Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, September 21, 1923, Page 1

} | COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1928 $2.00 PER YEAR Taken Home Wed. Mrs. Henry Schmidt, of Green- creek, had a narrow escape from | death last Friday morning when the team of Shetland ponies be- |longing to Victor Lustig, which MRS. FERDINAND GOBEL' WAS 88 YEARS OLD—RE- SIDED HERE 40 YEARS, ‘ age es poh Gobel died in| Scnmidt and Riener ranch. Her er home in Cottonwood, Satut-| two children, who were wit ae a Pat tina aah | | : i vith her td age "iad she “lived until *% te time of the accident escap- le ROR rie Atego nt’ ed with slight scratches. 2 aay ype vy Phuiaaas have Mrs. Schmidt and the two Mrs Com ah thera Beye children were on their way to ember 25, 1885 at Wastphalia, | ae Germany. In 1861 she was mar- | ae i Ba hw be tte ba ried in that country to F. H.| go) i ine EL ? ane *|some distance, Bruegeman and to this union) ‘aie tony three children were born, Frank | bugey ea Pit ng geo Rrses od Bruegeman, of Lewiston; Henry | tom the bugey and recaived the Bruegeman of Cottonwood and) fal) on her head and face having Mrs. August Hendricks ,of Sub» | deep gash commencing on the limity, Oregon. On July 3, 1866 | top of her forehead and running Mr. Bruegeman was killed in the} to the soft portion of her nose war between Austria and Ger-| the external plate of the aicull many. can ia rai : : In 1880 she came to the Unit. ssn unc Fhe _— thee ed States with her three children | Immediately after the locating in Kansas and on May| gent Dr. Orr’ was 1, 1881 she was married to Fer- | ; fe dinand Gobel at Westphalia, Kansas. The family moved to} Tdaho in 1883 and have since re- | sided here. Their old homestead acci- called and as posible by administering med- ical aid at the Joseph Riener home where she was taken after s the run away. Mrs. Schmidt was 5 r r r i 1g | : Lh if 7 is now owned by St. Michael’s) ynconscious for three days and monastery i i retro, avian | not until Wednesday was it pos- Retiring from ferming in 1907 | ciple to vemove her to her own Mr. and Mrs. Gobel moved to| home Cottonwood ry ‘ tached a | The ponies ran back to the The fine old Christian lady | home a their owner and very took a great interest in her fam-| Jittle damage was done to the ily and everything else that is | outfit ; dear to a human being until) ¢jp ~ about the outbreak of the late! ~ nee OE eR world war and with the death of | VISITS NUXOLL FAMILY her husband still on her mind Mrs. Charles Schwenk, of Mt after all these years she worried | Angel, Oregon and her daughter over the affair so much that her|,nd husband, Mr. and Mrs mind became effected. While| Frank Waser, of Salem, Ore. she has been practically bed fast | jeft in Avot Saat "Wednesday for the past six months, her| morning for their respective mind at times was exceptionally | homes after spending an enjoy- clear. j able visit at the home of Mr. and Funeral services were held! yys. John F. Nuxoll of Greens from the Catholic church Mon.|! o-ook, Mr. Schwenk sho hae av ino ¢ tn) ¥ | i day morning at 8 o’clock by the) peen here running John F’s | threshing machine, will return Rev. Fr. Willibrord assisted by | eV. | home later. the Rev. Fr, Paul and the R Mr. Schwenk was on his vaca- Fr. Suchsland. Mrs. Gobel was one of the old- | tion and choose to spend it in the est pioneers in the county and} harvest fields He is one of the ‘ is to parses. ot her kind sane | head men of the Fireproof Lum- the county and state owe much|} 0. company of Mt. . al. This for having withstood the hard- | her company of Mt, Angel. This ships of the early days when liv- | ing, was none too good at the! best but when real happiness|¢an be driven thru this rock was found in almost every home. | ousily, The sale for this building Bee ee ere ieee aitierss (oa is very heavy on the from the day she first spttled | coast. An core Were tae here to make her home. €/its various dimensions pioneers who are quickly passing | "Mr. Waser is the owner of a one by one to the land of eter- cheese factory. in Salem. He nity are entitled to much more} jgayned his trade in Switzerland credit than they receive. | coming from there to the United The remains were laid to rest} gates in the Catholic cemetery. The) ;nown the world over for their funeral was in charge of Under-| aj,ility to make the finest cheese taker A, H. Nau. |in the world. Mr. Waser enjoys ran: |a splendid business in wes aA syeatly enjoyed their The Cottonwood Lata ihe Pig ae anieced for the past 7 years has _ been sac again visit here. dahil be My and Mew. BL Johnston, was taken over by Mr.