Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, July 18, 1919, Page 1

Al -munication ONWOOD p See VOLUME 27. NUMBER 29. MUST HAVE LICENSE; OR FINE County Attorney B. Auger Ex- plains Auto Law—No One. Under_16 Can Drive Car. Automoblie owners, who haul passengers and charge for the same must take out the neces- sary licenses or less be subject | to prosecution for the violation of this law. The following com- was received this week from County Assessor Cal- vin Hazelbaker who has asked | shall be in addition to any pen- alty or remedy provided by arti- cle 8 of Chapted 106 of the Com- piled Laws of Idaho.” See. 72 of said Chapter 106, provides for the license, and Sec- tion 75 thereof for the payment | of license fees. The general law as to registra- tion of motor vehicles should not be overlooked. Section 21a of Chapter 68 pro- | vides that “No person under 16 years of age shall operate or'| drive a motor vehicle upon the public highways.” Seetion 21b of Chapter 63 pro- vides a definition for chauffeur: “The word ‘chauffeur’, wherever used in this chapter, shall be taken to mean any person oper- ating a motor vehic’e on the pub- lic highways for rent or hire.” County Attorney B, Auger for | an explanation of the law gov-| biles for hire. | Licensed chauffeurs have been | complaining that numerous per- | sons who have not taken out the | necessary licenses have been | eutting deeply into their busi- | ness. Persons engaged in this | business who have paid their | necessary license fee and met other requirements of the law shon'd ke given the: protection of the law to which they are justly entitled to. It is the in- tention of the county officials to enfore this law rigidly, Persons who haul passengers and charge for the same must take out the necessary licenses or stand the consequences. Following is the law as inter- preted by County Attorney B. Auger to Assessor Hazelbaker. Subdivision 3, Section 18, Chapter 106, of the Compiled Laws of Idaho, provides: (De-! fining ‘common carrier’) “Tivery corporation, person or persons, their lessess, trustees, receivers or trustees appointed by any court whatsoever own- ing, controlling, managing, op- erating, driving or causing to be| operated or driven, or holding | out hy sign, voice or other de- vice or by advertisement that they will drive, operate or cause } to be driven or operated over any particular route or routes or | over any route or routes or be-| tween specified terminal for hire or compensation any automobile, auto stage, motor vehicle or motor truck for use in the busi- ness of carrying either passen- gers or freight or both, except such as run on rails or tracks | not hereinbefore enumerated, and automobiles used exclusively as hearses, ambulances, hotel buses, operating solely between hotel and trains, or automobiles or auto trucks used for carrying United States mails on star routes when actually engaged in carrying such mail.” Section 73 of Chapter 106, provides: ‘A common carrier of the class mentioned in suksec- tion 3 of Section 18 hereof own- ing, using or operating five or less automotliles, auto stages, motor buses, motor vehicles or | motor trucks in such business of | such common carrier before en- | gaging in or commencing such business must execute a bond in | the sum of $2000 payable to the | State of Idaho, with one or more | sureties to be approved by the public utilities commission, and | file the same with such commis- | sion, and any such common car- | rier owning, using or operating more than five automobiles, auto stages, motor buses, motor vehi- | cles or motor trucks in the busi- ness of such common carrier | shall execute and file a like bond ; in the city. No, Section 21¢ of Chapter 63 pro- ‘ t ; vides for a chauffeur’s license, | erning the operation of automo-' and among other things provides | that the applicant for such license must be 18 years or over.” Answering your specific ques- tions propounded under the above provisions, I repeat the question and give my answer: 1. Does an automobile run- ning from the station of the railway and the hotel, not owned by the hotel but by an individual who makes a charge for the de-| livery of passengers, have to se- cure the public utilities license | and give bond. Answer. Under subsection 3, Section 18, Ch. 106 above, if he operates solely be- tween the trains and the hotel, No. This means that he cannot operate anywhere else and kte' engaged solely in operating between trains and the hotel. 2. Do the city delivery cars which are delivering freight from the railway freight depot to business houses, which cars are owned by individuals to secure the public utilities license and give bond. Answer: Yes. 8. Does the expressman need to secure such license and give | such bond who owns his own car and delivers all express from the | depot to his office, and from the | depot and office to other points unless he de- livers other than the articles of | express, of holds himself out to do business with his car than the specific express bus- | iness, 4. Would it be necessary to ; secure from the public utilities commission a carrier’s license for an oil company’s car which daily delivers gasoline to its customers, and would a bond be required. Answer: No, unless they delivered other goods than their own. 5. Would it be necessary to secure a license from the public utilities commission and give the | bond, in the case of the grocer’s or merchants