Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-03-03
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

The public school at Craigmont
was closed this week on account
of the flu.
Business men of NeZperce
have organized community
club to bring about betterments
in the town.
Culdesac won the basket ball
tournament at Lewiston last
week which entities them to en-
ter the state tournament at Mos
COW.
Examination for the postmast-
er of Kamiah will be held in
kooskia at the office of the for
est supervisor on Saturday,
March 18th. The Kamiah office
pays S1700.00 a year.
The high school at Genesee
was closed Friday by order of
the health authorities because
of the influenza epidemic which
has become prevalent in the last
few days. OF an enrolment of
80 in the high school, 81 We're
absent.
Idaho Vandals, winners of the
Pacific coast and Northwestern
basketball conference champion
ships, will play for the basketball
championship of the United
States at Indianapolis, Ind,
March 9, 10, and IL.
Homer E. Estes, recently ap-
pointed postmaster at Moscow,
resigned Tuesday as Latah coun-
ty auditor and recorder and
Harry A. Thatcher, chief deputy
county auditor and recorder, was
appointed by the Latah county
commissioners to succeed him.
There will be available a total
of $350,000 for the construction
of the Lewis and Clark highway
this year, if the recommended
tions of the forest service are
approved by the secretary Of
agriculture" said Major F. A.
Fem, of Kooskia. who returned
recently from Missoula.
G.. A. Horal, former cashier of
the Stockmen's National bank of
Nampa and officer of the First
National bank of Fairfield, plead
cd guilty Saturday to one of
four indictments charging him
with the misapplication of funds,
and was sentenced to three years
at McNeill Island by Judge F. s.
Dietrich.
Petitions are being circulated
in Lewis county to be presented
to the Lewis county commission
ers, for the establishment of a
county poor farm at Kamiah.
The petition, it is said, is being
freely signed. Kamiah with its
ideal climate no doubt will be
given the poor farm should the
commissioners decide in favor of
such an institution.
An armored Holt caterpillar
tractor sent from Boise to Mos
COW by the state highway de-
partment, will be used to open
the highway between Moscow
and Lewiston, which has been
closed to automobile traffic be-
cause of drifted snow for a
month. The tractor will be US
ed to push the snow plow and it
is believed that the road can be
opened within few days.
A. A. Hansen, arrested last
week on a charge of involuntary
manslaughter of Matte c. Shaw
at the headquarters of the inner
circle of the Jesus Christ home,
near Culdesac, where it was al
legged she received religious
treatment resulting in her death,
Friday was released under S10,-
900 bonds. Walter Shaw, hus-
band of the dead woman, is con-
fined in the Nez Perce county
Jail, having been unable to furn-
ish $4,000 bonds.
George Borovich, held in the
Latah county Jail at Moscow OH
a charge of assault with deadly
weapon, attempted suicide Sat
urday night by hanging. He
was found by other prisoners
who cut the man loose as he
neared suffocation. Borovich,
who was held for the assault
charge pending an investigation
of his sanity, was committed to
} the Northern Idaho sanitarium
at Orofino by Probate Judge
Nelson Monday morning.