Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, January 28, 1921, Page 1

VOLUME 29. NO. 5. WANT TO CHANG! N. & S. ROA | Grangeville through Nezperce to | Orofino instead of Kamiah. | “It now seems, in view of the | fact that there is a move on to build a new road up the Gilbert | | hill, that it is advisable to have | the connecting link between the ASSESSORS WANT CHANGES COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1921 "DECISION EFFECTS WAREHOUSE . COTTONWOOD CHRO "NEWS FIFTEEN YEARS AGO. NICLE John F. Nuxoll and family are rejoicing over the arrival of a baby girl. At last definite word of the awarding of the contract for the construction of the Northern BY WAY OF GRANGEVILLE, | North and South Highway and BOARD OF EQUALIZATION IMPORTANT WHEAT CASE) Pacific line across the prairie the Lewis and Clark Highway NEZPERCE AND OROFINO \ designated in that territory in- SAYS PAPERS. The North and had been far as the settled definitely, as location of the road was concerned from Grangeville | to Lewiston, by the way of Cot- tonwood, Ferdinand, again become a topic of great interest by our neighboring cities, as an effort is now being made to re-locate the road ac- cording to the Craigmont Regis- South High-| way, which most people believed | Craigmont | and Winchester appears to have | ter, Kamiah Progress and Clear- | water Republican by the way of | Grangeville, Nezperce and Oro- fino. The road was so definitely lo- cated that Cottonwood, Ferdin- and and Craigmont Highway districts voted bonds for their share of the costs of the North and South road through their respective districts, and the money is now ready for use, |stead. The citizens of Orofino {have already made an effort to, secure the same and will contin- |ue to do so. Such was the in- formation put before the Roch- dale meeting by Mr. Jewell and it was moved and seconded and carried that the organization go on record as favoring such a plan. “Following this action arrange- ments were made to call a mass | meeting of the citizens of the Gilbert country for Saturday, | January 15, at 7 p.m. in the Gilbert school house when the proposition will be discussed with the view of endorsing the designation of the highway from Nezperce to Orofino and request- | ing the county legislators to use Cottonwood having its money in| cold cash. We believe it is only | a scheme of a few broken down | politicians who method as their last resort. Nevertheless, it behoves the towns now designated to be on the north and ‘south road to at least keep their eyes and ears open, for where there is smoke there must he a little fire. In regard to the proposed change the Craigmont Register last week read as follows: “The cat is out of the bag, the die has been cast. A conference has been held by the Commer- cial Club of Nezperce and W. J. Ramey, presumably from the Gilbert section, at our county are using this! seat and the body as a whole has | declared for a State Highway between Grangeville, Nezperce and Orofino by the way of the Stevens crossing south of Nez- perce and the Russell ridge. Brilliant idea that, but, we heard of it several years ago when their senator was trying to pull the North and South Highway that way and keep it away from Cottonwood, Ferdinand, Craig- mont and Winchester. At the same time, trying to be our best friends. This time they are going to sidetract Cottonwood, Ferdinand, Craigmont, Winches- ter, Kamiah and Kooskia out in the cold, and run a state high- way right through the middle from Grangeville up into the North Fork country. “The basis of all this is a peti- tion sworn to at our county seat by Mr. Ramey, the Lewis county politician, ing the legisla- ture to pass an enabling act, allowing the people of the Gil- bert country to vote on a propo- sition of detaching themselves from Clearwater county and adding themselves onto Lewis county. Contemplate the idea of presenting such a petition to the members of the legislature from this county, Senator Reh-! berg, a prominent citizen of Kamiah ,and_ Representative Jarnigan, president of the Ever- green (Winchester) Highway District, under such cireum- stances.’ Orofine Quotes Hall The Orofino Tribune, from what is says regarding the pro- posed change in the North and South road, feels somewhat con- fident that the change will be made. The Tribune article reads as follows: “After last session of the ligis- ature a connecting link between the North and South highway and the proposed Lewis and Clark highway was designated by the state, engineer from Craigmont to Kamiah through Nezperce. For financial reasons there is every indication that this project will and that a new connection may be designated from Grangeville through Nezperce to Orofino. Wm. J. Hall, commissioner of Public Works, expressed an opin- ion some time ago to business men of Orofino that the con- necting link in all probability would i be abandoned | every effort to secure the same. An invitation was extended to Orofino business men to be pre- sent at the meeting with all available informtaion concerning the finances, ete.” Progress Accuses Three Towns The Kamiah Progress, now understands why a portion of the Gilbert section wishes to be| annexed to Lewis county, it also accuses Grangeville, Nezperce and Orofino of the new highway scheme. The