Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, August 15, 1919, Page 1

Sie aaron heat comical auecrabermetiane: muiunieneE <osceGcboeaGe meen ; a eta chines ; re 3 2 otto entree bineneen fermen gee \ VOLUME 27. NUMBER 33. COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY,: AUGUST 15, 1919. WARN AGAINST _ HOLDING WHEAT Grain Corporation Director} Refuses All Foreign Contracts. Wheat growers of the Pacific) northwest are warned not to hold their grain for higher) prices, for not only will the government not pay any premi-| um whatever over the establish- ed price until supplies become | too great and terminals are con-| gested, but holdérs are likely to run afoul of the federal author-| ities for profiteering. Very little wheat of the new! evop is being marketed in the acific northwest, according to M. H. Houser, second vice p’esi- ident of the grain corporation. thi Houser announces that the ited States Grain corporation will add no'stor. age premiums to | the basic prices in its buying} seale for the present, nor until) there accumulates in the grain corporation’s hands a sufficient’ réserve of wheat to assure a measure of protection for future home requirements. “In accordance with this pol-| icy the wheat director is refus- ing proffered contracts which foreign buyers are desirous of making at the grain corporation ptice level,” said Mr. Houser. “These buyers are apparentiy anxious to cover their require- ments for some months in ad- vance. Apparently their in- ability to secure supples in other | sources of wheat makes them! especially urgent in proposing contracts with the United States but these contracts can not be entered into until a_ sufficient accumulation of wheat in the hands of the grain corporation | furnishes assurance of reason-| able prices to our own people. TRAIN RUNNING LATE. The Camas Prairie passenger train, running between Grange- ville and Lewiston , has been late every evening since tne! strike was called at Lewiston last week, from one to two hours This is due to the fact that the fruit shipment. is at its height, and also to the train not leaving | Lewiston on time on account of the strike. It is reported that the strikers at Lewiston have not molested train operations in the least. For the most part they have remained quietly at their homes, awaiting an adjust- ment of the differences that made it necessary for them to leave their positions or stand dishonored in the organization representative of their crafts) and with which they are affili- ated. TO FIGHT FIRES. A large number of fire fight- ers cng-prise the greater part of the ,4 sengers now being hauled between Lewiston and Grange- ville. Friday evening a spec- ial coath was attached to the| regular run to accomodate some | 65 fighters that were brought! from Spokane and will be en-| gaged in fighting fires néar'| Grangéville where some bad fires are now raging. Saturday | evening another large number of | fire fighters were enrouted to the Nezperce National Forest to fight fires. DROUGHT DRIVES RABBITS. Rabbits are becoming numer- | ous on the border of the Minido- | ka project, as ‘the dry. season is | driving them in to find food. Considerable poison has been distributed, to destroy them, | and it has been found that, on an average, 200 rabbits are kill- ed by each ounce of strychnine. The strychnine, in water, is used on alfalfa, hay or grass. A sys-| tematic campaign of extermina-| tion is being urged. Mr. and Mrs. Chris Kettman | LEAVE FOR THE EAST. Dr. and Mrs. W. F. Orr, and Dick, departed Tuesday | acme for St. Peter, Minn.,| Where they will visit for some) at the home of Mrs. Orr’s | | parents, After a short visit} | the doctor will proceed to Chica- | | go where he will take a post graduate coursé while Mrs. Orr, | jand son, will remain with her | relatives. The trip | made in théir new Jordan car. | They expect to be away about | | two MOTE eee ELKS BEHERE = TUESDAY NEXT Be Also Special Entertainers— August 18 and 19 Are The Dates Selected. A large number of Lewiston Elks are planning on making a/| | tour of the prairie country the} coming week in the interest of | | the lodge and also to boost the | coming Lewiston-Clarkston fair this fall. They will be accom- panied by a band and will be in oteonieecd: Tuesday, August | 19th. The Lewiston Tribune has | the eon oh to say about the contemplated trip: The Elks excursion { are planning an trip to the prairie | country in recognition of the | splendid support the prairie | country has given the lodge in the matter of providing mem-}| | bers. This recognition will con-| sist of enter'tainment to be pro-/ } vided for the lodge members at | all points visited and it is ex-| pected to spend two days in| making the visits. The first night will be spent) at Winchester where a big pro- | | gram will be provided and the| | Elks and their friends of Reu-| bens, Ilo-Vollmer and Nezperce | will be invited to motor to Win- | chester to enjoy the entertain- | | ment. | The Lewiston band of about fifteen pieces will be taken and in addition will singers, dancers | and other entertainers. It is| | proposed to have at least twenty | | automobiles make the trip and; | it is expected from 80 to 100) | Elks will be in the party in