Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-04-13
news AROUND
The STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

Persons thinking of investing
in cattle to start in the dairy
business were Friday urged by
Mark Means, state commissioner
of agriculture, to buy carefully
and see that they are getting
healthy stock.
Of an estimated total of go
742 mule deer in Idaho, 1727
were killed by hunters and S065
were killed by predatory animals
according to the Game Census
for 1922" issued by the United
States forestry office.
Kooskia's new high school
building is completed at a saving
of over $4,000 to the district
under what it would have cost
if built by contract, the directors
erecting the building by force
account. The cost of the building
was S16,8OO.
James R. Lydon, for so years
a resident of Lewiston and
among it's best known and most
highly respected citizens, passed
from this life Thursday morning
at $3.50 o'clock at the family
residence, death ensuing from
cancer Of the liver.
0. Y. Mason, sheriff of Can
yon county, was fined 5000 by
Judge F. S. Dietrich Monday
morning, following a hearing on
a citation issued against the
sheriff involving contempt of
court for allowing a federal
prisoner certain privileges not
permitted by law.
An advance Of IL 1-2 percent
for hail insurance on fruit in the
Lewiston country is announced
by the hail insurance companies.
This is an advance from 7 per-
cent paid last year, and s per-
cent paid the year before, and
3 1-2 percent previous to that
time.
The $4,000 bond election in
Kendrick highway district car
ried 306 to 81. This assures COM
pletion of trunk road through
the district to connect with the
highway to Lewiston. The con-
tract has been let to Campbell &
Barr The highway covered in
the intended Improvement is
about four miles long and joins
the new improvement in Ken
drick at each end of town.
Emmett Bramlett, 12-year-old
son or Mr.. and Mrs. John Bram-
lett living in the Calvary district
eight miles north of Craigmont,
was severely wounded Friday of
last week, when a shotgun car
ried by his older brother was ac-
cidentally discharged while the
, latter was going through fence
The boy is now resting easy at
his home with 38 shots in his
right hand, IL in his left and
t about 80 over his heart and side.
Sheriff William Kirkpatrick
! and Deputy Ralph Cocker of
Standpoint made a rich haul early
Sunday morning when they
stopped the Spokane-bound Spo-
; kane International freight train
! which daily runs between Gran
; brook and Spokane. They took
! off between 60 and 70 cases of
J. "bottled-in-bond" liquor which
had a retail market value of
!. about $4,000 at the going rates
!, of SO per quart in Standpoint.
! William Miller, farmer OH
9 the Ehlert ranch near Lapwai
has lost 20 cattle within the last
10 days out Of a herd of rs.
State Veterinary Adams OF
6 Boise was summoned and his ex-
], animation determined that the
n stock was starving to death
n The animals fed on straw al
4 winter and, according to the
/ veterinary, were so weak wher
y they were turned out on greer
f pasture they were unable te
3 rechperate.
r. Despite the failure of practi'
e cally every bank on the Minido.
ka project during the past two OF
three years, including the three
at Burley, the financial outlook
'e for the agrarian population il
:. the immediate vicinity of Burles
il and in Cassia county is fast as
l. Stunning a tint of brilliance fol
the coming season, according t.
Steve Parke, new appointee o.
,e Governor Moore to the office o.
e commissioner of public invest
ments.