Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-06-22
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

en- route to Spokane on his way
to pay an official visit to the
territory of Alaska, will p IS
through Standpoint on the North
ern Pacific railway on the after
noon of July 2 shortly after l
o'clock.
G. L. Armstrong of Spokane,
formerly in the banking bust
ness at Oroville, Wash, and re-
Gently connected with the In
land Empire Securities COM
pany at Spokane, has accepted
position with the Ehrhardt In
vestment company in the mort
gage department at Lewiston.
The postoffice at Clarksfork
was partially destroyed by fire
early Sunday morning and con-
siderable amount of mail matter
was reported to have been dam
aged by water and smoke. Mrs.
Flora Rotz, postmistress, and
her daughter, who lived on the
second floor of the building, lost
their personal effects.
Lazy husbands in Idaho are
likely to find this state an un-
comfortable place in which to
live, if probate judges in other
counties adopt the policy that
, Judge F. E. Chalfant of Ada
county, has actually put into
force and effect, for he is apply
| ing what is known as the "lazy
husband" law. Willard Case was
, the first husband to feel it. He
was sentenced to serve four
2 months at hard labor on the
5 county roads because he refused
! to work and provide for his wife.
William and Daniel Boise,
: both of Lewiston, appeared at
+ the office of United State Com
+ missioner H. r. Smith Thursday
at Moscow, and furnished bond
: for their appearance at the fall
). term of the federal court to
s answer to charge of violating
e the national prohibition act.
s Bench warrants were issued by
e Federal Judge Frank S. Dietrich
i last November for the two men,
e but never served owing to the
; fact that they were absent.
!, Their appearance was voluntary.
5 Each furnished $4,000 bond.
The mystery which has pre-
vailed in the mind Of the public
for the last two years over the
cause of the suicide of George
a Meitzeler, former cashier of the
/ Union Central bank of May, who
g was found dead with self-in-
i flicted bullet wound in August
5 of 1921, was cleared up in the
u federal court at Boise, Monday,
T. when the fact was established
8 that Meitzeler killed himself be-
u cause he believes certain note
forgeries which he had commit
= ted were known to Bank Com
le missioner Fralick.
- Two state prisoners, Edward
y Roscoe and Albert Mcdonald,
a were committed to the state
q insane asylum at Blackfoot Sat-
~ urday following hearings held at
- the penitentiary before Probate
~ ~ Judge F. E. Chalfant. Both men,
y according to the authorities,
g have evidenced signs of insanity
70 for some time. When the keeper
- opend the door of Mcdonald s
~ cell recently where he was kept
in solitary confinement he dart
ed out and climbed up one of the
telephone poles in the prison
OF yard and it was several hours
a before he could be persuaded tc
as come down.
~ Frank Strand, alleged slayer
~ Of E. Wedel, a farmer neal
e Santa, was shot and mortally
er wounded early Monday in a gur
OF battle with posse of seven men
OF headed by James Mcdonald, 6
VI state officer. The battle which
'n took place on the homestead Of
York Martin on Gold creek
seven miles east of Clarkia
started at $3.50 Monday morn
mt ing and terminated an houl
Dte later. Strand had boasted HI
ed would not be taken alive. Aftel
to being mortally wounded by l
he rifle ball which passed through
ro- his body rifle shot through tn,
lr- fleshy part of his left arm, on'
he in the right thigh, and another
to in the left leg. Strand managet
* to reach the Martin cabin, 81
no wards awav whore hp was f0aru6