Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, August 1, 1919, Page 1

INDIANS HELD MEMORIAL Give Away Trinkets to Friends Valued at Thousands of Dollars Memorial services in honor of Yellow Bull, an aged Indian, who died at Spalding, Idaho, last week was held at Red Rock Springs a few miles from Cot- tonwood Tuesday by some 200 Indians who had gathered from Lapwai, Kamiah, Kooskia Stites and surrounding country to fit- tingly commemorate the occa- sion in regular old time Indian fashion. Yellow Bull, who was 98 years of age at the time of his death, during the Indian wars of 1877 was-one of Chief Joseph’s head men and was captured by Gen- eral Miles. Of late years Yellow Bull has been blind and he was tenderly taken care of by his wife. The ceremonies started with a big dinner at noon in which the Indians as well as a large num- ber of whites participated. After dinner, Red Elk dressed in Yellow Bull’s favorite cos- tume led a horse also beauti- fully decorated toa tent in which were all the belongings of Yellow Bull such as handsome blankets, gloves, beaded work and hundreds of other trinkets. These were all given away by his widow assisted by several others to the Indians who were present. These trinkets are valued at thousands of dollars. By a will, made by Yellow Bull, several articles were des- ignated to go to certain Indians who were personal friends of his during his life. James Stew- art received the tomahawk) which the chief used in the wars. of 1877. James Stewart, who is a highly educated Indian after receiving the most valuable souvenir stated that some years ago he was at the home of the dead warrior and at this time remarked to Yellow Bull when | he died he wanted the tomahawk which he received Tuesday. It isa custom that no one! shall leave the premises without | receiving some kind of a gift to remember the dead chief or lead- er. Leaders of the ceremonies stated that some years ago a fire destroyed a number of his belongings and there were not enough to go around to the white people. who had gathered) to take in the ceremonies. The white women therefore were then called into a tent and eacn one was given a silver dollar to yemember the chief by. Tom Parker who was present at the ceremonies was also given a handsome remembrance. By a special request of his widow, Simon Bros., of Cottonwood, who were unable to be present were sent in a remembrance, his wid+ ow stating to the bearer of the same that “Simon Bros. have been good to Yellow Bull.” The giving away of the souviners closed the ceremonies. Nezperce Indians, of which Yel- low Bull, was one of their numb, | er, have been gathering for this occasion for the past week from various sections of the country and it was an event long to be remembered: by the Indians, as well as the whites, who attended the ceremonies. ACCEPTS POSITION AUG: 1. H. L. Brutzman, who at one time was employed by the Camas Prairie railroad, will again take up his former duties as clerk at the local. station, after an absense of something like two years. Harry Campbell, who has been employed by the railroad company for some time has made no plans for the future at the present time. It has been the policy: of the Camas Prairie railroad to give all those who entered the service their former positions, held by them before entering the service, or one simi lar to it. Mr. Brutzman was’ in the navy. Miss Ruby Wahl of Orofino is} her arm above the elhow. Dr.| from: overseas, having just re- discharged visiting. here. with her friend, Miss Anna Gentry. rea, LITTLE DAUGHTER DIES. The 12-day . old daughter of | Mr. and, Mrs, John. Hoene died | Tuesday at the home of its par- ents, This makes the seventn child to have died in infancy in| the Hoene family, there being three children living at the present time. The funeral serv- ices were held: Tuesday after- noon from the Catholic church with Father Willibrord offici- ating. The sympathy of the en- tire community goes out to the Hoene family in this their sad bereavement. SURVEYORS START WORK ‘Commenced Permanent Survey of North and South Highway. Nine state surveyors, headed by Carlos Gillespie, arrived in Cottonwood Monday evening to, commence work on surveying the North and South state high-| way. from. Cottonwood to Voll- mer by the way of Ferdinand. The survey made by these engi- neers will be permanet and will be used as the connecting link between north and south Idaho. The surveyors commence work in Cottonwood and will grad- ually work their way to Vollmer; Carlos Gillespie, is in charge of the surveyors here, and stated that it will require about 4 month or six weeks to complete the work. Much of this time, however will not be required on the field but will be taken up in office work by the crew in pre- paring the necessary data re- quired by the state before a contract will be let for actual construction of the road. The North and South road passing through this section of the country is under the direc- tion of R.: L. Ewing, state engi- neer, who has opened up offices) in Lewiston. The party of surveyors who arrived in.Cottonwood the first of the week will make Cotton- wood their headquarters and have