Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, August 27, 1920, Page 1

¥ COTTONWOOD CHRONICLE VOLUME 28. NO. 35 DELEGATES PICK STATE TICKETS REPUBLICANS MEET AT PO- CATELLO—DEMOCRATS AT IDAHO FALLS Democratic Ticket U.S. senator—John F. Nugent Governor—T. A. Walters. Lieutenant governor—Nathan Pettibone. Congress, First district—Mrs. Nell K. Irion. Coneress, Second district—W. P. Whitaker. Chief justice—J. H. Forney. Provisional long term justice —John N. Flynn. Short term—Edw. M. Hollien. Secretary state—George H. Curtis. State auditor— State treasurer E. Melvin. Attorney Bates. State superintendent of public instruction—Olive Petrashek. Mine inspector—W. A. Snow. Evbert Jones. Mrs. Sarah W.| general—Ross 95 Idaho Falls, Idaho, Aug. 25.— Nominees on the democratic ticket at the November elections were chosen today by the Idaho state democratic convention in session here. United States Senator John F. Nugent was unanimously re- nominated. Former Governor Hawley made the nominating speech which was seconded by A. F. James of Gooding For the governorship, T A. Walters of Caldwell, was choser on the second ballot, and for lieutenant governor, Nathan Pet- tibone of Idaho county was nam- ed on the first ballot Pettibone lost to Walters in the race for the governorship nomination. Woman Named for Congress. For congress, Mrs. Nell K. Trion of Sandpoint was nominat- ed for the First district and Mayor W. P. Whitaker of Pocat- ello for the second Whitaker won over Taylor Cummings of Twin Falls and M. J. Keer of Fremont county. Mrs. Irion is the first woman nominated for congress in Idaho. Other nominations follow: Chief justice of the supreme court, J. H. Forney, Moscow, for the six years’ term; provisional long term justice of the supreme court, District Judee John N. Flynn, Sandpoint; short term conditional justice of the su- preme court, Edward M. Hollien, Idaho Falls; secretary of state. George H. Curtis. Cassia county ; state auditor, Egbert Jones, Boise; state treasurer, Mrs. Sarah E. Melvin, Lemhi county; attorney general, Ross W. Bates, Pocatello; state superintendent of public instruction, Olive Pet- rashek of Kellogg: mine inspec- tor, W. A. Snow, Gilmore. Republican Ticket. Senator—Frank R. Gooding. Congressman, First district— Burton L. French. Congressman, Second district —Addision T. Smith. Presidential electors—Harry L. McDougall, Pocatello; Mrs. Robert McCrea, Sandpoint; R. J. Comstock, Madison; B. M. Hard- ing, Lewis. Justices of the supreme court, regular term, Judge Robert N. Dunn; six-year provisional term, William A. Lee; four-vear prov- isional term; Judge Charles P. McCarthy. Governor—D. W. Davis. Lieutenant governor—C. Moore. Secretary Jones. Auditor Attorney Black. Treasurer — Daniel Bannock. Sunerintendent of public in-| struction—Ethel E. Redfield. Mine _ inspector — Stewart Campbell. of state—R. O. E. H. Gallett. general—Roy LL. 3annes, Pocatello, August 25.- R. Gooding of Gooding, twice governor of Idaho, was today nominated by the republican con- vention for the United States senatorship. Governor Davis was renomin- | ated. The nomination of Gooding -Frank was accomplished on the second ballot by aeclamation before the roll call vote could be announced, Governor Davis was the only candidate placed in nomination for the governorship. Contest Over Judges. Congressman Burton L. French of Moscow, First district and Congressman Addison T. | Smith, Second district, were re- | nominated without opposition. Bitter contests gave way to har- mony and pledges of loyalty. Lieutenant Governor C. C, Moore of St. Anthony, Attorney General Roy L. Black, Secretary of State R. O. Jones and State Auditor E. H. Gallet were renom- inated by acclamation. The main contests developed over the regular and two conditional judges of the supreme court, state treasurer and state super intendent of public instruction, over which offices there was considerable tradi IMPOSSIBILITY BELIEVE LEGAL FIGHT BE MADE TO GET NAMES 0N BALLOTS. The question of filing the state congressional and senator- ial ticket of the nonpartizan league in Idaho in compliance with the new primary law of this state, is troubling heads of the league. The law requires a virtual impossibility and the question may be taken into the courts. Idaho’s new primary law, first tried this year, is “fearfully and wonderfully made” and no one has yet been found who fully understands all its provisions. The nonpartizans and democrats | will demand a return to the old primary law and this may be- come an issue in the campaign. Petitions for the filing of can- didates for United States senat- or, congressmen and state offic- ers by the nonpartizan league as “independent” candidates, have been circulated in nearly all counties of Idaho. The new i ry requires that there be t 8000 signatures, that these come from at least 25 per cent of the 44 counties and that each petition be presented to the auditor of the county in which it is circulated and that the audit- or certify that every one of the signers are bonafide residents and voters of that county. The petitions were circulated in Latah county and about 600 signatures, or 20 per cent of the required number, secured. The petitions were presented to Aud- itor Homer E. Estes, with a re- quest that he-certify that the signers are all residents of Latah county, registered and entitled to vote. Mr. Estes