Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, December 24, 1920, Page 1

VOLUME 2°. NO. 52 OOD _CH FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24,1920 COTONWOOD, IDAHO, NUGENT LANDS — 4IGHWAY COM. FEDERAL JOB! COMMENT ON NUGENT Go. ING TO FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, Boise, Idaho, Dec. 18—The an- nouncement irom Washington to day that the appointment ot United Steves Senator John F. Nugent of this state as chairman of the federal trade commission will be sent to the senate for confirmation Monday and that the junior senator will accept the post immediately, thereby causing a senatorial vacancy for the unexpired term to March 8, is taken to indicate by party leaders in Boise that United States Senator-elect Frank R. Gooding wi!l be called upon to take up his new senatorial duties sooner than he expected. Gov. D. W. Davis, in hands-will rest the power to ap- point the successor of Senator Nugent in the event of confirma- tion of his appointment and his immediate acceptance, was not in the city today and a statement | from him therefore could not be secured. Those close state’s chief executive, however, seemed to be of the opinion that the appointment of Senator-elect Gooding would be but logical as he is going to Washington the first of the year anyway to be resent at the opening of the earings on the proposed new tariff bill which the new republi- | can congress is expected to pass and will remain there for an in- definite period, Senator-elect Gooding announ- ced several days ago that he con- sidered the traiff measure of, vast and vital importance and he wished to be on the ground to become familiar with its terms, He considers it one of the most important pending pieces of leg- islature to his constituents in idaho, It is said the friends of Senat- or Nugent are greatly pleesed to learn of his appointment. They are confidert that his con- firmation will follow as a matter of course. Many of them had hopes that Senator Nugent would return to the state and assist in the reorganization of the democratic party, which is now under way, but they feel that under the circumstances the important appointment ten- dered to him is not only in re- cognition of his services in the senate but is in recognition of the democrate party and demo- crats in general in Idaho. Senate Confirms Nomination Washington, Dec. 20.—Nom- ination of Senator Nugent of Idaho to fill a vacancy on the federal trede commission was confirmed today by the senate in open session immediately af- ter it was received from Presi- dent Wilson. Senator Nugent's term as senator expires March The motion to confirm was made by Senator Borah, republi- can, Idaho. ' Senator Nugent’s appointmen was the first presidential nomin- ation to be confirmed by the sen- ate during the present session and was a courtesy usually shown to a member of congress. All other nominations sent in by the president have been held up without an executive session even for committee reference, but proposals are under discus- sion for disposals of army, navy and a few other nominations. CALLED TO SPOKANE. Mr. and Mrs. William Ruhoff and Mrs. Barney Luchtefeld were called to Spok»ne Surdey Morning owing to the serious illness of their mother, Mrs. Ru- hoff. On Friday of last week, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Ruhoff left for Spokane, heing c»lled there on the same mission To date no word has heen received as to her condition. Mrs. Ruhoff ix well known to msnv of our citizens having mede visits here at dif- ferent times. with her sons and daughter. Her manv friends whose | to the! | WANT THE STATE HIGH-, WAY DEPARTMENT ABOL- | ISHED—COST EXCESSIVE | Boise,—The abolishing of the | | State highway department as an | «Xtravagant and unecessary arm vf the state government will be | «econmmended in resolutions pas- |sed by the State County Com-| | missioners’ association at its | closing session last Thursday. | Recommendations that the re- | solutions ask the entire abolish- | ment of the state highway com- | Mission came toward the close of | a lively session, at which some twelve or fifteen commissioners | | ‘rom counties had declared their | cooperation with the highway depurtment had proved costly nd had not resulted in the con- | struction of roads, but that prac-| tically all the money which the} counties had been forced to put | up had been expended in exces-| sive engineering costs and over- | head. | Among the speakers who most | | stronely attacked the commis- ‘ion were R. B. French of Blaine} county, Commissioner Harvev of | ‘nnnock, L. B. Marklson of Pay- | otte, B. R. Meek of Franklin and | | Commissioner Cantwell of Valley | Many others voiced a sentiment | that their experience in coopera-| tion with the state highway de. partment had proven detriment-| al to road construction and cost- ly to the counties. j The commissioners voted un- arimously to maintain a legis-| lative committee of five in Boise! during the legislative session. Officers elected for the ensu- ing two years were: President, James A. Welch of Boundary; vice president, W. F. Bracken of | Twin Falls: secretary, A. E. Po- heroy of Gem; Treasurer, H B. Iilingworth of Ada. | In behalf of the northern Ida- | ho counties an invitation is to be| extended to the commissioners | to hold their 