Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, May 4, 1923, Page 1

Ee cane | COTTONWOOD CHRONI VOLUME 31. NO. 19. COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1923 $2.00 PER YEAR ¢. W. BROCKMAN 1S CONVICTED TROUBLES COME BY THE SCORE FOR ‘OIL PROMOTER. A jury in the district court at Grangeville, Tuesday required but 20 minutes to bring in a ver- dict of guilty against W. Brockman, who was tried for the illegal sale of stocks in the state of Idaho without having receiv- ed permission from the state fi- nance department. The convict- ed man was an officer in_ the . Texas & Northwestern Oil Co. at the time of the commission of the crime for which he was found guilty. According to statements made by attorneys this is the first case in the state where a convic- tion has keen had for violation of the so-called blue-sky law of the| state. Judge Seales announced from the bench that he would pass sentence on Brockman Wednes- day morning, no time being lost in this respect at the request of the attorneys for the defense, FE. A. Cox of Lewiston, and R. B. Harris, a member of the law firm of Nuzum & Nuzum, Spok- ane. Immediately following the jury’s verdict four other com- plaints were sworn out against Brockman, these alleging the same charges as lodged against him in the case ending Tuesday and one against R. H. Russell, Jr., whom it is alleged was as- sociated with Brockman in the disposing of the stock and who shared in the commissions from the sales. The complaints came from the office of J. E. Byrom, justice of the peace, and were sworn to by Jos. Squibbs who charges Brock- man and Russell with the il- legal sale of stock: A. J. Wilkins, Roy Nail and John Baer, who make the same charge against Brockman only. The first three complainants reside at Grange- ville and Mr. Baer in Lewiston, he however for many years be- ing a resident of Cottonwood. This case has been one of the most absorbing in -interest of any tried in Idaho county for years. Arguments in the case started at 10:80 o’clock Tuesday morning, Miles S. Johnson open- ing, for the state, he being fol- lowed by attorneys for the de- fense, Mr. Harris and Mr. Cox, County Attorney Frank E. Fogg closing for the prosecution. In anticipation of a rare oratorical treat coupled with the interest in the case, the court. room was jammed to the doors when the sheriff opened court. Contrary to expectations, the attorneys devoted about 20 minutes each to the arguments for and again- st the defendant. County Attor- ney Fogg made a very forceful $880 plea for conviction, stating to the jury that he was not playing for their sympathies or prejudi- ces but for the upholding of the Jaw against such practices as carried cn by Brockman and pos- sibly others, which result in thousands of dollars being taken from the pockets of persons who could ill afford to pour their money into such ventures. He spoke of the stock being sold without a permit from the state and of the claim that another “Rerson was responsible for this s:le having been carried on il- legally for the reason that it was stated the financial status of the company and other neces- sary requirements had been sent to Boise for approval by the state officials, whereas it devel- cped that the sale was being car- ried on and thé papers were not then in the hands of the officials at the state capital. From what can be learned, the jury took but one ballot to reach their verdict. This was about noon. The body then went to dinner and upon the opening of court in the afternoon the fore- man notified the bailiff that a verdict had been reached. With the rendering of the ver- dict attorneys for the defense in- |of which religious denomination PAY TAXES. CELEBRATE FIFTIETH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs. Forsmann Quietly Celebrate Half Century Mark of Their Wedded Life. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Forsmann quitely celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in Cotton- wood, Sunday by attending mass and receiving Holy Communion at St. Mary’s Catholic church, they have been faithful mem- bers all their lives. Mr, and Mrs. Forsmann were married April 29, 1873 at Ef- fingham, I'l. Besides celebrat- ing their 50th anniversary an honor which comes to few peo- ple they are also pioneers of Ida- ho county having located in the Keuterville section in 1886 or 36 years ago. Mr. Forsmann_ is Mrs. Forsmann’s second hus- band, she having been married to her first husband, Mr. Luchtefeld, 57 years ago he hav- ing died 55 years ago. | Mr. Frosmann celebrated his | 73rd birthday Saturday and Mrs. Forsmann was 75 years ag age in January. The Forsmanns have eight children living at the present time. They are: John Fors- mann, Mary Hattrup, Anna Uhl- ing, Kate Jansen, George