Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-01-12
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

students of the University of
Idaho took up duties of elective
offices in state or county when
the newly chosen officials were
sworn in this week.
With 20 inmates in the small
county Jail, resulting in accom-
modations that logically are not
conductive to health, it is said
that Nez Perce county commits
sioners will soon take up con-
sideration of enlargement of the
Jail or construction of q new one.
Resolutions demanding that
Governor G. G. Moore ask for
and accept the resignation of w.
H. Hall, state commissioner Of
public works, were adopted to-
day by the Idaho chapter of the
American Association of Engi-
ncers in the second days session
in Boise.
Mrs. Virginia B. Moxley Oh
son, who was born in Lewiston
A years ago, died Sunday after
noon at her home near Union
town from pneumonia, with
which she he'd Teen afflicted
for two weeks. Mrs. Olson is
the daughter of Mrs. t. G. Mox-
ley of Lewiston.
Governor G. G. Moore has cal
led a meeting of the county as
y SCISSORS of Idaho to take place at
Boise, starting January 16 for
the purpose Of the assessors
coming to some agreement on
the basis of the assessment as
affecting the various counties
for the ensuing yeer.
With one stroke of his pen
Wednesday G. C. Moore, COVER
nor, stopped the activities of the
state constabulary and the de-
partment of immigration, labor
and statistics, and removed from
! the state payroll the names of
220 employees Of the state bureau
of highways.
On last Sunday morning w. P.
Conger of The Nezperce Herald
received a message bringing the
, sad news that his mother, Mrs.
Anna M. Conger, had died dur
, ing the evening before of quick
: pneumonia, at the home of her
daughter, Josephine Conger, in
, Chicago, Ill.
} Mrs. Lizzie Fairfield, Yaki-
ma Indian, who has lived on the
) Nez Perce reservation for the
past forty years, died Friday at
l Kamiah at the age of 101 years.
, Lizzie was well known by the
2 Nez Perce Indians, and was the
1 widow of William Fairfield, a
white man. She is survived by
t a son, Charles Fairfield, of Lap
! wal.
S Two million and ninety thous-
0 and dollars has been set aside by
: congress out of the reclamation
: fund for the interior department
S appropriation bill to continue ir-
f rigation construction in Idaho
e during the year, beginning July
; next. This is exclusive of
d $230,000 appropriated to con-
+ tinue repair and enlargement of
e the Fort Hall irrigation project.
e Two old and large financial
: institutions of Washington
county have become one through
a the merger Of the Weiser Ma
r tional bank and the First Nation.
Il 81 bank of Weiser. The merged
i interests, it was announced, will
), be continued through the Weisei
s National bank, which will occupy
s the quarters of the First Nation
l. al bank. The capital stock o1
e the new concern will be increas
!, ed to $125, 900, practically all o1
J. which has been subscribed.
} A title suit on discarded
n violin was held before Justice o1
the Peace T. A. Smith of Kami
ah, Fred Evans seeking to re
E. coved possession to the instru
v ment from Charles Lukens. A
If decision was given in favor o.
" the plaintiff, and Charles Lu
n kens, the defendant, has appeal
j. ed the case to the district cour
b. and it will be heard at the mex
IN court at Nezperce. The plaintiff
w alleged that the violin in disput
IL was stolen from him about fou
r. years ago, and he seeks to re
It. cover possession of the instru
is ment. The defendant state
in that he bought the violin from
er boy for so cents, and since hav
a ing it in his possession has add
ly ed $50 to its value by repair ant
new equipment.