Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-03-02
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

Meter patrons of Bonners
Ferry, Idaho, municipal electric
light system will have their
rates reduced, effective Feb. l,
approximately 20 per cent, ac-
cording to action taken by the
city council at a meeting held
Tuesday evening.
Fifty-two years ago the white
plague made it's appearance
among the Nez 'Perce Indians
and since then hundreds of the
tribe have died from this cause
while other hundreds are afflict-
ed with tuberculosis, either in
dangerous stages OF in its in
cipiency.
An appeal to county sheriffs
of Idaho to seek cooperation of
other peace officers in rounding
up violators of the statute prov
iding for purchase of state auto
mobile licenses is made in a let
ter sent out Saturday by F. A.
Jeter, commissioner of law en-
forcement.
The Camas Prairie Railroad
company was ordered by the
public utility commission Satur-
day to refund to the Craig Noun
tain Lumber company the sum
of $3.46 Overcharge on car OF
lumber from Craig Junction,
Idaho, to Lewiston on February
18, 1922.
Ground was broken Friday at
the penitentiary in Boise for the
new $4,000 building which was
authorized by the legislature
last week and which will be used
for the manufacture of shirts
by the Reliance Manufacturing
company of Chicago under a
contract with the state.
During the late hours Of last
Monday night or early Tuesday
morning, the general store of
Albert Sogard at Culde5ac was
: entered and several hundred dol
lars worth of merchandise re-
moved. This is the second time
within one year that the Sogard
store has been burglarized.
Early Monday, the second
time in year, the safe was
blown at the government Indian
office at Lapwai. When enl-
ployees arrived they found the
office door jimmied and the
vault doors blown down. Many
valuable papers are missing,
J with $25 in cash, and $1,000 in
unregistered bonds.
Alonzo Altman, aged 6 years,
! third youngest of ten children
! constituting the family of Mr..
and Mrs. Sam Altman, of Lapwai
e was run over by a loaded coal
e wagon Tuesday and died from
S his injuries about three hours
4 later. The sad accident occur
0 red on the state highway near
e the mission, south Of Lapwai
e high school building, and so far
}. as known was not witnessed by
= anyone.
:. Governor Moore of Idaho has
! vetoed the statewide primary
: bill for the passage of which
I Senator William E. Borah made
: a spectacular campaign last fall
The bill was passed by a combi.
!, nation of the democrats, pro-
: gressives and insurgent repub-
licans who have held up neces'
sary legislation, including the
appropriation bills, for as days
in order to enforce its passage
! and approval by the governor
There is said to be no possibility
!, Of passing it over the veto.
o In railroad circles early an
d nouncement is expected by ex
l. ecutive heads of the Northern
% Pacific and o. w. r. & N
g systems that these roads hav'
<, reached an agreement whereof.
e they will Jointly build a roat
L from Orofino into the white pin
l. timber belt to serve mills nov
T. being installed there and t.
le meet transportation needs ap
l. plying to other mills to be in
lie stalled in marketing this timber
= The agreement also provide
that the new road and the Clear
water Short line of the Northern
s. Pacific shall come under tn
IN jurisdiction of the Camas Prairi
De Railway company, which oper
O, ates the Lewiston-Grangevill
branch of the Northern Pacifi