Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-09-21
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

Eugene V. DebS, Socialist
party leader in America and
five times its nominee for presl-
dent, will be a visitor in Pocatello
the later part of this month.
The long fight that Benewah
county has been waging to gain
assessment on the Coeur d'Alene
and ST. Joe Naviation company
was won on August %, when the
state equalization board decided
that Is per cent of the Red Col
lar Lines assessment was to be
added to Benewah county's list.
{ Word has been received in
Crangeville from j. Frank Sims
that oil has been struck on his
property in California. In a
letter to his son he tells of three
flowing wells on the land in
which he holds one-sixth inter-
est. Two wells are bing drilled
on property owned entirely by
Mr.. Sims. This land is encircled
by oil producing wells belonging
to other parties.
Harry Pruitt, Waha, Idaho,
Saturday won the annual buck
ing contest at the lewiston
Charleston tIi-state fair, with
Carl McCullugh second and
Thomas Sutton third. Despite
an unfavorable wind that kept
many from the grounds there
was a large crowd to witness the
final program, and the Indian
events, both in parades and
horse races, proved popular.
Governor Moore has taken a
definite stand against the re-
lease from the states prison of
A. S. Embree, w. E. Herd and
r. Quackenbush, convicted of
violating the state criminal syn
dicalism law. The American
Civil Liberties Union of New
York City, it is alleged, is writ
ing letters to Idaho citizens urg-
ing them to make pleas before
the state board of pardons for
the release of these men.
A. H. Connor, attorney gen.
eral, Friday approved the petl-
tion for forming the Social par
ty of Idaho, filed several days
ago with the secretary of state
by Charles Camans, state organ
izer. The petition was sam
pie copy of the one the organt
zers of the new party proposed
to circulate in the state for suf-
ficient signatures to enable the
party to be legally recognized in
the next election.
Frank K. Hyde, formerly Of
Boise, who gave himself up to
Los Angeles police Friday, was
secretly indicted some time ago
by the federal grand jury on
charges of embezzling funds
from the First National Bank of
, Buhl, Idaho. E. G. Davis, Unit
! ed States attorney, said the to-
,, tai amount alleged to have been
embezzled would reach approx
mately $4,000, extending over
a period of about two years.
: Appeal to the state supreme
{ court from decision of Judge E.
5 C. Steele of the Second judicial
district, in the case of McCon-
: non & Co., against Jesse w. Bur-
( CESS and others, has been taken
I by the company. The trial court
dismissed the action of the Nc
Common company which sought
to collect 1868 for flavoring ex-
8 tracts handled by Burgess as its
: agents. The defense was that
+ the extracts were strongly al
/ coholic and by testimony it was
o shown that the extracts were
: purchased by several persons for
O beverage purposes as intox1-
@ cants.
S Idaho's share Of the net re-
y ceipts from national forest re-
serves in the state for the year
i ending June 80, amounts to
e $148,705, Gov. c. c. Moore was
y informed in a letter from the
IS United States forest service. A
7. check for this amount Will be
forwarded. Under a federal law.
n % per cent of all money paid
n into the United States treasury
e from national forest earnings is
is returned to the state in which
le the forests are located. When the
E. money arrives it will be appor.
y toned to the counties for school
lie purposes on the basis of the
,k number of acres of national for
ests land in the county.