Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, May 13, 1921, Page 1

COTTONWOOD CHRONICLE ~ VOLUME 29. NO. 20 TWO BUSINESS HOUSES ROBBED $8 FROM ROOKE HOTEL, $12 FROM SCHAECHER on Pittsburg bar, on Snake river, | west of Whitebird, with results | that have been pronounced en-| couraging, Oil, however has not been encountered. } Drilling is now under way in| the vicinity of Clarkston, Wn.,! on Snake river.—Free Press. BAUNE FUNERAL MONDAY. The funeral of Henry Baune, | ' DRUG STORE. | who passed away at his home in| | Cottonwood last Friday morning _ |at the age of 72 years, was held! Cottonwood was the scene this | from the local Catholic church | week of two robberies, on Tues- Monday morning and was at- night the Rooke Hotel hav- | 4 co robbed of $8 in cash which was left in the cash draw- | er by Mr. Rooke, the proprietor, during the night. The party or parties robbing the Rooke cash drawer left no sign of their work and Mr. Rooke did not know he had been robbed until he opened | the drawer the following morn- ing. The drawer showed no signs of rough treatment and was evidently opened with a pass key. | Theodore Schaecher, proprie-_ tor of the Schaecher Drug Store | upon opening his place of busi- ness Thursday morning found papers beside his safe that led him to believe that everything | about the store was not as it should be. Upon investigation he found that his safe had been | robbed of $12 in cash and rifled | from top to bottom. Upon clos- | er investigation he also found that the drawer containing his} narcotics had been robbed, drugs to the value of $20 having been taken, consisting of morphine, cocaine and codaine. The thieves | were evidently familiar with) drugs as they took only nar- cotics and molested no other drugs in the drawer which con- tained the stolen articles. The small cartoons in which the drugs were packed were left by the robbers. A 32 Smith and Weston revolver was also taken. The robbers entered the drug store through the rear of the building, having broken out the top panel in the back door, after which they entered the main part of the store by descending a small flight of stairs. The safe containing the money was left unlocked by Mr. Schaecher. The robbery was reported to the sheriffs office at Grange- ville and Sheriff Eimers placed O. D. Hamlin, his deputy, in Cot- tonwood on the case. A sus- picious looking character, who has been hanging around town for the past week was placed un- der arrest near Fenn by Deputy | Sheriff Hamlin, brought back to Cottonwood and searched but nothing was found that would in any way connect him with the case. Four other men, who in! company with the one arrested, | have been camping near the) stock yards, left the city Thurs-| day morning and there where- abouts are still unknown. | One or two other petty thiev- ing cases have also came to light since the drug store and hotel robbery, one family lost a large, ham from the cellar and a pri- vate desk was rifled recently. | LEASE LAND FOR OIL. | Oil leases on approximately 5000 acres of agricultural and grazing land, lying between what is known as the Swartz place and the town of Whitebird, along the North and South state highway, have just been procured by Dan Hardin, of Lewiston. Indications of oi] were reveal- ed, it is reported, by excavations for the North and South high- way, a year or more ago, and have attracted attention of men interested in oil development. Whether drilling will actually be started at an early date on the newly acquired property, is not known. Mr. Hardin is said to be acting for a company which _ devoted much attention to oil. The land which has been leas- ed forms a basin, surrounded by high bluffs, and comprises many ranches. The area lies on the slope from Camas Prairie to! Salmon river. It is a huge cul- de-sac, which stretches from Sal- mon river northward for seven or eight miles into the mountain side. The leases on the land are for for oil rights only. For two years, or more, drill-| | deceased father. tended by a large number of his old friends and neighbors, the funeral services being conducted | by the Rev. Fr. Willibrord. | Henry Baune was born in Sas- | senberg, Germany on November 15, 1884 and came to this coun-| try when he was 28 years af age. | He was united in marriage to| Miss Thresia Graler in 1874 at} Ferdinand, Indiana and to this! happy union nine children were born, eight of whom survive the, They are: William Baune, of Cottonwood, Mrs. John Flaherty of Indianola, Neb.; Mrs. Joe Bies, of Ferdin- and, Idaho; Ida and Tony Baune of Cottonwood; Mrs. John) Brocke and Bernard Baune of Keuterville and Frances Baune | of this city. Besides the sor-| rowing widow Mr. Baune is also | survived by 27 grandchildren. | Mr. Baune came to Camas} Prairie 19 years ago from Mont- ana and has been a resident of Cottonwood for the past six! years. He was an