Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-04-06
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

were $500 men employed in Ida
no mines, an increase of 1860
over the 1921 average.
Persons filing claims against
the state for the refund of the
$50 fee paid for 1928 tobacco
licenses may not expect their
money for at least 80 days, it
was announced at the state au-
ditor's office in Boise.
The commissioners of the
Kamiah highway district award
ed the contract for barb wire and
stapeles for fencing the right OF
way Of the new highway TO the
Cash Hardware of Kamiah.
There is twelve miles of the
fencing and the contract calls for
$500 pounds of wire.
George Hearst, son of William
Randolph Hearst, the million
aire newspaper publisher and
Miss Blanche Wilbur, daughter
Of o. X. Wilbur, of Idaho Falls,
Idaho, eloped from the Univer-
sity of California at Berkeley
and were married Monday. Both
have been prominent in college
activities.
Licensed osteopaths in the
state of Idaho are not autholiz-
ed to practice medicine or sur
gerry, according to an opinion Of
the state supreme court Satur-
day. The opinion upholds the
conviction of Fl. w. Sawyer, who
was found guilty Of practicing
medicine and surgery without q
license.
Charging that her neighbors
had enticed her roomers and
boarders away from her rooming
house. Mrs. Belle Coghlan APP
pealed to the Boise city council
Tuesday to pass some regulation
or a, "rule" prohibiting them
from competition by offering
cheaper rates. No action was
taken by the council.
The rapid development of the
automobile stage for the trans
portation of passengers from one
point to another in this state,
has resulted in a decision being
reached by those engaged in the
stage business, to install in
Boise a union stage depot for
the general accommodation and
convenience of the public.
Henry Piger, a Kellogg war
veteran, was married to Jane
Sanguinet of Bordeaux, France,
in Spokane last week. The cou-
pie had kept up a steady CORES
pondence since the war. The
bride is Is years of age and
came the whole distance alone.
They will live at Kellogg, where
Piger is employed by a mining
company.
The Craig Mountain lumber
company expects to make a re-
cord run this year. The mill,
which has been running all win
ter, closed down recently for re-
pairs, but will not remain closed
down. The company now has
100000 feet of logs accumu-
lated from the winter work in
the woods, and st1l has a crew
of 100 men in the woods.
With thick ice still locking a
considerable portion of Lake
Pend Oreille at the Standpoint
end the Humbird Lumber COM
pany tired out the use of steam
to open up its log pond. The
: steam was carried from the boil
er room in pipe and turned
out over the surface of the ice
through jets which released it at
considerable pressure. The ex-
pertinent was partially success
, full, but was abetted by the use
Of dynamite.
The Ku Klux Klan made its
: first recorded appearance in
Lewiston, Sunday, night when at
the close of the Easter service at
, the Christian church three men,
| bers of the klan( hooded and
+ robed in the regalia of the orga-
; nization, appeared bearing gift
: Of S25 to Rev. Ohio Williams OF
Bellingham) who concluded q
r two weeks service Of evangelis-
: tic meetings at the Christian
2 church, and presented to the
S minister a communication in be-
t half Of the Lewiston Provi-
Y sional Klan, Knights of the Ku
e Klux Klan," this commencing
the stand for righteousness TAX
;. en- hv him during his efforts In