Fors- mann, Frank Forsmann, Mrs. Ed Malerich, and Mrs. Frank Kauf- man. Barney Luchtefeld is a son of Mrs. Forsmann by her first marriage. ' Congratulations folks; and we are indeed expressing the senti- ment of the entire community to this fine aged couple and wish them many more happy wedding anniversaries. MOTHER OF TWINS. Mr. and Mrs. John Knop re- ceived a telegram from Hilpert, Wisconsin, Monday announcing the arrival of twin babies at the home of their son and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kees on that date. The telegram also contained the sad news of the serious illness of the mother. On the same day another tele- gram followed the first one an- nouncing that the mother was critically ill. Mrs. Knop depart- ed Tuesday morning for the bed- ‘side of her daughter. She was accompanied to Lewiston by her son, John. Mrs. Kees is well known here having been Miss Aloysia Knop before her mar- riage. Fervent prayers go forth from this community for the re- covery of the young mother. The Cottonwood Elevator com- pany, of this city, paid their taxes for the year 1920 and! 1921, Monday, in the amount of $6932, the tax payment having | been made through the First National Bank of this city. Ow- ing to financial difficulties and litigation the taxes for the above mentioned years could not be made until this week. Pen- elties attached for non-payment of taxes when due amounted to The company has recently been reorganized and is now do- ing business under the name of the Cottonwood Elevator com- jpany. The old company wes known as the Cottonwood Mill-| ing and Elevator company. This concern is one of the heaviest) tax payers in the county. COUNCIL MEETS MONDAY. The new city council elected April 24th will take over the} active management of the city Monday evening, May 7th when they will be sworn into office. They are: W. W. Flint, W. T. Simon, Wm. Buettner, John Funke, Geo. J. Terhaar. The council will be made up of en- |tirely new members. The retir- |ing members of the board are: |John Peterson, John Hoene, J. V. Baker, William Hussman and | G. F. McKinney. MEETINGS TO BE PROMPT. All commercial club meetings, | which are held twice monthly in the Cottonwood Hotel, during | the noon hour will be started in| the future promptly at 12:10! | This new ruling is made in order to give all business men an op- | portunity to attend the meetings and also not to keep them away quired of Judge Scales when he would pronounce sentence re- (Continued on page 2) jing for the Thursday program, and dismissed at 1 o’clock sharp.| diamond Sunday. Fans can look TO WINONA OR BUST HIGH SCHOOL WILL STAGE PLAY THERE TONIGHT —BAND GOING. The high school cast that so successfully staged “And Home Came Ted” departed in automo- biles this morning for Winona accompanied by a large number of other high school students where they will stage the play tonight. The Cottonwood orchestra will also leave for Winona this afternoon and tonight will play for a dance there after the per- formance. And last but not least the; famous Cottonwood band will’ also accompany the delegation. It is the plan of the band to, serenade Greencreek on its way to Winona. All three delegations are ac- companied by other town and country folks and it is safe to say that there will be at least 200 Cottonwood people — at Winona tonight. LOCATE ROCK QUARY. Engineer Hughes, of the state highway department, in com- pany with members of the Ferd- inand and Cottonwood highway districts made a trip of inspec- tion over the North and South highway yesterday ‘for the pur- pose of selecting two rock quarys from which rock will be taken to surface this road. The contract for this work is to be let May 12th. The state fur- nighes the rock quarys to the successful bidder, One site selected was near the John Knop ranch in the Cottonwood district and the other one wilk likely be located near the Moody ranch a few miles from Ferdinand, in the Ferdinand district. VOTE YES OR NO. Vote that ballot recently sent out by the county commissioners in regards to the county agent question. A cross after those words yes or no is what the com- missioners want in order to de- termine if the people really want | a county agent or not. Itisa duty you owe your county so vote that ballot. Remember all ballots must be in the hands of the county auditor by 9 a. m., Saturday, May 12th. Ballots coming in after this date will not be tallied. TWO SHOW NIGHTS. The Orpheum management announces that commencing next Thursday, May 10th, there will be two shows instead of one, each week, on Thursday and Sunday nights. They have some splendid Universal features com- the first of which will me “Zhe Storm,” next Thursday. BALL GAME SUNDAY. The strong Fenn ball team will meet Cottonwood on the local for a