refused to make such a certificate and said: Law an Impossibility. “This is a physical impossibil- ity. We do not keep the regis- tration lists of the county and have no means of knowing whether these men are register- ed voters. I suggested to F. P. Waters of Spokane, who had charge of the work here and cir- culated the petitions, that he have the registration officer in each precinct certify that the signers are registered voters of that precinct, but this was not done. “IT made a statemnt of the facts and this was sent to Boise with the petitions. I do not know what action will be taken. The statements does not fulfill the requirements of the law, but they are impossible of fulfilment No county auditor could certify that the signatures were those of registered voters unless he kept the registration lists.” McPHERSONS TO LEAVE. Geo. McPherson and family who have resided in Cottonwood and on their ranch near the foot- hills for many vears have rented their farm to John Wassem and are now making preparations to remove to Asotin, W. , where they will spend the winter. They expect to he located in their new home in time for the children to attend the onening of school in that city. Their many friends in this ie wish them | piness and prosperity in their new home. | WAS NOT A BOMB. When the Craig Mountain road’s baggage was being trans- ferred to the Lewiston-Grange- ville train at Craig Junction the other day, haste was imperative order that the Lewiston-Grange- ville train arrive in Lewiston on time, this being one of the hob- bies of Conductor Morris and his engineer and fireman. The sat- chels, cases, boxes, trunks and the like were hustled into the baggage car of the Lewiston- Grangeville train, and just about midway of the work a great com- motion was heard in the coach receiving the baggave. “A bomb!” was the ery, and instantly all eyes centered, from a distance, on a smoking suit ease. A brief parley was held as to what was to be done in the premises. There wasa_ shuf- fling of feet of those standing nearby, and finally someone rushed to Conductor Morris and explained the situation. Mr. Morris arrived and called out to fling the suit case from the car, and so timidly was it handled that when cast out it lighted al- most directly beneath the coach. This would never do. When the explosion occured, the crowd thought. up goes the baggage ear. Orders were given to heave it at a distance, and this was done, and then an expectant crowd stood ready to muffle their ears at the first signs of a sizzling fuse. Then Conductor Morris pried the suit rase open, and therein was found a small box containing a few matches. During the transfer the suit case in ques- tion received a jar that caused the matches to ignite, the smoke to emanate from the crevice at the opening and a scattering of , humanity. The suit case was a portion of the luggage of several Lewiston ladies who had been camping at Winchester.—Lewiston Tribune. PRODUCER AND CONSUMER. A practical illustration of the margin of profit there is between the producer of surar beets and the consumer of the sugar is furnished by the following ex- perience of a beet raiser in south ern Idaho which he wrote to the Idaho Leader. He says: “In 1919 I raised eight acres of sugar beets and delivered to a company at Burley 72 tons, $792. The retail price of sugar at Burley in July this year was 30 cents a pound. The 72 tons of beets would produce 180 sacks of sugar. The price I re- ceived for the beets would buy just 2614 sacks. To buy the 180 ks of sugar would require $5400. In March this year I sold the land on which these beets were raised for $400 per acre a total of $8200. Now in order to buy the 180 sacks of sugar which I produced and sold for $792, it would take just $1408 more than the total of what I received for those 180 sacks of sugar, plus the $3200 for which I sold my land. In other words, for me to buv back what I produced, I would have to sell the beets which I produc- ed and also the land on which the beets were produced, and then borrow $1408 besides.” FILES COMPLAINT. The Nezperce Telephone com- pany has made a_ complaint against the Grangeville Electric Light company to the state pub- lie utilities commission. The Nezperce company contended that the Grangeville Electric Power company has constructed five miles of electric lines par- ellel to the telephone compar lines and one and a half miles of line on the same side of the road with the telephone line. It is claimed that the proximity of the power lines has made the telephone lines worthless. Ge E. Erb, public utilities comr sioner, has started an investig: tion of the trouble THREE CARLOADS CEMENT, Contractor Peter Book who is laying the cement walks in Cot- tonwood has enough cement now on hand to complete the entire job of laying the new walks in the improvement district. Work on the walks is being pushed as rapidly as possible and he ex- pects to start work on the walks leading to the depot as soon as he is able to procure teams to do the necessary grading. He ex- nects to have the entire job com- pletel within the next 60 days. COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1920 $2.00 PER YEAR j | JUDGE Is ILL. Due to illness of Judge Wal- lace Seales, who is now at Port- land where he has undergone a slight operation. Judge E. C. Steele, of the Second judicial dis- trict, will hold