Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, May 6, 1921, Page 1

VOLUME 29. NO. 19. DEATH CALLS YOUNG WOMAN GERTRUDE STOLZ, AGE 21 DIES OF VEGETABLE POISONING. Miss Gertrude Stolz, oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Stolz, of the Greencreek section, | passed away at the home of her parents, Monday morning at 8:15 after an illness of only a week’s duration, the direct cause of her death being vegetable poisoning. : On the 28rd day of April, while preparing a meal for the day the young lady took a jar of home canned beans from the shelf which she intended to pre- pare for the meal, and as her sense of smell was never very good, sampled the beans by tas- ting them and found that they were spoilt. Little was thought of the incident until the follow- gaa as means FAREWELL RECEPTION. [Tie Bit orePoree bo | of a Perfect Day [] A farewell reception was given it the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Keith, Tuesday evening by mem- bers of the Community church in |honor of Rev. and Mrs. Marion) Sligar, who departed the follow- ing morning for their new home at Albion, Wash. The Sligars have been very popular aa |members of their congregation | as well as the town in general. | | At the close of the reception| Mr. and Mrs. Sligar were pre-| sented with a set of silver bul-| lion spoons, in appreciation of | the splendid work accomplished | | by them while residents of this | city. The Sligars will be great-| |ly missed, especialy among the! | young folks, Mr. Sligar having) | taken more than ordinary inter- | ;est in any movement that pro-| moted the doings of the young! folks. He was also at the head |of the Boy Scouts, and during | |his leadership built up a very) strong organization. We all | wish them success and “ACQUITTED ON "THEFT CHARGE ing Monday when she was com-| week by the Village Board of pelled to remain in bed, being Tyustees, and all persons are in- | afflicted by what was thought) structed to see that their prem-| to be tonsilitis by members of} ises are cleaned up during the | her family, her throat becoming | week and the rubbish burned or | effected from the poisoned beans | hayled to the dumping ground. | From the first day she went to Throwing rubbish out on the! bed she gradually grew worse public highway is postively for-| and Dr. Orr was summoned ani | ness in their new home. | CLEAN UP WEEK. | COURT INSTRUCTED JURY Next week, May 9th to 14th, has been designated as clean up| IN CASE OF TIPTON AND TALBOT. FEDERAL AID | | ACCEPTS NEW POSITION. |last issue, contained the follow- | tion accepted by Jess Robertson, \of this city, as manager of the |Union Store of Kamiah. jarticle reads as follows: {has a good training in business. way system. For this , section, which in- cludes Nez Perce, Lewis, Latah, | Idaho and Clearwater counties, Mr. Osborn estimates that we | will receive out of the 75 percent of the $2,000,000 a sum total of $215,538.50, which he regards as | |a very meager amount for the | two-year program, 1921 and) 1922. Citizens and commercial bodies can do much to help in in-| suring the continuation of feder-| al aid by getting in touch with the Idaho delegation in congress. —Lewiston Tribune. The Kamiah Progress in its ing article regarding the posi- The “Mr. Robertson is the oldest son of Geo. M. Robertson and For. several years he was con- nected with a bank in Nezperce and latter managed the business of the Nezperce Hardware Co. until he entered the service dur- ing the World War. He saw active service in France, and MUST COME IS THE OPINION OF ENGI-| since his return has been con- | mm |nected with the Cottonwood NEER OSBORN OR ROAD | Hardware Co. His wife is the , m | daughter of E. H. Ratliff, coun- WORK WILL STOP. |ty assessor. They both visited | the Robertson home over Sunday land on Monday Mr. Robertson pronounced the case a serious one, the poison having by this time circulated through her en- tire system, eyerything possible was done to save her life. Gertrude Stolz, was born near Greencreek on October 6, 1900, and besides her parents leaves) Ward Dempsey, -cashier, and|Mendation, and returned a ver- six sisters and three brothers to. Leslie Roth, assistant cashier, of | dict finding one or both defend- mourn her untimely death.. They | the Kamiah State Bank, charged | ants guilty, he would set the are: Antoniette, Ernestine, Rosa lia, Hildegard, Petsomilia, Marie, Henry, Leonard, and Albert Stolz, all of whom are living with their parents. The funeral services were held Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock from the Catholic church at Greencreek, with the Rev. Fr. Baerlocher in charge. The ser- vices were attended by hundreds of friends, who wished to pay their last respect to the noble young woman, the funeral pro- cession, it is said, was one of the largest ever held in the Green- creek section. F During her