1921 session at Sandpoint, which invitation will he extended by Senator Andrew Christiansen, who is a member! of the board of Bonner county, | but will resign to again serve in| the upper house of the legisla- | ture. | NEWS FIFTEEN YEARS AGO. Mrs. Bart Crawford came up last Saturday from the Palouse country to join her husband and they are now occupying their} residence near the mill. Miss Irene Strickfaden had her left leg broken near the ankle last week at Nezperce by | >| running into another sled while coasting. Ray Bartlett came in Tuesday | | from Lewiston with a_ 6-horse| | load of freight, about half of it’ being furniture for J. N. Moden. John Funke is having an ice house built this week near his | residence. Fred Lange and Geo, | | Kramer are doing the work. j It has heen trying hard to! snow this week but has not been very successful, about 6 inches of new snow now would put the sleigh roads in fine condition as the ground is in good shape to receive it. Sam Goldstone left Monday for Lewiston in company with Right-of-Way Agent Smith, of the N. P. It is stated that Mr. Goldstone is seeking to have the depot for the new road located in the south end of town but whether he is successful remains ' to he seen. George Stuber drove another! shipment of five carloads of hoes to Kooskia late last week, Joke We''e end Lloyd Crosby ac- eompanied the shipment to Spok- ane. Rev. F. R. McKinney and wife | ef St. Peul, arrived here Satur- dey on a short visit to Geo. F. MeKinrey ond family, Joseph Kaufmann on*Sat day vurchased the Geise farm of 160 acres north of town to- ce‘her with stock, ete. for $6000 ! Mrs. J. V. Nash left Sunday | | Congressional With Presents Galore Hello! Boys and Girls! Meet me in Cottonwood today at 2 o’clock. I have loaded my sled with 500 packages that I am going to give to the boys and girls. Rem- ember to bring baby sister or brother with you. A Merry Christmas for Everybody. SANTA CLAUS TO MAKE APPOINTMENTS. Representative Burton L, French has been called upon by the Navy department to name three midshipmen to the United States Naval Academy at Ann- apolis to enter the Academy in September, 1921. Men eligible to appointment must not be less than 16 years of age and not more than 20. Under recent ruling, high school certificates may be accepted by the department in lieu of en- trance examination. The en- trance examination includes tests in punctuation, spelling, English grammer, geography, United States history, arithme- tic algebra through quadralic equations and plane geometry. The course in the Academy covers four years and its grad- uates become officers in the United States Navy. Mr. French will be glad to send application blanks and liter- ature to young men of the First district who de- sire to enter upon a naval career and who feel themselves qualifi- ed physically and mentally to undertake the work. - BREAKS ARM. Fred McKinney had the mis- fortune to break his right arm above the wrist Wednesday after noon, while attempting to cranke an Oldsmobile truck, owned by the Cottonwood Hardware Co., when the engine “back fired” and the handle of the crank hit him a terrific blow on the arm, with the result of the arm being broken. Dr. Orr set the injur- ed member. HOLIDAY VACATION. The Public School and the St. Joseph School closed Thurs- day for a weeks vacation, during the holidays. Both schools have limited their vacation to a week and will again resume their re- gular routine of work the third day of the new year. TO ASK FOR FREEDOM. Boise, Idaho, Dec. 20.—Plans are well under way for the pre- sentation to the state board of here hope thst she will recover | mornine for an indefinite visit | pardons early in the year of a from what appears to be a seri-| v’*h rel-tives and friends at out-| petition to ous illness. side points. self. parole Harry Orchard murderer of form- er Governor Frank Steunenberg, who was blown to pieces by a jbomb planted at his gate at Caldwell on the night of Dec. | 31, 1905, Leading members of the Ad- ventist denomination of Idaho are behind the movement to get Orchard out of the penitentiary. Their pian is to have him grant- ed permission to leave the coun- try after a few months and to place him in a foreign mission |field as an Advent worker and jteacher, especially to teach trades to the men among whom he will be placed. Various persons who were as- sociated with the prosecution of ‘the officers of the Western Fed- eration of Miners have been ap- proached within the past few weeks in behalf of the parole for which the Adventists soon ex- pect to ask. They are claiming | that Harry Orchard is now a ‘changed man and is willing to | take up the missionary work de- legated to him and to devote the remainder of his life to doing good among the poorer classes of some foreign land. They also feel that his imprisonment of 12 years and his good record there has been sufficient to pay the penalty of his crime. Harry Orchard was sentenced to be hung by Judge Fremont Wood at Caldwell March 18, 1908. Governor Gooding com- muted his sentence to life im- prisonment. OUR ROLL OF HONOR. Subscribers who advanced their subscriptions to the Chron- icle this week are: Tom Gentry, Henry Bosse, B. H. Hattrup, .D. H. Kube, Carl Shurra, Wm. Buettner, Mrs. M. Shearer, J. L. Eckert. John Maugg, Joseph Schmidt, Mrs. Schober