opened up offices in the building next to the Pacific) Telephone office. The actual location of the North and South highway, which was decided definitely, at Boise some four weeks ago will] soon be a reality and as soon as! the necessary data has been | secured, no doubt the state will call for bids for the actual con- | struction of this road. WILL MOVE TO LEWISTON. E, L. Parker and family ex- pect to remove to Lewiston about the first of September. Mr. Parker, when he sold his interest in the store contem- plated to make Cottonwood his future home, but owing to his health, has decided that the lower climate might prove more beneficial to him, and so de- cided to make the change. They intend to move to Lewiston just in time to put the children in school. Mr. Parker still re- tains his interests here. Their} many friends here hope that the: change will prove beneficial for Mr. Parker’s ailment and while itis our loss, Lewiston will gain materially, by the contemplated; change. While a resident of" Cottonwood “Mr. Parker was honored by. the people of the) state of Idaho with the second! highest office within their pow- er to give, that of Lieutenant Governor and on several occa-| sions during his term of office, was head of’ the state, during the absenee of the. Governor from the state. BREAKS HER ARM, Claire, the little daughter of' Mr. and Mrs. P: A. Zimmerman who is filling the position held by'Geo. Poler, at the depot broke} her arm Tuesday’ when she fell’ from a tricycle she was riding. The little Miss had started down the incline leading from the de-! pot to town and loosing control of the tricycle was thrown from it onto the sidewalk breaking} tien’ of Ajcorn,. a Grangeville set injured arm. | Cottonwood his future home | that he has decided to make | again, he having been offered NEW GRAIN COMING IN Local Warehouses Receive New Grain—Quality A No.1 The first grain of the season was delivered to the Nezperce Roller Mills Warehouse last Thursday afternoon by Wm: Fortine, and since then this firm has reeeived about 600 sacks. The Cottonwood Milling Co., received their first load of 1919 fall wheat Wednesday, and was delivered by John Schnider. The grain is of A No. 1 quality and according to Mr. Schnider will average about 30 bushels to the acre. The Farmers Union Ware- house received its first load of new grain Wednesday, and was delivered to the firm by Jos. Oldham. The grain, delivered by Mr. Oldham, was of the Tur- key Red variety and was also A no. 1 wheat. This grain, was fall wheat, and will also average its owner near the 30 bushel mark per acre. The Vollmer Clearwater Co., up to Thursday morning had re- ceived no new grain. WILL VISIT IDAHO COUNTY. Col. Theodore Roosevelt,jr., sor. of the late Theodore Roose- velt, will be the guest of Gover- nor Davis on a big game hunt in the most inaccessible country in the state, above Warren in Idaho county, some time in Sep- tember. The party will be guid- ed by Gus N. Sindt, Warren man, and well known trapper and hunter who is thoroughly acquainted with the. Warren hunting grounds, It.is understood that the party will consist of other prominent men beside Governor Davis and Col. Roosevelt. An abundance of mountain goats, deer, bear and elk are in the Warren country, back in the Salmon river regions, and it is generally considered that this section is one of the wildest and best big game sections in the United States, The party will probably pack through the Thunder Mountain country. WILL REMAIN HERE. Jess Robertson, who recently returned from France where he was in the service of Uncle Sam nearly two years, has acceptea a position with the Cottonwood Hardware Co., of this city. Jess is no stranger in this community having made his home here witi his parents for years. Prior to entering the service, he was en-} gaged for some time with one of the leading implement houses at Nezperce. His many friends in Cottonwod are glad to learn several lucrative positions by other firms throughout the) country. TRAVELED 5200 MILES, A. H, Nau.and family return- ed Tuesday evening from a seven week’s automobile trip to Cali- fornia. The party left June 8th and traveled something like 5200 miles while away. In California} Mr. Nau and family visited with relatives near Los Angeles. They also met a number of former | residents of Cottonwood, in the southern state. The trip was made in a Dodge, owned by Mr. Nau, and they experienced no trouble of any sort.. They report | crops exceptionally good in the states of Oregon and California. MORE WALKS PUT IN. Construction of concrete walks was resumed on Main street in Cottonwood Tuesday morning: when the old walks were torn out from the Cotton- wod Garage to the Hoene Hard- ware and _ will be replaced by! concrete walks, When this stretch of walks have been put in by Contractor Wm. Ruhoff, this will make one solid piece of walk on the south side of Main street from,the: Turner Drug Store to the corner of the Cot- tonwood Hotel. This improve- ment when completed will add much to the appearance of the city. | Frank Blackburn arrived in Cottonwood Thursday evening cently been army. from the: Having produced a good crop of wheat