Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, March 24, 1922, Page 1

é - COTTONWOOD CHRONICLE VOLUME 30. NO. 18 | BURIED SATURDAY. | The remains of Mrs. C. Som- ;mens were laid to rest in the Catholic cemetery Saturday morning, funeral services hav- SAVED BAB _ing teen held from the Catholic {church and were attended by a 71-YEAR-OLD BOBBY SOUTH |#rge number of friends of the deceased lady. The services were PLAYS PART OF A REAL in charge of Rev. Fr. Willibrord. HERO WEDNESDAY | The casket, which was a beau- | tiful one was the handiwork of vent. LOCAL MEN BUY HARDWARE STORE Dan, the 4-year-old son of Mr. | and Mrs. Andy Rustemeyer had | a narrow escape from drowning Wednesday afternoon when he accidenatlly fell into Cottonwocd creek near his home and floated down stream for alomst 250 fe:t. Due to the quick and heroic work of Bobby South, the seven-year- old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe South, little Dan might have been a corpse today. Little Dan, with his _ sister, | were playing near the creek | when the lad fell into the water. | Mildren became excited ond im her excitement failed to call her mother who was close by in her home but ran up and down the creek crying “Dan fell in the creek.” Bobby South heard his cries and he came running towards the stream from near the Me- Laughlin residence and seeing Dan floating down stream waded in giving little thought to his fate and pulled him out of the water near the Orpheum theatre none the worse of his experience. The creek at the present time is very high, due to the rains and melting snow and runs very swiftly were Dan fell in. Dan's only rémark was “Gee I sneezed under the water.” The mere baby was fortunate in escaping without drowning. And for Bobby, well we call him a real hero. The only remark Bob would make after the heroic incident was: “Well I would go into water cleen up to my neck to ‘save a tiny baby.” BUY HARDWARE STORE AT ELLENSBURG Paul Schurman and Percy Campbell, of Cottonwood, and Walter Schurman of Clarkston closed a deal last week whereby they kecome the owners of a $25,000 stock of hardware and implements at Ellensburg, Wn., the property of Chetman & Son. Mr. Schurman and Mr. Campbell have already departed for that city to take an inventory of the | stock. In the deal Mr. Schurman and Montana holdings. The firm will be known as Schurman Bros & Campbell. Mr. Campbell left for his new loca- not intend to return to Cotton- wood. Mr. Schurman left Mon- day morning for Ellensburg and return to Cottonwod and expects | to remove with his family to his new home some time about the middle of the coming month. Both boys are well and favor- ably known in Cottonwood, Mr. |Campbell, having been acting postmaster for the past year and Mr. Schurman has been employ- DEATH CALLS MRS. JANSEN Mrs. Sophia Jansen, age 74 years and the wife of Henry Jansen of the Greencreek sec- tion passed away at the home of her son, Anthony, of Greencreek, Wednesday at 2 p. m. Mrs. Jansen, while re has nae ie been in the best of health passed | '"*- z away very suddenly and before | Ellensburg is located on the all the members of her family | main highway between Spokane could be summoned. At the time |#7d Seattle and is the last city of her death she was surrounded | through which one passes before by members of her family and ascending the Caserde moun- the Rev. Fr. Baerlocher who ad- | t2ins on the east. It is a mod- ministered the last sacraments |’ city with paved streets and of the Catholic church, of which | te. and has approximately 4000 denomination she was a most) inhabitants. There are two oth- faithful member, after which she ¢? hardwares in the city besides passed away peacefully. | the ore purchased by the above Sophia Jansen was born at | 2amed gentlemen. Greencreek, Ill., Dee. 31, 1848) and came to this section for the first time about 20 years ago, with her husband. She was the | wife of Henry Jansen, a promi-! nent character in Illinois during the time he resided there, hav- | ing at one time held the position of state senator from his home county in Illinois besides other public offices. Mrs. Jansen al-! so was one of the first white children to have heen born in Greencreek, Ill. when that sec- tion was a wilderness. Mr. and Mrs. Jansen celebrated their gol- den wedding jubilee two years ago. She leaves to mourn her death besides countless friends and other relatives seven children as follows: Anthony Jansen, Mrs. Victor Lustig and Mrs. Henry Schmidt of Greencreek, Idaho; Leo and Henry Jansen of Island Grove, Ill. ; Joe Janscn of Effing- | ham, Ill.; and a daughter who is a sister in a convent at Lincoln, Nebraska. Funeral services will be held from the Catholic church at Greencreek tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock with Rev. Fr. Baer- the past three years and is con- sidered a very able man in his