Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-12-07
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

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The services of a county agent
in Nez Perce county will be dis
continued on January /.
Creation of game preserve
in the southeastern part of Ida
no county, comprising the ter
ritory lying south of Salmon
river and east Of the 115th meri-
dian, is advocated by officials Of
the Idaho National forest, at Nc
Call.
Announcement that Idaho's
elementary schools will be in tho
market next June for arithme-
tics, spoilers, Idaho histories and
Idaho civics, were sent out by
Miss Elizabeth Russum, state
superintendent of public instruc-
ton, to leading book companies
Of the country.
Appropriation Of $350,000 to
erect an addition to the federal
building at Boise is asked in a
bill introduced Monday in the
house of representatives by Ad-
Olson T. Smith, Idaho congress-
man. The bill would allow the
completion of the building &C
cording to original plans.
While there has been consi-
derable scarlet fever among
children in the public schools,
the university has been practi-
cally free from the disease.
Within the past few days, how
ever, six cases have developed
among the students. The six
cases are bing taken care Of at
the infirmary.
Thirty three head of horses,
owned by ]. E. Dodson, road
contractor working on the state
highway between Moyie Springs
and the Idaho-Montana state
line, were killed Tuesday under
the supervision of Deputy State
Veterinarian White, Of Bonners
Ferry and Seagraves, of Occur
dAlene. The horses were in-
' fected with glanders.
= Sheriff William Kirkpatrick
of Bonner county, who was re-
:, Gently conviced in federal court
. of conspiracy to evade the pro-
:; hibition laws, Saturday warned
the board of commissioners by
letter that he would not relin-
!, quish his office and if he were
: removed and his appeal to the
2 United States circuit court of ap-
: peals is successful, he would hold
3 the county responsible for full
pay, loss Of time and expenses.
: The North Pacific Construc-
2 tion company loses $18,88O.65 as
a result of a supreme court deci-
: sion in which Bonneville county
{ commissioner are unheld for re-
n fusing to create Indebtedness
for the construction of new
court house over and above what
the people authorized in a bond
9 election. The company claims
d S159, ,341.73 due, and the county
q has but $40, ,461.08 with which
a to pay the claim. The discre-
O. pancy developed because the
: county let contracts totalinq
J. more than it had money to spend
Authorities are investigating
, the cause of death of Charlie;
e Broncheau, Nez Perce Indian
n who died at 2 o'clock Tuesday
Y. morning at his home in Lapwai
# His death is believed to have
e been due to drinking poisonous
d moonshine whisky. Broncheal
s. left his home about 8 O'Clock
l. Saturday night and returned
n- about midnight. His wife notet
at that he was in somewhat intoxi
d, Gated condition, but he complain
o. ed about being i'll. He went t.
bed and she retired. Whel
summoning him later the Wit
discovered he was dead.
Of After having kept for NOR
n than four years an accurate re
y, cord of what one acre can b
ne made to produce in the dair'
IN business, ]. S. Boone, dairyma'
ne living near Ustic, says that h
e. is not particularly concerne'
ny over agricultural conditions i
re Idaho. In 1922 he made a ne
profit of $110 per year eac
in from herd of 95 cows, an
he figured that he got pasturag
er and silage for one COW from eac
er acre. His gross profit per COY
a. was $228.51 in 1922 and he as
es serts that it will not be lowe
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