Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, July 30, 1920, Page 1

SAD ACCIDENT AT KEUTERVILLE BABY BOY IS RUN OVER BY LARGE TRUCK—DIED THIS MORNING. A sad and fatal accident oe- cured at Keuterville yesterday evening about six o'clock when Lawrence Leonard Uhling the two and one-half year old son of Lorentz Uhling, a merchant at Keuterville was run over by the big 3% ton truck owned by the Hussman Lumber Co. and driven by Mike Kedzierski. The store building of Mr. Uhling, the back rooms of which are occupied as residence by the family faces squarely the street in front of it. A sidewalk or porch extends along the east side of the build- ing from which a cross walk ex- tends across the street and it seems this boy and a brother several years older who was in the lead tried to cross the street ahead of the truck. Apparently they did not notice the truck which was heavily loaded and coming from the west at a speed of about seven miles an hour un- til attracted by the alarm of the driver, which however did not deter them from trying to cross ahead of the truck. The older boy succeeded and waved for his little brother to stay back but he paid no attention to this and al- though the driver swung the truck away from him as much as he could he hit the boy in the back with the front wheel, the wheel then passing over one leg and arm. When the truck was brought to a stop the boy was ly- ing almost midway between the wheels and if it had traveled a little farther the rear wheel would have passed directly over the boys head. The boy was immediately brought to Cotton- wood where Dr. Blake and Orr did what they could to relieve his suffering and dressed the wounds. They did not amput- ate either leg or arm as there ap- peared a remote possibility to save both and also to await fur- ther developments to see wheth- er he could survive the shock. It was soon apparent however that the boy could not live and he passed away early this morn- ing. The sympathy of the en- tire comunity goes out to the be- reaved parents and to Mr. Ked zierski who feels. the loss and ac- cident very deeply. Mike has the reputation of being a careful driver and in the three years that he has had charge of the truck he has never had an acci- dent of any kind and apparently in this case no blame of any kind can be attached to him. He says the children were running a full run when they emerged past the building which was the first he could see of them and that he immediately applied both brakes as firmly as he could and brought the truck to a ston with- in a remarkably short distance but having but one hand free and there being two of them and they some distance apart he hardly knew which way to turn but that as soon as he saw the older boy was goine to outrun the truck he turned it directly towards him and away from the smaller lad but he coud not turn out far enough nor stop the truck in time. It seems the ac- cident was one of those kind that will happen now and then in spite of vigilence of drivers or parents. Funeral services were held at 2:30 this afternoon from the Catholic church at Keuterville, the Rev. Fr. Martin officiating. Burial took place in the Keuter- ville cemetery. The little fel- low is survived by his father, mother and four brothers. The Chronicle joins in extend- ing condolence to all concerned. Officials of the Northern Pac- ific railroad, among them being the chief engineer of the system with headquarters in St. Paul, passed through Cottonwood Sat- urday evening in a special car at- tached to the passenger train enrouted to Grangeville where they gathered data to be used in the hearing before the public utilities commission at Boise September 16 on the matter of forcing construction of 90 miles of railroad between Fenn and New Meadows. The body of Mrs. Louis now- WANT RATES ‘ard, who lost her life in the Sal-| mon river, at the Howard ranch, | 16 miles above Riggins en July 17, was recovered Monday, nine days after the fatal accident) when she tried to save th life of her ten year old niece. The body was discovered five miles | trom the scene of the accident by | a forest ranger. The remains were taken to her family home near Denver and the funeral services were con- | ducted from the home of her par-| held before the public utilities ents, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Rowe, | Commission at Lewiston Tuesday Tuesday afternoon. The ser-| asked for a grant-to increase | vices were attended by hundreds | Prices on handling charges for of friends from various parts of | grain and according to the Lew- the county who wished to pay iston Tribune who chronicled the their final respects to this brave | proceedings of the meeting the and noble woman who gave her increase will no doubt be grant- life to save another. The funer-|ed. The Tribune says the fol- al procession from the Rowe lowing about the meeting: home, to the cemetery at Denv-| A, L, Freehafer, member of er, where she was laid to rest,) the state public utilities com- wes made up of 100 automobiles) mission and sitting for the en- and is said to have been one of tire commission at the city hall the largest funerals ever held in| yesterday, heard the grain deal- Idaho county. ‘ |ers of the north Idaho country Mrs. Howard is survived by on their applications for an in- her husband, Louis Howard and | crease in warehouse rates. The three children, her parents, Mr. meeting was also attended by ~ Mrs. H. E. Rowe, four SIS-/ farmers and