Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, February 14, 1919, Page 1

-COTTONWOOD_ CH VOLUME 27. NUMBER 7. COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, FFBRUARY 14, 19. 19. CREAMERY CO. FINED $7,500.00 Charge Was Combination in Re- straint of Trade — Dismiss Ac- tion Against Individuals. Boise, Idaho, Feb. 8.—The Jen- sen Creamery Co., the largest creamery company of the north- west, through its attorney, James H. Hawley, entered a_ plea. of guilty today in the United States district court. to an indictment | returned against them February 24, 1917. charging “combination in restraint of trade and to ob- tain monopoly, therecf.” Judge Dietrich imposed a_fine’of $7,500) which was paid. Through the plea of guilty made by the joint ‘corporation, the indictments returned jointly with that of the Jensen Creamery company against the Mutual Creamery company, W. F. Jen- sen, E. W. Ellis, Carlisle Hall, W. Hamilton, D. E. Newman and H. A. Shellenberger, managers and superintendents of branches of ’ the Jensen Creamery company were dismissed. February 17 is the date set for the trial of the managers of the other companies indicted at the) same time, the remaining com- panies. being , the Henningsen | Product company, a corporation | of Butte, Schallinger Produce “Salmon River Savage” Home Returns From Caldwell, Ida: Lawrence Tipton, a member of | the now famous 9st division, | the well-known Bide-A-Wee hog composed mostly of Western boys |farm, located four miles from Cot- Waa DASE: Saturday even-' tonwood arrivedhome last Satur- ing enroute to his home on the | day evening from Caldwell, where Salmon river, and during the /he attended the fourth annual short stop of the train here met Poland China hog sale conducted many of his former friends at the, by Wilson Brothers, Theré were local station. Tipton at one|59 head of hogs offered at the time resided in Cottonwood. | sale, the top price reaching $280, Lawrence has just arrived in | while the average was $92.50. the United States and received an) Mr. McKinley purchased six honorable discharge and was €N-| head of the big type cf Poland gaged with that famous division Chinas, the purchase including when they went through some of one boar and five bred sows. their heaviest fighting. . He now These in addition with his present has in his possession a German gne herd now makes him. owner gun and bayonet as a souvenir of one of the finest Poland China which he kept under his personal | herds in the entire upper country, supérvison all the way from the “Mr. McKinley is ‘an enthusiastic foreign land and values them | supporter of thoroughbred . tock, | very highly as keepsakes. ‘and nothing but the highest grade | jof stock is kept on his farm. ‘ASSESSORS MET Farmers and stockmen of Cam- |as prairie will do well to follow jhis example and make Camas |prairie known. throughout the ~ AT BOISE, IDA Meme erare? */ northwest as a place where noth- ; * ._ Valuation of Hogs Remain Same inf but ANo. 1 stock predomi | | —Horsesand Sheep Takea | yp, McKinley is an exhibitor Slight Decline. | at the Northwest Livestock show, | }at Lewiston, seeking the highest Assessors of the state of Idaho, | competition, and he prediets that on a call from Governor Davis, the 1919 show will be a greater ‘met in Boise recently and discus-| success than the past exhibitions sed taxation problems with the regardless of the high standard governor and the state board of) reached. | equalization. Asa result of the meeting of Howard McKinley, owner ofl company, a corporation of Spo-| the assessors of various counties: kane, the Hazlewood company, a| few changes were recommended | corporation of Portland and the by them. County Assessor Cal- Klock Produce company, acor-) Vin Hazelbaker’ was among, the poration of Seattle. |assessors present at the meeting The indictment was one of the| i? the state capitol: | most far-fetching ever returned) The annual meeting allows an For Capitol Wing $900,000 Completion of the statehouse will be authorized in a bill to be introduced in the legislature with- ina few days. It is estimated that an appropriation of $900,000 by’a federal jury in Idaho: The gathering of evidence against the exchange of views from: ‘the asses- sors and uniformity in assessment ‘will be needed to construct the ‘east and west wings, which were defendant’ companies began in| in the various counties is worked) not provided for in the bill au- 1915 when the governmentsleuth out, which will do away with thorizing construction of themain , much confusion. | unit. ¥ eR ry : ae racy A resolution opposing the bien-| A commission to direct the which took ‘cig over seven’ west-| Hal plan of assessment as propos-| work will probably be appointed ern states. The specific charges ed in pending legislation was ad-| with full power to supervise con- —e mae F | opted. Opposition was also ex-) tracts. am, . | pressed to the proposed bill which; Early completion of the build- ape Mer nickt “empedty* of would place back on the assessors! ing so that returning soldiers and iy Prices tm onger ty eantoul the the collection of personal property | sailors may be given employment market, the issuance of false weights and tests to injure com. t@xes, this collection now being pending development of vast ir petitors, proper use of employes of com- petitors, preventing storage. of perishables, giving of short weights, influencing legislation against competitors, apportion- ment of territory aftera false showing of competition, urging coercion in the fixing of prices, for raw materials and charging excessive and unwarranted prices. Arrives In New York City L. M. Morgan, son of Mrs. J. M. Morgan, of Cottonwood, and} one of the old members. of Com- pdny E, of Idaho county arrived in New York.City from overseas according to.a telegram received by his mother from him last Sat- day. Young Morgan volunteered and joined Company Eat the outbreak of the great war and with that company entrained for France after they had been made a unit of the 116th engineers at Char- lotte, N. C. | After.arriving in France he was transferred to the 20th engineers. His arrival homevis expected any day by his, mother and his safe arrival in the U. S. is weleomning news to’his many friends in Cot- tonwood and vicinity. o—— Ed Lancaster is hauling lumber attempted bribery, im-| Made by the county treasurers, | , The present law has been in effect two years and seems to be work- jing out in a satisfactory manner. | Avresolution was also adopted | by the assessors recommending to | the legislature that caution be ex- ercised in any change of the re- venue and taxation laws, as the existing system was working well and that any changes should be | made only, after through inquiry! | into the subject. | Following isa summary of the action taken as to changes to be | made in valuations: Cattle valuations will remain {much the same as last year, milk ‘cows willrank from $40 to $45, common:cattle at $30, yearlings | at $25 and grade bulls and beef |c&ttle at $50. The assessment of all purebred stock cattleas well as other stock, will be left to the dis- cretion of the assessors. Horses. dropped a trifle, com- mon being from $30 to $75, and} grade from $79 up. Hogs remain | at 6 cents a pound, anything un- der 40 pounds not being assessed. | Sheep took a drop of $2 in ‘as- sessed valuation, the price decided upon being $6 for common and | $10 for graded stock. A motion, was made to increase the rate on | bees from $2 a stand to $5 astand jbut was finally reduced to $3, 'making*‘an increase, of $1 over | last year’s rate. | As to lumber and standing tim- rigation projects now under con- sideration for their benefit is urg- ed by those in favor of building the wings. Crowded conditions |in some of the state offices also make it imparative that more room be provided. | Efforts are being made by some \legislators to have a memorial hall to the honor of Idaho war | heroes included in the plans. Tg Rebekahs Entertain at’ Cards , | The ladies of the Rebekah | lodge entertained a number of ;their friends at progressive 500 | Monday evening in the I. 0.0. F. hall. Twelve tables of players | were present and after the games light refreshments were served by the ladies. First prizes were awarded to Mrs. Ben Nacke and |Mr. Bart Simon. Those pres- |ent commented the ladies of their entertaining qualities and hope that more of such gatherings will be planned for in the future. Postpone Meeting to Feb. 22 The special meeting of the Farmers Union Warehouse..Com- pany held in the I. 0. O. F. hall Tuesday, February 11 for the pur- pose of amending the articles of incorporation to increase the au- thorized capital to $50,000 was postponed until Saturday, Febru- | Wounded Soldier Writes Home The following letter was receiv- ed from C. H. Schaecher, who is |now in a hospital in France and | written to his parents in the Keu- ,er has many fiiends in this section who will be glad to learn that his wound received in battle is now |mending nicely. The letter fol- lows: * Allerey, France, P< oSanj 1, 1919, My dear parents: ; Will try to start the New Year right, by writing a letter home. First let me wish you all a very Happy. New Year. Lhope this wish finds you all in the,best of health. I am get- ting along fine, am still in bed and will probably have