Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-08-24
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

]. M. Thompson, member of
the Idaho public utilities COM !,
mission has been elected pres,
dent of that body. He succeeds
E. M. Sweeley, whose resigna-
tion was rendered and accepted
by Governor G. c. Moore, August
Is.
Fifty-five fires were reported
in the Occur d'Alene and st. Joe
national forests as result of
lightning during the storm Sat
urday night. Rain that accom-
panied the electrical storm ex-
tinguished the fires with no SER
ious loss to timber.
Harry Baker, clerk of the
Clearwater highway district, has
been notified by ]. w. Hall, state
highway commissioner, to pro-
ceed with the sale Of the $35, 1000
worth of bonds now available.
The state will advertise for bids
for construction of the Clear
water highway within 80 days,
Commissioner Hall stated.
Twirling in vincible ball,
Lefty" Brandt carried the Kel-
logg team to a l to O victory
over the Lewiston club Sunday
in one of the best exhibitions of
baseball ever seen on the Lewis
ton diamond. After eight in
nings Of scoreless ball and with
two out in the first half Of the
ninth, the visitors pushed over
the only run of the game with a
single and a triple.
A practically new Dodge tour
ing car owned by Fran Pingree,
Of Lewiston, was left standing in
: front Of the owners home Fri
day morning without the brakes
! being thrown on, started of its
own accord and found its way
) over the embankment at the
| west end of Eighteenth avenue
and plunged to the flat land be-
low, a distance of more than 200
; feet. The car, luckily, was not
, seriously damaged, one axle and
the top suffering most.
Ellis Land, aged FL, a resident
of Kooslzia, was drowned Sun
day nine miles above Kooskia on
the Middle Fork OF the Clear
. water when he fell backward
from a log in a jam which he and
others Of the crew were trying
to break. His step-father, Mr..
Pinker, who made a valiant ef-
fort to rescue the dead man, was
under water for ten minutes,
but was taken from the river by
others who plunged into the
deep water, and was revived.
DR.. George o. Keck, agency
: physician in charge of the tuber-
culosis sanitarium, for Indians
at Lapwai, reported that the an
nual summer camp of 46 Indian
patients near Winchester had
been closed. There are about 100
patients at the sanitorium, but
during the summer many are al
lowed to go to their homes. DR..
l Keck says that the sapitarium
2 records showed that last year IS
per cent of the patients showed
' Improvement and six were dis
t charged as cured.
: The state bureau of highways
2 has filed papers with the United
States bureau of public roads at
l Ogden for another project on
< the North and South highway,
!; it was announced Saturday
i morning. The project, which is
: known as federal aid project No.
Y Ia, is located in Latah county.
: 1t will consist of the grading and
e surfacing of SOL miles of high
). way between Potlatch and Har-
S ward. 1t is estimated the work
o will cost approximately $4,000.
T. B. Hart of Culdesac was in
stantly killed Thursday when he
was thrown from a logging
' train while working for the
}, Craig Mountain Lumber COM
d pany at Winchester. Mr.. Hart
r was working with a crew OF
d about 20 men who were pushing
n the cars loaded with logs down
n an incline. When the cars were
n started the men jumped aboard
# to ride down but, according to
it the report, the brakes did not
hold and the cars ran wild. All
0 but Mr.. Hart jumped and receiv-
e ed no injuries. He was thrown
J. when the cars struck another car
h on the track. His neck was bro
: ken and death was instantane-