Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, July 29, 1921, Page 1

. COTTONWOr * courtroom, —— VOLUME 29. NO. 31 HELD ON BLUE SKY CHARGES C. W. BROCKMAN ARRESTED IN SPOKANE, WAIVES IN- ITIAL EXAMINATION. (Free Press) C. W. Brockman, oil stock pro- moter, of Spokane, and at the time a resident of Grangeville, was on Tuesday bound over to the district court of Idaho coun- ty on a charge of failure to com- ply with the terms of the Idaho blue sky law in the sale of stock. Brockman was arrested in Spok- ane on telegraphic information by the authorities of Idaho coun- ty, and came to Grangeville, in company with his attorneys, Monday night. Held on-$4000 Bond. When arraigned before Pro- bate Judge J. E. Byrom, Tues- day morning, Brockman waived preliminary examination, and was held to answer on bond of $4000, which he later furnished. Brockman was represented by Attys. N. E. Nuzum and H. N. Nuzum, of Spokane, and Eugene A. Cox, of Lewiston. His at- torneys pleaded with the court for release of Brockman on his own recognizance, declaring he had voluntarily come to Grarige- ville when it was known he was wanted here and that Brockman would return for trial when de- sired. Counsel declared Brock- man had suffered heavy finan- cial losses through decline in prices of oil and hinted Brock- man’s arrest was brought about by persons who sought to injure him for personal 1easons. Prosecuting Attorney B. Au- ger maintained that Brockman was charged with violation of the blue sky law of Idaho, in that he was alleged to have sold stock without a permit, and that he should not be released with- out furnishing a suffici Ailshie Takes Floor. Judge Jame’ F. Ailshie, who was among the spectators in the arose and declared that, while he was not an at- torney in the case, he was a citi- zen of the state of Idaho, and de- sired to be heard in the matter. Judge Ailshie flayed Brock- man for his activities in selling oil stock in Idaho county, and asserted that vast sums had been taken from the county by oil speculators who had sold stock of doubtful value to local people. The judge said he was interested in seeing the practice stopped and he suggested that the court fix Brockman’s bond at a sub- stantial sum. Ten thousand dollars was the amount which Judge Ailshie said should be the bond. Brockman was arrested on complaint of Walter McAdams, of this city. The complaint was filed July 15, and alleges that Brockman, on or about Nov. 16, 1920, “in the county of Idaho and state of Idaho, did commit the crime of selling stock with- out compliance with the law regulating investment companies which said crime was committed in the following manner, towit: Texas Oil Company. “That at said time and place the said C. W. Brockman then and there did sell stock in the Texas and Northwestern Oil company, an Idaho corporation, and which corporation had not compiled with the provisions of the law regulating investment companies, and the said corpora- tion then and there not having a permit authorizing it to sell its stock within the state of Idaho, and he, the said C. W. Brockman, not yom and there having a per- mit authorizing him to sell stock within the state of Idaho.” Brockman, whose home has of recent years been in Spokane, has been active in promotion of oil property, and is said to have sold much stock in the vicinity of Grangeville, as well as at Lew- iston, and elsewhere in the north west. The above case is proving to be of great interest to almost every one in this section of the county, for it is alleged that a large block * directors of the county, amounting to thousands of dollars. The out- come of the trial will be watched with keen interest. ' The city ordinanee, which was published last weék calling for a bond election to be held on Aug- ust 23rd, and the wording of which ordinance is is claimed by some was the cause of the de- feat of the first bond election, has keen changed and instead of reading for the “payment of the cost of paving, grading, curbing, sidewalking and otherwise im- proving the streets and alleys,” it now reads “to provide for the grading and macadamizing the streets and alleys in the village of Cottonwood.” It was never the intention of the council to use the funds other than to ma- cadamize the streets but great stress was laid on the former phrases by some of the oppon- ents of the movement in the last election. It is to be hoped that this will clearify the contention that the council is going to pave and pay for the sidewalks that were ordered in last year. BUY THRESHERS., . Wessel Brothers, of the Green- eveek section and Johnson Bro- thers, of the Winono section, this week took delivery from the Hoene Hardware, two Twin City threshers which they will use for harvesting their crops. Both machines will be driven by trac- tors which they also purchased | with the separate’. The Wes- sel boys bought a Twin City tractor