life she had form- ed'a wide circle of friends who join with her relatives in this hour of mutual affliction. En- dowed with a sunny and grac- ious disposition, womanly in all things and loyal to the teachings and ideals of her religion and of a homecircle builded round the heart of human kindness she was known and loved by everyone. Hers has been a life well lived. And now that she has gone out of this life as a flower droops up- on its stem the fragrance still lingers and will linger, clustered in myriad memories dear to those who knew her. Peaceful be her sleep in the “windowless palace of rest.” LEAVE FOR CALIFORNIA. Frank Honer and family in- tend to leave the early part of June for Compton, Cal., near Los Angeles, where they will make their future home. Mr. Honer has been engaged in the photo- graph business in Cottonwood for many years and in this line does work far above the average and we predict for him a success- ful career in the sunny south. Mr. Honer is now disposing of his personal property at private sale. He expects to be accom- panied to California by a brother residing in Spokane. They also plan on making the trip over- land. Mrs. Bertha Poyneer arrived Wednesday evening from her home in Molson, Wash., to visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Stolz. She was called here by the death of her niece, Miss Ger- trude Stolz. HENRY BAUNE DEAD. Henry Baune, an old and re- spected citizen of this vicinity passed away at 10 o'clock this Mr. and Mrs. Otto Aichlmayr;! set for May 6, but will not be morning having been stricken with a stroke of paralysis which paralyzed his righ side. Mr. Baune has not been time. Judge Wallace N. Scales advis- eres ; 5 _|ed the jury to return a verdict Ps order af the Village Trust |of not guilty in the case of Carl f S. J. PETERSON, | Tipton and Platt Talbott jr., 5a Chairman, | Charged with cattle stealing, in "| district court, Tuesday morning. The judge declared, if the jury bidden. WAIVE PRELIMINARY. é : ; George Waterman, president;| did not comply with his recom- well for some with making false reports rela-| tive to the status of the bank! which closed April 8, waived pre-| liminary examination, which was | to have been held at Nezperce, | Tuesday, before Probate Judge | Ellis and the matter will go over | to the fall term of the district | court which convenes at Nez-| perce September 6th. The men are out on bonds previously giv-| en, WORKING ON GROUNDS. The five-acre tract recently purchased by the city for a pub- lic play ground and a ball park has been undergoing some need- | ed improvements the past week. | The ground has been leveled off | and the fence removed. Other improvements will be made, and in about ten days, it is hoped the | grounds will be ready for the first game of baseball. NO DROP IN PRICE. | The Cottonwood Hardware) this week received notice from H. Higginbottom, district repre- sentatibe, for Dodge Brothers | motor cars, with headquarters in Seattle, stating that there will | be no decline in Dodge Brothers | motor vehicles. The report also said: “Any statement that Dodge Brothers have reduced or! intend reducing prices is abso- lutely false. This may be used for publication.” | INDIAN DIES. Andrew Moody, a well known Indian of the Ferdinand country died at Culdesac Tuesday night from diabetes having been a suf- ferer of the malady for some time. Mr. Moody was about 60 years of age at the time of his death. The remains were ship- ped to Ferdinand Wednesday evening, the funeral services be- ing held from the Meadow Creek church Thursday. Mr. Moody was well known here. PLAY BALL. | The town team and the high school boys will pay ball on the local diamond Sunday. By the following Sunday Cottonwood hopes to be officially a member of the Central Prairie League, consisting of the towns of Fenn, Greencreek, Stites, Winona | Grangeville and Cottonwood. ' Dr. Orr reports the folowing births: On April 27th, a son to’ April 28th, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Gerhard Uhlenkott; on, | April 30th to Mr. and Mrs. [ky boy. |the penitentiary on the scant) | Griffith. verdict aside. The court declared the state had not introduced sufficient evidence to warrant a conviction. The state’s principal evidence, ; Judge Scales remarked, was that given by Dave Daniels, a Chero- kee Indian, but Daniels was drunk when he testified, the court said, and his evidence would not stand in case of con- viction of the defendants, and appeal to the supreme court. Who Owned The Cow. The court remarked that a cow, which Tipton and Talbott} were alleged to have stolen, | evidently had been stolen by! some one, but the state had} neither proved the ownership of | the cow, nor did evidence exist | that either Tipton or Talbott had stolen the cow. The court said it would be un-| fair to send either defendant to| evidence introduced, and then