Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-12-14
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

WalSer 5. GreathouSe OF
Boise, whose appointment as
Rhodes scholar from Idaho was
announced Sunday, is the thir-
teenth University of Idaho stu
dent to receive this honor.
James M. Shaw, formerly en-
gagged in the newspaper busd-
ness, was appointed postmaster
of Kooskia by President Coolidge
the appointment having gone to
the senate for approval on Dec
ember 10th.
Governor c. c. Moore has Of
fered personal reward of $50
for the return to Idaho of Will
lard Case, first man to be con-
victed under Idaho's lazy hus-
band" law, enacted by the 1923
legislature. When last heard
from Case was in Mississippi,
from where he wrote a letter re-
fering sarcastically to the Idaho
authorities.
School was dismissed Tuesday
at Craigmont when the water
pipes were found to be frozen,
hindering the operation of the
heating plant in the new school
building. Men worked all day
thawing out the pipes. The
suddenness of the recent cold
snap caught the janitor unpre-
pared and sufficient precaution
against freezing was not taken.
Yields per acre of all combin-
ed Idaho crops in 1928 are 1885
per cent above the average of re-
cent years, according to an in
, formation bulletin recently is
, sued by the United States de-
. partment of agriculture. Copies
Of the bulletin have been receiv-
ed by M. l.. Dean, Idaho director
of plant industry. The average
of the entire country by states is
96.1 per cent.
) Seven petitions, with names
: of 788 residents of Burke, re-
2 questing resumption of passen-
3 ger train service before Decem-
= Der 10 between Wallace and
a Burke, were filed with the public
utilities commission by w. H.
4 Hoover of the Hercules Mining
t company. Service on this branch
3 was discontinued last summer at
: the request of the railroads be-
: cause of decreased business
! caused by the Burke fire in July.
Mike Donnely, negro life term
= er, was shot in the shoulder We'd
nesday after he had sawed out
I of his cell in the cell house,
/ gained the liberty Of the prison
a yard and failed to obey the COM
mand of Prison Guard Larter,
who fired the shot which stop
' ped the would-be fugitive's es-
q cape over the wall at the state
I penitentiary. The bullet broke
9 the bone Of the left arm near
4 the shoulder and had not been
!. extracted at late hour Tuesday
= afternoon. The wound is not
q severe.
: Police Chief Tom Baker of
/ Nampa officated, so to speak, at
:. family affair late Saturday
night, when he placed his son-in-
y law, John Mccarthy, under ar
q rest, and later turned him over
y to the sheriff. Mccarthy, the
chief said, was serving another
e man with liquor in a store. Az
1t Mr.. Baker entered, Mccarthy
Ie according to the chiefs account
poured the contents of the bot
'e tie on the floor. Enough moon
lr shine was retrieved with the ai(
II of a cloth to prove the nature O.
IS the beverage, Mr.. Baker declar
y ed.
at The Northern Pacific Rail
way company Saturday filed al
application with the Idaho publi
utilities commission for permits
IN sion to discontinue two train
* operating daily between Paradis
n Montana and Kootenai, Idaho
IS. Protests against favorable &C
Ill ton by the commission on tn
i'd company's application have bee
ig filed by the Improvement clu
ms of Clarks Fork "a station on tn
We railroad, and patrons of the lin
,e- at Hope, Idaho. The compan,
re says it is losing 300 per cent o.
id the operation alone of the trains
ng and the patrons say they will b
sr, greatly inconvenienced if tn
trains are eliminated