Progress also says: “A movement being framed by Orofino, Nezperce, and Grangeville to divert the route of the North and South highway from Grangeville thru the other two towns and on down the river to Lewiston. This done, it might be that a road from Koos- kia up the hill to Dryden to con- nect with this highway would be proposed, linking the Lewis and Clark with the North and South between Kooskia and Orofino and cutting out Kamiah and other river points between the two towns from a place on the Lewis and Clark. Kooskia folks, however are more anxious for the river road and probably wouldn't favor the latter idea. The desire of the Gilbert sec-' tion to be transferred from Clarwater county to Lewis county, mention of which was made in these columns recently and which looked like quite a} good thing for this county, now comes to light as a part of this highway scheme. The new road would run through the Gilbert section, giving its farmers easy aecess to Orofino. At present it is set off alone across the riv- ,er from Clearwater county, but | if made a part of Lewis county, it could, and would, be taken into the Prairie district and thus add greatly to the taxable resources of that district, enabl- ing it to raise an immense amount of money for the pro- posed highway.” OUT ON ICE ASKING ALMS. The people of Ferdinand and Westlake precincts were confron ted the past week with a petition asking the privilege of a vote at the general election in November 1922, whether they wish to be annexed to Lewis county, or re- main a part of Idaho county. It hit most of us same as the hired girl said, “This is so sud- ded,” but not a single person re- | fused to add approval, and the proposal is now up to the state solons to grant us this privilege, which we see forthcoming. Without detailing, we refrain further retailing, and shall ex- pect nothing else than we hum- bly ask.—Ferdinand Enterprise. BUILDS POWER HACK SAW. The power hack saw, built en- tirely from old worn out mach- inery and scrap iron by W. C. Frick, of the South & Frick gar- age has been the cause of con- siderable favorable comment from all those who have seen the little machine at work. The saw will cut elmost any size of iron, regardless of its hardness and when it has completed the job throws itself off automatically. It is a fine piece of work indeed and a machine that will save be designated from) work. SHOULD BE ABOLISHED OFFICIALS THINK. —— | County assessors of Idaho} adjourned a three days’ conven- tion at Boise Wednesday Janu- ary llth after recommending and providing for the introduc- tion of several measures in the legislature which, if passed, will have a substantial effect on the statutes relative to taxes and tax collections. Among the more important of the measures recommended was a resolution to be introduced in- to the legislature providing for the submitting of a constitution- al amendment to the voters which would abolish the state board of equalization and substi- tute in its place a tax commis- sion of three, which would have the powers of the present board of equalization. Passage of a law_providing for equalization of taxes as between | counties on bank stock appearing on the personal tax roll was also recommended. Inthe original report of the legislative commit- tee the word “property” appear- ed in place of “bank stock.” This drew fire from several speakers and the substitution “bank stock” was made as it was the stated object of the commit- tee to provide for the equaliza- tion of bank taxes. An attempt to have the body goon record as favoring an amendment to the migratory stock law which would have the county assess the stock in pro- portion to the part of the year in which it fed in that county also found disfavor and the re- port was withdrawn. Another, making it mandatory for the home county assessor to notify the assessor of the other county where the herds intended to graze, was passed. It was recommended that the proposed bill drawn up by the state highway commission to motor vehicles be so amended as to fix the price for a dealer’s first license at $35 and the price for each additional license be fixed at $25. A proposed bill requiring mer- chants to make sworn state- ments to the assessors of the in- ventory of their stock near the first of each year, on blanks to be supplied by the state auditor, was indorsed. Other recommendations favor- ed the repeal of the statutes re- lative to the auditor gathering crop statistics and requiring the assessor to make dog tax collec- tions and the enactment of a law providing a specific fine for pro- perty owners who refuse to make statements or make them fraudulently. A portion of the session was devoted to a discussion of the migratory stock law which end- ed with an agreement to prose- cute all stock men or employes who fail to notify the assessor when herds are moved from one county to another. Assessment of sheep was fixed at $4 a head, range cattle at $25 a head. range grade bulls at $100, yearlings at $12 and milch cows at $40. The manner of procedure in the assessing of state lands was also discussed at this meeting and the laws in re- gard to this outlined. CALLS DEPOSITORS. A meeting of the depositors of the defunct Grangeville Savings & Trust company bank is called for Saturday, Jan. 29 at