Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-09-28
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

MISS ECnel heOIQelQ mas Deeu
appointed inspector of high
schools for the state of Idaho.
The appointment comes through
the cooperation of the UniVer-
sity of Idaho and the state board
of education. Miss Redfield will
have her headquarters at Boise.
more milk pals and fewer
chaps and saddles are needed for
ldaho's economic prosperity, and
more contented homes for its
domestic happiness" said Giver-
nor c. c. Moore, in an informal
talk before the members of the
good citizenship club at the
chamber of commerce in Boise,
Tuesday.
The United States supreme
court will be asked at its October
term to decide whether Ray
Moore, Boise banker, was guilty
of violating the law for having
intoxicating liquor in his possess
sion. The district court and the
state supreme court both have
held Moore guilty under the
state law. He was fined $50
and sentenced to serve 80 days
in Jail by the district court
judge.
The estate of Geo. P. Creigh-
ton, pioneer merchant of Mos
COW, was entered for probate in
the Latah county probate court
Saturday by Jennie B. Creigh-
ton, the surviving widow. Mr..
Creighton, who died in Los
Angeles, July 81, 1928, left no
will but the property set out in
the petition is alleged to be COM
munity personal property inter-
ests in Spokane. The property Is
appraised at $85, 1000.
D. F. Banks, state treasurer,
,, received Monday a check for
$3.50 from the estate Of David
Hutchinson, who died recently
in Shoshone county without a
will and without relatives. I'M
der the state law this money is
! placed in the escheated estate
: fund of the treasurer where it
remains until claim is made to
it. If it is not claimed within
: five years it is placed to the
credit of the public school en-
dowment fund.
Iver Bolser, age II, of Fargo,
N. D., was almost instantly Kill
led at Standpoint Wednesday
when he fell beneath the wheels
of a Northern Pacific freight
train at the passenger station.
, Bolser caught the step at the
! back end of a freight car as his
: partner, Lyle Bacon, also II, and
from Fargo, caught the ladder
at the front of the next car.
Bolser's grasp failed and he fell.
f striking against Bacon. He
/ rolled under the wheels between
the cars, his body cut in half
across the hips.
: Robert Ford, alias Noah Ar
mold colored, self-confessed mur-
derer of w. A. Crisp of Hope,
Idaho, July 16, will hang Thurs
day, November l for the crime.
The execution will take place at
the state penitentiary at Boise,
| where death watch was placed
over the prisoner Monday morn
ing. Mike Donnelly, who gave
himself up shortly after his COM
| panion in crime was arrested,
was sentenced within a few min
utes of Ford to hard labor in the
state prison for the balance Of
his natural life. Judge w. F. Nc
Naughton of Standpoint passing
sentence on both negroes.
| Donald Stedman, 18, whose
mother resides in Spokane, died
almost instantly from injuries
received at 1:30 o'clock Sunday
morning at Craigmont when a
car in which he was riding
struck the end of a truck parked
for the night in front of the
Craigmont hotel. The automo-
bile struck the projectin end of
the truck on the right side and
ran along for almost the distance
of the car. The radiator was
struck at the outer edge, the
hood was creased and the right
hand post of the windshield was
demolished and 1T was this that
was thrown against the young
mans body. Death ensued, il
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