two terms of court for Judge Seales this fall. He will conduct the Lewis county term, opening at Nez- perce on September 6, and the Idaho county term opening at Grangevilie on September 27. The former term will occupy about ten days and the latter three weeks. The advices from Portland are to the effect that while Judge Scales is in no sense serously ill he should enjoy a period of rest before assuming the court duties He will open the Nez Perce county term on November 1. The calendar here is an excep- tionally heavy one, with a num- ber of jury cases. Lewiston Tri- bune. CRAIGMONT WINS THE PENNANT LEAGUE WINNERS WILL PLAY ON LOCAL DIA- MOND SUNDAY. Craigmont Sunday won the Prairie League championship by defeating Nezperce by a score of 14 to 15 before a crowd of peo- ple estimated at 3000. The feature of the game was the heavy hitting of both teams and the 7 scores by Craigmont in the first inning off the deliveries of Deere, an imported pitcher said to be from Spokane. Wade was the pitcher for Craigmont in the opening inn- gs, retiring at the end of the third inning when Mike Moran twirled the ball. Moran was also foreed to retire after having heen hit for a number of good drives, the results of which pil- ed up several scores for Nez- perce. Wade was again put in the box and completed the game. The last two games between Nezperce and Craigmont were bitterly fought, and one thing which added to the intense rival- ry of these two towns is a coun- ty seat jealousy which appears to have been injected into the ul games Crairmont Plays Here Sunday Craigmont will play its last game of the season on the Cotton wood diamond Sunday, beiny a postponed game. The Cotton- wood team will be composed en- tirely of home boys as has been their policy throughout the en- tire season, notwithstanding the fact that two teams, members of the Prairie League, have offered us their best players with which they hoped we could defeat Craigmont. Cottonwood has re- mained with its home boys from start to finish and does not in- tend to step from this policy so late in the season to satisfy the ambitions of some outside teams. The boys will do their best to put up a good game and it is to be hoped that a good attendance will be present. The hall club has several unpaid oblivations which they intend to clean up from the proceeds of the game Sunday. Craigmont, the winner of * pennant has won 11 games and lost 2: Kooskia, a close second won 10 1 lost 3; Nezperce won 9, lost Grangeville won lost 9; Ferdinand won 4, lost 8; Cot- tonwod won 0, lost 11. bas SCHOOL OPENS SEPT. 13. The Cottonwood Public Schoo! will open Monday September 13 and from all present indications the school term is expected to be a most successful one. All of the teachers have been employed with the exception of one high school instructor. The board has several applications on hand from which they expect to fill this vacancy. On Tuesday, September 7 an election will be held at the school house for the election of two trustees for aterm of three ars to succeed J. V. Baker and W. B. Hussman whose terms ex- pire. Mrs. Ed Wren and Mrs. Lester of Fenn and Mrs. Ford of Port- | lend, Oregon. mother of Mrs. | Wren spent Sunday at the Shin- nick home in Cottonwood. TO ALL CITIZENS. The Cottonwood Post of the American Legion believes that all good citizens desire to co- operate in every possible way to pay due respect to our flag. With this in mind, the post is calling attention to the following points. Why we should respect our flag. Whenever the proper occasion | arises all citizens should pay re- spect to the Star Spangled Ban-! ner because it is our national} emblem. it symbolizes all the|,, The census bureau announces sacrifices, both in blood and| the population of Idaho Falls, treasure, that hive been made| 9064 an increase of 3287, or 61 by American patriots; it stands | Per cent. for liberty, humanity and equal-| Chas. Kelly, ag: 0 ity; for our institutions, our| who has been pgp Fe homes, our hopes, our aspira-| Craigmont since 1906, fell dead tions. Proper attention to the| of heart failure in a grain field formal expression of respect on| near there just after beginning the part of all loyal citizens wil work Tuesday morning. — them from the dis- _ The dates for the Kamiah yal. ; Fair have been set for Thursday, How to tell which flags are to| riday and Saturday, September be saluted. | 16, 17 and 18, and the committee No emblem except the stars| of arrangements is making good and strips is to be saluted, and| progress with preliminary work. then only when in certain sizes Fire which broke out about and on certain occassions. Ac-| two o'clock Tuesday see plat Rete sei PT ICR | clock Tuesday morning at cording to custom the regulation | the B. sitar ilies v smidgen le dapat : Sonners Ferry Lumber com- size of our national emblem for| ,o nye ye ‘ eid ee .