Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, November 17, 1922, Page 1

- COTTONW VOLUME 30. NO. 47 | JANSEN PASSES AWAY. i Henry Jansen, age 75 years, passed away at the home of his’ COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1922 a] | daughter, Mrs. Henry Schmidt, WHAT A HOWL yu USED To wt wren /near Greencreek, Monday after-| YOU WERE AnED 1 Con }noon. Mr. Jansen has been! ACERS ACCHS »| his wife and life partner, who| SPEC SCOURS SEN OF ud in Goemenals tech S| BURNING SCHOOL HOUSE | Three years ago, this fine old AND ROBBING HOMES. couple, who have now passed in- me | ie 2 ng 2 wedding. ‘ | enry Jansen was born in Ef- Ed Onley a 16-year old boy,! fingham county, Illinois and who told officers that his home| came to this section for the first was in Lewiston, Idaho, was time, some 20 years ago. He turned over to Marshal Nau! was ‘a fine old gentleman with Wednesday afternoon by Al and’ an excellent character and while Vincent Duman after he had ter-| 4 resident of Illinois represent- rorized that neighborhood by | ed his home county in the Illin- shooting near the home of H. F. | ois state legislature as state. Lute, who resides on Cotton-| senator. He also held many wood Butte. He told people in| other public offices with great that neighborhood a cougar was) honor to himself and for the after him. people he represented. Two hours after he had been He leaves seven children: lodged in jail for safe keeping,! Anthony, Mrs. Victor Lustig | Sheriff Smith of Lewis county,! and Mrs. Henry Schmidt, Green-| accompanied by four gentlemen creek; Leo and Henry of Island of the Winchester vicinity ar-| Grove, Ill.; Joe of Effingham, | rived in Cottonwood on the trail! 1),; and a daughter who is de- of the young man whom they voted her life to religious work had followed all day. He was in a convent at Lincoln, Neb. | aceused by the Lewis county) Funeral services were held sheriff of setting fire to the) Wednesday morning from the! Kidder school house in the Win-| Catholic church at Greencreck, | chester section and of entering! with Rev. Fr. Baerlocher offici- several home from which he! ating. The services were at- took various articles among) tended by practically the entire, them being tobacco, provisions! congregation. The remains were and lodge emblems. |laid to rest in the Greencreek The boy, who appeared none! cemetery. to bright was a pitiful sight to| The funeral wes in charge of behold as Sheriff Smith ques- Undertaker A. H. Nau. tioned him in the city jail re- garding his whereabouts during the day. His clothes were mere rags, his shoes barely covering his feet. At the jail he admit- ted entering the homes and also of sleeping near the schoolhouse that was burned. ‘The officers found on his person numerous application for pardon of Harry lodge pins, identified as the | Orchard, confessed murderer of property taken from the Win- former Governor Frank Steun- chester homes. At times he enbery, was taken under advise- became very bold and asked| ment Monday by the state board Sheriff Smith “What are you of pardons. A decision will be going to do about it?” The sher-; announced November 27, to iff replied “you might have to go which time the board recessed. to the reform school,” Well he Monday’s hearing was a recess- replicd, “that is just the place I eq session of the October meet- want to go to.” | ing. After questioning the boy for; Senator Frank Gooding, sometime and being convinced former Governor James H. that he was the led wanted the’ Hawley, I. N. Sullivan, former Lewis county sheriff took him to justice of the supreme court, Nezperce. Thursday morning and F. A. Jeter, secretary of Marshal Nau _ received word state-elect, were the persons from Nezperce that the boy had) who appeared before the board confessed to everything. to give their views on the re- Before | cing placed in jail, lease of Idaho’s arch criminal. Marshal Nau searched the lad; Each speaker emphatically and his outfit consisted of the stated that he was not repre- following articles: A frying pan, senting Orchard in any manner, two butcher knives, a hatchet, but that his appearance before some flour which he carried in the board was in the sense of a sack; a 38 revolver, a 25-35) duty as a citizen. rifle, ammunition for hoth, a| Governor D. W. Davis and pair of field glasses, tobacco,) Roy L. Black, attorney general, cigarette papers, matches, a} two members of the board, number of crochet needles, sev-| heard the argument. Rokert O. eral lodge emblems and a few! Jones, secretary of state and other articles. | third member was not present at Sheriff Smith of Lewis coun-! the hearing, which was held in APPEAL FOR PARDON. With a United States senator, a former governor, a former chief justice of the state su- preme court and a secretary of state-elect making urgent, orat- orical appeals for his release, the R. ty stated that they had followed the governor's office. the affair. | were: Joe Uhlenkott, Dr. C Other communities are ready the boy all day Wednesday. The! There were no ,appearances) More will be said about the Sommer, . Mother — Super ior, to form a block as soon as the lad did not take the main road before the board “against Or-| minstrel as plans materialize.