honest, up- right citizen, a kind and loving | husband and father and a man whose loyalty of friendship could not be questioned. By his | death his family lost a loving | provider and the community a valued citizen and pioneer who! helped a great deal in making Camas Prairie what it is. | The Chronicle joins with the many friends of the deceased in | tendering sincere sympathy to the sorrowing family in their af- fliction. | The funeral arrangements | were in charge of Undertaker Nau assisted by A. J. Maugg of Grangeville. SURPRISE PARTY. | About 50 friends and neigh- bors of Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Toennis walked in upon them) last Thursday evening at their country home, with well filled baskets to help them properly | celebrate their 36th wedding an-| niversary. The affair was in| the nature of a surprise party, | and a_ surprise it sure was to Mr. and Mrs. Teonnis. The even- | ing was spent in playing cards, after which a splendid lunch was | served. The winners of the evening were: Lady: Mrs. B. Tacke, first; gentlemen: Her- | man Funke, first. The guests presented Mr. and Mrs. Teonnis with a fine coffee percolator. In departing all wished Mr. and) Mrs. Teonnis many more happy | wedding anniversaries, such as! their 36th, which they helped) them commemorate. | CROSSING GOOD. | A Nezperce business man’! made a trip into Idaho county | this morning, via the Stevenson crossing at Lawyers’ canyon. He stated that the Greencreek high- way folks have been doing some excellent work on the south side of this crossing and it is now in better condition than he ever saw it. The grade on this side has been well taken care of, and, altogether, this route affords the most satisfactory way of go-| ing and coming between the two counties. Either side of the grade can be negotiated on high, save for the steep lift at the low- er end of the south side. —Nez-| perce Herald. DANCE AT FENN. The Ladies of Camas Social Club No. 2 will give a dance on Friday, May 20th at the I. O. O.. F. Hall at Fenn, Idaho. Tickets including supper $1.50. Good music, Everybody come and have a good time. COOK FOOD SALE. | The ladies of the local Re-| bekah lodge will hold a cooked food sale at the Barth Jewelry Store, Saturday, May 14th. The) given to the Odd Fellow’s lodge for their at Caldwell, Idaho COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, MAY 138, 1921 cy _|¢ ) 4 eres CHAUTAUQUA DATES ARE SET SIX DAYS OF ENTERTAIN- MENT—JUNE 20TH TO 25TH. AN Advance information on the Ellison-White Chautauqua pro- gram for the season indicates a week of lectures, entertainment and music “Chautauqua fans.” The dates for Cottonwood have been defin- itely set for June 20th to 25th. A muscial event of unusual importance is scheduled in the coming of the Mary Adel Hays Grand Opera Singers, under the leadership and direction of Mary Adel Hays, prominent New York coloratura soprano. The per- sonnel is a notable one; including Ruth Pearcy, contralto, Claude Schell, tenor, and John Wain- man, baritone. All are soloists of distinction, each one abund- antly capable of presenting a full concert alone. Familiar selec- tions and excerpts from light and grand opera will be featured | in their two concerts on the last day. Lucile Collette, distinguished French violinist, who came to America as a war refugee in 1914, is another artist of prom- inence to be presented during the week. Mlle. Collette is un- der contract with one of Ameri- ca’s leading phonograph compan- ies and is rated as_ one of the foremost concert violinists in the country today. Chautauqua as a member of the Lowell Patton Company. Mr. Patton needs no introduction to Western Chautauqua audiences. He has just returned from a highly successful concert tour in New Zealand. Lula Root, form- erly contralto of the Washington Opera Company, rounds out this splendid artists trio. Other musical companies scheduled for | double concerts during the week | are the Liberty Belles of Boston, the Alexander Trio and the Stone-Platt-Bragers Trio. Among the lecturers schedul- ed for the assembly are Dean Ellwood C. Perisho, late presi- dent of the State College of South Dakota and Educational Administrator of the A. E. F.; Dr. E. L. House, prominent au- thor and psychologist; Dr. Ro- bert Parker Miles, one of the foremost dramatic lecturers on the American platform; E. B. Fish, the editor of “Labor and Industry,” and Chief Strong- heart, noted Indian lecture-en- tertainer. Two other feature events of | week will be the presentation of the great comedy success, “It Pays to Advertise,’ by the Keighley New York Players with an all-professional cast and the coming of Electra Platt, the not- ed monologist, as one of the members of the Bragers Trio. and is said to be one of the fun- niest and cleverest women be- fore the public today. Spring work is practically at | proceeds from the sale will