good game as Fenn has one of the best teams they have ever put out. Cottonwood will have | a new team this year consisting from their business establish- ments more then the customary | poon hour. of mostly young players. Ad- ; their departure from the city. LEAGUE IS ORGANIZED WINONA, FENN, GREEN- CREEK AND COTTON- WOOD JOIN At a meeting held in Cotton- wood last night a four team leegue was organized with the ‘towns of Winona, Greencreek, . Fenn and Cottonwocd participat- ing. The meeting was attended by representatives of all towns with the exception of Greencreek. Lewis Bowman represented the | } Fenn club; Art Echerman the Winona club and Fred McKinney | the Cottonwood club. The following schedule was ar- ranged covering a period of six games. May 13 Cottonwood at Winona. Fenn at Greencreek. May 20. Greencreek at Cottonwood. Winona at Fenn, May 27. Cottonwood at Fenn. Greencreek at Winona. June 3. Open date, no scheduled games | June 10. Cottonwood at Greencreek. Fenn at Winona. June 17. Winona at Cottonwood. Gweencreek at Fenn. June 24, Fenn at Cottonwood. Winona at Greencreek. The game scheduled for June 24 between Fenn and Cotton- wocd will ke played at Cotton- wood on Sunday, May 6th. Each team will be entitled to one umpire in every game in which said teams participate. The uniform admission will be twenty-five cents. . LITHERLAND’S TO LEAVE, N. A. Litherland, of Cotton- wood, Wednesday was named as the new cashier of the Bank of Ferdinand and will leave for that town Monday morning to become acquainted with his new duties. He will take full charge of the bank on June Ist. K.M. Bibb, the present cashier, has re- signed and will leave for coast points to reside. Mr. Litherland has been in charge of the Vollmer-Clear- water warehouse at this point for the past three years, having mioved here with his family from Kooskia and during their resi- dence here both he and Mrs. Litherland have made numerous friends who will greatly regret Mr. Litherland will not move his family to Ferdinand until the close of the present school year, Who his successor will be here is not known at the present time. PLEASANT EVENING. Twenty-four friends enjoyed Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Greve’s hos- pitality at a 500 card party) Tuesday evening. Prizes were won by Frank Simon, Mrs. John Reilly and R. A. Nims. Dainty })gund charged with / streamers of orange and black, GEO. BURGUND FOUND GUILTY BY JURY. Asks For New Trial—Jury Out Only 45 Minutes—Sentence Is Held Up. Forty-five minutes after it had been given the case of the State of Idaho vs. George J. Bur- stealing horses from the pasture of Wil- liam Eller on Salmon river, more than a year ago, the jury Fii- day afternoon of last week re- turned with a verdict of guilty. The evidence of Amis Rose of Cottonwood who was sprung by the state in rebuttal, and who testified that he had seen the defendant kill, skin and then sell the hide of a horse at Cotton- wood, was probably the deter- mining factor in the case. A year ago, when on trial for the same offense, Burgund was dismissed after the jury had failed to agree, it being said at the time that the jurymen stood 11 to 1 for acquital. Burgund, who claimed that the horses in question were his property, fol- lowing his dismissal again took possession of the stock, and the arrest which led to the: verdict came upon another complaint filed by Mr. Eller. The defense claimed in reply to the testimony of Rose that the horse whose hide had been sold at Cottonwood had been bought from Joe South of Cot- tonwood by Burgund. At the close of the trial the jury was instructed by the court to view the animals in question, The defense offered the testi-| mony of Dr. H. A. Sorenson, vet- ernarian; Jacob Bush, Joe South, | G. J. Burgund, Wilbur Bryant) and E. J. Price. The state in| rebuttal introduced the evidence | of Amis Rose, Tod Robertson and Joseph Eller. Prosecuting Attorney F. E. Fogg opened the argument for | the state, and Clay McNamee of Lewiston followed for the de- fense. Mr. Fogg closed for the state. Mr. McNamee contended that the case should not have been a criminal ection and that the ownership of the animals should have heen determined by a civil ection for that nurp7se. Mr. Burgund was to have been sentenced by Judge Sceles, Wed- nesday morning but upon mo- tion of his attorney, M. Reese} Hattabaugh for a new trial the judge did not pronounce gen-| tence at that time. A SPLENDID SUCCESS. The Junior Prom given last Friday evening in the high school gym was a splendid suc-| cess and much credit is due to} the ones having charge of the} affair. Some 200 persons were present at the dance and the splendid music was furnished by | Principal Westover, Frank Jen- ny, Barney Malerich and John Frank. The big gym was