Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-05-18
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

station" is the way Commission
er of Agriculture Means puts it.
Sounds good.
A four-legged chicken was
Matched by a hen belonging to
Charles Simmons of Grangeville.
The chicken only lived about two
hours.
Mrs. Frank Slater of Moscow,
has, among a brood of chickens
which have just been hatched,
one chicken which has four legs,
with four well formed feet. The
chicken is considerable of a
curiosity.
A contract has recently been
closed by the Potlatch Timber
Protective association and the
Occur d'Alene association with
Captain N. B. Manner, a pilot and
aeronautical engineer of prom
inence, for patrolling their tim
Der with airplanes this summer.
A crew of sheep shearers
reaching Lewiston from Yakima
Tuesday, en- route to the upper
Snake river district, advised
wool men that they would not
proceed to the camps unless the
price of shearing be fixed at 16
cents a fleece instead of 121k&
cents. The workers said that
their action was due to advices
from union officers at Spokane.
Eleven men charged by feder-
al authorities with a huge land
fraud near Nampa, Idaho, were
arraigned in Los Angeles last
week, before u. S. Commissioner
Long. Arrests extended over
period of several weeks. Most
of the men were arrested in the
Fresno district. Accused are
charged with selling land grant
property at several times the
real value during the 1920 boom.
One fishing rod is all that one
fisherman may legally use when
fishing in Idaho, according to
the construction placed on the
Idaho law by R. E. Thomas,
state game and fish warden. The
warden also ruled that. accord
ing to the law, one line is all
that may be attached to one pole.
Any other means of taking fish
from waters of the state, except
by special permit is violation
of the law, he said.
In the Idaho state inter-
scholastic tract and field meet
held at Moscow last Friday Boise
took first place with 80 points,
Rupert second with 27 and Lew
iston third with II points. The
other schools finished in the fol-
lowing order: Twin Falls IL,
Genesee 8; Parma 8; Kooskia 6 +;
Caldwell 5, Wendall 5, Payette s,
Kamiah 3, Jerome 8, Coeur d.
Alene 2, Culdesac 2, Kellogg IL,
and Mullen ~. Rupert took the
relay event and Long of Rupert
was individual high point man
of the meet.
Land owners of the Snake
river valley, by their authori7a-
tion of the American Falls irri-
cation districts $2,750,000 bond
issues for purchase of storage
water rights at an election Sat
urday, made certain the con-
struction by the United States
reclamation service of the
American Falls reservoir at
American Falls, Idaho, to be
built at an estimated cost OF
$10,000,000 and to impound
100000 acre feet of Snake
river water. The vote was 5,101
to 522-almost 10 to one.
The Nez Perce Indians, several
hundred strong, Friday authori.
zed the signing of a contract
with Serven, Joyce & Barlow anG
John G.. Carter, attorneys Of
, Washington, D. c., under the
: terms of which the claim of the
tribesmen to a broad strip across
the state of Montana, under {
treaty, will be pushed. Tht
treaty gave to the Indians thu
t exclusive ownership and use o1
= the territory as hunting
S ground for a period Of SO years
t the boundaries being from a be
ginning at Hell's Gate near Mis-
soula, thence along the crest o.
the mountains into the Yellow
stone park and up the Yellow
stone river to the Missouri river
and thence west to about th'
southern boundary of the Gla
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