Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-07-13
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

thCduOW SICSh IIdll, Ill tue Del
way national forest, has been
completed by the forest service,
the last barrier to free travel
having been removed on July 8.
Arthur E. Clarke, president of
the First National Bank of Lew
iston, Idaho and Mrs. Clarke
sailed on June 26 from New York
for London, England, on a tour
of the British Isles and the
European continent. They will
especially visit the devasted re-
gions.
Supt. 0. H. Lipps, of the Fort
Lapwai Indian school and Nez-
perce reservation, has just COM
pleted taking the census of the
Nez Perce Indians for the fiscal
year ended June 80, which shows
a decrease of 80 members of the
tribe residing on the reservation
since the census last year.
The fire loss per capita in the
city of Lewiston for the fiscal
year starting with July /, 1922,
and ending with June 80, 1923,
was $1.92, this being based on a
population of 5000 which is very
conservative. For the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1922, the per
capita loss totaled SO, and the
preceding year $2.47.
More than 400 Idaho attorneys
are guilty Of an offense, the
penalty of which is a $500 fine
or six months imprisonment, OF
both, according to D. F. Banks,
state treasurer, at Boise, for
APT attorneys in the state have
failed to pay their annual license
fee of SIS to the state treasurer,
provided for in an act of the
1923 legislature.
A heavy wool crop is reported
from the sheep ranges in the
country surrounding higgins,
and 100 per cent increase in
lambs. Shipments of lambs ag-
gregating S175,000 in value
have been shipped east via New
Meadows and Mccall. On the
river between higgins and White
Bird, $4,000 worth of wool has
been shipped through the parcel
post to Grangeville.
Automobile registrations up
to July l of this year are ap-
proximately 500 less than the
, total recorded for all of 1922, it
was announced Tuesday at the
office of F. A. Jeter, secretary of
state. For the first six months
of this year the secretary's Of
flee had issued 53,367 licenses
for passenger cars and trucks
combined. The total for all of
last year was 53,874.
Fire followed death at the
John l.. Crowser household, near
Clifford, when at 5:45 O'clock
Monday morning the fine ranch
home of Mr.. Crowser, who died
suddenly of heart failure Friday
! night, was burned to the ground.
Practically all Of the household
! effects were saved from the
: flames, and the body of Mr..
: Crowser was removed to safety.
/. The fire destroyed the house and
. cellar and several outbuildings.
Unity Gold Mines company,
of Warren, of which j. A. Czizek,
former state mine inspector is
' manager, is installing a 100000
. hydro-electric plant on Elk creek
f tributary of the South Fork of
' Salmon river, to supply power to
: the Warren mining district. The
plant is to be of sufficient Ca
q pacity to care for requirements
: of the district for years to come
O Work of construction and insall-
p alton will be completed this
season.
: The o. w. R. & N. company
e boats will handle the largest
t wheat tonnage ever moved from
d Snake river points since the con-
struction of the Lewiston
Riparia branch railroad this
year, it is said. Estimates rur
IL as high as 100000 bushels
e, Prior to the construction of the
IS railroad, wheat was moved by
IS boat from both sides of thu
f. Snake and transferred to rail a
re Riparia. Since that time tht
Is grain hauling has been confined
to the crop on the south side o
the river and that of the rive
n. grain districts above Lewiston.