artistically | and beautifully decorated with fir boughs, butterflies of orange and black crepe paper and) the Junior class colors. In the center of the gym was a large tepee in which the or- chestra was seated and from the top of the tepee the streamers of crepe paper went to every corner of the big building. The walls were all covered with fir boughs. The decorations re-| quired many hours of patient} work, Many beautiful gowns were worn by the ladies and especially was this true of the high school | students. At eleven o'clock crepe paper cap favors were given out. These} caps were in the form of a doll when not used for caps. Punch was served all evening by Miss Margaret Johnston Margaret Terhaar, the young ladies being dressed as butter- flies. Many invited guest were pre- | sent from outside points. {PAY DEATH CLAIM. | William Ingram of Grange- | ville, agent for the Bankers Re- serve Life Insurance company !Omaha, Neb., on Saturday re- | ceived from the company a check | for $5000, payable to Mrs. Ethel Olivia Wilson, of Whitebird, on the death of her husband, Chas. Wilson. The check was receiv- refreshments were served. mission to the grounds will be pre war prices, 25 cents. Let us do your printing. |ed by Mr. Ingram a week after proof of death was made. Mr. and Miss | NEWS AROUND THE STATE VARIOUS PARTS OF THE STATE Out of sixty applications for pardon from the state penitenti- three ary only were a These were to George Miller, David Evans and Mike O’Rourke An order has been issued by the interstate commerce com- mission in Washington transfer- ring southern Idaho from the Pacific to the mountain time zone. It will be effective on May 18. Children found the body of George Savage, 45, poolroom proprietor, who has been miss- ing since last November, in the limbs of a tree a block south of the Kellogg hotel.. The man ° had been shot in the left eye. The free camp grounds operat- ed by the chamber of commerce of Coeur d'Alene were officially - opened Tuesday. Among the first to camp at the grounds was a band of gypsies, consisting of five autos. Upon complaint be- ing made to the city authorities the band was ordered to leave immediately. Joseph Edwards, a World War veteran, who, according to his own statement served for. three years with the American exped- itionary forces in France, was Monday morning sentenced to serve three months in the Latah county jail, after pleading guilty to a charge of the possession of intoxicating liquor. Nine mining concerns filed statements with the county assessor at Wallace Tuesday showing, after losses of two had been deducted, net profits of $8,551,624.46 for mines of the Couer d’Alene during 1922. Net profits in 1921 were $1,878,228.- 81, and in 1920, $6,818,855.40. On and after May 10 no state official may incur expense while traveling for the state greater than $5 a day, stage and railroad fare ex¢luded, and E. G. Gallet, state auditor, Saturday sent out notices to all state employes and officials of the new law which was passed by the 1928 legis- lature. Norman B. Adkison, member of the faculty of Idaho Technical institute, at Pocatello, and form- erly of Grangeville, has been ap- pointed private secretary to Gov C. C. Moore; to succeed Ben H. Read, editor of the Idaho Falls Daily Post, who has been serv- ing temporarily as private secre- tary to the governor. Approximately 10.5 per cent of the appropriations made from the general fund of the state by the legislature has been spent at the close of the first three months of the biennium. Divid- ing the two year period into eight three-month sections would allow each state depart- ment and institution to expend in each three months 12% per cent of its appropriation made by the legislature. Thursday, Frank Billups, rural mail carrier on route No. I out of Nezperce, rounds out his 19th year of continuous service on that route, and he is good for duplication of the job if he and Uncle Sam continue to agree on terms, ete., as they have in the past, says the Nezperce Herald. His present route covers 28 14 miles, and in making his daily trips he has covered a total distance of 175,000—that’s go- ‘ing some. The total number of pieces of mail he has handled in this stretch of years is 1,000,000 To_prevent suffocation when he was caught beneath his over- turned automobile last Friday night, D. L. Bronson, who re- sides in the eastern part of Lewiston was required to drink ‘a large quantity of gasoline. Mr. Bronson was caught under the car in such a manner that the leakage from the gasoline tank overflowed his face. When taken to White’s hospital attend- ing physicians had to use a stomach pump to relieve the dis- Wilson had paid but three cart iums on the policy. tress caused by the gasoline. Examination showed no frac- tured bones.