ulous sums by selling illicit
liquor, said that such prosperity
does not apply TO bootleggers of
that section. The majority of
men arrested are said to be with
out the ready money to pay fines
or to leave with their families
during the period of incarcera-
ton. Many families are cared
for by the county in instances
of this nature said the police.
For stabbing the camp cook
four or five times in the face
with a table fork, George Bor-
vich, age 80, a Jugo-Slav, is in
the Latah county Jail. A charge
of assault with intent to commit
bodily harm was filed against
him. The fork pierced Gust
locks cheek and into his gums
and one stroke barely missed
putting out his left eye. Borvich
left the camp for Boville, where
he was arrested by Deputy
Sheriff Pat Malone and brought
to Moscow. Gustlock's face is
said to be badly punctured.
Negotiations are now under
way for a sale of the Kamiah
holdings of the Western States
Lumber company to large Wis
consin concern. The Western
States Lumber company, with
headquarters at Minneapolis,
Minn., own approximately seven
thousand acres of valuable tim
ber land directly east of Kamiah
together with a large sawmill
and planning mill at Kamiah,
eight miles of flume, logging
railroad, and the necessary stock
and supplies for the operation of
the plant.
On Monday the stock and fix
lures of the Nezperce Trading
Co., one of the prairie's leading
general merchandise stores To-
Gated at Nezperce, which went
into the hands of a receiver a
few weeks after the closing of
the Union State Bank as the re-
suit of irregularities by Ernst
Wienss, were bought. by a cor
poration TO be known as Shoe
makers Mercantile Company, of
which the stockholders are S. L.
Shoemaker, Alvin Caldwell and
Miss Elizabeth Jacobs. The
purchase was made from J. C.
Meikle, the assignee, represent
ing the creditors of the old insti-
tuition.
With a score of 81 to 20 the
Nezperce high school basketball
team defeated the Otfldesac team
in what critics contend was the
fastest high school game ever
played in the northwest, at IL
o'clock Saturday night. The
Culdesac team, supported by
about 200 Culdesac citizens,
made the trip to Nezperce in
special train which was caught
in snowdrift midway between
Craigmont and Nezperce. 1t be-
came necessary to abandon the
!. two special coaches and take the
| passengers into Nezperce in one
coach arriving about 1880 Sat
urday evening.