deliverman. No. If he delivered for certain gro- cers and merchants and did not use his auto or car for any other purpose, and the public could not avail itself of his services and car. KAMIAH INDIANS WINNERS The victory of Grangeville over Ilo-Vollmer Sunday gave Kamiah the honor of being the winner of the Prairie league. Practically all of the fans were of the opinion that the Ilo-Vol- Imer aggregation would have little difficulty in defeating Grangeville. Some of the fans were so confident that a four to one bet was made on Ilo-Voll- mer. Many of the fans hoped that and | not by the business houses, have | other | COTTONWOOD AND VICINITY Personal Mention and Local Happenings of the Week in This Vicinty. Miss Viola Killmar of Winona was a passenger for Grangeville Thursday evening where she will visit with county seat friends | for a few days. | A. L. Creelman motored’ up | from Lewiston the first of the | Week to attend to some business | matters and to visit a few days with friends here. Olie Rhett has resumed her duties at the Cottonwood Mer- cantile Co. after a 10 days ab- sence spent at Kalispel, Spokane and Lewiston. Mr. and Mrs. Johm Hoene are the proud parents of a little Miss that arrived at their home Thursday morning. According to Dr. Orr the attending physi- cian mother and babe are doing nicely. A big new. barn dance was | held at the L. N. Jacobs ranch. |near Greencreek Monday even- ing. Dancers were present from far and wide and reports are that this was one of the best barn dances ever held in that section. B. P. DeMund, a prominent hardware dealer of Pheonix, Arziona and champion shot of the state of Arizona, accompani- ed by E. DeMund and Herman DeMund passed through Cotton- wood Wednesday morning on an automobile tour of the north- west. While here they visited their friend, Ira Gentry. George Poler, accompanied by Mrs. Bart Simon, his daughter, were passengers for Culdesac Monday morning where Mr. Pol- er will spend a two month’s va- cation on his ranch ‘near that city. Mr. Poler’s position at the depot is being filled by P. A. Zimmerman who was formerly agent at Ferdinand. Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Thoelke, accompanied by their daughter arrived last Friday evening from Perham, Minn .to spend a few days with their son and brother, Art, who is employed by the ; Cottonwood State Bank. The | Thoelkes departed again Wed- |nesday morning for Olympia, Wash. where they will visit with | a daughter for some time. | Beginning with Sunday, July | 20th the Camas Prairie passen- jger train will leave Lewiston | thirty minutes latter than usual, | so as to allow passengers of the Riparia train to make connec: tions with points on the prairie. | This no doubt will mean that the | train will arrive in Cottonwood a half hour later, the present | time of arrival being 6:25. | - Joseph Uhlenkot on Monday | started hauling) cement to the convent with his big Yuba tract- or. Three trailors are attached | to the Yuba and 200 sacks are ; hauled at one load. The cement | weighs 100 pounds to the sack, thus they actually haul 10 tons | to the trip besides the weight of the wagons. The tractor is |in charge of Mr. Uhlenkott’s | son. | A. P. Gregory, a prominent | business man of Seattle was a | visitor in Cottonwood this week | having made the trip from the in the sum of $5000. Such bond | Io-Vollmer would win Sunday’s | coast, some 600 miles in his Oak- shall be for the benefit of any person injured by the negligence of such common carrier as the} neutral grounds. In our opinion | interest in such injured person | therein may appear. If any such | out the way they did, should | bond, by reason of a recovery) either Ilo-Vollmer or Nezperce| against the same or for any oth- | er reason, shall become insuffi-; games meant so much, no doubt | cient, such common carrier with- | in 30 days after being notified | by the public utilities commis- | sion such other bond as may be} required by such commission, | and a failure so to do shall op-| \ arate to revoke the license | granted to such person failing to | finishing the season in fourth | file such edditional bond, as) place. Considering the material | hereinbefore required. Any per-| on hand, Cottonwood did excep- | son operating as a common car-| tionally well on the diamond this | rier as defined in subsection 8 of | game in order to see the cham- pionship game played on some it is well that the games turned have been defeated when the someone would have accused the other of laying down. As it is, the chances for a league again next year are very favorable. The Cottonwood team closed the season with having won three games and lost five, year. With the returning of a | land six without any frouble. He | was occampanied by his mother, Mrs. N. L. Gregory and his old- | est brother, I. O. Gregory. They visited with relatives and friends at Greencreek and report having had an excellent pleasure trip. Rumor has it in this section } of the county that two of Idaho county’s popular officials are to be married in the near future. | It is stated that both of them expect to become the head of @ ; household and as there are only two of Idaho County’s officials who could be honored with this title, the remainder already be- ing married, we will have to | name Probate Judge Campbell section 13 hereof without first | number of boys. who are still in| and Prosecuting AttorneyAuger complying with