Grange- ville. J. G. Fralick, of the depart- ment of commerce and industry, has notified George W. Suppiger, special agent in charge of the bank’s affairs, that he will be present at the meeting. Im- portant developments in regard to the bank’s affairs are expect-, ed. While at previous meetings only the larger depositors were notified, it is noted that for the coming meeting word has been! sent to even the smallest. Recently the stock of the bank time and a great deal of hard was put up for sale, but only a) ets each TRIED—OF GENERAL INTEREST. A case of more than ordinary interest to warehousemen, farm- | | | | ers and millers has just been de-| cided in the district : Latah county by a jury, with Judge Edgar C. Steele presiding. The case is regarded as of im- portance in that it sets a prece- dent for the handling of wheat stored in warehouses in Idaho. The ease was that of the Mark P. Miller Milling Company, of Moscow vs. Thomas F. Wren, “Doing business as Wren & Greenough Land Company,” at Fenn, Idaho. Miller sued for the value of two warehouse tick- for 1,000 wheat, issued in December, 1918. The tickets were issued by the Wren & Greenough Land Com- pany by Thomas Wren, by J. M. Wren, according to the evid- ence, and “J. M.”. Wren was shown to be Josephine Wren, a sister of Thomas F. Wren. The evidence showed that the Mark P. Miller Milling Company bought 17,000 bushels of wheat from the defendants at that time and that all but 2,000 bu- shels were delivered. Miller brought suit for the value of this wheat, the value being placed at “from $2.55 to $2.65 per bushel.” The jury gave Mil- ler a verdict for $5,200. The defendant contended that the grain had been delivered to court of | bushels of | others but that the tickets had | not been surrendered. Judge Steele held that a warehouse company has no right to deliver grain without the surrender of the tickets and that if it does the warehouse company is responsi- ble to the holder of the tickets for the grain or its value. The defense contended that “J. M. Wren,” by whom the tic- -kets were signed, had no auth-| ority to issue the tickets where upon Frank L. Moore, attorney for Miller, charged that if such was the case J. M. Wren would be practically guilty of forgery. had been issued to Ed Wren, and Jim Wren, brothers of Thomas F. Wren and Josephine Wren, at the same date, on identically the same kind of a receipt, and sign- ed the same way, the first for 1,000 bushels and the other for 4,000 bushels and that the wheat had been delivered on both of these tickets. The jury was out but a short time and returned a verdict for Miller in the amount stated. Wren was represented by B. Auger of Grangeville, and Harry T. Davenport, of Wakefield, Witherspoon & Davenport, Spo- kane. Frank L. Moore, of Mos- cow, was attorney for the plain- tiff. The grain in dispute was stored in the defendant’s elevat- or at Fenn, Idaho.—Moscow Mir- ror. SURPRISE PARTY Twelve young folks Saturday evening plesantly surprised their friend and school mate Chester Hendrickson at the A. A. Har- rison home. The affair was a complete surprise to Chester. Dancing and 500 was the chief amusement of the evening, the affair breaking up with a fine lunch served by Mrs. A. A. Har- rison at the midnight hour. ROLL OF HONOR. The following persons made payments on subscriptions to the Chronicle since our issue of last week: Joe Lemacher, Frank Kaus, Arthur Mundt, Rev. Fr. Berthold P. A. Gaul, Jacob Munson, W. W. Blackburn, Anthony Wessels, Mrs. M. P. Andre, H. J.Moran, Herman Yates, L. S. Fortin, George H. Baker T. Clark, E. D Lamb and A. C. Gentry. Mrs. Laura B. Hale, who has been visiting in Lewiston for the past week at the John Baer home returned home Wednesday even- ing. | The plaintiff showed that tickets | has been given out and it is ex- pected the full statement will be made public this week. Several of the young folks at- tended a surprise party at the residence of M. Seubert last Wednesday evening. While riding over a little bridge Sunday evening, Nick Schafer’s cayuse stumbled and slipped kicking the young man and otherwise injuring him severely. Another bouncing baby boy arrived last Saturday morning to gladden the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Funke. Henry Uhling is reported ill with typhoid fever at his home north of town. S. R. Libby made a business trip to Lewiston late last week returning Monday on the stage. Mr. and Mrs. Tony Nuxoll, of Greencreek, left Wednesday, with their little son for Walla Walla, to have him treated at the hospital there. Al Tefft last Saturday hauled in a huge log for A. B. Rooke, which will furnish the hotel with wood for some time. It took 8 horses to haul the log down from the mountain. ELECT TRUSTEES. At the annual meeting of St. Mary’s Catholic Church last Sunday, John Wembhoff, Joe Uhlenkott and John Knopp sr., were elected trustees of the church for the current year. According to a financial state- ment, now in the. process of printing, at this office, the church is in first class condition, financially. The which is clearly set forth in the booklet by the the Rev. Fr. Wil- librord, pastor of the local par-| be com- pleted by this office the first of ish. The report will report also| Geary contains other interesting data $2.00 PER YEAR THE STATE