and then being unable to harvest it with wheat worth $2‘ per bushel is the novel situa- tion confronting K. C. Qualey, pioneer farmer, who has lived in Latah county for 30 years says the Moscow Star Mirror. He ap- pealed to the presecuting attor- ney and the county commission- ers for relief. Neither were able to offer him any assistance and he was referred to the highway commissioners, These, also fail- ed to give relief and he is in consultation with a well-known firm of leading attorneys. It is likely that action in the courts will follow. Were the war still in progress the council of de- fense would be able to secure the harvesting of the crop under its authority to save food, but the council of defense no longer exists. Mr. Qualey says that he has owned 80 acres of land for 17 years. Nine years ago he bought an additional 40 acres which corners with his original 80 acres. He says he asked permission of the man whose land adjoins his, to make an opening and put in a gate so that he can get into his 40 acre field, This, he says, was granted and for nine years he has been doing this. He planted a crop ot wheat and it is now “dead ripe” to use his own words, but the neighbor ‘has fastened up the gate and forbids him to go through the fence to his grain. His appeal for rescue for his wheat crop has been unavailing unless the law firm with whom he is consulting now, can give him relief or secure a way. of getting into his field. “The only way I can cut the grain is by crawling under the fence and cutting it with a scythe, but I cannot haul it out or get a threshing machine in there to save it.” said Mr. Quailey, who looked haggard and worn when king... ; says he has slept but little for several nights and does not know what to do. He said that the prosecuting attorney and the commissioners stated they had no authority to do anything in the matter. The case is a novel and interesting one. LESS SMUT IN LEWIS CO. According to a test made in Lewis county, similar to the one made in Idaho county last week, to determine the percentage ot smut existing in Lewis county wheat, the test shows that a fraction less than 4 per cent ot the winter wheat was smut as compared with 18 per cent in Idaho county, Since the conditions of the two Counties are so near the same, it is quite certain that after four years of work, the Farm Bureau of Lewis County is at least on the right road to smut control. Farmers of the county are in- vited by John Finley, county agent, to visit the Farm Bureau office in the Ccurt house at Grangeville and see the results of some of their work. SELLS DRAY LINE. 0. D. Hamlin better known as “Fat” sold his dray business Thursday afternoon to Harry Campbell and: Walter Robbins. These two gentlemen will con- | duct the business in the future. “Fat” will still conduct the oil ‘station here for the Continental Oil Co. and will also take over the superintendency of the Cot- tonwood Water Co. The deal was made by Felix Martzen. INCREASE CAPITAL STOCK. The Cottonwood Milling Co., will hold a-meeting im their of- fices, August 25, for the purpose of increasing the common stock of the corperation from $100,- 000 to $150,000 and for author- ity to issue preferred stock of said corporation to the extent of* $100,000 or such amount as:may be agreed upon at the meeting. MOVES OFFICE: Felix Martzen this week re+ moved.a smal] building owned by | the Madison Lumber Co., to his vacant lots near the old brewery and is having it fitted up for his office. The buildng will painted and otherwise by the owner. I, STARS WIN. : The All Stars, a baseball team composed of the best players ef the prairie league defeated Lew- iston Sunday at Grangeville be- fore a large crowd of baseball fans by a score of 16 to 10. The|, game was far from expectations many errors on both sides being the cause of such a large score. A return game is to be playea at Lewiston Sunday according to arrangements made last Sunday by the managers of the two teams. MORE STOCK — IS SHIPPED Beef Steers Bring $10 and Hogs $21.50 Per Hundred Pounds Salmon river cattle and Camas Prairie hogs demanded the top prices Monday. when a shipment valued at $338,000 was sent out. The beef steers brought $10 and the hogs were sold for $21.50 per hundred. The shipment consisted of 11 cars of cattle and one car of hogs The’ largest cattle shipper was| D. F. Van Pool, of the Salmon river country, who had 99 head in the lot. Mrs. E. A, Lancaster, also of the Salmon river, had 57 head in the shipment while others making up the lot were: Pick Chamberlain, L. S. Kelly, John Nuttman and E. Schroeder; Seven cars of the cattle bought by the Farmers Union went to Armour & Company, Spokane, and four cars bought by the Cottonwood Milling Co., went to Frye & Company Seattle The shipment Tuesday was about as large as the one sent out from Cottonwood last week He} and there is.perhaps no point»in the central Idaho county that sends more livestock to market than this station. Ever since the railroad was put in opera- tion, Cottonwood has endeavored to provide such facilities for the stockmen as would secure recog- nition and a large section of the Salmon river country makes