the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, France, prosvects for a team are and leave it go at that. Time even much brighter next yearj will tell whether the rumor is which penalty | than they have been this year. 4 without foundation or not. HAILSTORM AT GRANGEVILLE Many Windows Broken—Dam- age to Crops Severe Where Hail Hit. At 5 o’clock last Friday after- noon Grangeville was visited by one cf the worst hail storms ever recorded in that section of of the county. The storm only hit through the eastern part of the town, breaking windows and doing thousands of dollars worth of damage to roofs in the city. Pedestrains who were driving from: the streets when the storm appeared added to the excitement as several runaways were encountered by the drivers being unable to manage their teams. The ice pellets ranged from various sizes up to hen’s eggs. From Grangeville the course of the storm was north and east for a distance of seven miles to the timker line, the path being about five miles wide and doing much damage ina grain belt that up to this time had suffer- ed but little damage by drouth or grasshoppers. In Grangeville, during the storm, many of the business houses leaked badly owing to the damage done to the roofs by the hail. The Imperial Hotel, Scales Block, Schmadeka Block, Alex- ander-- Freidenrich, and several others are among those whose roofs were entirely ruined. Practically every window on the south side of the I. 0. O. F. hall was broken. Sixteen win- dows were broken in the home of M. R. Hattabaugh and other residences experienced a similar fate. Mrs. Fred Erskine, wife of Engineer Erskine, who is doing surveying work in Cottonwood, lost 40 chickens, ranging in size from two weeks old to fries. In the Fairview section Frank Groom and Dennis O’Shea were ing lost practically 500 acres of fall grain without any insur- ance. This grain was consider- ed by many to have been one of | the best crops in that section and up to the time of the storm had suffered no ill effects from the drought. Several other so hit heavly but most of these were insured against such a calamity. Salmon River Also Hit | perhaps the heaviest loses, hav: | RETURNS FROM FRANCE, . Otto Ries has received notice that two of-his sons, John and Otto F.” have arrived safely in the U.S. from France where they have been in the service of their country for sometime, John, is at the present time on his homestead in Wyoming and expects to prove up on the same hefore returning home. Otto F, expects to join his brother at Gillette and the two brothers are expected to arrive here some time in the near future. The Gillette News has the following to say of the part played by John in the great conflict just closed; Saturday’s 41 on June 14 brought back home John J. Ries, who has been in the service of his country a little over a year, He left Gillette on May 29, 1918, and was taken to Gamp Lee, Virginia, Here he remained five weeks, getting his first training. On leaving Virginia he was car- ried to France and to the thick est of the fighting. He war taken to Chateau Thierry and entered the veterinary hospita’ No. 8, doing remount and veter- inary work. This consists of tak- ing the horses to the batt'e front and getting crippled horses and taking them to the rear for med. ical attention. To the reporter for the News Mr. Ries stated that a horse with a broken leg at the army front is considered an impos sibility, and is shot at once, Bu‘ that many horses were woundec with sharpnel, and these cou'¢ receive attention end would re. cover. Furthermore, the horse was subject to gas attacks ar was the soldier, and after he war gassed he received medical at. tention, The mustard gas burrs the hide to the extent that both hair and hide may come off, The hide cracks and dries if it doer not come off. « At the time of the signing of the armistice Mr. Ries was at the same place, Chateau Thierry and the jollifieation which war carried on by both French and Americans can never be describ- ed in print. He states that “the French are all right, but I like America better.” ENDORSES BANK PLAN. Jim Adair, the will known Winona rancher gave voice through The Kamiah Progress of his approval of the move made this year by the Waterman banks of placing an agricultural expert in the territory covered farmers in that section were al-| by these banks. “Tt’s one of the best things that has come to this country | for some time,” said he, “and I hope that our farmers will co- . * . | Gl San j County Commissioner E. S. Vin-| perate with Mr. Groninger and cent, who arrived at Grange- ville Saturday from Freedom to attend the meeting of the county board reported a bad cloud- burst on Salmon river Friday | which destroyed the county road | in many places and destroyed ir- rigation ditches and other im- provements on the ranches. He stated the most serious damage sustained by the ranchers was the loss of their irrigation ditches which were entirely washed out in many places. The County board directed Mr. Vincent to return to the Sal- mon river section and take the necessary steps to secure the| immediate improvements of the county highway. The highway damaged is the Salmon river route of the north and south state highway and travel from south Idaho will be cut off until the improvements are made. The permanent im- provement of the highway along Salmon river has not been com- menced and the new location will prevent such damage