Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-03-17
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items Of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben.
eft of Our Readers.

City has been awarded the mail
contract between Sites and Elk
City for the coming four years,
the bid being S15.666 per anum.
The Bonners Ferry city coun-
Gil has gone on record favoring
immediate construction of a city
hall, for which bonds of $4,000
were voted about year ago.
Consideration of adoption Of
new arithmetics and spoilers for
use in public schools in the state
of Idaho has been deferred for
two years by the state board of
education.
Boise valley hay netted the
growers SIC a ton this past year
when converted into cheese, ac-
cording to Thomas McDermott,
president of the Boise Valley CO.
operative creamery.
According to report just re.
ceived from the interior depart
ment by the Lewiston land Of
flee Idaho has 8,606, ,301 acres of
land unappropriated and subject
to entry, classified mostly as
mountainous and grazing land.
Request that sheep be elimi-
mated from the game preserves
in Idaho, made to Henry c. Wal
lace, secretary of agriculture, by
Otto M. Jones, state game war;
den, has provoked considerable
discussion throughout the state.
The valuation of Twin Falls
county increased 91a per cent in
1921, and the total taxes levied
increased 22H per cent, accord
ing to the annual financial report
of the county auditor field in the
office of B. e. Hyatt, director of
the bureau of public accounts.
Contractor Boswell announ-
ces that on April Is he will re-
sumo auto mail and passenger
service over the Grangeville-New
Meadows route. After July l,
he will run a six-days-a-week
service, enabling passengers to
make the through trip from
Grangeville to Boise in one day.
j. N. Bievier and J. B. Braden,
officers of the lewiston Clarks-
ton Oil company which has main-
tanned office in Lewiston, who
were arrested on the charge of
operating a corporation in this
state without conforming to the
blue sky laws entered plea Of
guilty. Monday they were fined
by Judge Scales in Lewiston. Bic
vier 500 and Braden $3.50.
The approximate cost to the
government of the summer en-
campment of the Idaho national
guard will be S35, 900, it was an
nounced at the office of the state
: adjutant. The exact dates for
the camp have not been set, but
it will be held at the Boise bar
: racks for Is days, some time in
:: June, probably.
There is general qualification
throughout the state over the
fact that President Harding's
vetoeing house bill II, a measure
, that had it become a law, it is
said, would have placed in the
: hands of few men 260, 900 acres
of valuable range land in the
southren part of this state, on
5 which they would had a mono
|, poly.
1 Government and cooperative
E hunters working in Idaho's for
J. ests and ranges killed two gray
n wolves, 253 coyotes and six bob
a cats during the month of Febru-
: airy, according to the monthly re-
n port of Luther Goldman, preda-
tory animal inspector for the
1 Idaho district. Practically all
!, the animals taken during the
0 month were poisoned, Mr.. Gold
: man states.
e The will of Eugene R. Day of
e Wallace late managing owenr of
n the Hercules mine at Burke, who
: died at the Sacred Heart hospi-
!. tai at Spokane February IL, 1922
was filed for probate at Wallace.
The instrument, executed when
: he was 35 years old, on June %.
d 1910, leaves to his brothers and
s sisters. Harry L. Day, Jerome j.
s Day, Eleanor Bernice Boyce and
q Blanche Eloise Ellis, each a
n fourth interest in all his separate
% real and personal property and
/. an equal share in all his COM
munity property.