line. They have numerous friends here who wish. them financial success in their new undertak- 23,000 GALLONS OF GAS. The Continental Oil Co., this week received three carloads of gasoline which they have placed in their immense storage tanks on the railroad righ-of-way in this city. The tanks now hold approximately 23,000 gallons of gasoline according to O. D. Ham- lin, their agent. At the retail price of 33 cents a gallon the oil tanks hold $7590 worth of gas, enough to supply Cottonwod and surrounding ter- ritory for about 80 days when the automobile weather is per- fect. The freight on a carload of gasoline from Cesper, Wyoming, from which point this fluid was hirned is 814 cents a gallon or “578.00 a car. The company also has on hand 3000 gallons of bulk coal oil. AGED MAN DIES. Jacob Kambitsch, a civil war veteran, age 92 years and an old pioneer of the Genesee section passed away at his home in Gen- esee Wednesday, according to a telegram received by relatives | the Sisters of St. Gertrude con-) 'SCHURMAN AND CAMPBELL | Mr. Campbell disposed of their | tion Tuesday morning and does | jafter taking an inventory will | ed by the Hoene Hardware for | locher officiating. The funeral furnishings were supplied by Undertaker A. H. Nau, of Cottonwood. CARD OF THANKS. I wish to express my heartfelt thanks to my friends and neigh- bors who so kindly and willingly | assisted me during the recent ill- wife. of Mrs. Joseph Schober, of this city, a daughter of Mr. Kam- bitsch, who was at the bedside of her father when he died, hay- ing departed for that city Sat- urday morning after receiving a telegram stating that her father was not expected to live. Mr. Kambitsch is well known here, having visited at the home ee ee) | | | i} | | | Ray Shinn, of the Doumecq | Plains delivered 21 head of hogs }in Cottonwood, Mondoy, which | he sold to the Farmers Union for | $9.50 a hundred. The hogs were | driven out over the new Joseph road and the trip was made in | fine shape. | In commenting upon the hog | situation, Mr. Shinn, stated that he believed it was the best and most profitable undertaking from a financial standpoint that }a farmer could engage in. His section of the country, two years ago was practically out of the hog business but at the present | time he estimated that there | } were at least 1000 head in his immediate neighborhood and |that others were going back to the ‘mortgage lifters” as fast as |conditions warranted. Mr. Shinn has resided in that | section for 20 years and during all these years has feed his wheat to hogs and as long as he lived there never hauled but one | load of whest out of that sec- |tion which he exchanged for flour and he says he has raised |during that time thousands of | bushels. Mr. Shinn is also of the opinion that it is now up to the Doumee }quers to build a connecting link jwith the Joseph highway vix. Center canyon, as Cottonwood, | beyond a question of doubt is | their logical railroad point. He was also loud in his praise for |the Joseph road and also for the |work being done on the Rice | Creek-Cottonwood road, now un- der construction under the sup- }ervision of Superintendent Aber- | crombie. INDEPENDENT TICKET. According to an article appear- ing in the Spokesman-Review, an independent ticket will be placed lin the field the coming election. This is the opinion of Riley Rice, |of this city who is spending the winter with relatives in Lewis- ton. The news article was sent to the Spokane paper from Lew- }iston and was published under a | Lewiston date line of March 21. The article reads as follows: “Riley Rice of Cottonwood, who was a candidate last year |for congress on the independent ticket and president of the farm- ers’ union at Cottonwood, states that the farmers and working | people of Idaho will put an inde- jpendent ticket in the field the |coming campaign. “According to Mr. Rice, the farmers’ interests in the new party will be looked after by Ray McCraig, who had charge of the nonpartizan league party in Ida- ho two years ago, and will follow out the ideas and theory advane ed by the “committee of 48.” | An organization will be perfected in every precinct in the state, |says Mr. Rice.” | WILL RRESUME WORK. | Work will be resumed, as soon jas weather conditions will per- mith on St. Gertrude’s convent which has been under construc- tion for the past two years. It it is thought that the monster building will be practically com- | pleted this year, will when com- pleted cost near the $150,000 mark. A number of skilled laborers, COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1922 'who were employed on the con- struction work for the past two ness and death of my beloved, | of his daughter, Mrs. Schober on | years have already arrived from Casper Sommers. i | their home from ouside points. numerous occasions. | we DELIVERS DOUMECQ HOGS.