Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-02-09
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

Noel B. Martin has been named
by the council as city attorney of
Lewiston taking the place made
vacant by the death of Charles
H. Chance.
Dropping 10000 feet in his
airplane in an effort to cure ]. ].
Kelker of Pocatello, his passen-
ger, of partial deafness. Hugh
H. Parker, Boise aviator, made
the first test of its kind to take
place in Idaho.
His nose and mouth driven
into the back of his head by a
terrific blow from the end Of a
2x12 timber, Francis Roy, 55
years old, native of Canada,
was killed Monday, January 20,
at sawmill he was operating,
nine miles up the Middle Fork of
the Clearwater river from Koos-
kia.
Worlmen engaged by the
Phillip Plumbing Co., of Lewis
ton unearthed a human skelton
on the lot at First street and
Snake river avenue, where an oil
station is being installed. The
bones were found in shallow
grave. The skelton was prob
ably that of an Indian.
Sunday, February 4, marked
the Goth anniversary of the mar
riage of Mr.. and Mrs. T. A. Bak-
ken of Moscow. The aged cou-
pie, both of whom are still en-
joying good health, having walk
ed happily, hand in hand, for
period considerably longer than
the average age Of man.
Grant Hamblen of Cudesac
and Mrs. Cora Sampley of All
sahka, former wife of Hamblen,
will serve from three to ten
years in prison, this being the
sentence imposed today by Judge
w. N. Scales. They were con-
victed week ago at Lewiston on
the charge Of performing q
criminal operation on Lillian
Mitchell, which caused her
death.
The steam shovel of the Tri-
angle Construction company
which was used last summer on
the North and South highway
construction program in the
Lawyer canyon district, was
/ started Tuesday for Kamiah,
where it will be used on the
Kamiah Hill highway road. A
report stated that the shovel had
made three miles in the day and
half.
Relief from the tense situa-
ton created by the refusal of
Boise bankers and credit men to
finance state employees for three
months, until the legislature
passes the appropriation bills,
, appeared nearer Friday. An
nouncement was made that the
, finance committee of the senate
, is now making study of the
, situation and will shortly intro
, duce bill to remedy this "de-
!, layed pay day" condition for all
, time.
: The heroism and daring of
two miners who sacrificed their
lives in vain effort to rescue a
fellow workman who was trap
, ped in a fire at the Morning
, mine at Mullan, Idaho, January
%, is graphically told in a letter
3 received by Stewart Campbell
; state mine inspector. Frederick
Burbidge, general manager Of
! the Federal Mining & Smelling
t company at Wallace, is author Of
:. the letter, in which he gives 8
D detailed description of the mine
: blaze, which resulted in the loss
I of three lives.
e When the tones of violir
. opl eau I'LL OuSil Iilc oIiiSI CVu1
t room at Lewiston, Tuesday il
the strains of "The Last Rose o.
Summer" this meant no inter
+ ruption of court processes no.
d that Judge w. N. Scales was no
e maintaining the decorum of hi
tribunal. The incident devel
e oped as part of the evidence il
e the case of L. c. Butts versus
# the Svea Insurance company
Joseph D Havarda, violinist, wa
testifying as to the value of ,
Y violin owned by Butts and whicl
r had been damadged to the poin
d of uselessness in a fire at tn
l. Butts home on October l, 1921
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