|pany’s plant at Bonners Ferry a erie \ 1s -— ~— | burned about $200,000 worth of ee our inches by five Teet six iniche _— ry ‘Mahon, “Unless the mew ween — lumber and lumber in being paraded is apnroximately |" of the above size, it does not} _Freigt rates within the state comply with the customary re-|0f Idaho were increased 25 per quirements. cent and passenger rates 20 per When paraded by an organiza- cent, subject to certain restric- iton, tions, by a tentative order of the When our national flag, as cone Bagge commission Friday described above, is naraded un- (ing ae i furled (uncased) by an organiza- Idaho will, it is said, have the tion, it should be given the cus | most equal repre: ntation in its tomary salute of “hats off” while legislature of any state in the un- passing or is being ps jion. There will be 44 senators saad)? ie meat? »|and 54 representatives in the Ilv the emblem of the or ixteenth session of the state ganization pareding will be ear- body. ried side by side with the Na C. H. Green, of the Standard tional flay but the organization | Asphalt Paving company took emblem always on the left. The| initial steps inaugurating the flag, not the person or organiza-| construction of five blocks of tion, receives the salute. macadam pavement at Craig- What is not to be saluted. mont for which he has the con- Not every flag that is taken | ‘act. The cost of the work along the street is to be saluted. Will be $15,000. For example, when the flag un- attached to a staff is carried} along the street by persons hold- ing the corners and edges there- of, it is not to he saluted; nor when used to decorate the hood or other parts of an automobile or carriage ; nor when citizens in| perce agency last year. a parade individually carry flags| After 18 years of continous as on some occassions our school | service rural carrier out of children do. In other words, the’ Moseow John Dunbar was retir- flag is not offically paraded un-|ed August 20 and will receive less mounted on its staff and| during the rest of his life a pen- provided with some manner of} sion equal to 36 per cent of his escort. | base pay per annum for the last What not to do with our flag.| 10 years, or about $432 a year. Treat our flag as you would| Clyde J. Vassar, age 47, one of some precious heirloom given} Lewiston's most prominent citi- you by your mother. Do not} zens, and well known over the place it on a building and leave | northwest, died Tuesday at it there day in and day out. Put | White’s hospital, following an it up in the morning and take it} operation last Friday for ap- down at sunset. Do not use it! pendicitis, Gangrene poisoning for advertising purposes. Rem-| complicated the case. ember the red in our flag typi-| Idaho potatoes, large ones, and ies the life blood of thousands | wrapped in tissue paper are sell- of our citizens. | ing in New York City for tewnty How to pay respect to the flag.| five cents each, according to When the colors of the size|P. A. Williams, potato grower of and design above described are| Burley who recently returned being paraded, each male citizen | from a trip east. Producers in not in uniform should remove his | Idaho get on an average of $2 hat, hold the same opposite the| per hundred pounds for their left shoulder with his right| crop, according to Mr. Williams. hand, while the flag is being ear-| The Johnson railroad to date ried by, or he is passing it. This | has handled 30 carloads of wheat should be done each time a re-| comprising the first deliveries of gulatios parade flag passes even | this season’s crop from the Ol- though there be a dozen such} son and Tammany warehouses, flags in the same parade. Last year, with a short crop, the The Star Spangled Banner. two warehouses accommodated When citizens are present) #bout 50,000 sacks while this when the Star Spangled Banner | Year the number will probably is played, all will rise, if seated, | teach close to 100,000. and face the music, male citizens William Sutton, a fisherman, removing their hats and placing| was shot and fatally injured same opposite left shoulder. The | near Chatcolet, Idaho Tuesday same compliment should be ren-| by Captain Eli Laird, command- dered the national anthem of any|er of a tugboat on the St. Joe country with which we are at) viver following a struggle during peace, If seated in an automo-| which Sutton, according to the hile, dismount and remove hats.| stories of the captain and crew No part of this anthem should be| of the boat attempted to board played in a medley, and when so| the vessel amid threats against played should not be recognized. | Captain Laird. As a rule is should not be played| Working for 14 months on the more than once at a meeting. _ | case deputy sheriffs of Latah The Cottonwood Post is anxi-| county were rewarded last week ous to secure the co-operation of | by capturing a still in full opera- every citizen in this matter. Wel] tion in the deep woods on Gold believe that when our citizens | creek, miles from Potlach, understand that they are paying| and securing an almost new respect to the flag and net to the | Overland touring ear in addition organization or to any person or | to the still and a lot of finished group of persons they will re-| and half made _ illicity “boose”. move their hats and render the The man in charge of the still es- proper courtesy to the fla~ |eaped in the underbrush and Cottonwood Post American | darkness, but later followed his ; Legion, By V. A. Dye, Com-| car to Moscow and gave himself mander. up and is in the county jail. NEWS AROUND THE STATE ; Items of Interest From Various Sections Reproduced for Ben- efit of Our Readers, The secretary of the interior has direceted that patent in fee | be issued by the general land office to 276 Nezperce Indians in iecordance with the recommend- {ations of the competency com- ; mission which visited the Nez- as