| Mother Hildegard, Sister Silves-| agent can meet with the men but cut across field taking a chard. |The funds derived from the) ta, Fr. Paul, Fr. Michael and Fr.| and by next week the work!| direct line for the butte. At ——__— the Lute home he was coaxed WANT BONDSMEN. | failing fast sinee the death of) to the great beyond, celebrated | Sayre w NU 24 CARLOADS OF CATTLE MOVE. 18 Cars Go To More Carloads To Be Shipped. A train consisting of 18 cars of Salmon river livestock left Cottonwood Sunday morning for Rosebud, Montana where the cattle will be wintered be- fore being shipped to market in the spring. The 750 head of cattle were the property of Asa Jones and Ed Knorr, two prom- inent stockmen of the Salmon river country. Within the next two weeks 700 more will be shipped to the same destination by the above; named gentlemen. Wednesday morning a ship- ment of 6 cars of cattle were shipped to coast points. At an estimated value of $40 per head, $34,000 worth of live- stock was shipped from Cotton- wood the past week. The cattle were shipped to Montana at this time in order to take advantage of the lower price of food. Asa Jones one of the owners ‘ ee ‘ —— R’member mi HORSE Montana—20 OOD CHRONICLE | +... $2.00 PER YEAR |NO DISCRIMINATORY RATE. | The Inland Empire and the jentire western interior country | between the Rockies and the | Cascades from the Canadian to WELL FOR Prtyd saxE, iy; the Mexican borders won com- ARE YOu EVER COMING iw TO OINNERZ EVER THINGS GETTING ait ent relief from discriminatory rail rates Saturday, with refusal of the interstate commerce com- mission to permit transcontin- enal railroads to reduce rates to and from Pacific coast terminals on traffic originating from the east or consigned east from the Pacific coast. The decision was announced at Washington. The decision is regarded as the greatest commercial and in- mountain territories, |to Spokane disp>tches. lowing are some of the points which will result from the deci- sion: | Establishment in general of | il rates to the western interior | | | Rev. Father James Frei, pas- Bie Pri igh tor emeritus of St. Gall’s yeh, of on a district to district basis. | died at his home in Colton last I ermanent relief from dis- | Monday afternoon at 3:15 after CTiminatory freight rates favor- an illness of long duration, | iM the coast on westbound traf- | Funerai services will be held fi¢ from the east and eastbound | Thursday at 10 o'clock from. ‘affic from the Pacific coast. St. Gall’s church, Rt. Rey.) Relief to western wool ship-| tishop A. F. Schinner of Spok-/| Pers through equalization of in- ane celebrating requim mass as-| termediate and terminal rates. sisted by a number of prelates! Saving of millions of dollars from parishes in this section, Which consumers of the interior | Interment will te made in the Would lose through inability of Colton Catholic cemetery, interior merchants to sell at tev. Father Frei was one of Prices as low as coast merchants the most widely known and favored with lower rates. popular priests in the northwest. Extension of territory served | He was born in Switzerland in| by the interior merchants by en- | 1844 and at the age of 24 years | abling them to compete with| was ordained to the priesthood, | coast merchants. In 1891 he came to the United| The ruling, announced at) ; States and was sent to the north | Washington, denied the applica- west where he worked in several, tion of transcontinental roads to | Parishes for short periods unti] reduce rates to and from Pacific he came to Uniontown. He coast terminals without making | served here until 1893 when he) corresponding reductions. established St. Gall’s parish at igs ee Colton of which he was pastor BULL ASSOCIATION. until February, 1918, when he The first block of the County suffered a stroke of apoplexy Bull Association was formed at which ineapacitated him for Ferdinand Monday night. The | further active work and he has county agent met with a num- | | Since been pastor emeritus as- be: of farmers and bu: iness men | | sisted by Rev. Father Joseph of the community and aftcr the! of the cattle accompanied the Stang. ‘ ; pln of orga.izing the county! shipment and will remain in Rev. Father Frei took an agsociation was explained and| Montana until they are sold in the spring. MINSTREL SHOW. At the Commercial club luncheon, Tuesday, which was attended by some 15 busines: men of Cottonwood, after some; active interest in the develop- the advantages of securing bet-| ment of the section in which his! ter dairy sires was discussed in| parish was located and many the open meeting, the men pre-| | !mprovements