Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-06-23
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items Of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

The cherry season in the Lew
iston region is now on, and cam
neries in Lewiston will be rum
ming a full shift this week.
The final game of the Lewis
county league will be played with
Winchester Sunday at Winches-
ter. This is the final and crucial
game of the season. Craigmont
has to win this game to win the
pennant.
One million four hundred
thousand pounds of wool, valued
at approximately 1864, 1872,
which represents the wool clip of
Emmett's principal woolgrowers,
has been sold, and most of it is
on its way to eastern markets.
Charles Pawson died Monday
at his home in Twin Falls from
spotted fever, resulting from
tick bite received about 10 days
ago at his ranch in the country.
Pawson was 3S years of age and
leaves a wife and four small
children.
Definite assurance of the inn
mediate beginning of the expsndi
ture of $4,000, 900 on additions
and improvements of the Oregon
Short Line in Idaho were given
by ii. ii. Adams, vice president
of the Union Pacific, following q
conference with Governor Davis.
Francis M. Snider, of Orofino,
civil war veteran and pioneer of
Nebraska and Idaho since 1870,
peacefully passed away at the
home of his son, II. r. Snider,
Tuesday. He was born in Vir-
ginia in 1882 being at the time
of his death 80 years and rs days
old.
With the resumption of activi-
ties in the lumber business, the
Potlatch Lumber company has
gone into the market to purchase
60 head of heavy horses for use
in their woods operations. Some
two years ago the company dis
posed of all their heavy horses
and shut down their camps,
awaiting renewed activity in the
lumber business.
The people of Idaho, or rather
the 5:96 per cent of them who
made returns TO the government
in 1920 paid income taxes
amounting to $1,086,614 in in
comes that aggregated SGT 1884,
639, according to data compiled
by the commissioner of internal
revenue. The tax paid in Idaho
was one tenth of one per cent of
all income taxes collected for
1920.
The Lewiston city council has
authorized Police Commissioner
Charles f.. Parker, acting in con-
junction with Nez Perce county
and Lewiston chapter of the Red
Cross to employ a policewoman,
whose duty it shall be to give
rigid inspection to public dances
and the manner in which the
swimming resort at the beach is
conducted, as well as to investi-
gate other gatherings of a public
nature.
DR.. NJ. J. Sisley, swine special
ist of the u. S. bureau of animal
industry with headquarters in
Boise, has been in the Lewiston
section for the past several days
investigating the hog cholera
situation. DR.. Sisley reports
that no cases of cholera have
been discovered except at the
Howard & Stanfield ranch on
Lindsay creek and the situation
there has been handled in a most
creditable manner by DR.. A. j.
Powell, of the state department.
Leroy c. Jones, former game
warden, owes the state of Idaho
S1139.50 for fish and game
licenses unaccounted for during
his term of office. After deliber-
ating five hours, the district
court jury which heard the
states case against Jones to col
lect $4,000 for game licenses al
legged to be unaccounted for, Fri
day night returned a verdict for
the state for S122.40 on the first
cause of action, $1017.1O on the
second cause and nothing on the