re-} commended that the jury return a verdict of not guilty. Frank E. Wyatt was the com- plaining witness. It was claim-} ed Mr. Wyatt was owner of the cow in question. Tipton and Talbott were re-| presented by Attys. M. R. Hat-| tabaugh and F. E. Fogg, while the prosecution was conducted by Prosecuting Attorney B.) Auger, assisted by Atty. E. M. On motion of the state, anoth- er case against Tipton charged with a similar offence, was dis-| missed. Puyear On Trial Case of the state vs. P. P. Pu- year, charged with fraudulent disposal of property, is now be- ing tried. R. H. Russell, former cashier of the defunct Grange- ville Savings & Trust Co., is the prosecuting witness. Much testimony involving notes and other securities, their origin and disposition, has been introduced. The matter of spec- ulating in oi] and mining stocks also was given an airing. Some of the testimony is con- tradictory and the large audience which fills the courtroom is momentarily expecting a sensa- tion, though nothing of a parti- cularily sensational nature has developed. Case of the state vs. Wilbur Bryant and Carl Baxter, on ap- peal from the probate court, is heart until later, it is believed. Tom Lindsay, charged with operating a moonshine still, will District Engineer Wm. Osborn recently of* the fifth district now in charge of the Lewiston office (sixth district) of the bureau of highways, in com- menting on the present situation strongly urges the need of ac- tive support of all citizens of the legislation now pending before congress. The bill pending would appropriate $100,000,000. which would give Idaho $2,2365,- 000 for the next two years, an incidentally give the state a road program altogether of some- thing over $6,000,000 for the next two years. Mr. Osborn feels that federal aid for highways must be con- tinued if road work throughout the country is not to be given a serious setback. He calls at- tention to the fact that, in 1916, congress passed a federal road act providing that the govern- ment appropriate for post roads the sum of $75,000,000, and for forest roads $10,000,000, and lat- er, by rider of the postoffice ap- propriation bill, an additional $200,000 was appropriated for federal aid of rural post roads. Under the apportionment basis adopted, Idaho's allotment of post road aid was $3,360,388.86. Spread over the fiscal years end- ing June 30, 1917, 1918 1920, 19- 21, or for a five-year period, and approximately $1,060,000 forest aid was allotted to Idaho, spread over the fiscal years ending June 30, 1917 to 1926, inclusive. A chart has been prepared showing the status of federal aid funds by states. According to this, Idaho he¢ projects approv- ed by the federal government, up to February 28, 1921, of $3,000,- 000, and since that date Idaho has taken advantage of all the post road moncy available, which is $3,360,888.86. At the last general election, the citizens voted a $2,000,000 bond issue for the purpose of im- proving state highways. Inthe recent session of the legislature, an act was passed which provi- des that 75 percent of the pro- ceeds of the Idaho state highway bond fourth issue shall be allott- ed to state highway purposes in each county, provided that the ratio in which state highways are designated is the ratio that the total assessed valuation of each respective county for the year 1920 bears to the total as- sessed valuation of the state of Idaho for the year 1921; also that 1214 percent of these funds shall be expended on the north and south highway in the neu- tral zone between the east fork of the Weiser river in Adems county and Whitebird in Idaho county; ané 121% percent shall be spent, in the discretion of the commissioner of public works, for the purpose of providing highways, or bridges in undevel- oped sections of the state, and| yesterday at for other purposes incidental to| Reynold Robertson and Miss Walter Kinzer, of Ferdinand, a| stand trial after the close of the| the construction, Puyear case —Free Press. improvement or maintenance of the state | tenth inning. , be moved this evening in order high- | creek met the directors of the company and made the contract to take over the management of the store. He expects to be here within a month and L. D. will re- main to “break him in” until July 1.” NEWS FIFTEEN YEARS AGO. At last the railroad graders are with us. John Hoene and Ben Krieger have started up their saw mills and are now going it full blast. A “buzz wagon,” operated by Spokane tourists, stopped in j town Wednesday night and ex- cited considerable curiosity among the natives as it was the first one ever seen here. J. P. Vollmer has chosen the name of Fenn for his new town to be estblished south of Denver in honor of Major Frank Fenn and his father, S. S. Fenn. Wil! Hussman and Ben Herzog have returned from Canada and Domie Romain is also back. Well boys there is no place like home. The marriage of John Arnzen and Miss Katie Dasenbrock was solemnized Tuesday morning at the Greencreek Catholic church. Rev. Campbell officiating. PIONEER DIES. W. S. M. Williams, one of the oldest pioneers in Idaho county, | died at his home in Mt Idaho, | Tuesday, at the age of 84 years.