Cot- tonwood_ its regular shipping point. The farmers of this sec- tion early realized the value of hogs as a by-product of the farms and long before the rail- road was constructed, the farm- ers drove large bands of hogs to a railroad at Kooskia and Stites, The advantages offered by home shipments when the railroad tapped the prairie, stimulated hog raising and for years this station has held the record for the entire central Idaho country on hog shipments. WHAT SOLDIER MAY KEEP. The office of Congressman Burton L. French at Washing- ton has been in receipt of nu- merous inquiries touching cloth- ing and equipment to which soldiers are entitled to, upon be- ing discharged. Many of the soldiers seem to have gone home with only a small part of that which, under the law, was due them Mr. French says that all honorably discharged or fur loughed soldiers since April 6, 1917, are entitled to the follow- ing articles, ; One overseas cap(for all en- listed men who have had service overseas) or one hat and_ hat. cord for all other enlisted men; olive drab shirt; one service. coat and ornaments; one pair breeches; one pair shoes; one pair leggins; one waist belt; one: slicker; one overcoat; two suits) underwear; four pair stockings; one pair gloves; one gas mask and helmet (if issued overseas) ; one set toilet articles (if In possession when discharged;) one barrack bag; three scarlet chevrons. He advises that if any soldier. in Idaho omitted to take with him or did not receive any of the foregoing, his office will be glad |to take the matter up with the ‘War Department and have the jartides: not taken sent on. Julian Jones returned Mon- be | day evening from Hailey, Idaho where he was detained fora few days on account of sickness. NEWS AROUND THE STATE Items of Interest From Various Sections Reproduced for Ben- efit of Our Readers, The funeral of Dr. M. McKin- non, the popular Sandpoint phy- sician, who was killed in an auto accident, was held from the fam- ily residence July 27. at Sand- point, Idaho, : Engineers of the state high- way department have opened of- fices in Lewiston to direct the construction of improvements on federal post roads as well as other highway construction in the central Idaho counties, That it will be necessary to ship 50,000 head of cattle and 500,000 head of sheep from Ida- ho for feed is. the statement of E. F. Rinehart; field animal hus- bandman of the University of ho. The firm of Wyatt & Adams, formerly proprietors of the Boi- linger hotel, Lewiston’s largest hostelry, has dissolved, Harry K. Adams retiring to devote his entire attention to the depot newsstand and his other bus>- ness interests. Miss Elizabéth Wyatt will retain the manage- ment of ‘the hotel: The. University of Idaho will devote special. attention in the coming year to the study of law and will make effords. to en- large this. department. The uni- versity will make special induce- ments to returned soldiers ana other young men who wish to take up the study of law. Residents of Twin Falls are using an.average of 450 gallons of water per capita per day at the present time which is the largest consumption on record in the. United States, according to the statement of Carl'E.. Painter hydraulic, engineer, in a> report made to Mayor W. H. Eldridge, of that, city, ok, The coroner's jury at Wallace last Saturday, after listening to the evidence in the fatal hoist accident at the Hecla mine when four men were killed and three badly injured, brought in a verdict that the four men came to their deaths by an involuntary accident. _ Ten disabled’ Ada county men interviewed H. R. Fulton, voca+ tional advisor for the govern- ment at Boise and these men will receive special training in the following occupations: Expert accéuntant, dental mechanic, lawyer, machinist, farm me- chanic, concrete contractor, horticulturist and farm mecha, nic, all at the expense of the government. Impressive ceremonies were staged at the Lewiston state normal gymnasium July 26th when Lieutenant Charles Gor- kum of the marines presented; on behalf of the French govern- ment, the crox de guerre with a gilt star to Corporal Oscar H; Rankin of company 79, Sixth regiment of marines before the faculty and students of the school. Nez Perce county has over 1500 automobiles, according to the report: of County Assessor J. M. Armstrong, who has charge of collecting the license fees. This means about one car to every 10 inhabitants of the county. Last year the receipts from licenses totaled $20,000, while this year’s figures will ex- ceed $26,000, One-fourth ot this. sum goes.to the state high- way fund, while the remaining three-fourths will be used for building and .maintenance of county roads. Reports. on, the apple crop in Lewiston Orchards indicate that the yield will be the heaviest ever harvested in that region. The earlier varieties are ripen- ing rapidly, Shippers-have been paying $1.65°a bex for Yellow Transparent and other early varieties. During the last few’ years most of the peach trees In the orchards have been replaced by apple: trees; with the result that the peach crop’ this year will not meet their local demand: Apricots a cor record than usual