be its height in this section, and with two more weeks of good weather will find all the crops in. that should please | She comes to} Stone-Platt-|ed with his department. Electra Platt} | was ‘formerly on the Orpheum BASE BALL SEASON OPENS FENN AND COTTONWOOD WILL PLAY ON LOCAL DIAMOND SUNDAY. The Central Prairie Baseball League, consisting of Winona, Fenn, Greencreek, Stites Grange- ville and Cottonwood will start in dead earnest Sunday when all members of the league will play games accoming to the schedule. Cottonwood and Grangeville en- tered the league this week and have placed guarantee of $50 to finish the season per schedule. The first game to be played on the local diamond will be with Fenn, Sunday. The game will be called at 2 p. m. Cot tonwood lineup for Sunday is as follows: M. Duclos, p; Bies, ¢; Rustemeyer, Ist; Albers, 2nd; Nacke, ss; Maugg, 8rd; Moody, rf; T. Duclos, ef; South, if. The lineup may, however be changed with any of the following play- ers B. Seubert, Geo. Seubert, H. Schurman, D. Mader, H. Bise, L. Terhaar. Winona, Stites Fenn, and |Greencreek have already played two games of their league sched- ule, each team having won one game. Fenn defeated Green- creek last Sunday on the Green- creek diamond by a score of 12 to 15 and Winona was defeated by Stites on their home grounds by a score of 4 to 5. The season’s senedule for the Central Prairie League is as follows: Sunday May 15th Winona at Greencreek Grangeville at Stites Fenn at Cottonwood Sunday May 22nd Greencreek at Winona Stites at Grangeville Cottonwood ai Fenn Sunday May 29th Winona at Grangeville Greencreek at Cottonwood Fenn at Stites Sunday June 5th Grangeville at Winona Cottonwood at Greencreek Stites at Fenn Sunday June 12th Winona at Fenn Greencreek at Grangeville Cottonwood at Stites Sunday June 19th Fenn at Winona Grangeville at Greencreek. Stites at Cottonwood. Sunday June 26th Winona at Cottonwood Greencreek at Stites Fenn at Grangeville Sunday July 3rd Cottonwood at Winona Stites at Greencreek Grangeville at Fenn. GAME WARDEN HERE. Deputy Game Warden Don Fisher, of Grangeville, was in the city Tuesday on business connect Hoene Hardware and Cotton- wood Hardware. Many new changes have taken place in the game laws, the license fee hav- | ing been raised from $1.50 to $2. |Women are also compelled to take out licenses. The fishing season opens June Ist. TO REDUCE EXPENSES. In an effort to reduce operat- ing expenses, the Northern Paci- fis is about to put into effect a new freight schedule which will result it is stated in greater con- venience to shippers. Under the new arrangement, | Moscow will cease to be a semi- division point, and freight trains will be operated between Lewis- ton and Pullman and between Pullman and Spokane. ] Train No. 871, which has been running daily between Moscow and Lapwai, will become a tri- weekly, instead and will operate between Pullman and Lewiston. The train will leave this city Mondays at about 6:15 in the morning, as well as on Wednes- days and Fridays, and returning on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sat- urdays. This schedule will keep the crew of the train in Lewis- | ton over Sunday. In addition to the change of | schedule of train No. 871, it has heen arranged to have Train No. 661 leave Spokane Monday night of each week, arriving in Lewis- ton Tuesday and leaving here Tuesday night, making three Saturday night for Spokane. | This train will be especially ad-} vantageous to shippers of stock to Spokane, as it goes right on| through to that city without | having to stop over at any divi-| $2.00 PER YEAR NEWS AROUND THE STATE ‘Items of Interest From Various Sections Reproduced for Ben- efit of Our Readers. Pansy Connor, 14-year-old run away from the children’s home at Lewiston, was found at Pena- wawa, a fruit district about 60 miles down the Snake river. The girl had walked nearly all the way. $1000 was raised at Nezperce |last week by popular subscrip- tion for the purchase of a right- of-way through a well improved farm in order that the good road builders may eliminate a very bad hill. Think of raising a thousand dollars at the present time. The old Nezperce spirit is sure still there. Scarlet fever is assuming alarming proportions among trips a week and leaving here| Boise Children according to state ments made Wednesday by Dr. F, W. Almond, medical advisor of the department of public wel- fare. According to the state of- ficial sufficient heed is not being paid to the spread of the disease sion point. and much of it is being passed Train No. 669, which has been | Over as measles. operating daily between Spokane; Idaho is at last to get a hear and Pullman, now will be operat- | ing by the interstate commerce ed as a tri-weekly and connect-| commission in regard to freight ing up with the local operating | rates as they affect this state. between Lewiston and