| Mr. Williams during his younger | days was very active and popu- lar having served two terms as sheriff, one term as county} auditor and recorder and one} term in the territorial legisla-} ture. He was a native of Ten-| nessee. The funeral was held at Mount Idaho Wednesday un- der auspices of the Masonic lodge. GREENCREEK WINS. The Greencreek ball team de- feated Fenn on their home dia- mond Sunday in a ten inning game, the score being 10 to 11. Many of the baseball fans from Cottonwood took in the game and report it a royal battle to the | An exceptionally | large crowd took in the game,! in the neighborhood of 50 cars| being parked on the grounds. | Fenn plays at Greencreek Sun- day. MOVING OFFICE. The Pacific Telephone Co., has a crew of five men working this week removing the telephone of- \fice from the old Goldstone building to the Nuxoll building, ‘the room having been formerly occupied by H. H. Nuxoll as an |office. The switchboard will to cause as little inconvenience to patrons as possible. LICENSE ISSUED. A marriage license was issued NEWS AROUND THE STATE Items of Interest From Various Sections Reproduced for Ben- efit of Our Readers. The Citizens State Bank of Kooskia opened its doors for bus- iness Monday morning, as a re- organization of the Kooskia State Bank, which closed its doors April 8. The new institu- tion opens with 56 stockholders. It has a capital stock of $20,000 with a surplus of $4000. The deposits of the bank at the close of business on the first day were $195,000. The University of Idaho will this year offer a nine weeks summer school, beginning June 18, in addition to the customary six weeks term beginning the same date President Upham an- nounced. A permit has been granted to put in a bathing beach at Lewis- ton along the banks of the Snake River. Plans are under way to put in a resort there requiring the expenditure of $30,000. If the plans are carried out there will be a dancing pavilion, bath- ing beach and many other at- tractions. Members of the Emmett, Ida- ho irrigation district by a vote of 406 for and two against de- cided Saturday night to sign a contract with the United States reclamation service for the con- struction of a million dollar dam on the Payette river, five miles up the river from Emmett. The dam is known as the Black Can- yon dam which when completed will open up approximately 75,- 000 acres. Steward Pickens, who has been confined in the county jai) since January at Lewiston await, ing trial in the federal court on a charge of making moonshine, Sunday escaped from the jail with the aid of a key obtained from some unknown source. Pickens is about 6 feet tall and weighs about 165 pounds. He is 40 years old, with light hair and blue eyes. Other prisoners allege ignorance of Pickens’ es- cape. Dale Cady Blake, ten years old vf Pocatello, confessed the he killed his foster father last Wed- nesdap, according to sheriff's deputies. The shooting took place on the Blake farm near here and, according to the of- ficers, the youth admitted that he shot his foster father because the latter had administered punishment for running away from home. Joe Hart, of Lewiston, who operated a freight boat line on the upper Snake river, early Sunday morning killed with a shotgun his wife and a neighbor, Mrs. Charles Wilmarth, immed- iatelp afterward blowing out his ‘own brains in the back yard of the Wilmarth home. The triple tragedy was witnessed by the Hart and Wilmarth children and by Marie Walker, a neighbor. Domestic troubles between the Harts and Mrs. Wilmarth’s friendship for Mrs. Hart are thought to be the cause of the tragedy. An assessed valuation of $20,- 988,427.84 with no bonded indebt edness and a combined capital and current surplus of $824,288.- 23 at the close of business for the year, is the condition of Sho- shone county, according to 1920 financial report of the auditor, filed Saturday with the bureau of public acounts of the depart- ment of finance. Governor D. W. Davis issued two proclamations Tuesday, the first setting aside May 12 as “hospital day,” to be observed in Idaho with special exercises for the sick in hospitals, and May 22 to 28 as a special week for forest protection and to call to the at- tention of residents the import- ance of prevention of forest fires during the summer months. The \Sunker Hill and Sullivan Mining company has acquired the Mayflower-Bullion mine, con- Grangeville to Jess, both of the Green- section. . sisting of six claims, located seven miles from Hailey, Idaho, in the Wood river district and will commence operations within a short time.