other interested ers and three brothers. Mrs. | persons andthe grain dealers Patrick Nash of this citv is a sis-| were questioned by Commission- pe pccag ogg Mrs. gt er Freehafer and the farmers. June 24, 1882. ‘The family has | qc ihe, testimony | given before 3 vary cite ; SS E 4 ater W. e neh oT of every citizen in transeribed and. forwarded to v | Boise, where it will be consider by all oe of the commis- sion, he warehouse men will also submit data showing the volume of business transacted for the past three years and their receipts and expenditures ing. tlie cleats were eke ins in connection with the ware- Among them being the official house business. _It is expected standings of the various teams, | 2 decision on the hearing will be There were several protests on rendered by the full board by the file by teams in the league and “a eT: isp eee these protest were discussed and, Practically every vrain station finally settled. No protest of in Nez Prece, Lewis, Clearwater, any kind were allowed, the pro-, !daho and Latah counties wa: tested games going to the win- Yepresented at the hearing yes- ning teams in each instance. terday and testimony was offer- The official standing of the var- €d by a large number of the ious teams, as given out at the| Warehouse men. Those in at- meeting last night are as fol- tendance, who did not offer lows: sworn testimony, expressed Lost themselves as agreed with the 2 testimony offered by the others. 3 The testimony of the ware- 8 house men was agreed that an 5 advance in the warehouse rates 7. is necessary to meet the expen- 7 ses of operating the warehouses. 9 The testimony of the witnesses 10 varied only in respect to their Sree ee ‘operations. Many of the ware- SURPRISED NEWLYWEDS house men are also engaged in A party of nineteen Nezperc- handling machinery, feed, fuel ers motored over from the Lewis and other merchandise, and it: county metropolis last Friday was their explanation that the va a a profits of these activities are ore ’ *~ necessary to take care of the de- er gece — ficit from operating the storage remember for some time to come, aig wl ~ gig nae When the party arrived in Cot- {1 Present raves. baal seat tonwood the Robertson home erally aqveed Mist tis cnet af ag Healer ie fvcahily mactiited Minors erating the warehouses this sea- could not be used to entertain $2”, will be about 20 per cent the visitors so they were taken higher than last year. One ware- to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo, houseman, who is engaged ex- M. Roberston, where they spent ¢lusively in operating his ware- a most enjoyable evening, Those house as a storage proposition, in the party were the following: said his loss last season was in Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Ratcliff, Mr, the neighborhood of $4,000. and Mrs. Leo Robertson, Mr. and The questions put to the wit- Mrs Paul Blake, Mr. and Mrs. | nesses by Messrs. Thiel and Put- Harlan Moser, Mr. and Mrs, nam brought out the fact that Floyd Stevens, Mr. and Mrs,| the crops last year were consid- Leslie 3askett, Mrs. Lizzie Ran- erably below normal and_ with sier, Misses Callie Baskett, the exception of the actual ex- Norma Wilson, Bertha Schaffer, pense of employing men to han- Messrs. W. P. Conger, William dle the grain, the overhead ex- Ledbetter and Jake Bettis. pense in conducting warehouses BIE BEES is about the same with the light IDAHO COUNTY VS LEWIS. crop as with a large crop. It An all-star team picked from Was generally agreed that the members of the prairie league prospects are favorable for a teams, consisting of u Grangevillle, Ferdinand and Cot-| this season than last. tonwood, of Idaho county and a Among the warehouse men at- similar aggregation picked from tending the hearing were: J. W. the teams of Craigmont, Nez-, Raymond, Spokane, manager of perce, Winchester and Kamiah, the Milwaukee Grain & Elevator of Lewis county, iwll play a ser- company; A. R. Mead, of the ies of three games for the cham-| White-Delaney company; G. A. pionship of these two counties. Marshall, Tri-State Terminal Two of the games will be played company; J. H. Millar, Juliaetta; LING GRAIN AT PRE- ENT PRICE, OFFICIAL STANDING. A meeting was held at Grange- ville last night by the managers of the various teams of the Prairie baseball league and many questions of importance concern- Won 8 Craiymont Kooskia Nezperce Grangeville Winchester Ferdinand Kamiah Cottonwood at Grangeville on August 6 and Joseph Knapp, Genesee; M. B.} 7 and the third game _ will be! Mikkelson, Vollmer-Clearwater played on the Winchester dia-| company; J. C. Bibb, Ferdinand mond on August 8. A great Rochdale company; J. H. Wicks, deal of interest no doubt will ve | Gifford-Summit Warehouse com- taken in these games as the best pany;H. M. Driscoll, Troy, Ken- players of Idaho and Lewis coun- | drick and Peck; J. H. Michaels, ties wili participate in them. Dr | Orofino; S. Frank Allen, Interior J. L. Kelly of Winchester chosen manager for the Lewis berts, Pacific Grain company ; C. county boys and Haroid Harris W. Booth, Nezperce; J. G. of Grangeville, manager for the Wright, Nez Perce Roller Mills Idaho boys. company; Gusta Axelson, Albers wo Bros; A. E. Holeomb, Craigmont | A crowd of young folks at-| Victor Peterson, Grangeville, Mr. entre t Bike Sete. Hanson. Kendrick; C. H. Greve, day evening. SOME CLAIM LOSS IN HAND. | Warehouse men at # meeting Kooskia, much greater tonnage of grain! was Warehouse company; J. D. Ro-| PREDICTS