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(i [ DIAMOND TIRES Diamond Tire on its merits and not to give a | tube away free =) We sell the | {G Cottonwood Garage WE AIM TO PLEASE YOU ic Electrical Work SS SS SS Sh SSeS We Repair All Makes of Batteries Eyes Examined by One Who Knows Dr. Paul Burgund Jr. EYESIGHT SPECIALIST OF SPOKANE WILL BE HERE ON JUNE 16th AND 17th I have the most complete equipment ever carried. My methods are the very latest, most scientific and I guarantee my work. Prices reasonable. Special prices to school children. Dr. Paul Burgund Jr. EYESIGHT SPECIALIST DON’T FORGET REMEMBER THE DATE % eee Ta Men’s | Summer Underwear % KYosed-Krotch Union Suits This year’s prices are more reason- able than ever. We have your size and style REMEMBER OSH KASH OVERALLS ARE GUARANTEED J. V. BAKER & SON “Where Quality and Prices Meet” Let Us Do Your Printing ! COTTONWOOD IN THE LEAD AGAIN (Continued from page 1) game. | Big Game Sunday. Great interest is being taken in the game to be played on the local diamond Sunday when the , championship of the Idaho Coun- ty National League will be at stake. Should Cotonwood win the contest Sunday they become champions of the above named league, should Grangeville win, a tie will exist and the deciding game will have to be played at some other date. National League. June 11—Grangeville at Cot- tonwood; Ferdinand at Kooskia, | American League. { | June 11—Greencreek at Fenn; | Stites at Winona. | * Fenn Batty, a former resident |of Idaho county, but now resid- | ing at San Diego, California, ar- rived in Cottonwood Sunday | evening in a car to attend to bus- | iness matters. Mr Batty is still | the owner of considerable pro- | perty in Idaho county. Mr. Batty | while here last fall either lost or was robbed in Lewiston and the | wallet he missed contained a | diamond ring valued at $1000, $500 in cash and notes amount- | ing to $12,000, none of which he | has ever recovered. [AMBITIONS OF THREE AGES Purporting to Be Just What Grand- | | mother, Mother, and Daughter | Wished in Their Generations. | Grandmother wanted to have the | biggest and whitest washing on the | line before the neighbors had theirs | out; to make the best soap, jellies, | bread and pies; to have the reputa- | tion of keeping the cleanest house | in town; to be well married early in | life; to have a large family of well- | behaved children, and to have her | friends think a recipe must be good if she used it. | | Mother wanted to be cultured and | refined and to do the proper thing at all times; to be well-married rather late in life; to have two or three well-dressed children; to be able to hire and keep a good maid; to be dressed in good taste, and to have her friends think a word was spelled or pronounced correctly her way. * Daughter of today wants to live in tempt. They left the Cotton- wood house and had got as far as the springs on the stage road up the butte when the entire com- mand were fired upon by the the most exclusive apartment house in the city; to be able to drive her own car; to have a chow dog, a Pe- | kinese or a Persian cat; to be mar- | Indians ambushed in the brush. Part of the soldiers dismounted, getting among the rocks, while others of the company charged, mr but these were met by ried and divorced a time or two; to volley that they were compelled have her friends think her gown the latest fashion or she would not be wearing it; to have girls ask her what kind of powder and rouge she uses, and to make men turn around. join their companions. Foster to reach the comand his horse - r “ 2 | was shot under him, and in at- —Katherine Negley in Judge. | tempting to run on foot he was killed in the road, opposite where STAG NO MEAN ADVERSARY his grave now is. The soldiers mee ee ee ake eaten and | were all killed, and were buried re Flight. 