Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-10-19
news AROUND
THE STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

lhe greatest game OF the year
today, Idaho VS.. w. S. C.
Idaho wheat yield is estimated
by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture to be 28,-
100000 bushels.
A fiery cross was displayed on
one OF the ranches east of Nez-
perce at $3.50 Saturday night.
This was the first demonstration
of the kind in that vicinity.
The Wendell cheese factory
received 5000 pounds of milk on
one day just recently. Increasing
business makes the farmer think
well of the dairying business in
this community.
After serving more than seven
years as agricultural agent OF
Nez Perce county, Waldo w.
Skuse has placed his resignation
in the hands of the clerk of the
board of county commissioners.
The village of Orofino will
get the full amount of it's de-
posits in the Fidelity State Bank
at the time the latter closed it's
doors, is assured unless the case
is taken to the supreme court
and Judge Steele's decision re-
versed. This is not considered
probable by village officials.
Mrs. Ella Patterson Tanna-
hill, age 46, wife of Attorney S.
0. Tannahill, died at her home in
Lewiston, Monday of heart dis
ease. Although critically i'll sew
eral months ago, she had appar-
emily recovered and spent last
night with friends. She died in
her sleep.
William Miller, who gives his
address as Boise, was arrested
in Lewiston at st. Joseph's hos
pital where he presented him.
self as a plasterer asking per-
mission to look over the building
with a view to doing such work,
he later having been found riff
ing purses and vanity cases IN
. the nurses quarters.
Montana white beans grown
this year by D. r. Churchill OH
his farm two miles north of
Kimberly, will yield a gross re-
turn Of $139 an acre. An average
yield of 46 1-2 bushels an acre
from field of % acres was re-
ported by Mr.. Churchill. At
present market prices the crop
would sell for a total of $3,208.
w. r. Oxley, engineer in
charge of the office at Lewiston
of the state bureau of highways,
Monday opened bids for a six
mile link in the North and South
highway, from Potlatch toward
Harvard in Latah county. The
contract will be awarded to the
Triangle Construction company,
Spokane, the lowest bidder, for
$67, ,919.
Idaho has the lowest death
rate of any state in the union,
according to figures recently
made public by the United States
+ census bureau. The death rate
! in the Gem state is but TT.
which means that slightly more
D than 7 out Of every 1000 inhabi-
; tants die each year. The next
4 nearest state has death rate N
excess of 8.5 per cent.
: The state penitentiary had but
f 271 inmates Friday, according 10
h a statement made by Warden w.
d L. Cuddy to Governor c. G,
e Moore and a party of visitors
taken by the governor to the new
shirt factory at the state prison,
!. This is the smallest total in
n more than 20 months. For the
0 last three months the state prl-
9 son has received but IL new in
G mates, as compared with 35 dur
: ing the same months in 1920. 3a
in that period of 1921 and 80 in
g the same period Tor lSZl.
G The commissioners of the
r Clearwater highway district
/ held meeting at Sites, Friday
for the purpose of callinc a specl-
a al election upon the issue OF
1t bonds for the construction of a
road along the south fork OF the
Clearwater river from Sites te
Harpster, the date being set -
d October %. An election w held
st four years ago with vote O;
" 268 to % favoring the bont
If issue. Owing to az error, this
l. bond election was recently de-
n. cleared illegal, hence the new
election.