were credited to| sent expressed themselves as | his work for the community wel- heartily in favor of the plan and | | fare. He was beloved by both! desirous of joining in such a Catholics and Protestants alike) movement. ; and the sorrow csused by his) At the meeting six men sign-| ‘plete and it is believed perman-| dustrial rail rate victory ever| achieved for the western inter- | according | Fol- | NEWS AROUND | THE STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF THE STATE The Stites-Lewiston passen- ger train on the Clearwater shortline, ran into a rock slide about two miles above Kamiah Saturday morning. The engine wes thrown from the track and the passengers received a severe shaking up. Lee Clark, who plead guilty at Nezperce to the burglary of a store at Winchester, was senten- ced by Judge Wallace N. Scales to a term of two to 14 years im- prisonment in the state peniten- tiary at Boise. J. Stevens of Seattle, Wash., had both legs severed at Poca- tello Saturday night in attempt- ing to alight from a train at a street crossing. He died short- ly afterward at the general hos- pital, where he had been taken | for treatment. Contrary to the current belief that the state legislature con- venes January 1, 1928, an in- vestigation Friday into the con- stitutional provision governing the legislature shows that the lawmakers will not meet until January 8. Unknown persons, thought to have passed through in an auto- mobile blew the safe of the Ken- drick Hardware Co., Tuesday morning, and secured $400 in cash the same amount in Liber- ty bonds, and with them a num- ber of notes and checks. Two touchdowns and a place kick won for Idaho Saturday 16 to 0 over the University of Utah crimson eleven in the third an- nual Armistice -Day football classic to be held in the Idaho state capital. Six thousand people witnessed the contest. Henry Clay Branstetter, aged 85 years, who had the distine- tion of having resided in Boise longer than any other living citizen, died Saturday after a week's illness. He located in Boise in 1863 when the town consisted of a few log huts and tents and the fort was at Boise | barracks. Two girls who have been trained as canning experts un- into the house to get warm and According to a recent decision | discussion it was decided to put) on a minstrel show in the very! yy). E : near future under the anne aoe a ee eee of the Cottonwood Commercial ue ggg Frei was a club. Mr. Williams, manager we ¢ Bsa rd oe ee of the Leggett Mercanile Co.,) "5: \- * br oister " and who has had considerable | pe’ aa _ F eo Frei experience in this line will have | Sia + plane er ae Mon 9 once hg pte to aad 3 All of the above named part- sent plans will be staged within} i auets ge Pena we the next three weeks and several | ton Thursday. rekia: Bea ed have taken an active interest in| the services from this section show will be used for good pur-| #&#mes. poses by the club. Everybody is urged to get behind the move-| ever held in the Palouse country, death is felt far beyond the ed the temporary agreement for boundaries of his parish. — 209 cows. : ;ment called for a minimum of 80 cows for final organization of the block. Several other farm- ers of the community not pre- sent at the meeting had previ- ously expressed their desire to join the block. The agreement was left with J. H. Bieker, dairy project leader and it is ex- pected that from 30 to 40 cows will be signed up in a day or two. should be well under way. When The funeral was the largest) 30 cows are signed up in a com-| The tempory agree-| der the direction of the Univer- sity of Idaho extension service will go to Chicago next month to compete with girls from all parts of the United States for a trip to France. The girls are Agnes Shubert and Leona Stod- dar. The first basketball team of the Culdesac high school will | open its season Friday when it | plays the Lapwai high school. |The Culdesac quintet made an | enviable record last season, win- | ning the district tournament at Lewiston and taking also the runnerup cup in the state tour- nament at Moscow. James Yenney, who resides munity a permanent organiza-| with his father, Carl Yenney, on entering the home the boy,' of the supreme court, George H. it is stated, placed his rifle on) Waterman will have to be given the table. While the gun was another trial and will be releas- lying on the table Mrs. Lute took ed from prison when he is able possession of the same and hid to give bonds of $10,000. His it in her hedroom. | brother, Walter Waterman, was Young Onley stated that he in Kamiah Monday looking for was on his way to Whitebird bondsmen, but was not very suc- where he had relatives. | cessful and went from here into —_ the Winona section, where Geo. R. R. OFFICIAL DIES. | had secured bonds for his first E. M. Peyton, freight and pas- trial. Up to the time this is senger agent of the O. W. R. &| written we have not learned if N. railway system, with head-| the bonds were secured. quarters in Lewiston and well; Waterman was convicted by known in this territory passed) the district court of Lewis coun- away Monday evening, at San ty for falsifying records and re- Diego, California, in the home’ ports in connection with tlie fail- of his brother. The cause of ure of the State Bank of Kamiah his death was brights disea8e,| and has served five months of he wes in California for the his sentence in the penitentiary. benefit of his health. He was, —Kamiah Progress. 