2 in one grave, and their remains | have since been exhumed and re- ; : , ivilian, was buried and_ still on occasions put bulls to flight. The | cM Ste Saati : ley fighting weapon of the stag is its| yp pre =e _ = antlers. Each year these antlers grow | aiah avandia aheenine. from the skull at the rate of an | ie secace of ty inch a day. During their growth, iaainie frie dilapidated ata! they are covered by a fleshy layer my: ae : of skin, in which the blood circulates The rails which once enclosed it in order to feed the growing bone, writes E. K. Robinson in “Nature’s| 2 rank growth Lesons with animals.” | briers, and the coyotes have bur- When the antlers are fully grown | owed so that the earth is caving the skin dries up and the animal rubs jn, and very soon, unless steps it off. The stag only uses his ant-| are taken to re-enclose and pre- lers as a weapon for about three | serve this memorable spot, the weeks, and then carries them for | tramping stock will soon obliter- | but a few months more, | ate the few faint traces that are When two stags are fighting, each | left to mark the spot where fell endeavors to get its antlers outside | a brave man who risked his life, those of its opponerit, in order to| after once escaping from the push it aside and thus expose its) Very teeth of death, to save a flank, at which it makes a darting | comrade. blow with the shorter points on the| “Greater love hath no man antlers, The antlers are also useful when a stag is alarmed and wants to get away with its hinds, With its greater strength | and it antlers, it is able to plough | a path for itself and the hinds | | through the thickest undergrowth. hands, the soil has given birth to Stranger—Have you a good hair | tonic you can recommend? | Druggist—Here is something | spoken of quite favorably by those | who have drunk it.—Boston Tran- | script. | INDIAN FIGHT ON THE BUTTE) OF THE SCORE. (Continued from page 1) lieutenant and the soldiers the necessity of the utmost caution, and that some or all of them were liable to be killed in the at- such a| to retreat to the stage road and | The stag is a ferocious fighter and | buried with military honors at} has attacked and killed horses—and | Old Fort Lapwai. Foster, being «| | have been removed by vandal) of grass and| ata For a limited time only we are giving abso- lutely FREE with each regular Vacuum Cup “Ton Tested” The extra thickness of the Vacuum Cup Thread plus the extra plies of highest quality fabric and the good measure tread of hundreds of sturdy, none skid Vacuum Cups, make Vacuum Cup Tires, at prevailing prices the biggest value on the market today. Get. Your Season’s Tires Today and a Free Tube With Every Tire Purchased Cottonwood Hardware & Implement Co. was the last, and in endeavoring | Hi tire purchased One Tube than his: that he layeth down| his life for his friend.” | Never do we pass this sacred spot withcut experiencing a hard feeljng around the heart—a feel- ing that inspires us with a desire to do something to preserve this lonely grave from desecration and annihilation, and to have the! brave deeds of its occupant com- | memorated in enduring marble. | Cannot this thing be done? Are there, not enough survivors of the bloody drama among us— | men with knightly feeling for the doer of a brave and knightly action—to raise a purse for the erection of a plain marble tablet | to commemorate the heroism of ; William Foster and for the pre-| servation of his grave from fur- ther desecration ? The publication of this narra- tive was responded to so quickly that in a short time a subscrip- tion of $115 was speedily raised in 25 and 50 cent subscriptions. | A monument was purchased in Walla Walla for that sum, the Oregon Railroad & Navigation company donated the transporta- tion to Lewiston, and willing | Phone Your '| Orders or call | | --at-- | Meat Market teamsters brought it to the site, | where it was enclosed by a sub- stantial iron fence donated by the late C. C. Bunnell, of Lewis- ton. The monument now stands close to the road up the Cotton- wood butte, the marble shrine being inscribed with crossed rifles, and the name: William Foster, Killed by Indians July 4, 1877. + Before the troops arrived the| Indians had _ killed Richard Divine, Henry Elfers, Robert Bland, Henry Beckroge at John Election Comes This Fall! Your selection for your new 4th of July suit is here WE ARE SENDING IN ORDERS BY THE SCORE. COME IN AND BE ONE LET US DO YOUR CLEANING AND PRESSING. OF ANY SORT. THIS TAILOR SHOP IS YOURS FOR YOUR PATRON AGE. RICHARDS & SON, The Cottonwood Tailors OAD CREM cA | Day creek. Harry Mason and | others were killed elsewhere. I | have figured that the graves of | 77 Indian victims are in Idaho | county, exclusive of the soldiers, who were exhumed and reinter- | red at Fort Lapwai. | June 10th will be the big Aluminum Ware Special Sale day at the Hoene Hardware. | Don’t miss it. See page 5. 28-2 WE ALTER GARMENTS