Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-11-17
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

The Stites-Lewiston passen-
ger train on the Clearwater
shortline, ran into a rock slide
about two miles above Kamiah
Saturday morning. The engine
was thrown from the track and
the passengers received severe
shaking up.
! Lee Clark, who plead guilty at
Nezperce to the burglary of q
store at Winchester, was senten-
ced by Judge Wallace N. Scales
to a term of two TO ID years i'm
prisonment in the state peniten-
tiary at Boise.
j. Stevens of Seattle, WASH,
had both legs severed at Poca-
tello Saturday night in attempt
ing to alight from a train at a
street crossing. He died short
ly afterward at the general hos
pital, where he had been taken
for treatment.
Contrary to the current belief
that the state legislature con-
venes January l, 1928, an in
vostigation Friday into the con-
stitutional provision governing
the legislature shows that the
lawmakers will not meet until
January 8.
Unknown persons, thought to
have passed through in an auto
mobile blew the safe of the Ken
drick Hardware Co., Tuesday
morning, and secured S400 in
cash the same amount in Liber-
ty bonds, and with them num-
ber of notes and checks.
Two touchdowns and a place
kick won for Idaho Saturday 16
to 0 over the University of Utah
J crimson eleven in the third an
nual Armistice Day football
classic to be held in the Idaho
state capital. Six thousand
people witnessed the contest.
Henry Clay Branstetter, aged
85 years, who had the distinc-
ton of having resided in Boise
longer than any other living
citizen, died Saturday after a
weeks illness. He located i'm
Boise in 1868 when the town
consisted of a few log huts and
tents and the fort was at Boise
barracks.
Two girls who have been
trained as canning experts un-
der the direction of the Univer-
sity of Idaho extension service
will go to Chicago next month
to compete with girls from all
parts of the United States for a
trip to France. The girls are
Agnes Shubert and Leona Stod-
dar.
The first basketball team of
the Culdesac high school will
open its season Friday when it
plays the Lapwai high school.
The Culdesac quintet made an
enviable record last season, win
ming the district tournament at
Lewiston and taking also the
runnerup cup in the state tour
nament at Moscow.
James Yenney, who resides
with his father, Carl Yenney,
six miles above kooskia on the
middle fork of the Clearwater,
was placed under arrest Tues
day morning by A. r. Johnson,
deputy game warden of Lewis
ton, charged with killing three
deer October ID, when the law
allowed a bag limit of one deer
during the season.
Leo Lomski, pugilist, who was
arrested last Sunday in Lewis
ton by federal officers on a
charge of violation of the Vol
stead act, Monday was sentenced
to serve four months in the NeZ
Perce county Jail and fined 500.
Judge Dietrich, who is now hold
ing court at Moscow assessed
the Jail sentence and fine after
Lomski had entered a plea of
guilty.
!, The estate of Edward N. Thy
fault, who was accidently killed
J in an automobile collision on the
: Lewiston hill grade. September
! 17th last. has been filed for pro-
bate in the office of the probate
: court in Latah county by the
) widow, Carrie Thyfault. Nick ].
: Konen of Nez Perce county has
1 heen appointed administrator.
l The estate consists of real and
4 personal property of the approx
innate value of $4,000.