| CONTRACTORS WHO WILL DO WORK ON N. & S. ROAD Large Amount of Work Will be Done 'This Summcr—247 Miks This year will see great devel- opment on the portion of the North and South state highway in this district, says the Lewis- ton Tribune. Between Lewiston and Weiser, the latter being the southern terminus of the high- way, the distance is 247 miles. The highway also continues be- yond Lewiston to the north boundary of the state. Beginning at Lewiston, the | Lewiston highway district has | already | North and South highway up to | the district line. built 514 miles of the ; For the re- maining five miles, from the dis- trict line to the Spalding bridge, a contract has been let to G. L. Strickler for $57,027.60, for sur- facing with broken stone. The building of the Spaulding bridge, at a cost of $80,000 or more is provided for out of the county bridge and bond issue of $400,000, but the contract has not yet been let. From the bridge to Lapwai, the four mi'es of highway have already been built. From Lapwai to Culdesac it has already been graded and surfaced a distance of eight miles, at a cost of $9,000. From Culdesac to the top of the hill, adjoining the Evergreen highway district, 11.2 miles, it is to be graded, drained and sur- facted at a cost of $170,000 with funds ayailable from county, state and federal government. The 10.1 miles from the north to the e»st boundary of the Ever- green highway districts, by way of Winchester, this being state aid project No. 28, is to be built by contract let to Fitzgerald & Stanton for $59,698.78, the sur- face to be done with stone, The next section of 4.4 miles extending to Craigmont, was completed last year at a cost of $75,000.00, From Craigmont to the north boundary of the Ferdinand high- way district, or the south boun- dary of the central highway dis- trict, a distance of 5.2 miles, the work of surfacing has been let vo the Triangle construction com- pany of Spokane for $48,541.97. From the north boundary line to the south boundary line of the Ferdinand highway district, a distance of seven miles, the con- tract for surfacing has been let to the Hignway Construction company of Colfax, Wash., for $38,349.42. From the north boundary line of the Cottonwood highway dis- trict to within 114 miles of the town of Cottonwood, being state aid project No. 29, covering a distance of three miles, the grad- ing and draining, but not surfac- ing, has heen let to Lingo & Sor- row for $22,060.46. The 70-foot span bridge across Lawyer's Canyon, between the Ferdinand and Central highway districts, is to be built by Albert L. Smith, of Spokane, for $7,487. There are two miles within the village of Cottonwood, and then 2.56 miles to the highway dis- trict line and 4.8 miles through the Fenn highway district, and seven miles further to Grange- ville, a total distance of 13.7 miles, that is not provided for. From Grangeville to White- (Continued on page 2) | Counties $2.00 PER YEAR NURSE RESIGNS. Miss Rose Taylor, county nurse, has resigned her position be- cause of the size of the county, parts of it being so inaccessible as to make the work too strenu- ous. Miss Taylor was Idaho county's second nurse, the first nurse having resigned for the same NEWS AROUND THE STATE | Items of Interest From Various Sections Reproduced for Ben- reasons as those given by Miss | Taylor. is concerned, BONDED DEBT OF IDAHO IS LARGE TOTAL STATE DEBT IS $54,- 6000,000—PER CAPITA $126.41 The total bonded indebtedness of the state of Idaho and its poli- tical subdivisions says the Boise | Statesman is $54,607,663.64 or approximately 11 per cent of $495,680,989.51, the 1921 valua- tion of the state. . These figures were issued in a report given out Saturday by B. E. Hyatt, direc- tor of the bureau of public ac- counts of the department of finance. This is a debt of $126.41 for each and every person in the state, based on the 1920 census of 481,960 souls. If the total bonded indebtedness were con- verted into dollar bills and laid end to end they would make a continuous line slightly more than 6000 miles in length; more than twice the distance from New York to England, three- fourths of the earth’s diameter and just about equal to twice! across the United States. If this amount of money was converted into silver dollars pil- ed on top of one other, the column would reach approxi- mately 27 miles high or more than three times the world’s al- titude record for airplanes. Melted and“ cast into bars it would require 85 freight cars each carrying 40,000 pounds to move the load. The state's share of the debt is $5,919,000 and the remainder is divided between the various counties, cities, villages and tax- ing districts as follows: State $ 5,919,000.00 9,099,939.75 School Districts 11,18 A Cities and villages 18,877,211.91 Highway districts 9,261,500.00 lirrigation district 4,345,100.00 Drainage districts 920,666.47 Total $54,607,663.64 The report