Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-03-09
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

1t is reported that $4,000
acres Of beets in the Idaho Falls
country have been signed up by
growers for this season.
| Mrs. Elizabeth Mathewson Of
Lewiston arrested yesterday on
a charge of having liquor in pos
ession, pleaded guilty and was
fined $50 and given a suspended
sentence of 80 days.
A meeting of the editors Of
Nez Perce, Idaho, Lewis, Latah
and Clearwater counties, to be
held March II at Lewiston has
been called. The purpose is to
organize for mutual benefit.
]. j. Meyers, foreman of a
sawmill at Potlatch is in hospi-
tai suffering with blood poison
ing from infected teeth. For
several days his temperature
has ranged from 104 to 105 de-
grees.
The University of Idaho
basketball team won the Pacific
coast basketball conference
championship for the second
successive season Tuesday night
at Moscow by defeating the Uni
versity of California team, score
29 to 25.
With the recovery of $4,000 in
currency and more than $1,000
in coins, dug up from two buried
caches by E. ]. Hicks, former
auto mechanic and operator Of
the Kellogg-Wallace stage line.
virtually every cent of the $12,-
900 haul on March 28, 1922 has
been recovered.
Senator Frank R. Gooding
has been invited to attend q
meeting Of wheat growers at
Moscow in April, when nation-
al wheat growers association
will be organized. The move
ment for a national organization
originated in the demand for
, guaranteed price of wheat.
A massmeeting of students
Friday, at Moscow voiced strong
protest at the action of the
senate in indefinitely postponing
: house bill No. 103, which pro-
vides for permanent additions at
the state institutions and in
cludes approximately 100000
l for a new science hall at the
university.
B. C. Barbour, Harry Morton
!, and j. w. Whitcomb of Lewiston
: Monday filed their appraisement
of the community property of
Alice Mccormack and her sur
viving husband, John McCor-
mack. The value is placed at
$166,870, represented in land,
! except personal property of
e $11,270. Mr.. Mccormack is a
i Nez Perce county farmer.
3 Sheriff A. w. Mitchell of
Lewis county left for Lewiston,
Wednesday, with Earnest Panky
j age 18, charged with grand
q larceny for the alleged theft of
= jewelry from Browns store at
: Reubens. When caught he had
= five diamonds valued at $3.50
y wholesale, it is alleged. He was
y given hearing before Probate
. Judge H. w. Niles and pleaded
o guilty. He will be sentenced
. by Judge Scales.
S Not only are country dirt
= roads in bad condition, but the
e state road from Moscow to the
,s Washington state line is in a de-
D, plorable condition, says the
IS Genessee News. The ruts are SO
IS deep in places that the pan" OF
IS car will almost drag on the
k. ground. There is but one solu-
n tion for the prevention of this
j. destruction of hundreds OF
j. thousands of dollars worth Of
W gravel roads, and that is to rule
all heavy cars off while they are
st soft.
IS The jury in the case of James
AZ D. Agnew, sheriff of Ada coun
ty; Sylvester Kinney, deputy
sheriff, DIR. Henry Goodfriend
Carl Sorenson, rooming house
s. manager; Ed. Ward, taxical
1t driver, and Ed. Kemp, laborer
ir charged with being members O.
ty booze ring, returned a verdic
is of guilty, in each case, at al
oy early hour Sunday morning
n. after having deliberated 81,
ks hours and 80 minutes. The cas-
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