Bie INCREASED YIELD ON PRAIRIE > CAMAS PRAIRIE ACERAGE SAID TO BE LARGE—LIVE STOCK SHORT, _ The Spokesman-Review of last Sunday in a very prominent part of its paper gave a general sum- mary of conditions on Camas Prairie. The article appeared under a Grangevile date line of July 24 and read as follows: Crop conditions in Idaho coun- ty, owing to abundant seasonal precipitation, promise yields of all the cereals unprecedented since 1914. The season has been all that could be desired climatically, the nights being cool and the daily sunshine and freedom from storms have nurs- ed the crops along in fine shape. Farmers from different sections. of Camas prairie assert that the acerage is the largest in four years and that the spring grain would have heen still larger than it is but for the cold, backward spring, which prevented plant- ing at the right time. Bariey Yield Heavy. Estimates of production for fall wheat run from 35 to 6¢ bushels an acre. The barley yield will aiso be phenomenally heavy and ot the finest quality. Idaho county barley was always a feature of its agricultural pro- ducts, being largely sought for by the brewing interests in an- teprohibtion days, and our sole production which was railroaded to eastern centers. Oats and barley are estimated to yield 40 to 60 bushels an acre. The timothy crop is now harvested, showing production of one and a half to two tons an acre. The acerage of clover, alfalfa and peas, While limited in area and widely distributed, shows a marked increase over former years and is found to improve the productivity of the soil. Feed for Live Stock. On the river bottoms alfalfa is producing two to three tons an acre from the first cutting and three crops a season are regular- ly counted on. Thus for the first time since 1916 the live stock men enter the coming winter with great abundance of feed, al- though there isa distressing scarcity of live stock for its con- sumption, owing to the depletion of the herds during the last two winters. It is clear that the un- usual climatic disturbances of the last three years are now re- suming normal conditicns. Late frosts have again affect- ed fruit production, cherries suf- fering the most, although many trees of other varieties were winter killed. The grasshopper pest of last year appears to have been successfully fought through the medium of the farr: bureau activities. Financing the Harvests. Marketing facilities are better than ever before, with improved highways and elevators of large storage capacity having been erected by the farmers’ unions at all prairie shipping points. Local banks have the necessary capital to finance the harvests, directors in one bank having pas- sed the semi-annual dividend in order te increase its available cash on hand for that purpose. The bonded warehouse act en- acted by the last legislature pro- vides that all elevators, mills and warehouses that charge for stor- age are public utilities and ne- gotiable warehouse receipts must be issued to the producer show- ing the amount of wheat in store its variety and grade. These warehouse receipts can be used as collateral at local banks and thus the producer is enabled to speculate, or hold his grain un- der the usual conditions until such time as he wishes to dis- pose of it. Foreizn shipping is already headed for north Pacific coast ports to load wheat for Europe and, barring car shortage. mark- et conditions are repidly resum- ing normality. Recent national legislation has largely facilitat- ed the marketing of all farm | products, so that the grower is kept in close touch with the market price from day to day |and is therefore in position to reap the benefit of rising prices and to know approximately what lhe should receive for his prod- | ucts at the nearest railroad sta- tion. The United States and Canada head the world in providing grain marketing facilities b | which the growers are benefited. | The alleged grievances agitated | by alien demagogues have long | been remedied by national and | state legislation if the real pro- | ducing farmers © will only avail themselves of it, and this can be | accomplished through the farm | bureau, ilcelf a creation of the national government, ! i 4 cooperat- ing with the states and counties. NO CEMENT. The work of laying the cement walks as well as the rock crush- er were shut down Monday noon by Contractor Peter Book, on ac- count of the shortage of cement. Information was received by let- ter from a cement firm in Mont- ana, with whom Mr. Book had placed an order for 5 carloads, that they were unable to fill the order at this time and preferred to have the order cancelled and should he not desire to cancell the order they would try to fill it within the next thirty days. The work on the walks were again resumed Friday morning, due to the fact that Mr. Book was able to procure 350 sacks of cement from Grangeville. The contractor stated with the ce- ment on hand he will be able to finish the walks on south Main street as well as part of the walks on the north side of Main street. SENATOR IS INJURED. State Senator N. B. Pettibone of Idaho county, who lives in the Columbus district had a narrow escape from death Monday when he fell backwards from a load of hay to the ground below. Mr. Pettibone was pulling the hay fork from the barn when in some manner some of the mechanism of the fork broke, throwing Mr. Pettibone from the load of hay on his head. The fall rendered | him unconscious and