Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, August 6, 1920, Page 1

COTTONWOOD CHRONICLE | » == VOLUME 28. NO. 32 NEW PRIMARY LAW IS FAILURE NEW PRIMARY SY PROVES DISAPPOINTING TO THE VOTERS Idaho’s new revised primary law was tried out Tuesday for the first time since its revision and proved to be a complete fail- ure in every respect. Idaho county with a voting strength of 4728 votes during the presiden- tial year of 1916 failed to regis- ter more than 300 votes unde the new primary law. In Cot- tonwood precinct, which is the largest in the county the Repub- licans mustered out 12 votes while the democrats failed to hold an election. It is estimated that less than half of the pre- cincts in the county held pri- mary elections. Only two contsests appeared on the Republican ticket, that of commissioner from the second district and for representative in the legislature. In the commis- sioner’s contest John Long won over K. W. Tarbet in the couyty and for representative Fenn de- feated Adkison. Long’s vote in Cottonwood was an even dozen, or the entire vote cast here. Fenn of Kooskia for representa- tive received 9 votes and Adki- son of Ferdinand 3. : Leeper Wins The only contests in the demo- cratic primaries was won by J. B. Leeper over John Pulse, the small vote in the county gave Leeper a majority of a few votes. The new primary system, not only proved to be a failure in Idaho county but throughout the entire state. Want Old System Back. U.S. senators, John F. Nugent and William E. Borah hove al- ready came out in favor of the old primary system, or rather spoke in favor of the old system prior to the election Tuesday. BURIED MONDAY EVENING. The remains of Walter Kalber- er, arrived in Cottonwood Mon- day from Hamilton, Mont., and was buried the same evening in the Catholic cemetery. The deceased was a young Man of 21 years of age and a cousin of John Snyder of this city. He met death by accidental drown- ing when he and his_ brother were in swimming in Fish Lake, near Hamilton, on July 31st. From all indications he had an attack of heart failure or cramps as he made no cry for help while struggling in the water and be- fore his brother realized the ser- ious condition in which he was he sank to the bottom of the lake. Great difficulty was ex- perienced in getting him out of the water and to an undertaking establishment. Six hours were required to recover the body and then a 45 mile trip had to be made with the remains of the unfortunate man, on horseback to Hamilten where the body was prepared for shipment to Cot- tonwood. Two brothers accom- panied the body from Montana. The services at the grave were conducted by Rev. Fr. Willi- brord. The funeral arrange- ments were in charge of Under- taker A. H. Nau. SEASON IS OVER. The final games of the Prairie baseball league closed the season last Sunday with the following results. At Craigmont, 11; Ferdinand 6. At Nezperce,11; Cottonwod 0. At Winchester, 6; Kooskia 7. At Kamiah, 7: Grangeville, 5. The games Sunday closed the official schedule, but there still remain several postponed games to be played and it is doubtful if they take place owing to the fact that thev will have no bearing on the outcome of the winners 07 the league. While Cottonwood has lost every game we are proud of the fact that these games were all lost by home boys playing and no imported players had to lose them for us. Here’s hoping “we have a league next year, but let us make her all home talent. If there is any money to be made out of playing ball give it to the home hoy who plays for the fun there ds in it. COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FR ‘OUT OF CEMENT AGAIN. Work on the construction of, the cement sidewalks had to again be stopped Wednesday on account of the shortage of ce- ment. When the task of com- pelting the walks will be re- sumed wil! depend entirely upon the shipment of cement from outside points. The cement ' shortage has beer a great incon- venience to Contractor Book as well as to the property owners themselves who hoped to have their walks completed by this time. MILK TAKES A RAISE. Dairymen who are supplying Cottonwood with milk have rais- ed the price of milk from 12%, cents a quart to 15 cents a quart. Drying up of pastures and the high cost of feed is given as the veason for the raise. Many of the milk vanders are already feeding their dairy cattle in ord- er to keep up the supply of milk. PETTIBONE FOR SQUARE DEAL IDAHO COUNTY MAN HAS ENTERED RACE FOR | GOVERNOR Senator N. B. Pettibone, one ot Idaho county’s most promin- ent citizens is a candidate for the democratic nomination for gov- ernor on the democratic ticket and has given out the following declaration of principles on which he is basing his campaign; “T believe in the fundamental principles of democracy as en- unciated by Thomas Jefferson and promulgated by the demo- cratic party. I believe with the founders of our government that all governments should be instit- uted for the benefit and ad- vancement of mankind; that the vast accumulation of wealth garned from the fields and for- ests of our country should be made to serve instead of enslave men, Stand for Square Deal. “Man must continue to be the sovereign of the institutions he creates. Democracy, sover- eignty and freedom of man are the fundamentals which will guide me, and my conduct, in the future as in the past. “If by the suffrage of the peo- ple of Idaho I should become governor, I shall endeavor at