42 years of age and unmarried. CARD PARTY THURSDAY. | Mrs. T. C. Keith gave a charm The card party to be given by, ing party Wednesday afternoon’ the Pythian Sisters in the I. O. four tables of guests were enter-| O. F. hall Thursday evening, tained at 500, at which Mrs.| November 23rd will commence Bart Simon won high score and, promptly at 8 o'clock. Light Mrs. R. D. Humphrey low. Ow-! refreshments will ke served at ing to the nearness of Thanks- 11 o'clock. The public is cor- giving day, the Thanksgiving dially invited to attend. A small decorations were used effect-| charge of 25 cents will be the! j admittance fee. ment and boost. 20TH ANNUAL DANCE. The Knights of Pythias are already making arrangements for their 20th annual Thanks- giving ball to be given at the I. O. O. F. hall, Thursday evening, November 30th. Great prepara- tions are being made, as the K. P’s. want to make this the best | more than 30 priests taking part tion will be perfected to finish jin the funeral services. the block, and with 5 blocks | perma ah =" “agi formed the county association INJURED SATURDAY. can be organized. From pre- Joe Sorrow narrowly escaped | sent indications from five to ten | loosing the sight of both eyes blocks will be formed. | last Saturday while assisting —_—— the American Legion committee PAYS $500 FOR HEIFER. jin firing the national salutes. Jce McDonald returned Sun- |In some manner he had cut the day evening from the Portland | |fuse too short or lit the end too International Livestock show | | | six miles above Kooskia on the middle fork of the Clearwater, was placed under arrest Tues- day morning by A. R. Johnson, deputy game warden of Lewis- ton, charged with killing three deer October 14, when the law allowed a bag limit of one deer during the season, Leo Lomski, pugilist, who was arrested last Sunday in Lewis- and largest dance they have|near the charge of powder, s0| which he says was one of the|ton by federal officers on a ever had. “AND I HAVEN’T FOR- GOTTEN A SOUL.” | Will you be able to say that when the mail arrives on Christ- mas morning? It is so easy to forget the best way is to start now and make a list of every one | | to whom | Christmas card. And remember—your friends | North such thoughtful- | through Scatter sunshine with | summer. Christmas | you want to send a do appreciate ness. personal cards. engraved Chronicle Office. Mrs. Asa Jones came out from|load of lumber Tuesday. and is' company siill has about 5 more} Donald said, anvone who her home on the river visiting at the home of her and Mrs. A. B. narents, Mr. Rooke. |that the entire force of the ex- finest exhibition of livestock he| | plosion struck him in the face. ever saw in his life. The show] | Aside from a black eye, sever-| rooms cover 10 acres and more | al abrasions and a severe shak-| than 7000 animals were on ex-| ing up Joe was able to _ walk hibition. |home after his injuries had been) Of course, Joe, was more in- ‘attended, and is now improving terested in the Shorthorn class, | rapidly.—Grangeviile Globe. {and while there purchased a | Mr. Sorrow is well known yearling prize winning heifer, |here, having been one of the for which he paid $500. The {contractors who constructed the grand champion bull, an animal and South highway | only two years old sold for $2100 this district the past and was purchased by the Kan- sas experiment station. A — | yearling bull sold for $1275. The Hussman Lumber com-| The Portland show hed live- |pany shipped out another car-| stock on exhibit from all parts The of the United States. Mr. Mc- is a |earloads to ship. Shipments} lover of good livestock should | have been delayed on account of | not fail to take in the exhibition charge of violation of the Vol- stead act, Monday was sentenced to serve four months in the Nez Perce county jail and fined $100. Judge Dietrich, who is now hold- ing court at Moscow assessed the jail sentence and fine after Lomski had entered a plea of guilty. The estate of Edward N. Thy- fault, who was accidently killed | in an automobile collision on the | Lewiston hill grade, September 17th last, has been filed for pro- bate in the office of the probate court in Latah county by the widow, Carrie Thyfault. Nick J. Konen of Nez Perce county has heen appointed administrator. The estate consists of real and ‘the car shortage. next year. personal property of the approx- imate value of $40,000.