Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, October 3, 1919, Page 7

2 rane tan A. Rea Es, sn ip am A WHITE MOTHER FINDS SON Babe Was Stolen from Crib | i a wrench, ne had titer poeta as sf sufficiently faraway from the pe iad the bailding in Which 1 was One night 24 years ago, when ‘ é Aaron Currier Wwas a bale mance still lived in the forests ia ee and the hills, a 6-months-old | baby was stolen from his crib | beside his knew him. Because of his cheer- ful and unselfish disposition he mothers’s bed little log cabin in the mountains, says the San Francisco Chron- icle. A few weeks ago Mrs. Erick E. Denley of the Oakland apart- rs ments, Oakland, Cal., found her boy at Lapwai Ferry, Idaho. Hie was living on an Indian reserva- tion as Howard Wilson, adopted son of a squaw man and an old Indian woman, both now dead, and lawful members of the tribe of Nez Perce. A soldier from Idaho came to the Rresidio last January and re- lated ata party in Oakland a strange ‘traditional /story of a white baby that had been stolen from a cabin near a_ millitary reservation one June night in 1895. Mrs. Denley heard of the story and at the end of the trai! to which it led her she found her son. Her husband died 11 years ago after 13 years’ vain search for their son. Will Sell Indian Lands. As soon as Howard Wilson can |. sell the lands and the cattle left to him by the Indian woman who mothered him for years, he will go to his mother’s home in Oak- land and become Robert Denley, a man of the cities. Mrs. Denley was born in Ver- mont and her mother died when the daughter was 1 year old. Her father went to Idaho to seek wealth in the mines. Years after when the girl was 15, he became |. seriously ill. The daughter and the son of | oi was very popular with the child- | fatege gh tee tonal vee a re great abuni Mahence and consisted of the ¢hoitest flowers that uld be setured. Idaho wasa frontier and ro- | _ Begin 'Plowing Parly-s C. B. AMES Whether you Fall plow or wait for the frost to get out of the ground in the Spring, a twelve-year-old boy can operate a LAUSON and do three times the work of three horses and ahired man. In average soil 10 acres a day is average plow- ing for the LAUSON 15-25 with a three bottom engine plow. It is not uncommon to disc and ; harrow 20 acres a day, Plowing speed 2}4 miles per hour, and low speed, where soil is heavy or there is an extra load, 154 miles per hour. Specifications Standard No change in genera design of the LAUSON in3 years. One size with in- terchangeable parts throughout. Valve in head engine. Perfect cooling System. Gears enclosed, running in oil, steel hood enclosing all parte. DUST PROOF-ALL GEARS ENCLOSED Judge Ames of Oklahoma recently took office as assistant attorney gen- eral of the United States. During the last six month of the war he was food administrator for Oklahoma, The Reason, “Noah wouldn't have made a good poker player.” “Why not?” “Because he never held more than two ‘of a kind,” her father’s partner were called to the bedside, and there they were married. A year or so later Robert Denley was born. That day in June, 1895, young i husband was forced to go to a near by settlement for supplies. { His wife laughed at his fears for her safety. But while the mother slept the baby was stolen from his crib that night. Howard Wilson, who will be Quite Different. ' “The young bride across the way treats her. husband like a dog.” ¢ “Poor fellow!” “Don’t pity him, She’s always fuse ing over him,” THE LYCEUM COURSE, The Lyceum course this year | will comménce with the Sam U}| Lewis Co. | Sam Lewis, the well known HOENE HARDWARE Welch tenor, is soon to be heard —— Robert Denley, has heard from here in Lyceum. He is appear- the Nez Perce Indians the story pid at oe ee Aes own coi of his life. : <r | cert organ ion this season an A white man and two white _— > SSSReB3S] ._ LSSLSSaa_SSS ESS SSS SSS SSS) ras on exceptionally talented : e In- ompany 0! istin, . Mr, | and asked te Indians to care for |* L. B. HILL, FLORIST, LEWISTON, IDAHO : strength producer. 24-tf dels Tatas Gk Wa and fame throwgh his ability as } Pee he ; ie i 3 ee, ‘ rter singer, but he is now as find : on sien gp $ Flowers for all occasions. Artistically arranged. Direct to $ sii Tea ake cua eas Clothing Ablase and Put pe ber so dai Te ee 0 tae went away, leaving the infant |~ You by parcel post or express. Paper White Narcissus bulbs eae d than other fi Out the Fire. operatic field. He has one of on a-pier. i % to grow in water are ready now, 10c each: $1.00 per dozen of better brea an other reins the best tanner wblens. ae ae ‘ The young Indian mother took | Frosereroeeererororeroweorweooeoeo gehen noes oeoeooes | ON the market, The funeral of Aaron Currier, | younger generation of singers, the baby for her own. When the | 11 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. | of splendid volume and glorious Indians went away on a hunting C. A. Currier, of Forest, was con-| in its deep, rich tones. trip the child was left with white ducted Wednesday and the re-| Miss Ruth Lavery the Chicago : persons and when the Indians re- mains were laid to rest at the | violinist, Miss Irene Harruf, ac- j ; turned the baby again was miss- Morrow cemetery. The funeral| companist and soprano soloist, ‘ ing. was very largely attended, the | and Miss Amber Hopkins, read- It developed that Wilson, a tragic circumstances of the boy’s| er, comprise the balance of this squaw man, had a cow he didn’t death being such as to elicit the | splendid company. want. He did want the white most sincere sympathy of the| On Detémber 10, The Old baby. The trade was made, and people of the entire region. Fashioned Girls, this company as Howard Wilson the boy grew The boy died shortly after|is com of four young up. midnight Saturday morning} ladiés who are gifted musicians. Adopted by Nez Perces. from sep Say between 7 ir A gegy Sie” aes: Pe i w- and 8 o’cloc riday evening. | organiz y Bess rl Pe en oe a oa to The boy had been sent to the | Morrison, thg,well known enter- the Nez Perce tribe. The adop- gasoline shed, about a quarter} tainér and coach. They will tion entitled the tribe to draw of a mile from the house, to fill | present a program of infinite government rations for.him. a gasoline lamp for use in the | variety, including ¢ostumed When the old woman died the home. It seems he rode a horse | songs and sketches, vocal and boy received all her property after the gasoline and had filled | instrumental solos and duets, and built over her grave a tomb- the lamp and ignited the gaso- | orchestra selections, readings stone such as never was seen be- line he had spilled on his cloth- | and choruses. The charming fore at the Indian cemetery at ing when he lighted a match to | old songs and stories of the Lapwai Ferry. search for a wrench with which | South will constitute the major Mrs. Denley took up the case to tighten the tap on the tank. | part of the evening program. faa with government agents at the He leaped on his horse and rode} On December 80, the Ward reservation. - They traced the neatly a quarter of a mile to a | Watres Company will present a story of the lost white boy and créek where he extinguished the program of unsual interest and found it was her son. They told fire and was wandering toward | originality. Mr. Waters as a the young man about it. He Ra home when he was discovered | character make-up ga takes was doubtful, for he didn’t know Tobseco Co, by his father, whe went to the | high rank among the bést plat- what a white mother would be gasoline shed when the boy did | form entertainers. His‘sketches lice not return with the lamp as soon | are new and original and have The night of July 12 Mrs. ’ aes as he should. The clothing was | not previously been heard on the Denley. met her boy. Soon he O use arguing about it, or making chin-music in a burned from his body and his | platform. With Mrs. Walters will be living with her, for he is minor key! If you've got the jimmy-pipe or ciga- hands were burned to a crisp. | he will do some whistling duets. convinced that she is his mother rette makin’s notion cornered in your smokeappetite, slip The singed hair of the horse | Miss Frances Witwer, the con- and that it is better for him to it a few liberal loads of Prince Albert! showed how the boy had at- | tralto soloist, is a very gifted live as a white man than as an tempted to make the dash to| young’singér. Her voice is deep Indian Boiled down to regular old between-us-man-talk, water and save his life by jump- | and mellow and has that wonder- t ‘ ao mets Prince Albert kicks the “‘pip”’ right out of a pipe! ing into the creek but is seems | ful quality so seldom heard. q TO VOTE BONDS. Puts pipe pleasure into the 24-hours-a-day joy’us class! he was thrown from the horse} jl of thesé numbers are be- . ; ; i i iest of rts! P. A. is so some distance before the creek | ing put on undér the manage- The Ferdinand highway dist- Makes cigarette rolling the toppiest of sports’ F'. was reached because burned! ment of thé Bllisori-White lyce- rict will on October 17 vote ona fragrant, so fascinating in flavor, so refreshing! parts of his clothing and burned | ym bureau and before a contract proposed bond issue poy anges Prince Albert can’t bite your tongue or parch your flesh from his hands were found | wag signed with these people, which will be used _ to build the far as like according to your smoke on the ground where he had | the business men of Cottonwood ww North and South highway from throat! You go as far as you like a ig toy bit 4 made his way to the creek after |had to sign a guaratites. Tt is the Cottonwood highway district spirit! Our exclusive patented process cuts out bite an being thrown from the horse. |heved thet these high class en. through the Ferdinand district parch! The- boy: retained: comaeloule te ts will be appreciated pein ty 4 eee J : "$50 Ps . Toppy red bags, tidy red diem, hendeemns nets aad Lev come tie ness until he was given an opiate |by the public and that liberal ~« ———_—_—_———_ : nas 0S ia ae that hespe the tobacco in such perfect condition. fy the, phates ——- oo Freee Ge steed ab the Oe: and et ta Theat 284#| -R_J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, N. C. the fire was started but ip light. | chevy. —_