Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-10-13
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From VariOus
Sections Reproduced for Bep-
eft of Our Readers.

moving the weeds ai0nR the
roads before they go to seed not
only complies with the law, but
keeps them from seeding in ad-
joining fields. 1t destroys a
favorite hiding place for insects
and diseases, too.
More than 1000 acres of state
lands in north Idaho and 1860
acres of state timber lands will
be sold at public auction during
the month of October, it was
announced Thursday at the Of
flee of the state land commits
sioner.
Excavation of the new Koos-
kia high schohol building is COM
pleted, and materials for con-
struction are being rushed to the
grounds. The board expects to
have the house completed by the
first of the year. The high
school is the largest in the his
tory of the town, the enrolment
TO date being 62.
Half starved, his shoes worn
completely off his feet and his
clothes torn to shreds, Ralph
Yske limped into Mccall Friday
afternon after four days spent
wandering in the mountains near
the south fork of the. Salmon
river. Yake and a companion,
Arthur Randolph, started Tues
day morning on a deer hunt.
Raymond Moore, vice presi-
dent of the First National Bank
of Idaho at Boise was seriously
injured while on a hunting trip
Saturday afternoon when a rifle
in the hands of one of his COM
panions was accidentally dis
charged. The bullet struck Mr..
Moore in the back and came out
just under the right breast.
Robert Newell, for 10 years
clerk at the De France hotel at
Lewiston, died of appoplexy
Monday. Earlier in the evening,
while playing solitaire in the
hotel lobby, it was noticed by
George Carnegie, proprietor,
that he had been attacked, he
having let his head go slack and
mussed the cards with his arms
ON the table.
Twenty-Five years in the fed
eral penitentiary at Leaven-
worth was the sentence imposed
on Harry Workman by Judge F.
S. Dietrich in federal court Tues
} day morning, for robbing a u.
S. mail stage near Oakley last
June. Earle Posey, an accom-
} plice in the robbery, received a
sentence of three years in the
same prison.
Ali hotels i'm Boise will be We
= quired to keep a register of their
/ guests, according to an ordinance
| passed Saturday morning by the
|, city council. Each hotel will re-
e quire its guests to give their
Y name and home address. In the
1 bill "hotel" was defined as be-
1 ing a place of more than six
s rooms, where sleeping accomo-
: dations are furnished for hire to
transient pllests."
: A meeting of the stockholders
: of the Nezperce & Idaho Rail-
+ road Co., was held in Nezperce
e recently and the disposition OF
: the bonded Indebtedness of the
4 road was considered at some
# length. The Herald says that
: conclusive action was deferred
e to a later date, though sentiment
e was strong for turning the line
l. over to the bondholders to oper'
q ate.
g The country about Jerome /.
n becoming a great feeding grount
+ and pasturage for winterini
D sheep. The number already herr
+ and on the way will total clos'
e to $50, 900 heed, to be kept ther'
'e from go days to six months
le There are more sheep on thu
tract now than ever before at ont
n time, accordingl to estimate b.
ID the men who ere in close touci
S, with this business.
Don't forget to hear Senatol