to stay there ‘for some time, but my wound’ is getting better all the time now. The-one thing I don’t like about it is that it keeps me from going home, altho I don’t think I will have tg stay in France until I get well. (I should’nt complain tho, because when I left, home, I did not think that the war would be won near as soon as it was. To me the world looks a good deal brighter than it did the day we went abroad the transport ship in New York harbor. ; It wasa terrible hot and sultry day, by far the worst day I have ever, seen for being hot. We came over a British ship, leaving New York the 8th day of August. We soon forgot about ‘heat, about the ih Oy out we seen. icebergs. We ha on deck, We landed at Liverpool in Eng- j\Jand, August 21st being on the twateMfust two weeks, ‘The ‘first | thing after landing was a five mile | hike toa “rest camp.” , “Rest Camp” that is what they jare called, but they don’t seem | much like rest camps, when you have to carry your pack five miles to stay 24 hours; From here we got on the train and went to Win- |chester to another rest camp and stayed two days then another | little train ride to South Hamp- ton where we crossed the English |channel landing at La Havre in | France. | The next morning, now another rest of 24 hours and the following jafternoon we got into the train, jor rather box cars. we got our last |passenger-ride in England and ; went tocentral France where we jreceived three weeks training, | when a number of us where trans- | ferred to the 81st division. From ; now on until I was hurt on Nov- ember 9th it was mostly trench ife. T could tella lot more of life over here, but it would take too long, so I will wait until I get home. F | The route from the trenches jhome may be longer than was | the route from home to the tren- |ches but the thought of duty done | will make it a shorter and hap- pier route fo travel. | Nowedear mother, dear father |don’t. worry about me, I’ll get through all right. to wear overcoats to go | Must quit for today with love| | to youall.. Your loving son, | Chris H. Schaecher. | Base Hospital 56, Ward 11. | A. P. O. 785, A. E. F., France. | te | Pay Visit to Their Old Home | EE, L. Parker and wife were pas- |sengers Wednesday morning for Nezperce where Mr. Parker will | attend a meeting of the W. O. W., ;and which order is planning on Illinois People Here on a Visit < o£ ce = 7 | terville section. Private Schaech-. —_—— NEWS : Mr. A: F, Jansen and daughter Catherine and Mrs. C. R. Koester of Effingham, Ill. are here on an extended visit with relatives an friends, Mr. Jansen is a brother-j Items of Interest From. in-law of the Arnzen’s and B. L. Hussman, besides enjoying the acquaintance. and friendship. of many people hereand in Green- creek who formerly resided near} , Farmers of Latah county will Effingham, Ill. This is Mr. Jan-}Plant, 30,000 acres of field peas, sen’s first visit to Idaho and he is} according to estimates made by well pleased with the country. He} conservative farmers. e comes from a section of the east}, Mr. and Mrs. I. Ewing of Stites, where dairying is carried on exten-| Idaho celebrated their. 49th wed- * sively, a branch of the Van Camp} ding.anniversary at Stites, Febru-, Condensory. being located at Ef-}ary 6th. Mr. and. Mrs, Ewing, fingham. We are glad to welcome} were married, at. Oskaloos, Iowa, . ‘Various Sections Reproduced for Ben- efit of Our Readers. these people and hope that.their: stay will be so pleasant that will decide to become permanent. residents here. COMPANY HOLDS ANNUAL MEETIN Meeting of Water. Company Heldi: In Coungil Rooms—Officers Elected For Year The annual meeting of the Cot+ tonwood Water & Light Co. was held in the city council rooms on. Monday, February 10. Officers for the coming year were elected as follows: L , ‘ Geo, M. Robertson, president, . Felix Martzen, vice-president. . Wm. Schiller, secretary. H.C. Matthiesen, treasurer, . A. L. Creelman, director. S. J. Peterson, director, Fred Simon, director. It isthe. intention of. the pany to make some improvements’ on its system and among those planned isthe rebuilding of the interior of the reservoir so as to make it impossible for leaking. and save the water that is now going to waste due to leakage in same. Wasa Member of Lewiston Co, Sergeant Fred Bolon, formerly of Lewiston was a Cottonwood} visitor Thursday while enroute to the home of his brother, Walter Bolen of tre Keuterville section where he will spend the remainder of the winter. Sergeant Bolan was discharged from. the army recently. after serving twelve months with the foreign troops, He originally was. a member of Company F, of Lew- iston but was transferred