Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-07-28
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items Of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ber-
eft of Our Readers.

ulary on duty in various railroad
centers of the state during the
shopmen's strike will not be re-
called at this time, Governor d.
w. Davis announced Saturday in
a statement issued to the press.
Angered because his daughter
overlooked the purchase of pair
of gloves for him, Casper Bor-
sum, age 72, committed suicide
Saturday by drowning in Fernan
lake, mile northeast of Coeur d
Alene.
The city water service at Nez-
perez was very much impaired
last week by both supply pumps
being broken down at the same
time. Pumping was stopped
for three days while repairs were
being made and the reservoir
supply ran very low.
John A. Mcfarland, Coeur d
Alene, Idaho, and Wallace III.
Barnes, Wallace, Idaho, recently
appointed by Representative
French TO the United States mil.
itary academy at West Point,
have passed all examinations, it
is announced.
An election held at Craigmont
last week TO vote on an issue of
500, 900 bonds to be used to retire
that amount of warrants of the
old villages of lilo and Vollmer,
resulted in a defeat for the prop
osition. Thirteen more votes
were poled against it than for il.
Agnes Wren the ten year old
daughter of |. @. Wren of the
Clifford county. had a narrow
escape from serious injury when
she fell from the top of her faith
ers barn 40 feet to the bottom of
the hay loft and landing on q
small clump of hay escaping with
only broken ankle.
Compensation totaling $780,
75 was Thursday awarded to +.
B. Bonner of Lewiston by the
state industrial accident board,
for an injury happening to him
last September, when he was
struck in the eye with piece of
wire. The injury resulted in
the total loss of sight of the
right eye.
Because of i'll heath Charles
Ii. Gelbach resigned as postmas-
ter at Kooskia after nearly
twenty years of most efficient
service in the position. Mr..
Gelbach will go to California,
near Los Angeles, where he owns
property, in the hope that a
change Of climate viii restore his
health.
Byron Defenbaugh, well
known business man of Lewiston
whose name has been much
mentioned for the Republican
nomination for lieutenant COVER
nor, says he is willing to make
: the race, if the state convention
thinks favorably of his candi-
dacy, although he is not an
active candidate for any office.
The mile stretch of road be-
tween Sites and Kooskia will be
completed within the next 80
days, according to Sam Boudry,
the contractor in charge. The
road in question is cut through
an almost solid wall of rock for
the entire distance, and the ma
terial blasted away was crushed
and placed in the Clearwater
river now forming the road bed.
The road ranges from % to 40
feet in width in places, and
where the rock was placed in the
, stream there was formerly a
/. depth of about 20 feet.
, An explosion in a combine
machine at work on the wheat
ranch of Hansell brothers, four
miles east of Lewiston Wednes-
? day, supposed to he due to black
5 smut, fired the standing grain
5 in which the machine was at
/ work, and before the efforts of
5 all the men of the community.
1 aided by detail from the Lewis
4 ton fire department, 100 citizens
of the town and all the tractors
and teams in the vicinity had
) suhdued the flames, 150 acres of
Y standing grain and $50 acres OF
2 stubble and pasture land was