Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, December 5, 1919, Page 1

ELLER GRABS |. W. W. BUNCH TWELVE ROUNDED UP IN IDAHO COUNTY—WERE ON ROAD WORK. Twelve members of the Indus- | trial Workers of the World were | taken to Grangeville Friday by | Sheriff William Eller from the| highway construction camps on! ‘Salmon river are being held. in a | local hotel pending investigation | by Prosecuting Attorney Burt | Auger. The men were taken from | three camps of the Grant-Smith | construction company on the, charge of criminal syndicalism, | the charge being based on the} membership cards in the I. W.| W. carried by the men. Two of the men arrested had sub-con- | tracts for rock work on the} north and south state highway and several of the men had been in the construction camps since | the work was started on the Whitebird-New Meadows link of the state highway. The arrests were reported to the office of the state constabu- lary at Boise and also the fact that the jail facilities of Idaho county are inadequate to accom- modate this number of prisoners The county officers were advis- | ed that the prisoners can be tak- en into adjoining counties but no directions were given in the mat- ter of prosecuting the cases. In| the absence of instructions from | the state department, the coun-| ty officers proceeded with these | “eases the same as other state | cases arising in the county. The investigations made by| the officers did not disclose any | evidence that would warrant prosecuting the men other than} that they carried membership} cards in the I. W. W. As far as could be learned, they have made | no effort to interest other labor- ers in the organization, have} been good workers and have otherwise conducted themselves in an industrious and orderly | manner. | The men were questioned by the officers and the summary of the information furnished by them is to the effect they be- came members of the organiza-| tion while engaged in work| where it was necessary to join the I. W. W. or leave the camps | but that they had no interest in| the organization at the time and have not since taken any interest in its affairs. The men have indicated a willingness and de- sire to tear up their membership cards and sign any statement or obligation pledging themselves to loyal support of the govern- ment. The officers are fully aware that the text of the state stat-| ute provides that membership in the organization constitutes a felony but the view is held| that the broader interpretation of the law is intended to stamp out disloyalty and that more} harm than good would result from the prosecution of such} cases as now appear to be here. | It will be the purpose of the of- ficers of Idaho county to vigor-| ously prosecute all cases where | evidence of disloyalty is discov- | ered but it will be the endeavor | of th eofficers to deal fairly with all cases that may arise. Men are Released After the matter had been} thoroughly gone into by the Ida-| ho county officials they deemed | it advisable to release all those | arrested after they had signified their willingness to withdraw, from the organization. It is al- so reported that all twelve of | the men arrested were foreign- ers, being subjects of Sweden. All of the men has also promised | to take out citizenship papers as soon as possible. ORDER THEM NOW. The Chronicle has a very fine sample of engraved calling cards on hand. They make an ideal Christmas present for the wife. Order them now so that they will be here on time. | memorial commission as the of- | the late war. | commission Prof. Becker, the well known chef sent out by the Majestic range company and who demon- stated here all last week before | large crowds departed Sunday | morning for Nezperce where he, will put on a similar demonstra-| tion. | The demonstration in Cotton- wood took place in the Hoene Hardware every afternoon and} was attended by a large crowd| of ladies as well as a number of men who also wished to get some | fine pointers on cooking. DOUGHBOY MODEL IDAHO MODEL COMMISSION DECIDED AT) MEETING IN BOISE LAST WEEK. The Fairbanks model of the American soldier, as designated and submitted by Avard Fair- banks, the Salt Lake sculptor has been adopted by the state | ficial emblem for Idaho’s memo- rial to the soldiers, sailors and marines who lost their lives in This decision was reached at the close of a two days’ session of the memorial in Boise. Harold} Harrisf Grangeville is a mem-| ber of the commission. The commission decided to make the model as typically Ida- | hoan as possible and the heads| and faces will be modeled after | three Idaho soldiers, the late Lt. | John M. Regan, Private Nei-| bauer of Sugar City and Sgt.! Chas. A. Turner of Grangeville. Lieutenant Regan give his life to his country on the battle- | field of France and lies buried} there. . Private Neibauer is the only soldier from Idaho and one of the few in the nation to re-| ceive the congressional medal for | bravery on the battlefied. He| captured single handed a large| number of Germans