Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-11-30
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

According to the Nezperce
Herald there are now eleven
first class radio receiving sets in
that city.
Thousands of application
blanks for automobile registra-
ton plates were being sent out
Saturday by the secretary of
states office to Idaho's "A coun-
ty assessors.
A carload of potatoes was
shipped last week from Nez-
perce to Sacramento, California
by E. A. Wade, former county
agent of Lewis county. Mr..
Wade inspected the potatoes
before shipment was made,
The Oregon Washington Rail
road and Navigation company
filed a petition with the public
utilities commission asking per-
mission to discontinue certain
train service between Wallace
and Enaville, both in north
Idaho.
The office of the state bureau
of highways at Lewiston Mon
day announced that the wagon
bridge over the Clearwater river
at Spalding was open to traffic.
The first autos passed over the
bridge last night. Temporary
approaches were installed that
the structure could be used.
Numbers of stock hogs on
farms in the United States on
September l were three-tenths
of one per cent more than on the
same date last year, according
to special survey conducted by
the department of agriculture.
The largest percentage increase
is shown in the states of Idaho
and Nevada, where the increase
is estimated at 20 per cent.
Sheriff William Kirkpatrick
of Bonner county and Henry
Thompson, Standpoint, convicted
early Tuesday by federal jury
on charges of conspiring to vio-
late the prohibition law, were
granted stay of sentence until
Friday. Kirkpatrick was re-
leased on his trial bond of $4,000
to clear up business matters and
his official affairs and Thompson
was released on his trial bond Of
$500.
l. w. w. prisoners in the Ida
no state penitentiary will COM
plete their full sentence, despite
efforts to obtain their release, it
was declared Thursday at the Of
flee of Governor C. C. Moore.
At the same time A. H. Conner,
attorney general, commenting
on arguments before the Bu-
preme court on a writ of habeas
corpus, labelled all l. w. w.
activity as dangerous propa-
ganda.
After a search made at his
home near Priest River. E. E..
Severns, half-brother Of the not
ed bandit, Harry Tracy, was ar
rested, charged with entering a
boxcar Of the Great Northern
and stealing a quantity Of shoes.
In the search, two pairs of shoes
were found in a dog kennel at
! the Severns place, and a number
Of shoes were recovered from
persons who are alleged to have
! bought them from Severns. Two
!, pints of liquor we're found.
/ DR.. E. T. Anderson, practic-
/ ing physician at Standpoint, was
arrested Thursday on the charge
of assaulting Zack Middleton, a
73-year-old-one-armed man OF
, that city, the assault being so
severe that it was necessary to
send Middleton to the City hospi-
r tai to have his injuries dressed
. he received black eye and
: several cuts about the head and
t shoulders, it being alleged that
8 the pugilist-physician knocked
down his opponent on two differ
ent occasions.
The biggest deal in turkeys in
the history Of Gem county was
r made when the Gem Creamery
:. company of Emmett bought
/. 5000 birds that were in poo
l. made up of six turkey grower:
C of which ]. M. Dennison is man
e ager. These turkeys weigh al
average of about ID pounds each
and the price paid is 26 cents {
# pound live weight, which is equi
k valent to 33 cents per poun<
/. dressed This means the grow
k ers get about $18, 900 for the poo
4 of turkeyx.