and the Johnson boys a Lauson tractor. The separators | are of the small type, 22 inch and will be only used for harvesting their own crops. Many of these machines and similar types has heen placed on the prairie with- in the last few years, and those! operating outfits of this kind in most instances claim this is the cheapest and most satisfactory way to thresh, BIDS WERE TOO HIGH. The two bids submitted to the of the Greencreek school for the construction of a modern school building for that district were turned down by the board it is stated on account of both being too high and beyond the appropriation voted for con- struction of such a bui'ding. It is understood that some changes will be made in the plans, after which bids will be called for again. RETURN TO OHIO. Mrs. Jacob Bolthaser and Miss Cora Hinkle who have been visit- ing here for the past six weeks at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William, Simon departed Sunday morning for their home at Lan- caster, Ohio. Before going home, however they will spend a short visit with Mr. and Mrs. George Simon, of Lewiston. Mrs. Bolt- hauser is the mother of Mrs. William Simon of this city. ENTERTAINED LADIES. The Pythian Sisters spent a very enjoyable social evening in their lodge room in the I. 0.0. F. hall Thursday evening in honor of Mrs. T. A. Randall, of Lewis- | ton, and Mrs. G. F. Whitson, of Melrose. Refreshments were served at the Kendall confec- tionery at the conclusion of the, evening’s entertainment. GETS BIG JUDGMENT. Judgment in the sum of $8945.05 was docketed and de-) cree of foreclosure entered, Tues- day, in the district court, in fav- or of Bert Tefft against Robert Russell jr., and Tony John Rylaarsdam. Land in the Green- creek country is involved in the case. COULD NOT AGREE. The threshermen, farmers and laborers meeting held in this city Saturday was attended by approximately seventy-five. The labor problem appeared to be an easy one to solve,, the price set for common labor being $3 a day. , The threshermen could not agree on a price. Attorney Fred Butler, of Lew-! iston was a business visitor in| legal matters, returning Cottonwood Monday evening on ing to “| | labor problem while acute at the {menace in harvesting the bum- ; Was issued Friday afternoon and | was held this year on the old| COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, JULY.2g, 1921 HARVEST IN FULL SWING SHORTAGE OF MEN AT THE PRESENT TIME—YIELD BIG ONE. The 1921 harvest on Camas Prairie is in full swing, the hay crop having practically all been finished this week many binders were pulled into the fields to cut the fall grain which is the finest | to be harvested on Camas Prairie in many years. Hstimates are made _ by conservative farmers} that the fall grain will run trom | 40 to 60 bushels an acre. Several | farmers intend to commence}! threshing next week. The spring crop on the prairie, which for a time looked as if it would amount to nothing was given a great boost Sunday even- ing and Monday by the famous “Million Dollar Rain” which gave it new life and now prospects al- so look good for the spring grain. Shortage Of Help. One of the greatest drawbacks at the present time is help, each day farmers come to town for help with only about half enough men to fill the jobs. Several | farmers have already boosted the price of farm labor and still are unable to get the necessary | assistance. This week, three farmers, to our knowledge made a special trip to Lewiston in the| hopes of securing men, but they were sadly disappointed as no id’e men could be found that would work in the harvest field. One farmer, who has some 1500 acres of fall grain, and at the} present time has three hinders | cutting was unable to get any! men to shock the grain. The present time, may prove to be a ver crop if the situation does not change within the next few days. IT COST SIXTY CENTS. Last Thursday evening, Guy Chiesman, of Lewiston, lost be- tween Cottonwood and Ferdin- and a $42.00 revolver which he} earricd in his car and on Friday morning placed an ad with us, stating that he had lost the fire arm, but with the idea that he| had one chance in a hundred of | recovering the same. The paper by noon the following day the| finder of the lost gun reported The weapon was found by Dom- inic Duclos near the John Meyer | ranch. The results of the in-} cident shews two things that it) pays to advertise in the Chron-!