Pullman) A hearing has been set for Boise in such a manner that through on May 14, and the public ser- freight service will be obtained | vice commission wants all who between this city and Spokane,} have complaints to make or in- in addition to Train No. 661,| formation that may affect the which will run direct between) case, to present them at that Lewiston and the falls city. time. The effort to cut down ex-| The Rev. Father Rompe, resi- penses on most lines in the coun- | dent Catholic priest of Nezperce t-| try by reducing crews and train| for the last thirteen years has service, has not been found nec-| heen transferred to the Genesee essary to be followed by the| country. The Rev. Father Zurr, Camas Prairie railroad according | who has been located at Potlatch to R. F. Hanrahan, superinten-| has been selected as the new pas- dent of that line. The Camas) toy for the Catholic church at Prairie is now, and expects to| Nezperce. A rousing farewell continue operating normal train | reception was given the Rev. Fr, service for some time at least.— | Rompe on the eve of his depar- Lewiston Tribune. | ture. ‘ RYING ROR HOG | On April 80, the North Fork CRYING FOR HOGS. — | highway district, through its Increased hog production on In-| attoyney, §. O. Tannahill, filed land Empire farms is vital to the }a suit in the district court at Armour plant in Spokane, a¢- Qyofino against the receiver of cording to John P. O’Hern, gen-| the Fidelity State Bank, O. H. eral superintendent of all the Holmberg. The district claims Armour branches, with, head-| that its funds constitute a spec- quarters in Chicago, who visited’ ja] deposit, which does not be- Spokane last week. He said: “Today fully 90 per cent of the hogs slaughtered in the Spokane plant are shipped in from the east,” said Mr. O’Hern. ‘That is unsound economically and it would not be necessary if the Inland Empire farms were pro- ducing the hogs they should. A shipped in as well because of the, short western production.” | At one time, Idaho county pro- | duced more hogs than any other | single county in the state, the farmers having been forced out| of the hog business the past two years on account of the low) prices offered, in comparison to, the high price of feed, for after | deducting the cost of feed and) etc. not one cent of profit could be realized from the sale of the) hogs. Conservative farmers at this time predicted that the packers would be “crying for) hogs” to supply their western) trade. } Many former hog raisers, it is stated are of the opinion that the | packers were at fault for offer- ing such low prices for hogs in the past and while the industry | was put on the “bum” in about, two years, it will take many, |more years to put the hog pro- duction back to its past standard. | 85 years old, a resident of Camas Prairie since 1872, died at 1 The |o’clock Wednesday morning in| o'clock. man, game warden while here placed | her home in Grangeville. Death|was standing about eight feet fishing licenses on sale at the|was due to infirmities of age.| from his mother, when he stoop- Mrs. Crea had been ill for several months. Mrs. Crea is survived by five children; John W., of Fenn; William C., James B. and Robert, of Grangeville, and Martha. Five passed away in 1882. children preceded her in death. good deal of our beef has to be} PIONEER LADY DIES. | Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Rice Crea, | long to the property or funds of the now suspended banking in- stitution. Caught between two heavy trucks loaded with crushed rock, Otto Stone, aged 19 years, was instantly killed on the Viola hill grade of the state highway near Moscow. Death was instanto- neous, but the body was not bad- ly bruised. A coroner’s jury placed the blame on the defective brakes of a “quad-truck” but completely exonerated the driver Carl Burr, from all blame. Gopernor Davis appointed Stanley Easton, of Kellogg, a member of the state board of education to succeed Ramsay Walker, whose term expired some time ago. Mr. Easton is a well known mining man, mana- ger of the Bunker Hill and Sul- livan mine, and has been closely identified with public and politi- cal affairs of the state. Heisa republican and was one of Idaho's delegates to the last national convention at Chicago. ACCIDENTLY SHOT. Accidently shot when a revol- nsf oe aag Lae belt . her son, it the floor, was discharged Mrs. Stephen Rossiter died in her home in Grangeville Wed- nesday night at 6 o'clock. Mrs. Rossiter was shot in the right side of her chest. The shooting occured in the | Rossiter home in the south part |of the city Tuesday night at 10 The son, a young ed to pick up a quilt, and the | loaded revolver, which he carried | in a holster on his belt, accident- | ally fell to the floor. When the gun hit the floor, it was dis- | charged, and the bullet penetrat- |ed his mother’s chest.—Free Press. ~