for a time serious results were expected to develop from the accident. Ac- cording to late reports received in Cottonwood by friends of Mr. Pettibone he is done as well as could be expected from the ef- fects of the accident. SELLS HIS INTEREST. Harry Campbell, who has been associated with Walter Robbins in the Cottonwood Dray for the} past year, sold his interests in the concern the first of the week to Claude Robbins, a brother of | Walter. Mr. Campbell will turn over his interests in the business the first of the coming month. While Harry has no future plans he expects to remain in Cotton- wood, or at least that is his in- tentions at this time. The Rob-| bins Bros., expect to follow the same policy in conducting the business as has been so effective- | ly applied by Campbell and Rob- bins. TAKE OUT FIRST PAPERS. Eight sisters of the St. Gert- rude convent were in Grange- ville Saturday where they took} out their first papers for citizen- ship. The sisters were all born in Switzerland. An attache of the clerk’s office at Grangeville, who made out the first papers | for the sisters paid a high com- pliment to them for the way they answered all questions, re lative to filling out the legal doc- uments. FORD BREAKS HIS ARM. Roy Lyons while cranking his Ford truck, at his ranch north of Cottonwood Sunday, received a compound fracture of his right arm. The accident was due to the engine back firing and the crank hitting Mr. Lyons on the arm. Dr. Orr set the injured arm, and as a consequence of the accident Mr. Lyons is earring his arm in a sling. REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES. The republicans of Cottonwood precinct will hold their primary election in the A. H. Nau furni- ture store Tuesday, August 3. the polls being open from 1 p. m. to 7 p. m. Tom Parker, mitteeman. , Precinet Com- Dr. Orr reports the arrival of a baby girl at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Haskin, Friday | and a baby girl at the home of Mrs. Casper Cramer Mr. and on |\Wednesday. | longer. NEWS AROUND THE STATE Items of Interest From Various Sections Reproduced for Ben- efit of Our Readers. Census returns for Pocatello, Idaho, give that city 14,961, an increase of 6,851, or 64.2 per cent in 10 years. Four valuable cows belonging to Fitzpatrick Bros., of Bonners Ferry died Saturday night and when Dr. White, veterinary sur- geon, was called to investigate, he found that death had resulted from eating dynamite. University of Idaho will have but one man on the Olympic team at Antwerp. Leon (“Pat”) Perrine, alone will represent the University of Idaho. He sails Monday for Antwerp. where he is expected to make a good show- ing. Workmen excavating in Sand- point on Tuesday came upon three skulls, evidently of Indi- ans, as the place where the skulls were exhumed is supposed to have been an old-time Indian burying ~round. The skulls were turned over to the sher.... Harvest of the new wheat crop started last week at Hansell Bros. farm six miles east of Lew- iston, where 400 acres of Turkey red wheat is being put in sacks at the rate of 70 acres per day, and the yield is running from 35 to 40 bushels per acre. John Roesch of Copeland, Ida- ho, held in the county jail at Bonners Ferry since Saturday in connection with the burning to death of his wife and seven children has been released No evidence was found by the officers to justify holding him ~ @ Inability to get cars has caus- ed the closing of the Potlatch and Elk River saw mills of the Potlatch Lumber Company. for one shift, and each is now oper- ating but eight hours per day, while lumber is piling up in the yards at both mills, which are among the largest in the west. Taxable property in Shoshone county for the year 1920 de- creased in valuation approxi- mately $5,000,000 according to equalized values fixed by the county commissioners and totals compiled by Deputy Auditor J. H. Mur:on of Shoshone county for submission to the state board of equalization. Idaho’s commerical apple crop for 1920 will be about 4000 cars or 20 per cent less than last year, according to the July report of the Idaho crop reporting service as previously given out. It is stated that the August report will show even a larger reduc- tion, due to the severe hail dam- age done in north Idaho. Inability to pay as high salar- ies as other states is handicap- ing the board of education of Idaho in securing a successor to President Lindley of the Univer- sity of Idaho, according toa statement made by Dr. E. A. 3ryan, state commissioner of education, who is at Moscow looking after the interests of the university. | Arrangements for a match be- | tween “Young” Ketchell and Joe |Reager of Spokane have been concluded and the fight will be held in Winchester under the auspices of the American Legion August 7. An arena is to be. erected on the ball grounds there, and fight fans in Lewis- ton believe that a considerable number of spectators will be at- | tracted. Invasion of Idaho by foreign laborers is causing the depart- ment of labor and immigration much concern. The sugar beet industry of the state is responsi- ble for bringing immigrants from Canada and Mexico under a special ruling by the depart- ment which permits these labor- ers, although ineligible to remain in the United States, to come here for the purpose of agricultural work, only. arrangement was made at the request of United States senat- ors from Washington, Oregon, Idaho aid California where sugar beets are grown y