all times to give to every citizen and institution or business a square deal. In so far as is possible, the machinery of the government of the state should be used to pro- tect and aid in developing our natural resources. Intelligent effort and cooperation with our federal government should in a short time bring about the open- ino up and marketing of our public timber. I urge the devel- opment of power plants and the settlement of homesteaders of thousands of acres of public lands which have been unjustly withdrawn from entry. I also deem it the duty of good government to see that the pro- ducts of the farm, the mine and the factory are marketed to the best advantage of those who have labored to produce them. Marketing associations must be established and put on a working hasis. Public institutions in Idaho must be adequately sup- ported. Favors Highway Building “Highway construction should be pushed forward as rapidly as possible, thereby increasing the value of farm lands. “The cabinet form of govern- ment has been an expensive ex- periment, tending toward devel- oping government by a machine instead of by the people, and therefore should be abolished. “The judiciary should be re- moved from polities. “The burden of taxation must be lightened, and be more fairly distributed among our people according to their means and weulth. In order to place the finances of the state upon a bus- iness basis, a budeet system must ke established. Miss Harriett Greve and Mrs. T. C. Keith are among some of ; Page people ss in celegration in the Boles country this week. | BOOSTS HOT SPRINGS. C. A. Johnston, O. C. Lapp, Charley Buettner and Marcus Lies returned Saturday evening from a two weeks visit in the) Elk City Mining district and the Red River Hot Springs. In the Elk City district the gentlemen inspected min ing property but at the Hot Springs they took life easy and enjoyed the splendid hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. I. Minert who conduct a first class boarding and room- ing house there for the benefit of the people who wish to pay a visit to the hot springs. Mr. Johnson speaks very high- ly of the springs for since hav-| ing influenza has been bothered with the swelling of his limbs during the day to almost un- believable size but at the Red River Hot Springs he received temporary relief if not a lasting one by bathing m the waters of the spring The water as it bubbles out of the rocks is 135 degres fahren- heit and only a few feet away is another spring from which pours forth cool water. During their stay at Red Riv- er Hot Sprines they were only charged $2.50 a day for board, lodging and privileges at the springs. An automobile road is now under construction to the hot sprines and the entire trip can now be made by an automo- bile in one day. The distance from Cottonwood to Red River is in the neighborhood >f about 100 miles. Mr. Minert is an old pioneer of Idaho county having visited the present site of Cot- tonwood 43 years ago. GIVE THEM A CHANCE. This is the time of the year that the ~rocery peddler is busy using his clever salesmanship trying to stock farmers as well as town folks with their winter's supply of groceries. The ped- dlers in most instances, use a very clever scheme by having a “leader’’ to head the list of their “bargains”, such as coffee or some other common grocery pro- duct by giving them a fairly good price on the .‘leader” and then the price jumps as one goes down the list. Having won the confidence of their buyer, with their “leader” they are now able to get a fairly good sized or- der from the purchaser, in many instances much higher than your local merchant, and in almost every instance your local mer- chant can fill the bill at the same figures. We have no criticism to offer for a man trying to buy the best for the cheapest price possible but we do say and be- lieve that if you will go to your local grocery store and pay spot cash as you do to the peddlers and buy in large quantities that you will be able to get standard goods at as cheap a price, if not cheaper, than the peddler is able to deliver the eatables at the de- pot. We would suggest that vou at least give him a trial. The peddler scours the commun- ity for what there is in it, while the local business man is here to serve you 365 days a year and to make a fair and reasonable profit and at the same time hop- ine to hold you as a customer. Give your local merchants a first chance at least. RECOVERS STOLEN CAR. The Maxwell car that was stol- en at Ferdinand last week from J. A. Kuther, was found on top of the Kooskia grade in some- what of an abused condition though still in running order. Sheriff Eller arrested a young | man named Kay, who is 17 years of age, McIntyre, who was with Kay when the car was stolen is still at large but Sheriff Eller is still working on the case and hopes to locate the auto thief. The young men also stole a Ford car at Troy, which they abandon- ed at the foot of the Uhlorn hill, on the main road between Ferd- inand and Cottonwood. AGED MAN DIES. John Sonnen, age 85 years passed away at the home of Frank Thyering W ednesday noon following an illness of some time. Mr. Sonnen is a pioneer’ {of this section, having came here in the early days, and dur- | ing his residence in the county | has made countless friends. The funeral services were held from the Catholic church at Keuter- ville Thursday morning. A. H. Nau furnished the funeral sup- plies. IDAY, AUGUST 6, 1920 $2.00 PER YEAR RUHOFF’S ROUND-UP. | LEAVE FOR SOUTH IDAHO. A novel picnic and one of the| Victor Jones, better known as most enjoyable affairs of the| “Grasshopper” Jones, the gentle- season was pulled off last Sun-| man sent out by the extension day by Mrs. Wm. and Tony Ru-| department of the U. of I, who hoff in the way of a picnic in the with county agent, R. Pavey, woods on the mountain near the, have done the almost impossible, monastery. The day was ideal for by exterminating grasshoppers pienicing, the sky being cloud- in Idaho county, was in Cotton- less and the sun generous with ‘vood Wednesday and departed its radiance and fire so that/for southern Idaho Thursday everyone weleomed the opport-| morning where he will engage in unity of spending the day in the Similar work. Mr. Jones is a shade of the large pines and specialist in his line and the among the ferns and huckleber-| Short time he wos here has sav- ries. From the number of peo- ed the farmers in Idaho county ple present the occasion may be thousands of dollars. Mr. Jones truly called a “round-up” of their is also an excellent ball player, friends whom they treated to the | having played with the Grange- best obtainable and provided a/ Ville team since being in the program of sports and amuse- county, and during his short ments that is seldom equalled at Stay here has made many friends a regular Fourth of July cele- in Idaho county. bration. Promptly at noon din- , Mr. Jones made some very ner was served, the hosts furn- flattering remarks about Camas ishing everything except the Prairie and its people and stated dishes which they had requested that he hoped the grasshoppers their guests to bring with them Would never again be a menace and things were run sort of cafe- 0 the farmers on the prairie. teria style. There was hot cof- | EP fee, hot roast beef and pork and IDAHO RAILROADS beans, sandwiches, salads, pick- les, cakes and ice cream, in fact one could not have gotten any more or anything better this side of Davenport’s. The afternoon was spent in playing cards, sack racing, a : needle race, egg race and vari-| PETITION TO UTILITIES COM ous other games were pulled off —yg1sS1ON ASKS HEARING to the delight and enjoyment of | the crowd. The winning numb- | FOR HIGHER RATES er in the way of amusement was the stunt of pinning the tail on a mule drawn on canvas and Eleven railroads operating in stretched between poles. Those the state of Idaho filed Friday entering the contest were blind- a joint supplementary petition folded and led 20 feet away from hefore the public utilities com- the canvas, turned three times mission which asked for a hear- around and then headed towards jng on the railroads’ petition for the mule to pin the tail where it increases in freight and passeng- ought tobe. Funny what some er rates corresponding to in- people think as to where the tail creases prayed for before the in- ought to be on a mule. Frances terstate commerce commission. Hattrup knows more about a) Petitioners ask that rates in Ida- mule than did any of the boys ho be made effective not later | present at any rate she won first than September 1. prize. Mrs. Mike Seubert won Railroads named as _petition- Ag page pe and Mrs. Luchte- erg are: Oregon Short Line ela the cee race. ate ;company, Oregon Washington At six o'clock another big feed Railroad & Navigation company, was served at which everyone Great Northern Railroad comp- partook to his hearts content any, Northern Pacific Railroad with still plenty left for break- company Gilmore and Pittsburg fast had the crowd desired to Railroad company, Chicago, Mil- stay. The event was in respect waukee and St. Paul, Nez Perce and honor to relatives and and Idaho Railroad company, friends from the east who are Craig Mountain Railroad comp-| visiting at the Ruhoff's. any, Camas Among those present we not- company, Caldwell! Traction iced the following and their company, Utah-Idaho Central families: John Duclos, Barney Railroad company , Spokane In- Tacke, Herman Funke, Felix ternational Railway company, Martzen, W. B. Hussman, Wm. Intermountain railway company, Crea, Jos. Uhlenkott, Jake Jenny Boise Valley Traction company Mike Seubert, Matt Seubert, and the Pacific & Idaho North- Ferdinand Nuxoll, Henry Baune, ern Railroad company. Wm Wagner, Gus Seubert, John Roy L. Black, attorney gener- Baune, Mike Jacobs, A. J. Holt- al, and Raymond L. Givens, spec- haus, John Seubert. Baune, Theo. Toennis, B. L. Hus- ies commission, filed a protest sman, Paul Schurman, J. B. Friday which asked that no in- Luchtefeld, Al Duman, Barney crease in rates be made at this Luchtefeld and Matt Duclos. time and that no hearing be Besides the above and their held until after the interstate families were present. Wm. Ross commerce commission action is Mrs. Schurman and Henry Sch- announced. urman, Wm. Arnzen and many Increase of wages by the rail- more whose names we cannot re- way labor board is the basis of call. After supper the crowd the railroad’s petition for im- left for home after thanking mediate hearings. their hosts for the splendid time Railroads in western classifi- enjoyed and assuring their visi- cation territory have filed a pet- tors of a hearty welcome to Ida- ition for freight increases of ho and hoping that they would 23.91 per cent. return to make this their per-| a manent home. SELLS MANY BINDERS. More new binders are report pipes yim arta ed to have been sold in Cotton- POISON HOPPERS. wood this year