Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-05-11
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

Mrs. Enfield, who resides with
her daughter, Mrs. Fred Melkers
man, south of Kamiah, received
the very sad news the past week
of the death Of her son, DR.. T.
Donald Enfield, at Santa Rosa,
Ecuador. His death occurred
March 7.
Burglars visited Kendlick
again Wednesday night, enter
ing the office of the Madison
Lumber compapny, also the
Perryman confectionery store,
taking about $35 in nickels and
dimes and a quantity of cigar
cites.
Construction of railway line
from Homestead to Lewiston
cannot possible be justified, ac-
cording to communication re-
ceived by the public utilities
commission from E. E. Calvin,
vice-president of the Union Pac-
ific Railway company.
Offers to make contracts on
small quantities Of the coming
crop indicate that the opening
prices of wheat will be between
95 cents and 81 a bushel. Offers
to contract have been on the
basis of $1.15. at Portland, Ore.
With freight charges and handl-
ing charges deducted, this
would make the Lewiston price
95 to SO cents.
4 A. D. Hill. editor and publisher
of the Lewis County Register at
Craigmont during the past 10
months, last week turned over
the management to Don Phillips,
the new lessee. Mr.. Phillips pub
lished the Culdesac Enterprise
up to few months ago and has
recently been employed in the
office of the Free Press at
i Grangeville.
Announcement that the Clear
water Timber company has de-
| cided to locate it's big mill in
Lewiston is confidently expected
! before May II, when the option
the company holds on the Porter
millsite will expire. In addition
} to the Porter millsite. Lewiston
, has made available to the COM
pany 60 acres adjoining, now
! used for fairgrounds.
! Postoffice Inspector Moser
and Postmaster Robert Molloy,
after making an accurate check
of the stamps and cash stolen
from the Orofino postoffice Fri
day night or Saturday morning,
reported that stamps to the
value of $615 had been taken
and $50 in cash. A small sum
of money kept in the office,
aside from tn e government
funds, was also taken.
Is it illegal to perform labor
on Sunday? This question is
: soon to be decided in court in
Boundary county as the result Of
arrests made Monday morning
when 13 men, employed by the
! water department of Bonners
Ferry, were ''pinched" on the
charge of having "unlawfully
= performed labor on the first day
of the week, commonly called
;, ;, Sunday" the offense having oc-
> Cured, it is alleged, on April 22.
District court will convene at
o Nezperce May ID. The only GRIM
o inal case so far is that against
George H. Waterman, former
= president of the defunct State
= Bank of Kamiah. Waterman
was convicted in district court
last May on a charge of making
false reports to the state bank
commissioner, and was serving
a sentence when the supreme
n court granted him a new tlia
/ and he was released under bond
c The Lewiston clinic has made
! a contract for the purchase oi
! = radium to be used in the treat
- ment and cure of cancer ant
:. kindred diseases. The first in
e stallment will be IS milligrams
representing an investment o1
approximately $4,000. This i!
the first physicians office II
is northern Idaho or eastern Wash
m ington outside of Spokane, ant
G, possibly the first in Idaho, tx
1T put in radium. The supply viii
lie not be delivered until September
u. Is and in the meantime and 1
lie little later in the summer one O
ii the members of the clinic will &,
b. east to receive the requisite in
xt struction for the use of thi,
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