Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-12-21
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

Sentences of Imprisonment
imposed during the Federal term Z
at Moscow by Judge Dietrich
totaled sc months and fines inn
posed tot led $15,95O.
A careful check to see that all
automobiles in Idaho are either
registered in 1924 or a personal
property tax is paid on them
will be made by F. A. Jeter, sec
retary of state, it was announced
Thursday.
Charles Broncheau, Indian.
who died at his home near
Lapwai, was victim of alcohol
poisoning, as shown by an analy-
sis of the stomach. At the time
of Broncheau's death officers at
Lapwai sought the arrest of
Cleve Kagby, but he had left the
country.
Three members of the Twin
Falls high school, senior class
we're injured by flying frag-
ments of plaster when one-third
of the ceiling of the room in
which the class of about 100
members was assembled, early
Friday afternoon, crashed to the
floor. None of the injured
students was severely hurt.
William Boise and Daniel
Boise, Lewiston, found guilty
Monday by federal jury on
nine counts of liquor law viola
tions, were sentenced by Judge
Frank S. Dietrich. William
Boise, the father, was fined
$1,000 and given two months in
the Bonner county Jail, and Dam
iel Boise, the son, was fined
$1,000 and given eight months in
the Bonner county Jail.
Mike Donnely, negro life term
er at the state prison, whose at
tempted break Tuesday was
checked by a bullet from
guards rifle, was resting easily
Wednesday, and prison attend
ants said he should soon be able
to be out. The wound, they said,
was clean, and unless infection
sets in will heal readily. The
bullet has not yet been extract
ed.
Senator w. E. Bnrah viii
! have to prove that he is a Re-
publican if he wants southeast
, Idaho's Endorsement for the
renomination," declared Cheney
st. Clair Of Idaho Falls, chair
man of the 1922 republican
state convention, eve will be
hea rtily f r the senator as senat-
orial candidate in 1924 if he
/ shows he is the kind of a man
: the Republicans can support,
otherwise we will have to look
= elsewhere for our leader"
Sheriff William Kirkpatrick
was ousted from office at the
close of a hearing in district
court before Judge w. F. Nc
Naughton. The court held that
the office had been vacant from
the time of Kirkpatrick's con-
! viction in federal court at Occur
l d'Alene, late in November, upon
, a charge of conspiracy to COM
NIT an offense against the Uni
: ted States. Judge McNaughton,
upon a review of Bonner county
!, commissioners procedure, ruled
i; that the appointee, Fred A. Han
! son, Priest River, was entitled to
: the office and was sheriff.
> Spontaneous combustion in q
5O-ton pile of coal in the base,
ment of the high school building
at Genesee caused a fire that
E burned two days and necessitat-
a ed removal of the pile from the
I building. The school building is
: brick and concrete and fireproo1
= throughout. Aside from the
= furry when discovered, the fire
q has not interfered with schoo
I work. This is the second fire
! of this nature in the boiler room
since the building was built II
1912. Six years ago the bunk
n ers were stored with Ignite Goa
. during the summer and it was
thought the hot sunlight re
= flecting through the windows
l. caused combustion at that time