to the 116th engineers before sailing, After arriving in France his duty was composed up mostly of ins- tructing new arrivals in the science Of modern war. He states that seven members of Company. F were killed in action and that practically all of its members were wounded some time or other in the great war. Ei Te SI Henry Hattrup Buys Saw Mill Henry Hattrup. who recently received his discharge from the army has bought: his father's saw mill near Keuterville and will op- erate the same in future, On the same. day. he made a_ deal with John Brocke for some timber and expects to get in some logs for a cut next summer. The Hattrup mill is one of the best located of any of the mills in that section and no doubt the new owner will enjoy a good patronage during they]. 1870, Charles Clifton,. age 77 years,; ofthe Red;River country. in, the: Vicinity of Elk City was, taken to) Grangeville last: week by. Sheriff: Eller for insanity. . He shas. been; 4 resident of the county for many years, { ‘May Buoyya. Chinese woman, farrested several months).ago.,on thé. charge: of | selling :.whiskey,.' then conducting a. lodging house; in Lewiston, failed to appear in the district court for trial and on the.motion of County: Attorney Leo: MeGarty of Nezperce county, her cash bond of $500 was declar- ed forfeited. , ; : i Sidney F. Fore, age ot pry Mids, Mary Rains, age 18, both.of Kam.. iah, were married: at Orofino,:the» Rev. F. L. Moore of that. place af. ficiating. ise : Idaho's 42d county, was cteated . Feb. 1.when Governor Davis at-. tached his signature to thé Clark county, division of the west |jsection of Fremont’ county, with Dubois as the county seat. An election has Been’ call the commissioners of the nee ae Highway district of Lewis county, for Tuesday, February 18, to vote on a $150,000 bond issue for the construction and’ improvement of roads in that district: Ata recent meeting of the di- rectors of the Northwest Live Stock show at Lewiston it was de-. cided to make application for aid in increasing the $20,000 already raised for building. a live» stock pavilion on the ground there. ' . The big mill at Potlatch, said to have the largest capacity. of any. single plant in the world, being capable of a cut of 1000,000 feet in. 20 hours, is preparing with. the close,of, the war to install two eight. hour _ shifts, Dur- ing the war.a single, eight-hour shift was utilized, thé restriction being.,due to the limited. labor, supply. State Deputy.Game Warden R. B, Hibbs, who has charge ‘of the district consisting of Nez Perce, Lewis and Idaho counties, has just completed annual report; showing, that-in this district the total, amount of licenses, fines and con- fiscations amounted .to $5100, while the cost of administration; was less than $2000, The five-year-old. daughter ; of. Mr..and Mrs...B. W. Pierce; of Winchester, was burned»to death recently while, playing around ai bon-fire. On discovering that her clothing was on fire she ran,. and beforeassistance could reach. her her clothing was burned entirely) from her body. . Shesurvived only ; about four hours after the burn- ing. Construction work will soon be- gin:on the : steel bridge ‘to span: the Coeur d’Alene river at: Catal: do, the bridge being on the Fourth of July canyon highway. between s Wallace and Coeur d’Alene. The for a new house that. he will build | ber, a motion was made to permit on his place at the mouth of Rice assessors of those counties having Creek on Salmon River. He owns, special interests in lumber and . the “former Wess Hockersmith timber to decide those rates out ranch and ferry and is making ex-| separately. tensive improvements to enable | All of the counties in the state’ him to give the traveling pulbic | the best of service. ors excepting three. ary 22 when this matter will come up for for final settlement. PES i 3 having a big time Wednesday |evening. Mr. Parker. who is a | charter member of this organiza- Mrs. P. A. Gaul who underwent tion anticipates a very enjoyable a serious operation last week is time while in the Lewis county well on her way to recovery and metropolis. This is Mr. and Mrs. | were represented by their assess-| expects to regain her usual heath) Parker first visit to Nezperce for | Tuesday and intends to make her/.99 j ina short time. some time. coming season. bridge will consist-of a- 200-foot PRES bina span on concrete’ abutments, the ° Mrs. Bertha McKinley, who has} contract price being $30,000. It’ been making her home at Grange-|:is.expected.that work will be un- ville since the recent death of her}der way.by February 15. and .the , husband returned to Cottonwood | construction-will be completed in,