states that the fig- ures were taken from the state auditor’s records. In many cases, however, subdivisions of the | state have failed to make an ade- quate report and the informa- tion furnished by county audi- tors’ reports and by the state examiners’ reports has been used Another statement appearing on the report is: “Under the title ‘city and vil- lage bonds’ is included the issues of special improvement districts within the city or village. Lrri- gation, drainage and special im- provement district bonds evi- dence expenditures which direct- ly enhance the value of the pro- perties and should be distin- ‘guished from all other issues which are general in nature.” Twin Falls county ranks su- preme in the amount of bonded indebtedness in any one county. It has a total of $5,962,867.09 and even outranks the state which has $5,919,000.00. Ada county is second with $3,722,- 539.73 and Bannock county third with slightly more than § three million dollars’ worth. Twin Falls’ big debt is wrap- After all Idaho county | is a state in itself so far as area | efit of Our Readers. Charles Hartless, an Indian, age 19, was found dead Monday on the Garden gulch road near Lapwai as a result of moonshine poison. Mrs. Julia McRae, found guilty of having liquor in her posses- sion by a jury Saturday at Sand- point was given two months in the county jail and fined $500 jand costs. |. Ben Brahan and William F. |McCullough, ex-service men, | were recommended by Represen- |tative French Tuesday for post- |master at Kellogg and Mullan, Idaho, respectively. More than 88 per cent of the 12,588,949 motor vehicles in use in the world are in the United | States. With 10,505,660 in this country and 961,080 in the other English-speaking countries there are left only 1,122,080 for the rest of the earth. | A contract has been let and | $150,000 of bonds have been sold to improve and complete the Post | Falls, Idaho, irrigation district. The American Wood Pipe com- ;pany of Tacoma, the successful bidder, took the bonds in pay- ment and has sold them. Saturday an examination for the position of postmaster at Kamizh was held in Kooskia at | the office of the forest supervi- sor. Charles Henderson, Frank | Eggleston, J. B. Carter and J. V. | Van Dyne, all of Kamiah, were competitors in the examination. The Orofino Trading company of Orofino has made an assign- |ment for the benefit of creditors to J. D. Merkle, of Spokane. The business it is stated will be con- ducted exactly as heretofore, the only difference being that a re- presentative of Mr. Merkle will be in charge. Lumber mills throughout the Inland Empire are preparing to resume operations with large crews. With the exception of |the Potlatch Lumber company’s mills at Potlatch and Elk River, Idaho, all of the big mills in northern Idaho and _ eastern Washington will reopen within the next 80 days. The first class of nurses to graduate from St. Joseph hospi- tal receive their diplomas Tues- day evening when a program was given in their honor at the K. of C. hall in Lewiston followed by a banquet. Three of the nurses are sisters of St. Joseph and three are young women receiv- ing the honor. The home of Probate Judge Ellis in Nezperce burned Sunday morning shortly after midnight ‘and the judge and his family barely escaped with their lives. The entire family was asleep in bedrooms on the second floor of the residence when Judge and Mrs. Ellis were awakened by the flames breaking into their cham- ber from the rear of the house. This is the second loss the Ellis family has suffered within the last six months. Somewhat of a mild stir was ‘caused in political circles in this state when it was announced that Gov. D. W. Davis was on the chautauqua circuit delivering addresses in the states of Oregon and Washington. It was known that the chief executive was not in the state, but no announce- ment was made that he was spending his time outside of the state under the auspices of a lec- ture organization. Naturally {party leaders, both republicans }and demoreats, sat up and took ped up in city and village bonds, | notice when they learned for the ,of which the county has $2,254,- first time that this was the case. 447.09 worth. The county also) oseihibtisbieel this pile has a large issue of outstanding lage districts in Ada county show ; highway bonds- totaling $2,283,-'a total of $616,000. Bannock 000. School district bonds are | county, along with Idaho, Latah, about a million and a quarter. | Lewis and Shoshone, has no out- | Ada county’s largest debt is in| standing county bonds. the county itself which shows a| Boise county is the banner | total of $1,418,700. School dis- county of the state from the | tricts total $1,198,510 and cities | standpoint of lack of bonded-in- and villages have less than half a|debtedness. Is has but $85,000 million. Irrigation and drain-| worth of outstanding bonds,