| icle and alsé that Mr. Duclos honesty cannot be questioned. | He could have claimed the gun as his own and the real owner | would never have been any wis- | er. The cost of the advertise-| ment was 60 cents. SELECT KEUTERVILLE. | The annual picnic of the Idaho County Farm Bureau will be held next year in the vicinity of Keuterville. The picnic which} Jones ranch, seven miles north- west of Grangeville was attended | by some 150. The principal ad- dress was made by Dean Cocker- ell, of the University of Idaho Law School. jing the $702, | ring and IMPORTANT ~ DECISION BANK MUST KNOW VALUE OF ARTICLES HELD FOR SAFE KEEPING. | was made Any person or institution keeping free of charge certain articles for another, is entitled, to know the value and nature of the articles so put in his care, or he is not liable for such in case of loss, was the decision of the supreme court, handed down Friday in the case of H. V. Riggs versus the Bank of Camas Prairie as appellant. In the acton, the case showed, a tin box, said to contain $702 in cash, certain papers and a gold ring were left at the bank, to be forwarded to Mr. Riggs, upon his leaving Grangeville. The only testimony tending to show that the bank was given notifi- cation of the value of the box was in the statement of Mrs. wife of the respondent in action, in which she testi- fied before the lower court, that she told tne bank cashier receiv- ing the box it contained “papers and other valuables.” There Almost a Yeur. In April, 1917, almost a year after the box was left, Mr. Riggs returned to claim his property and it could not be found. Ac- tion was then brought in the low- er court, in which was featured the wife’s testimony. It was further brought out that the value of the ring left in the box was $10, the box was worth $1.50, and that the cost to re- store the papers lost was $50. Upon testimony the court found that money to the amount of $702 in currency had been left with the papers and ring, and judgment was entered for the total against the bank. The appeal was made to the supreme court from this judgment. The supreme court held that the lower court erred in award- claimed to have been left in the box. It was stated in the decision that a statement of the value of the the papers were con- tained in the words of Mrs. Riggs, when she told the cashier the box contained “papers and | other valuabies.” Bank Entitled to Know. However the court states, “the appellant was entitled to know at the time of receiving the box in question, that it contained the money that respondent claims to have been contained therein, or to know that its contents were of such value as to require great ’ and that the statement of wife contained no intimation of the actual cash. The judgment of the lower court was therefore modified by deducting the sum of $702 and costs allowed by the trial court, }and was affirmed at $61.50, the cost of the property without the cash claimed to have been lost. SUNDAY SERVICES. Immorality and disease are in- | ckeasing among boys and girls of Idaho and every state in the | Union, Governor D. W. Davis, | told summer school students at) | the University of Idaho in an as- | ! sembly address recently at Mos- | cow. | | “Fathers and mothers are in-| | dulging in pleasure and luxury,” the said, “and forgetting their) | duties in the home. The indus-! trial school and the penitentiary | {are filling up nd the insane asylums have more patients than , ever before, | | “The youth of our land have | gone‘ beyond the restraint of, |fathers and mothers in many |homes. The blame is laid at! the doors of the high schools, | but much that takes place hap-| pens outside the schools. The! schools must have the coopera- tion of the homes and the homes must have the cooperation of | you teachers.” | | JUVENILE MORALS LAX. FIRE LEFT BURNING. T. E. Housh, prominent busi-| ness man of Lewiston, and Geo. | Dinwoodie, traveling freight and | passenger agent for the S. P. & S. railroad, were fined by Pro-| bate Judge Byrom, Friday even- | ing, for failure to extinguish a} campfire in the Nezperce nation- | ; al forest. Complaint against the men by V. L. Collins, deputy state fire warden, who is | also a ranger in the Nezperce} national forest. The men were | summoned by telephone, and} Housh appeared before the judge | for himself and Dinwoodie. He} pleaded guilty to the charge, but absolved Dinwoodie from blame. Judge Byrom fined Housh $10 | and costs, and assessed a fine of | $1 and costs against Dinwiddie} as an accessory. Housh paid} the fines of both.—Free Press. | SURPRISE UHLENKOTTS. | A large number of friends) very pleasantly surprised Mr.) and Mrs. Joe Uhlenkott, at their | fine country home, near this’ city, Sunday, when they went in| a body and took possession of the | Uhlenkott home to help them) fittingly celebrate their 25th | wedding anniversary. The un-! invited guests took with them all the eatables, which after being! spread out consisted of the best in the land. Mr. and Mrs. Uh- lenkott were presented with a set of silver knives, forks and spoons. About sixteen families were present. ROLLER IN DITCH. The 10 ton gasoline roller used by the Cottonwood highway district for rolling its roads went into the ditch on the new slaugh- tre house road Tuesday morning. The roller was placed on the new macadamized road after the rain and while being run near the