Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-12-15
news AROUND
THE STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

manufacturer, resident of
Lewiston 20 years, who died in
Lewiston Monday was held
there Thursday.
Reeder & Lowe have started
work on their $4,000 contract
of building cluverts and small
bridges on the 12-mile stretch
of the North and South highway
in the Whitebird district he
tween New Meadows and
Grangeville.
Lewiston grain dealers esti-
mate that about 25 per cent of
the 1922 grain crop remains in
the warehouses. The total crop
of the Lewiston belt was about
$500, 900 bushels or 60 per cent
of a normal yield. Dealers report
virtually no buying.
| J. NJ. Gooding, of Gooding, son
of Senator Frank X. Gooding,
was injured in an auto accident
Saturday evening shortly after
! Z o'clock. In company with
John McDevitt, Gooding was
coming from Nampa to Boise.
In attempting to turn out for n
buggy which was going up the
hill just across the Fairview
bridge, the two vehicles collided.
P. l.. Orcutt, former publish
er of Moscow, Troy and Orofino,
and well-known in newspaper
work in Idaho, Friday took n
lease on the Lewiston Banner,
owned by Hugh O'Donnell, re-
/ gister of the Lewiston land of
flee, and will conduct the public
action. The Banner is a weekly
established in 1902 by Mr.. O'Don
nell, after he had conducted a
newspaper at Kooskia, the
Mountaineer, Ia years.
Three broken ribs and a
: broken collarbone were the in
/ iuries received by Mrs. J. G.. II.
Graveley, member of the state
board of education, when a car
in which she and other members
of the board were riding We'd
nesday from Burley to Albion,
skiddcd and turned over. Miss
Ethel E. Redfield, state superin-
tendent of public instruction,
also an occupant of the car, was
badly bruised.
The Potlatch Lumber compa-
ny's big mill at Potlatch was
closed down Saturday night and
will remain closed until about
March l. A statement made
by A. w. Laird, general manager
of the company, to the effect
that the company had intended
operating for a few weeks yet,
but the severe storm, coupled
with the car shortage, made it
necessary to suspend operations
at once.
| Forty-two minutes after they
had taken the case, the jurors in
the wife murder case of Alfred
e. Caviness returned q verdict
of guilty and sealed his fate with
a recommendation of life i'm
prisonment at Boise Friday.
Caviness' trial, which began
November 27, resulted from the
mysterious death of his wife,
Maud Ethel Caviness, following
a brutal beating the night of
August 81 as she lay in red.
Caviness entered sweeping deni-
ais of every discriminating bit of
evidence. Shortly before her
death, Mrs. Caviness had filed
suit for divorce, charging ex-
treme bodily cruelty.
II. J. f. Ahrens, elected prose-
cutting attorney of Lincoln coun-
ty, has been disbarred by the
supreme court and cannot quail
ify for the office. it was an
nounced, as appears from the
order issued by the court can
ceiling the certificate on which
Mr.. Ahrens was admitted to the
bar in Idaho. This certificate
was obtained through false re
presentations, which he admit
ted. His successor having been
elected but not being able to
qualify, it is assumed by state
officials that Paul Haddock, the
present prosecuting attorney of
Lincoln county, will continue to
hold the office. In case of
vacancy in such office. the
statutes provide that the district