Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-09-07
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

steers and cows to the Spokane
markets, Tuesday accompanying
the shipment in person.
The case of the Ft. Misery
Highway district against the
State Bank of Kamiah involving
the deposit of $26, ,823.8O of the
districts bond money in that in
stitution was decided last week
by Judge Scales in favor of the
highway district.
Father Thomas J. Purcell who
has recently been appointed pas
tor of the St. Vincent De Paul
parish at Burke announced that
plans are being drafted for q
new church to be built on the
same site as the one that was
destroyed by the fire that swept
Burke July 13. The church
will have a full basement.
According to an opinion hand
ed down last Friday by the Idaho
state supreme court, in the case
of Susa B. Oversmith of Moscow,
against the commissioners of
highway district No. 2 of Latah
county, highway commissioners
in the state of Idaho may not in
vest funds Of the district in any
other way except that prescribed
by the Idaho law.
Mrs. T. ]. McAndrew of Lane,
Idaho, writes The Pend d'Oreille
Review OF Standpoint in which
the claim is made that she is
Idaho's war mother and as such
is entitled to have all Of her ex-
penses paid to the convention of
the National War Mothers that
will be held in Kansas City in
September. Mrs. McAndrew
writes as follows: II had four
sons in the late war, all of whom
saw service in France"
A fine new Helca Mining o.,
plant will be built to replace the
one destroyed by fire at Burke,
Idaho, July 13. New structures
will be fireproof, with latest
equipment and will produce 275,-
900 tons annually. The improve
ments will require six months
but dividends will not be dis
turbed and the company is pro-
tected from business loss by the
"use and occupancy" insurance
it carried.
After having spent al years
in the timbered district at the
foot of Gold Hill, northeast Of
Harvard, isolated to a great ex-
tent from the rest of the world,
! and spending their time and
what money they could get to-
gether in the vain hope of devel-
oping a mine which would make
them independent, Mr.. and Mrs.
Adam Carrico were taken to
Moscow, Saturday, and have
been sent to the county home,
one and one-half miles north of
; Moscow, to spend the remainder
Of their days.
: The climax to Boise's efforts
9 to secure construction of the
J main line of the Oregon Short
line railroad into Boise, came
when custer proceedings were
instituted in the district court
! for Ada county against the
trustees of the Boise citizens
right-of-way - r. j. Johnson
: Summer Dee and M. w. Wood
q all of Boise. The applicants tc
: the petition for the removal Of
q the trustees are Mayor Eugene
n B. Sherman; H. A. Lawson
. president of the chamber of com
4 merce, and James H. Hawley
ex-governor of the state.
v Fire last week destroyed thu
+ entire cut of the McKeen mill a
) Caribel, 100000 feet of sawet
It lumber in piles being consumet
l. within the space of a few hours
The mill recently finished it,
1t cut of 100000 feet and hauler,
IT had just begun to bring the pro
d duct down the hill for shipmen
n to the Occur dAlene Lumber Co
which had contracted for the ou
put of the mill. Five carload'
had been shipped out. Tn
ID value Of the lumber destroyed i
t, estimated at about $50, 700. Tn
le Coeur d'Alene company ha'
in advanced some $40, on it, bu
n had this equity covered by in
e. surance. Mr.. McKeen had no in
ip surance on his share nor any o
the mill property.