than in any one Grasshoppers which are ap- single year for some time. All pearing in fields after grain has dealers in binders report their been cut, should be poisoned im- stock completely sold out, and mediately, according to Victor some have even shipped binders Jones, assistant entomologist of to Cottonwood by express. One the University of Idaho exten- of the reasons for the heavy sale sion department. Mr. Jones has of binders is attributed to the been working on Camas Prairie fact that the crop shortage the poisoning hoppers. “If the hop-| past few years has caused farm- pers are not poisoned now, they ers to harvest crops with their will breed and it will be neces- neighbors but this year every sary to poison hoppers next) farmer will have all the cutting spring,” said Mr. Jones. he can do on his own land and So far. no damage has been | consequently more machines had done by the hoppers, said Mr. to be bought in order to cut the Jones, and none will result, save, grain as it ripens. possibly to spring grain. Crickets should be treated the Railroad Prairie Contributed. The Cottonwood Milling Co., same as grasshoppers, he said. and The Farmers Union flour mills are now closed down and NOTICE TO THRESHERS. | making necessary repairs in ord- All threshing men are request-| er to be ready for the new wheat ed to attend a meeting in Cotton- crop when it comes in Both wood on Saturday, August 14. mills will again be put in opera- The meeting will be held in the tion some time in September. evening and the object of the The Farmers Union is adding same is to set a uniform price some new machinery to its plant. for threshing as well as a wage The managers of both mills ex- scale. A!i those who are inter-, pect to have their machinery in invited i E a No. 1 shape ested are cordially tend this gathering. tence on the season’s Anton ial attorney for the public utilit-| when they com-| highway unit in THE STATE Items of Interest From Various Sections Reproduced for Ben- efit of Our Readers. A large number of fires are re- ported in the government timber and privite holdings tributary to Orofino, the electrical storms of the past week being responsible for the situation. The five passenger Ford car stolen from Boville recently, has been recovered at Grangeville. A good description of the alleged thief has been secured and his arrest is expected soon . S. G. Isaman, who for 40 years had been a resident of Lewiston, passed away at the family home in Lewiston Sunday. Mr. Isa- man had been an invalid for 10 years and in recent weeks the de- cline had been rapid. The M. P. Miller Co., has filed suit in the district court of La- tah county against T. F. Wren, who is doing business at Fenn, Idaho, for damages of $5,600 on account of the failure of the de- fendant to deliver 2000 bushels of wheat to the plaintiff. Idaho has backed a republican for president only twice in its history, and the third time will be when Harding carries the state in the coming presidential election, said Addison T. Smith, fourth-term representative from Idaho, in Portland, recently. Idaho ranks next to Montana and Wyoming as one of the three greatest wool producing states in the country. Its wool output last year was 21,000,000 pounds, and it is estimated that the wool now in the growers hands, not sold or advanced upon, amounts to 10,000,000 pounds. Announcement was made Tues- day by the chamber of commerce of Moscow that citizens of Mos- cow have raised $101,500 for new buildings for the University of Idaho and that two of these buildings will be completed and ready for occupancy by the time | school opens on September 13. Insurance adjusters have about completed the settling of | damage claims resulting from the recent hail storm that visit- |ed in the immediate vicinity of | Lewiston, the apple crop on Lew- iston Orchards suffered most, the damage approximating $100,000. C. L. Green, Twin Falls real | estate dealer, was instantly kill- | ed late Sunday when he was car- ried in his car over a 300-foot drop off a grade in Snake river | canyon, near, Blue Lakes, three | miles north of Twin Falls. His wife and two other persons had left the car to walk up the grade shortly before the accident oc- | curred. Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, active in the pre-conven- tion campaign for Hiram John- son, will take an active part in the campaign for Senator Hard- ing aid probably will make sev- eral speaking tours in the inter- est of the Republican nominee, | it was announced at Republican headquarters Saturday night. | A near tragedy occurred on | the bathing beach at Sandpoint jlate Monday afternoon when | Miss Ida Sletager, waitress at |the St. James cafe, strangling ) and nearly drowning, pulled Mrs. Charles Passey of the St. James under water with her, both going down twice before being rescued by the heroic efforts of Miss Chicago girl who is spending the summer with her father on the Kootenai orchard tract near Sandpoint. As a result of a conference be- tween engineers representing the government and state and the commissioners of Bonner county, held in Spokane Tuesday, a contract, was let to the High- way Construction company Colfax, Wash., for the construc- tion of 12.8 miles of the North and South highway, the unit to begin four miles north of Sand- point and to extend to the Boundary county line. A con- tract was also let for the con- struction of the North and South coun- Faith Shepherd, a 17-year oldeggite