side of a fill the bank gave away? letting the’ roller into the ditch. After some work the huge mach- ine was again placed on the road, No damage resulted from the ac- cident. EDITOR VISITS PARENTS. D. Harold McGrath, editor and publisher of the Jerome County Times, of Jerome, Idaho, was a visitor in Cottonwood last Friday afternoon and while here paid the Chronicle a pleasant visit. Mr. McGrath after spend- ing a short visit with his parents jat Fenn departed for Kellogg where he atiended the state con- vention of the American Legion, having been selected as the re- presentative of a number of American Legion posts in south- ern Idaho. HOGS BRING 101, CENTS. Four carloads of cattle and one car of hogs were shipped from | the local stock yards Saturday morning to Spokane. The price received for the hogs was the highest to be paid in this section | for some time, the buyer paying $10.50 per hundred. The cat-| tle were .brought from the Sal- mon river country, | WHEAT BRINGS PREMIUM. The Vollmer-Clearwater Co., | throught its local agent, N. A.| $2.00 PER YEAR NEWS AROUND THE STATE Items of Interest From Various Sections Reproduced for Ben- efit of Our Readers. Lightning during a storm Sun- day night caused seven fires in the Nezperce national forset, but it is believed all the fires were extinguished by heavy rainfall. Frank Rizza, an Italian, com- mitted suicide in the county jail at Bonners Ferry last Thursday by hanging himself from the top of a steel cell with a pair of heavy leather shoe laces which he had taken from his shoes. August 16th has been set as the date for examining appli- cants who wish to take the civil service examination for the Lew- iston post office. The office is rated as first class and pays $3200 yearly. The Stites-Elk City stage line which has for some time been owned and operated by Johnson and Sutter changed ownership last week when Messrs Chase and Fletcher of Cirele City, Mont purchased the same. f It cost Lewis county approx- imately 18 cents on each $1000 valuation to pay the salary of its county health nurse and other incidental expenses connected with the office, such as office nent, fuel and traveling expenses, . A suit has been filed in the district court by the Alexander company of Lewiston against Jackson Sundown, former world champion Luckaroo, who won the championship at the Pendleton roundup a few years ago, to col- soy an account of $582 alleged to be due, Andrew J. Kent of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, is working hard in relation to work of reclaiming 4,480 acres of rich bottom land lying adjacent to Bonners Ferry and constituting drainage dist- rict No. 1 of Idaho, which has been allotted to Martin Woldson, Spokane contractor, for $168,000 Tekoa defeated the Lewiston ball team on its home grounds Sunday before one of the largest crowds to witness a game in Lewiston this year. The score was 3. to 0 in favor of Tekoa. The victors also took home with them a purse of $1000 besides, it is stated, a large amount of Lew- iston money which was wagger- ed on the outcome of the contest. The annual district teachers’ institute will be held in Lewiston in October, instead of December, it was decided at a meeting of county superintendents recently. The district includes Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, Idaho and Clearwater counties, and it is robable that Asotin and Gar- leld counties, Washington, will join in the institute. The current issue of the Liter- ary Digest devotes almost two pages to the “Modern Caravan of Prairie Schooners” that is leaving Brooklyn New York, for Idaho, where more than 100 familics plan to find homes. The story, accompanied by a_half- page picture of one of the “schooners” with camp equipt- ment, appears in the Literary Digest of July 28rd. The Mikkeson & Riggs Grain Co. has organized with offices in Spokane and Portland. M. B. _ Mikkelson has been identified as manager of the Lewiston Milling Co. for many years and during his entire career of 15 years with this company, built up a lucra- tive flour trade for the owners, the Vollmer Clearwater Co., Ltd. T. A. Riggs has been Portland manager of the Lewiston Milling 0. At the regular session of the board of county commissioners of Lewis county last week an order was made that the sheriff require all prisoners in the Lew- is county jail to be employed on public work, so far ob’ Rev. Chas MacCaughey of Litherland, Saturday shipped out| The prisoners are to have credit Moscow will preach at the Meth-| three carloads of dark Marquis | on any fine or costs iny hurch next Sunday morn- wheat for which they paid 15| the wages rs eleven o'clock. All are cents a bushel over the market} the sum of $1.50 serv-| quotations of that day. The) is to be deducted for odist ing a cordially invited to these ices. wheat was shipped east. for earned by them, less day, which Tor thelr maine - tenance.