besides put-| ting several machine gun nests | out of commission. Sergeant Turner is now at Grangeville and | was a member of Company E from Idaho county. Adoption of the Fairbanks model clears the stage for action | and the various counties of the) state may now proceed with the | erection of memorials -to their soldier dead. The law under) which the memorial commission | acted was passed at the 1919 session of the state legislature. | It provides for an appropriation | of $50,000 from the state. Each | county under the terms of the} law will receive $1,000 from the state, providing the couny raises | alike amount, or more, and erects a memorial embodying the | emblem adopted by the commis-| sion. Thus, a county which} wishes to suitably remember its | departed heroes, may do so with state aid, and there is no limit} to the amount to be subscribed by the county and expended on such memorials. | The Fairbanks model, under | the decision of the commission, ; they become delinquent. will be available in two forms, a free standing figure or in relief. WAS A BIG SUCCESS. 4 | to 140 per | Money is needed to disseminate Red Cross Christmas Seals Continue the war against tu- berculosis, one of America’s deadliest enemies. Twenty-four of every 1000 men examined for the army were rejected because of tuberculosis. One hundred and fifty thousand people (of whom 12,000 are children under" five) die yearly of tuberculosis. One person in every ten in all America has tuberculosis, active or inactive. The disease is preventable if. people only know how. The anti- tuberculosis league undertakes to give this knowledge. In its j 15 year’s work it has lessened the number of deaths from 200 hundred thousand. information. This money is in large part provided by the sale of Christmas seals. They cost one cent each. Put one on every letter and package you send at. Christmas time and thus rejoice the hearts, not only of your friends, but the sick. Send seals and show your sympathy. The seals are on sale at the following places: Cottonwood Hardware, Hoene Hardware, First National Bank, Schaecher Drug Store and Turner Drug Store. STOPS AT LEWISTON. Frank Kelsey who departed last week for an extended trip east was a guest of the Lewiston Commercial Club Thursday. In regard to his visit there the Lewiston Tribune has the follow- ing to say: Frank A. Kelsey, manager of the Hoene hardware at Cotton- wood, was in the city, being en azoute to eastern and middle w points for an extended visit. Mr. Kelsey will be a booster for Idaho at all points visited and is carrying with him a large numb- er of booklets on the Cottonwood section and central Idaho in gen- eral, the booklets having been issued by the Cottonwood Com- mercial club. The booklet is a comprehen- sive publication, giving much in- formation as to location, com- mercial and educational facilities water, light and power trans- portation, agricultural develop- ment, livestock raising, timber, manufacturing, climate and rain- fall and the general prices of land and essentials. It contains a number of illustrations mostly taken of the prairie country, and in all is a very creditable publi- cation. Mr. Kelsey visited the Com- mercial club in Lewiston and se- cured Lewiston country litera- ture here, to be distrbuted on his trip. He has been located at Cottonwood for a number of years and has been one of the active citizens who has labored for the advancements of the en- tire central Idaho country. Taxes! Taxes! they must be paid by December 20 or else 49-8 LEAVES FOR CALIFORNIA. As outlined by the commission, a memorial costing but little over $2000 may be erected which will embody the Fairbanks model | in relief and which will be in ac- cordance with the memorial law |and will therefore draw $1000; Mauer has always taken an from the state memorial fund. The law provides for a memor- ial to the boys who lost their lives in the war, but makes no provision for recognition of the boys and girls who served in the great struggle and emerged alive and victorious. The commis- sion suggests that in the build- ing of the pedestals for the memorials a receptacle of ample | proportions be provided in which shall be placed a printed or type- written list of the names of all |the boys and girls who were called and volunteered and who served in the various branches | of the service. Taxes must be paid by De- 2 83 _]eember 20th. Eugene Mauer, who has been | engaged in the tailor business in | Cottonwood for some years past | departed this morning for San ‘Francisco, Cal. where he expects | to locate permanently. Mr. | active interest in the community | affairs, being an exceptionally fine singer and was one of the |members of St. Mary’s Catholic | church choir and his vacancy in | or organization will be hard to | fill. MINERS ARE RESCUED Been Entomed by Cave-In Over Fourteen Days. After being in the Gold Hun- ter mine at Mullan, Idaho since Saturday morning,” November 15, when they were entombed by a slide of eaxth , P. P. Grant and Emil Sayko, miners, were taken