as was sustained Friday. Mr. and Mrs. William Schiller | and daughter, who have been svending the past winter at Everett, Wash, arrived in Cot- tonwood Wednesday evening from the coast. The Schillers have been touring the coast for the past five weeks and report having had an excellent outing. Mr. Schiller, who is the owner of considerable property here will attend to some business matters while his family will visit with rejatives. It is stated that Bill make the most of his advice. I have sized him up as a very competent man in his work and shall avail myself of his counsel on farm matters. If I could have known last winter what he told me a short time ago regarding cattle feeding, it would have made me several hundred dollars more profit on my cattle, and when I get my feed up this fall and am ready to start feeding, I shall seek his advice on the ra- tions to be fed the stock. He has done good work in helping farmers to stop the grasshopper pest that threatened them and is also doing the country good in advocating the erection of silos. Land is getting so high priced that farmers must farm better and more scientifically than they have been doing and Mr. Groninger can help us a whole lot in solving our problems. | “The action of the banks is a far-sighted one and will mean wonders to the farming commu- nity, if farmers will make use of the service offered them. I in- tend to do this, and hope that | others will do the same.’ Jim Adair is one of the ranch- ers in this section who is ac- counted a good farmer and he has met with success in the busi- ness. If he feels the need of outside help in his farming, | there are surely a large number | of others who ought to be willing er in building up the farmng in- dustry of this section. —Kamiah Progress. will make arrangements for a| Keuterville are the proud par- concrete walk to be built along] ents of a baby boy who arrived his property on Main street. at their home Wednesday. to co-operate with Mr. Groning- | Mr. and Mrs. John Mager of | NEWS AROUND THE STATE Items of Interest From. Various Sections Reproduced for Ben- efit of Our Readers. The commissioners of Ada county have decided to call an election to vote $1,000,000 in bonds for the purpose of con- structing good roads. The elec- tion will be held some time in August. * . Threshing has commenced in the immediate Lewiston country. and the reports received show the yields are better than ex- pected and will give the farmers profitable returns despite the drought and the apprehensions that the crop would be an almos* failure, be John T, Ray, formerly pro- prietor of the Owl Drug com- pany at Lewiston, and now en- gaged in the drug business at Astoria, Ore., must serve a jail sentence and pay a fine for un- lawful possession of liquor, s¢- sording to the decision of- the state supreme court, Richard Hawkins, for many years a resident of the Orofino section but a resident of Mcdes- to, Cal., since 1916, was instantly killed Saturday afternoon a mi’e above Orofino when his car over- turned and caught him in such a manner as to break his neck, He was accompanied. by his wi who escaped with only slig’t scratches. It did not occur to the Sand- point, Idaho citizens when the homecoming celebration was set for Friday, July 11 that the Catholic soldiers might be hand- icapped in the enjoyment of the banquet, kut the embarrassment . was removed by a _ special: dispensation granted by’ Bishop Gorman of Boise whereby the boys were permitted to eat meat. When the thermometer at the United States weather bureau registered 106 degrees last Wed- nesday afternoon, at Lewiston, a new heat record was established for that city to so early in the year. Not during the 19 years that the local bureau has been in existence under federal con- trol has such a degrees of heat been attained earlier than the’ last week in July. Hereafter Brosnan’s history of Idaho will be taught in the sixth grade of the public schools instead of the eighth if the state board of education will consent > to the change, Dr. Enoch A. Bryan, commissioner of educa- tion, announced last week. The change is being made because of the great interest younger pupils in the public schools are taking in the history of the state. Persons are free to purchase and use explosives hereafter without the necessity of pur- chasing a license, according to Clarence Hall, chief explosive en- gineer, of Washington, D. C. an- nouncing that the explosive reg- ulations had been repealed by congress, effective June 30. Licenses are not required on and after July 1 for the use of pur- chase of explosives. A citation for exceptionally meritorious and conspicuous ser- vice with the 20th engineers at Tours, France, has been issued Captain Alfred D. Kettenbach of Lewiston by General John J. Pershing and has been received at the Kettenbach home in that city. Captain Kettenbach is in Canada looking after land mat- ters and if he knew anything about the citation, had not men- tioned the matter to his parents. In addition to other fines and punishments the federal govern- ment imposes a tax of $1000 on any one manufacturing or sell- ing liquor in a community where such action is prohibited. . This is found in section 1001 of the 1918 revenue law which -took ef- fect last January. According to J. L. MeClear, U. S. district attorney, this law will be strictly enforced and a penalty of 50 per cent will Be added to all such fines not paid when due.