Items of Interest From Various Sections Reproduced for Ben- efit of Our Readers. The lo State Bank at its regu- lar annual meeting at Craigmont last week changed its name to the Craigmont State Bank. | County Agent C. H. Behnke of Lewis county was re-employ- |ed by the county commissioners of Lewis County for another year at Nezperce last week. Mr. Behnke has been doing some splendid work in our neighbor- ing county. Culdesac now has the reputa- tion of having the strongest basket ball team in Northern Idaho, having played 11 games without the taste of defeat. Last Friday evening they defeated the crack Nezperce team by an overwhelming score. Humbird camp 11, out from Priest River, Idaho, was the scene of a holdup Saturday when a poker game was swooped down upon by a single operator and a small amount of money, several watches and paychecks taken from the timber workers. The Potlatch Lumber company will close down their saw mill in definitely. Saturday, January 29 at Potlatch, according to a state- ment given out by the manager. The closing down of this mill will mean the laying off of approxi- }mately 200 men. Charged with introducing lia- uor on an Indian reservation, S. B. Pickens, of Westlake, and Karns, of Forest, who were arrested last week in Lewis . county, have been takey to Lew- iston, and will be given their hearing there on Friday, before E. O'Neill, U. S. commissioner. The biennial report of the the coming week and will then be| work of the University of Idaho | distrbuted among the parishion- ers. COMING FAST. The Chronicle has been receiv- Extension Division shows a two year saving to the agriculture of Idaho totaling $6,716.000. This is in reality an addition of this }amount to the profits of Idaho ing a copy of every bill introduc-| farmers thru the help of the ten ed in both the Senate and House| thousand farm bureau-farmers of Representative from our leg- islators, Senator Jones and Re- presentative Fenn, as well as a daily journal from each house which contains the official do- ings of those bodies day by day. The last few days the copies of proposed bills have been coming so fast that we have not even tried to keep up with the new laws that are being submittel to the legislature at Boise. Of course not all of them will be- come laws, which is one consola- tion we have to fall back on. THE HIT OF THE SEASON !! A novelty box social, the boxes plainly trimmed but adequately filled; a snappy program, mer- riment in quality and quantity for old and young; and a general and long-to-be-remembered good time. The Pythian Sisters are giving this evening’s enjoyment, but they are strongly planning on every lady and gir! in this com- munity to aid them in the pre- paring of the lunches, and all the men and boys to help eat the lunches up or down. The games and contests will appeal alike to young and old. The place? I. O. O. F. hall; The day? Tuesday, February 1; The time? 8 o’clock. Whom do they expect? You! You! You! MADARA ARRARRRERDEnaa aed When your Commercial club or town council feels like kicking, why not reflect and say, let’s cooperate and help the power company, for it shouldn’t be expected to do it all. We welcome the change and invite you to become one of us by tak- ing some of our treasury stock, a good investment paying 7 per cent interest, and most of the time 8 per cent. We pay our dividends quarterly and havn’t miss- ed since we started in 1910. Grangeville Electric Light & Power Company. | who helped to save it. Within the shadow of the capi- ‘tal dome and at the very hour when the two houses of the state |legislature were en | shaping laws for the Gem state, the state constabulary and “Doe’ Roach of the Boise police, arrest- ed an alleged I. W..W. who, pol- ice say, declares that “as soon as plans are complete hell will pop all over the staté of Idaho.” The president Wednesday sent to the senate the nominations of | the following Idaho postmasters, ‘none of whom will be confirmed: Doris A. Peare, Avery ; Samuel J Linder, Craigmont; Laura A. Miller, Culdesac; Louise Diehl, | Eagle; Owen D. Wilson, Hansen; Charles G. Talbott, Juliaetta; Hattie Hibbs, Lapwai; Clay C. Todd, Milk; Katherine M. Boss, Rogerson; Milton S. Brinton, Victor. After groping in darkness through the streets for several months and returning to coal oil lamps for their home lights, the citizens of Juliatta feel elated over the prospect of getting light and power through an ar- rangement with A. Wilmot of Kendrick, who hopes to have the current ready to turn on within from 30 to 60 days. Mr. Wilmot is to acquire the interests of Frank Vineent of Juliaetta, whose plant was destroyed by fire a few months ago. As the Clearwater train was pulling out of Lewiston Sunday afternoon and had reached the eastern section of that city, a | bullet passed through the win- | dow of the mail car, missing the mail clerk by only a few inches. The train crew reported the oc- currence after the train reached North Lapwai and Chief of Pol- ice Gasser of Lewiston, nn jan investigation. The officer |found that the bullet had been | fired by John Casseto, 13-year- |old boy, from a 22 calibre rifle. The shot had been fired by ac- |cident, but the chief of police felt the incident was so serious that it should be referred to the juvenile court authorities. —.