ad- | dition to the band members and other entertainers. A special committee of “Elks will begin work tomorrow to or- | ganize the excursion party and) the departure will be made from Lewiston at 8 o’clock on Monday | morning, August 18. The Elks} are all boosters for the coming) Lewiston-Clarkston fair and it) is only natural that they have | good words to say for the com- | ing exposition, but the chief | purpose of the trips to give the prairie and mountain members some of the good things enjoyed by the lodge and the trip now | being planned will be repeated | from time to time. The first night will be spent | at Winchester and the second| night at Grangeville. Winchester is planning to stage the enter- | tainment in the park if weather | | conditions will permit, but if tne} | weather will be used. The entertainment | |at Grangeville will be either in} the park or in a hall. The schedule announced for} | the trip is as follows: is being! is unfavorable a hall| ““; ‘ inthe | But th 1 1] | hr AM 4st PR Sy egal day August 17th. Means of con- STATE WILL BUY SUPPLIES. | Staple food supplies enough to last several months will prob- ably be purchased by the state bureau of supplies for use of the | Seven state penal and charitable institutions when the ‘govern- ment places on_ sale the food- | stuffs purchased for the army during the war. Frank S. Lint, state purchas- ing agent, received word recent- ‘ly from Congressman Addison T. Smith that the state would be allowed to purchase an unlimited | quantity of the food on the same basis as individuals. Mr. Smith advised Mr. Lint that if the matter were urgent he would take it up with the surplus prop- erty division preferential bu- reau. Notices were sent out Satur- day afternoon to the heads of the state institutions, asking them to make a list of their needs for the winter. made by buying the army food, | the state purchasing agent” be- lieves. It is estimated that at least a carload of bacon will be needed, and the government sup- ply will be sold at 2414 cents per pound, which is from 15 to 2514 cents under the best local prices. Approximately $50,000 worth of food supplies are used by the state penal and charitable insti- tutions. The institutions for which the purchases would be made are the asylums at Black- foot, Nampa and Orofino; the Soldiers’ Home, the deaf and blind school at Gooding, the in- dustrial training school at St. Anthony and the state peniten- tiary at Boise. | LAW FIXES LIMIT. Shooters. may have only six | birds in their possession at any one time of the varieties of par- trige, sage hen; pheasant, grouse, according to the provi- sions of the state fish and game law. This information is given out as a result of a bit of misunder- standing among sportsmen as to the allowed bag limits on upland birds, that will be open to shoot- ing on August 15. There is some ambiguity in | the synopsis of the game law reads that a hunter may have 20 game birds in his possession at johe time. This statement Is embodied in the clause on the license relating to waterfowl and refers to this class of birds only. According to the complete game law that gives the follow- ing limitations on upland birds, section 16 reads: “And it shall | be unlawful to kill in any one | day or have in his possession a} total of more than six of the fol- 12 mourning doves.” The title, “pheasant” clause pheasant and not to the Chinese | or ringneck pheasant. in this Is an airplane a “vehicle?” If it is one and is used for the transportation of passengers, it) is a public utility and as such | | is subject to the public utilities mission is not sure it is a vehicle. |Raymond L. Givens assistant | | attorney general, for an opinion. | Monday, Aug. 18—Lapwai, 9 a. m.; Culdesac, 10 a. m. ;Reu-| | bens, 11:30 a. m.; Nezperce for ly o'clock lunch; ‘Tlo-Vollmer, | 8:00 p. m., and Winchester in | the evening . Tuesday, Aug. 19—Ferdinand, | 10:30 a.m.; Cottonwood for! lunch, Grangeville in the even- | ing. ALL-STARS WIN. ~ ators of airplanes. Whether or not it is necessary | | for a. carrying vehicle to follow | an established route in order to be classed as a public utility is a question now in the courts for | decision. This question was | raised by a taxicab operator. As | airplanes follow various routes | The All-Stars baseball team | even between the same points! An enormous saving can be! printed on the licenses where it | lowing birds: patridge, sage hen | pheasant, grouse or more than | refers to the native] It has submitted the question to | If it is found that airplanes | | are public utilities, hearings will |be necessary to decide what} | fares shall be charged by oper-| FORBID HUNTING. Twenty-three stockmen ane farmers, in the Keuterville sec- tion, have signed their names to a notice which will prohibit hunting on their land. The land t) by these men comprises a great part of the land in the Keutérville section and is also one of the best hunting grounds in this part of the country. This action is taken on account of so many hunters leaving gates open and otherwise molesting stock. Another reason is that several animals have been killed by, careless hunters in years gone by. Also on account of the great danger of some careless hunter throwing away a