out at 8:15 p. m. Saturday. Both are in fairly good condition and they are now in a hospital at Wallace, where they will re- main for several days. Grant and Sayko had been im- prisoned more than fourteen full days, or 271 hours and five minutes. Ever since the cavein the fight to reach the men has been in progress. A week ago Friday two other men were imprisoned as they were rushing work to get to the pair. After being en- tombed for a little more than a day they were relased, none the, worse for their experience. Grant and Sayko are both weak from the effects of their long stay underground. Sayko said that the only time the en- tombed men felt completely dis- couraged was when the second eavein came and the work stop- ped for a few minutes. There were black horrors until they heard the water trickle and they went almost wild with delight when the diamond drill broke through from above. They were given food and sti- mulants and said they were com- fortable. The “break through” came early Saturday morning, but it was not until after noon that the rescue crews got a hole big enough to take them out. They are being kept in dimly lighted rooms and even their families are not permitted to stay for more than a few minutes with them. The accident is declared to be the most remarkable in the history of the Coeur d’Alenes. "Not only were the two men re- scued after two weeks’ imprison- ment, but two others buried in trying to reach them were also taken out safely. Every mining operator in the district offered to give aid in rescuing them. A government man with a geophone was brought from Salt Lake City and all work in the mine was sus- pended to help get them out. FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN. The Thanksgiving offering, taken up in the Cottonwood public schooi for the Children’s Home Finding association at Lewiston resulted as follows: High School .. 6.90 7th and 8th grades 4.50 5th and 6th grades 2.65 8rd and 4th grades ... 2.00 1st and 2nd grades .. 2,50 Total 20.05 The offerings will be greatly appreciated by the officials of the association and speaks very highly for the pupils school who generously donated their little bit. It also shows that the unfortunate little babes, who are taken over by the Home Finding Association, until such a time as it takes to find a suit- able home for them, have a warm spot in the hearts of the Cottonwood boys and girls. HOLTHAUS SELLS FARM. A. Holthaus, for $115 ar acre. purchased by Mr. Fortin land owned by his father. Mr. ion of his new holdings at once. Mr. Mauer has many friends | in Cottonwood who wish him the | best of success in his new loca- | tion. } At the present time there is |an exceptionally good opening | for a tailor in Cottonwood. Mr. |Mauer had three prospective | buyers in view, but as none of them appeared to close a deal |with him he has stored his equipment with the hopes that one of them will come later and the same. LOST FIRST GAME. The Cottonwood High Schoo: team lost its first basket bal game of the season to the Gif- forl high school at the high school gym Thursday evening by a score of 9 to 30. The Cot- tonwood team has good mater- ial for a winning team and with a little more practice coupled in with the experience gained to do better in the of the| on Wednesday of this week closed a deal with | William Fortin whereby he dis- posed of 160 acres located five miles southeast of Cottonwood | to the above named gentleman The farm is a very desirable one, and adjoins Fortin expects to take posses-| MR. NETZEL HERE. H. C. Netzel, manager of the Leggett chain of stores, is look- ing after the local store this week. He has just recently re- turned from their store, at East- port, and reports a good business at that point, and he also states that the Cottonwood store is do- ing a much larger business than they had anticipated. Nr. Net- zel is a hustler and knows the general merchandise _ business. His Ilo-Vollmer friends will be pleased to know that he is being successful in his new location.— llo Register. PAROLE GIVEN 0. V. ALLEN BOARD VOTED UNANIMOUS- LY TO RELEASE FORMER STATE TREASURER O. V. Allen, former state trea- surer who confessed the em- bezzlment of sums from the state treasury totaling $93,000 during his term of office and was sentenced October 22, 1914, to serve from five to ten years in the state penitentiary, was re- leased from the pen on parole Wednesday by the state pardon board. The action of the board was unanimous. Allen has re- peatedly implored state pardon | boards to grant him an absolute pardon. The present board refused to give him unconditional freedom, and released him to the custody of his brother, H. A. Allen, of Twin Falls under the usual pa- role requirement that he make regular reports as to his conduct and his whereabouts. Although Allen has been in the penitentiary since October 22, 1914, and has ‘actually serv- ed but five years and a little more than a month, his excep- tional record under the state laws entitle him to credit for | having served 7 years and 8 |months. ‘The prison authorities reported to the pardon board at its meeting when Allen’s case was up for consideration, that there was not a single mark against Allen’s record as a pri- soner. His full maximum sen- tence of ten years would have expired January 21, 1921, count- ing time out for good behavior. The state recovered the entire amount of Allen speculations, which with interest totaled near- ly $145.000. The recovery was made through his bonding com- pany. Implicated with Allen was his deputy, Fred M. Coleman, who stood trial on the charge and was sentenced to serve from 214 to ten years. Coleman was pardoned February 10, 1919, af- ter his sentence had been defini- tly fixed at 214 years. Allen for the last year has been prisoner manager of the Hurtt ranch at Nampa, which was leased by the state. issue carried year. their advertising rates. subscription and rates, two papers ] his list. to its readers every week. Anew change RAISE SUBSCRIPTION TO $2. The Nezperce Herald and the Ilo Register in their last weeks announcements stating that on and after Jan. 1 the subscription prices of their newspapers will be raised to $2 a They will also increase The high price of paper coupled with advancing price of labor has forced them to advance their advertising The raise in prices by these is a just one, they being both creditable sheets to their communities and if they | are not worth $2 per year the | price that will be asked after Jan. 1 they are not worth a cent. Subscribers who stop their sub- scription on account of the raise is a person that the publisher may well feel glad to get off of $2 a year by no means pays for the paper and work en- volved in getting the publication THE STATE Items of ‘Interest From Various Sections Reproduced for Ben- efit of Our Readers. Straw last week sold for $16 per ton and grain hay at $36 per oo ata farm sale near Nez erce. The cannery at Juliaetta, has closed for the season after dis- tributing about $10,000 for labor and piling up an aggregate pro- duction of 400 tons. : Clay Smith, a resident of Nez Perce for many years died last Friday morning from general complications from which he had been period. The Oregon Short Line rail- road was ordered by the United States railroad administration to complete at once the spur tract near Briggs, which will unlock © Py are tons of coal for use in aho, Miles Cannon, state commis- sioner of agriculture, has noti- fied Governor Davis that he has suspended the personnel and activities of the state fair bu- reau, including the services of O. P. Hendershot as its head. Robert O, Jones, state law en- forcement commissioner, called upon Attorney Caminetti, feder- al immigration commissioner, to deport between 40 and 50 aliens caught in the dragnet thrown out in Idaho by the state con- stabulary, against I. W. W. Joseph Camper the miner shot. a week ago at Burke in an alter- cation with Deputy Sheriff Harry James as to whether or not he should submit to arrest, is reported to be holding his own. His condition is said to be still critical, but he has at least a chance for life. Kellogg, Idaho, is taking steps at once to provide a suitable camping ground for automobile tourists next summer. The monetary value of tourist camps is becoming more generally un- derstood and the number of towns providing this class of ac- comoation in the Inland Empire is steadily growing. A new record for bank depos- its has been set by Moscow’s three banks. When the state- ment of conditions on November 17 was called for & given it was found that the three banks had $8,886,000 on deposit, which is a new high record and the first time they have ever gone above the three million dollars. A survey of the Lewiston Orchards apple season, has just closed, made by H. H. S. Rowell, a prominent grower of the district, estimates the apple pack to be in excess of 250 car- loads. A conservative estimate of the receipts for this year’s apple crop in the Lewiston- Clarkston valley is $500,000. At the special election held in the Grangemont highway dist- rict in Clearwater county Tues- day to vote on the issuance of bonds for $100,000 for road con- struction purposes, the neces- sary two-thirds majority was lacking by only two votes. Cold weather and deep snow prevent- ed many from going to the polls. Corn ,acreage in the state of Idaho has increased from 9,000 to 22,000 acres in the last five years. This, according to a statement recently made by Prolessor H, W. Hulbert of the University of Idaho, is the great- est percentage of increase shown by any state of the northwest for a like period. The most successful sale of Indian heirship lands conducted by the Lapwai agency was ex- perienced yesterday when a to- tal of 37 lots were sold fora total of $155,526.40, by Dr. Breid, agent of the Nez Perces. There. were 81 bidders for the tracts and a total of in the law| was offered in these bids. — Thursday evening’s game hope| makes taxes delinquent after| average price future. Fede : 493 ps pa for the 2578 NEWS AROUND a sufferer for a long which .