and C. H. Greve. FINE TURKEYS. Ed Wren delivered to Simon Brothers, ten turkeys, this week that were as fine a bunch as has ever beer delivered to the local market. The ten turkeys weigh- ed on an average of 20 pounds each and brought him a check to OIL IN LEWISTON VALLEY. There is oil in the Lewiston- Clarkston valley. That is the view of Patrick Gibbon, mining engineer and geologist, who has been in the district since October making investigations and as the result of whose findings options have been taken on 5,000 acres of land for the purpose of ex-| ploitation. The options are in the name of Mr. Gibbon, but he has local associates in Lewiston and Clarkston. There have been rumors cur- rent for some time that oil in- vestigations were in progress in this locality, but not until yes- terday available for publication. was learned that Mr. Gibbon ently entered the field in Oct- ober fore any information was given out. Later the securing of op- tions resulted. The informa- tion is that within the next few days there promises to become public important developments in the plans receiving attention. —Lewiston Tribune. TEACHERS ON VACATION. Several of the teachers of the public school departed Friday morning for various places to spend their Christmas holiday. Miss Lansing will go to Portland where she will visit with friends, Miss Hanson to Potlatch, the home of her parents, Miss Raw- son to her home at Lewiston. Miss Colledge to Craigmont and Miss Knapp to Spokane. BIRTHDAY PARTY. Wednesday evening Miss Irene Simon entertained a number of her friends in honor of her twelfth birthday, twenty young guest were present to help Irene fittingly celebrate. A delight- ful evening was spent by the young folks in games after which delicious refreshments were served. Irene was well remembered by her friends and received many nice gifts. BIG DANCE. Don’t forget the dance at the I. 0. O. F. Hall the amount of approximately | Decem! $70, or $7 each. The turkeys were all young birds. was a statement —_ | and spent a considerable | period in the investigation be-| EXPENSIVE Santa Claus Is On His Way NEWS AROUND THE STAT Items of Interest From Various efit of Our Readers, | Sections Reproduced for Ben- Warren D. Robbins, one of the |founférs of Moscow, died at | Boise Monday, He was an in- | mate of the soldiers’ home there. | Charles P. Se ; ‘mur of ae Yan ea | Seymour | Idaho was burned to death Sun- | dear te a evo that Sa | packing it, ; | were stored in the building ; burned. The loss is estimated | at 200,000, j | Some of the poultry-keepers , in the Lewiston Orchard district | are interested in the plan adyo- cated elsewhere of ——s | the working and laying day fone hen ee electric ight. A Minnesota poultryman pg that he ‘ow Bp | egg production about 50 percent | by turning on the electric lights, | One of the most imposing fea- tures of the Idaho house warm- , ing which will take place Janu- ary 3, when the completed tol will be thrown open to ‘public for inspection will be a review of the Boise company of the Idaho cavalry and the R. 0. T. C., in front of the capitol building by Governor Davis, Three hundred _ seventy. it | thousand acres have been | in winter wheat by Idaho farm- | ers, it was announced at the of- | fice of the Idaho Crop service Saturday morning. This amount is compared with four | hundred forty thousand acres | seeded a year ago, | On the decision of the U. 8. | Supreme court in the | case, United States vs | Pacific Railway company, de- pends the title to 8,800,000 acres of national forest land in Mont- ena, Idaho and Washington, worth $50,000,000. Part of this land is in Idaho county. Idaho's four presidential elec- tors have reeeived official noti- fication that Senator Warren G. Harding will be officially elected rresident of the United States when on January 10, 1921, mem- ers of the electorate college of each state will meet at the seat «ft government for that state cast their official vote for president. The Union Pacific railroad eystem has announced a reduc- tion in freight rates on hay from Idaho to Missouri river points, from $15.90 to $10 per ton. This | will mean the shipment of a vast »mount ‘of hay from southern Ideho to Kansas City and other points in that ex ion. paying expense of baling and loading and the freight rate it is estimated growers will get $6 per ton for their hay. Idaho’s 1920 population is 431,866, according to revised | figures received Friday from the United States census bureau, | which show an increase over the population of 1910 (325,594) of 32.6 per cent. Since 1900, when census figures showed 161,722 inhabitants, the population has nearly tripled. The editor of the Juliaetta Re- cord was made richer last week by $1.62 which was di to his credit in the Idaho Trust Co., at Lewiston by Carl Porter who is employed in that institu- tion. It was in the form of a time deposit of $1.00 placed by us in the Idaho Trust Co., about 16 years ago and long ago for- rotten about. The 62 cents was the interest on the $1.00 for the length of time it had been on deposit Ina group of 20 “ " University of Idaho f | xirls recently queried by the de- | vartment of home economies to ascertain the proper € | for a college girl, it was ft that the co-eds average aprons to every pair of slipners, that they show a inclination toward