cigar or cigarette stub and causing fire, which, with the present conditions of the timber would no doubt result in great loss to the @wners. - The action taken by these gentlemen cannot be condemned by any fair minded person as they are simply taking this precaution in protecting théir property to which they have a perfect right. So be- ware My. Hunter as these gentle- men will enforce this ruling on their own private property WANT MORE TEACHERS. : It will be necessary to call in untrained teachers to fill the ranks of the profession this year and next unless the present con- didions are relieved according to Professor Ph. Soulen, head of the Department of Education at the University of Idaho who has. been unable to fill the calis he has received for thoroughly equipped - school masters and school madams. “Never before have we been so much in need of college train- ed men and women.” said Pro- fessor Soulen. “Salaries for teachers have raised — consider- ably during the last year. Teach- ers-do not yet receive as much paras day laborers, but school are slowly beginning to rants the nééessity for a living wage for teachers. Despite this condition men and women refuse to stay in the profession when the rewards are so much higher in other lines of work. The great demand will not stop in the course of the next few years, Professor Soulen be- lieves. IT PAYS TO AVERTISE. Last week Joe Oldham ran a small ad in the Chronicle for the crank shaft that was lost from his new Velie car and not think- ing he would never find the same ordered a new one, which sold for $9.30 by William R. Rog- ers the local agent. After the | first week’s publication a gentle- man from the Greencreek sec- tion notified the Chronicle that he had found tie same. The road on which this shaft was found had never been traveled by the Oldham’s and evidently must have been found by some- | one and again lost. The ad cost | them 20 cents making an actual |\IS AN AIRPLANE A PUBLIC) UTILITY? saving of $9.10. THE COMMUNITY CHURCH. According to agreement veached last Sunday August 10 the members, friends and _ all interested ones, of “The Com- munity Church,” are asked to join in an all day picnic of Sun- veyance will be ample for all who desire such. Ask Mr. M. M. | Belknap, or Wm. Simon to re- serve a place for you. We are meeting at the Church at 9 o'clock. Bring your lunch and | especially your ever cheery dis- is arranged speciai music and a short address for the occassion. M. W. Sligar, Pastor. | GAIN $2100 BY WOOL POOL. | The pooling of 25,000 pounds of wool by 28 farmers, and its sale at 51 cents a pound, is re- | de defeated Lewiston at Ilo last} they will be affected by the deci- | ported by L. Casseldine, of Mid- Sunday by a’score of 7 to 2. |This was the last game of a {series of three games that has | | been played between the Lewis- | | ton team and the All-Stars. The | |sion if it is finally held that they are public utilities. | STUDYING SMUT CONTROL. Idaho county farmers are tak- vale. The price was about 9 |eents a pound higher than the | average price received by farm- ers not in the’ pool, the net gain of the pool being $2100. The | All-Stars have defeated the ing great interest in methods of | cost of pooling was less than | Lewiston team twice, making | and little. son, Raymond, and/ them the winner of the series. Mrs. John Medved, of Nezperce, | Lewiston defeated the All- Stars | work that has been done smut control. They expect to| learn much from demonstration | in| | three-fifths of a cent per pound. Philip Wagner returned last spent Saturday and Sunday in/ at Lewiston and the prairie boys | Lewis county, where smut has night from France having been es cotine Re haw defeated thi Medved. iat of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. e Snake river boys Th. been reduced to less than 4 per cent. just recently discharged from the service. WILL VISIT MONTANA, Mr. and Mrs. Riley Rice and son Euclid, departed Sunday morning by automobile for Apex Montana, where they will visit with their sons who have. large} holdings there. They also’ ex- pect to meet their son Arthur there who arrived in New York recently. Arthur will accompa- ny them home on their return trip from Montana which will be about the first of September. TO AID LAND SETTLERS Full Time Be Allowed When Final Proof Is Made— Orders Received. The Lewiston land office has received instructions from the U.S. department of the interior to the effect that homesteaders who are sufferers from the drought are to be granted leave of absence to seek employment to sustain their families and the period of their absences from their lands shall not be counted against them when final proof is made. The following is the text ot the order received: “That any homestead settler or entryman who, during the calendar year 1919, finds it necessary to leave his home-|, stead to seek employment - in order to obtain food and other necessaries of life for himselt, family and:work stock, because of great and serious drought conditions, causing total or par- tial failures of crops, may, up- on filixtg with the register and receiver proof of such condi- tions in the form of a corrobor- ated affidavit, be excused from during all or part of the cdlendir’ year 