Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, April 9, 1920, Page 4

FIRST NATIONA BANK 7 ae Cottonwood, Idaho A bank is as strong as its Resources—behind us we have the Federal Re- serve System. with gold reserves of $2,200,000,- 000. Your bank should be the strongest—ready for % any emergency. Our facilities and re- sources are at your ser- vice. The G Association Ever Devised reatest Banking PPO Poo ee OUTLAW KILLS ONE OF POSSE AND PAL Deputy Sheriff Killed in Due! And Companion Slain in Flight. Seattle-——Two men—one of them Deputy Sheriff Robert C. Scott, for merly of Portland—are dead, and their slayer Is the hunted quarry o/ more than 400 policemen, deputies and special officers as the result of 4 series of daring automobile robberies Saturday night, which had the killings as their climax. The police credit the crime tc “Blackie,” an outlaw and drug addict known to the officers only by the nick name fastened on him by fellow crooks, Elmer Cady, said to have been the second member of “Blackie” gang, is the second dead man. Police say “Blackie” killed him and stripped him of his share in the loot of six auto mobile robberies committed by the pair during the night. Caught with a companion in the act of holding up motorists along the val ley road, the bandit opened on a party of deputy sheriffs, killing Robert C Scott, whom they robbed. Then speed ing toward the city in a command eered car driven under compulsion by Harl M. Eba, one bandit shot and killed Eimer Cady, his bandit pal, rob bing the body and leaving it in the car when he leaped from the machine @nd disappeared at First avenue aud Pike street. COUNTY PROSECUTOR IS SHOT BY WOMAN Tacoma, Wash.—William D. Askren, prosecuting attorney of Pierce county, was shot and perhaps fatally wounded shortly after 9 o’clock Saturday night by a woman alleged to be Mrs. Julia Smith, twice prosecuted and convicted by Askren on a chargre of criminal “malpractice, The shooting took place at Askren’s home, the prosecutor being attacked upon answering a knock at his back door, the buliet piercing his body through the left lung. Julia Smith was apprehended at Puyallup, Wash., near here, as she was driving her automobile through the town. Upon being brought to the Ta- ‘coma station she denied knowledge of a i Brearecincectecdoatontretoetondeninatoctecde slo Saeahatertontratoetoctectoatedectecdonteatvatnethcleeteateetvateagoatoatoetnateatoate athe ateedoatoete doateateetesdeatretrateatoetosteatheteeteateadesloatretoatoetorloatoatpetoet alone ate dhetectecfoete a | | the police Askren, believing himself to Be dy- ing, signed a statement at the hospital accusing Mrs. Smith of shooting him. | WAGE QUESTION TO WILSON Labor Representative Tells President Conference Failed to Agree. | Washington—The whole railroad | wage controversy was placed before | President Wilson for the third time | since rafiroad labor filed its demand |for a general increase in wages last | summer | In the letter to the president, B. M. | Jewell, chairman of the railway com- mittee, which constitutes the labor marty on the wag board, said he regretted very much “to ad vise you of our failure to obtain any | beneficial results from these confer | ences.” j Wage negotiations between the con- ference committees representing the railroad One Roan Mare, 14 yea railroads and the unions were broken off when the railroad representatives declined to continue consideration of wage demands estimated to total $1,- 000,000,000 unless the public was given a voice in the proceedings. Teachers Request Educational Plank. New York.—A petition urging the adoption of an educational plank in the national platform of the republi- }can party was presented to Will H. | Hays, chairman of the republican na- tional committee, by Judson F. Wright, | president of the New York Teachers’ |association; Williain T. McCoy, chair- }man of the Illinois schools commitiee, and Olive M. Jones, president of the |New York Principals’ association | — | Youth Killed in Struggle With Police | Portland, Ore.—The discharge of a jrevolver when it fell from Patrolman J. 8. Smith's holster to the floor of the lobby at police headquarters caused the death of Wayne Cason, 19-year-old Farming Machinery and Etc. One 10-foot Superior single dise drill One 7-foot Thomas single disc drill One 7-feot Osborne double dise One 8-foot Osborne single disc One 14-inch John Deere gang plow One 14-inch P. & O. gang plow Two walking plows 11 Head of Horses One Bay Mare, 14 years old, weight 1300 pounds. sold, weight 1150 pounds One Gray Mare, 10 years old, weight 1100 pounds One Bay Gelding, 7 years old, weight 1100 pounds One Bay Team, 8 and 9 years old, weight 2100 pounds One Brown Horse, 9 years old, weight 1350 pounds Four Bay Mare colts, coming 3 years old, weight 1000 pounds One coming 2 year old mare colt son of boone Cason, an attorney. Tne boy was struggling ‘with a number of policemen who sought to arrest him for drunkenness, Policemen and other eye-witnesses say the death was en- tirely accidental, Outlaw Strike Ties Up Chicago Yards. | Chicago.—Train service throughout the Chicago district, although serious- ly crippled by a heavy snowstorm, vir- tually was demoralized Monday by the spread of an unauthorized strike | of switchmen, according to reports | from the 11 railroads affected. Fifty | thousand stockyards employes wil! be | thrown out of work. | In the market for good fat poultry, Saturdays and Mondays T. Clarke, the junk man. 4-6 We are still on deck and with better flour then ever, says; Meyer and he “knows.” 14-tf | SA The undersigned will sell at Public Auction on his farm one-quarter mile east of Greencreek beginning at 10:00 o'clock sharp, the following personal property on Tuesday, April 13th One Roan Durham Bull, 4 years old Two 3-year old cows 19 Head of Hogs One 4-section Moline harrow Two old 3-section harrows One 3-bottom John Deere disc plow One 12-foot McCormick header One 5-foot Deering mower One 10-foot Deering rake One 8-foot Deering Binder A Big Free Lunch Will Be Served At Noon TERMS e Allsums of $20 under, cash. All sums over that amount 6 months’ © time will be given.on bankable note bearing 10 per cent interest. W. J. Nuxoll, Owner H. C. MATTHIESEN, Clerk One Sow with pigs 17 Shoats F. D. Garage Located North Catholic Church When you come to town look for the F. D. Garage for Lubercating Oil and Red Crown Gas. Let us look over your car and if you have old tires on your car or layed up at home, don’t condemn them bring them to us, let us look them over as I will be in shape to tuke care of the Tire trouble of all kinds. Leo P. Simon, Prop. 7 14 of Head Cattle Two Milk cows Three calves Two yearling steers One Sow One 34-inch Winona wagon with rack Three old wagons One hack Two sleds. Two sets butt chain harness Four sets plow harness TOOLS AND OTHER SMALL ARTICLES TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION I. E. ZUVER, Auctioneer