1919, or the current year of such homestead which may fall principally in the year 1919, and the making of final proof upon such an entry, absence granted under this act be count- ed and construed as constructive residence by said homesteader.” No blanks will be furnished for these applications but they should cover the following points: “Name and address of entry- man. “Serial number of entry. “Description of the land em- braced in the entry. “The date the entry was al- lowed by the register. “Character and extent ot drought conditions affecting the entry. “Effect of drought on crops of entryman. “Necessity of entryman seek- ing employment elsewhere be- cause of drought conditions. “Period of leave applied for. “A person who is granted a leave under. this act will obtain credit as for residence, during the time of his absence, as though actually living upon the entry. If this absence is for a period during which a certain amount of cultivation _ would have been required under the provisions of the homestead law, he will be given credit as for cultivation also during the time of absence. “The act applies to entrymen, | only if they have establishea residence upon their claims. It applies also to settlers who have not made entries. If the latter file applications for leaves of absence you will assign them current serial numbers. If the settler has theretofore filea notice of absence under the act of July 3, 1916, (39 Stat., 341),, the application under this act will be given the serial number already assigned such notice of absence.” WORK PROGRESSING. The grading work of contra¢- tor J. B. McCully and his crew of men in grading Main street for paving is progressing nicely and the grading this week finds them near the Cottonwood hotel. A large amount of dirt- was re- moved this week from a lot own- ed by Joe South and is being us- ed to Say in the low = on the $2.00 PER YEAR NEWS AROUND THE STATE Items of Interest From Various Sections Reproduced for Ben- efit of Our Readers, Sheriff J. H. Scott was releas- ed from the couaty jai! Tuesday after serving the 2.1-hour sen- tence imposed hy Judge R. E. Weniger for contempt of court. The cost of milk a quart was raised from 10 cents to 18 cents or two quarts for 25 cents in Caldwell by local dairymen, the raise in prices going into effect the middle of the week. The Clearwater highway dist- rict, of Nez Perce county, and the North Fork highway dist- rict. of Clearwater county, will build a hard-surface highway a Arrow Junction to Ahsah- a. Thomas J. Mullen, who prac- ticed law in Lewiston for nearly twenty years, died recently at the State soldiers’ home at Ort- ing, Wash. He was 74 years old and is survived by a widow and~ two children, A church building to cost ap- proximately $75.000 is to be completed by St. Edwards Cath- olic parish at Twin Falls early in the coming spring as weather and workng conditions will : permit. Nineteen passengers went up in the Idaho Airplane & Motor company plane at Boise and came down flying enthusiasts Saturday Four flights were made in the mornng, 11 in the afternoon and four in the eyen- ing. Associated press dispatches of last Wednesday carried the names of James Blaine Benedict of Sandpoint and Edward F, Goddard”of Mountain *Home«as* census supervisors to direct the taking of the 1920 census in Ida- 0. : About 25 prominent horticult- urists from all parts of the northwest are expected to visit Lewiston on Wednesday to in- spect the orchard districts. They will come here from Moscow, headed by Professor C. C. Vin- cent, horticulturist at the state university. Members of the governor’s cabinet Tuesday afternoon un- animously passed a resolution presented by Robert O. Jones secretary of state, and address- ed to President Wilson and con- gress asking that congress take steps at once to curb the in- creasing cost of living. Five prisoners escaped within one week at the state peniten- tiary during July, according to the monthly report of W. L. Cuddy, warden, to Robert O. Jones, commissioner of law en- forcement. August 1 there were 218 prisoners in the institution, nine of whom were received dur- ing July. Permission to use the army trucks loaned by the govern- ment to the state for transpor- tation of potatoes from farms in the Wilder section to the main line at Caldwell during the con- gestion expected on the Cald- well Traction company’s lines when the crop begins to move, was granted Saturday by the war department. Lieut. Col. Theodore Roose- velt, jr., one of the leading or- ganizers of the American Le- gion, the national soldier organ- ization, will speak at Coeur d’ Alene September 20 and at Po- catello September 22, according to a letter received by Governor Davis Wednesday. His itiner-- ary for Idaho has been arranged by the speaking committee of the American Legion. Tdoyd D. Marker, wounded overséas in action, completed his thirty-day furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Marker, ndw residents of Clark- ston but former pioneers of Nez Perce prairie, and returned to the Letterman hospital, San Francisco. Loyd Marker was reported in much better condi- tion. During the last operation a piece of:his overcoat was re- moved which had been blown in-~ to his shoulder by shot, 3