| RETURNS EAST. and Mrs. John E. Cook, of} Wenry Aspoas, of Houghton, Spokane, on September Ist, they | Michigan, left for his home, taking active charge of the hotel| Monday morning after spending last Saturday. | |a short time at the home of his Mrs. Cook will have charge of | uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. H. the establishment and her aims|'T, Agnew. Mr. Aspoas is a grad- are to run a first class house in/ yate of the school of mines of every respect and along the lines| his home town and before going it was conducted under the man-| home will visit mining sections agement of the Johnstons. After | in Canada. He will teach in the being appointed postmaster, Mr.|/J{oughton school of mines the Johnston was not able to give| coming year and will have the the hotel the care that it should | distinction of being the youngest have and at the same time keep| professor in the college. his work up properly at the post-|" Mr, Aspoas is in his office. His decision was t0j twenties and a a native rock and is cut to the re- quired size at the plant. A nail TAKE OVER HOTEL. that early very pleasant give up the hotel and devote all! pentleman to meet. He promisec | his time to the post office. again return next summer for | another visit. Sunday, September 28rd. Bi-| 2 Sicaichitc inti ble school at 10 a. m., preachnig | WILL SELL OUT. by Mrs. Thompson.at 11 a. m.| L. E. Spencer will dispose of Special musical selections will be | his personal property at a public rendered. Scenes from the life| auction sale on the old Bruner of Jesus will be given in picture | ranch, two miles east of Cotton~ song and story at 7:30 p. m. Old! wood, on Wednesday, October 3. time gospel hymns will he sung| Mr. Spencer was forced to cease from the c:nvas and “My Coun-) his farming operations in this try” and “Tell Mother I’ll_ be} section an account of the land There” will be beautifully i!lus-| having been sold. The Spencer trated with the stereoption. The! family will spend the winter in life of Christ slides are repro-| Pasco, Wash., and expect to find ductions of the mester painters.| «a suitable location .by spring. No one can afford to miss this| A complete list of the property beautiful and impressive service. | he has for sale will be listed in Robert Thompson, Pastor | the Chronicle next week. | Mrs. Schmidt was driving, be- | frightened between the. the Jentges ranch and the team | upsetting the! |made the patient as comfortable | | fire proof lumber is made out of | T {house and the rock is cut to fit | The Swiss people are} ‘is uncle, H. T., that he would | 2 AUTO WRECK WEDNESDAY NASH AND FORD COME TO- GETHER—BUICK BRAKES HORSE’S LEG | | Wednesday afternoon was a bad day for automobile wrecks. At two o’clock Wednesday after- noon a Ford coupe occupied by ) Frank Miles, a representative of the Crystal Salt Co., of Salt Lake City and Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Casey, specialty salesman, collid- ed with a sport model Nash car ewned and driven by Louis Reid- haar of Grangeville, on the grade leading out of Stock Creek, The accident happened about half way up the hill on one of the sharp turns. Both cars were badly damag- ed, a wheel was taken off of the Ford and every glass in the coupe broken, left fenders and body smashed. The Reidhaar car lost its left front wheel, the fen- ders on the same side were badly damaged, the running board smashed to splinters, the wind- shield broken, the top torn and the frame bent and twisted. Mr. Reidhaar claims that the Ford was on the wrong side of the road. He filed an attach- |ment against the car in the {amount of $300 for damages caused to his car. The hearing jhas been set for October Ist in Judge Hussman’s court. Fortunately none of the oc cupants in either car were badly injured. The wrecked cars were brought to Cottonwood by the Cottonwood Garage. Wednesday evening about dusk Chester Meermans and John M. Bieltz, of Cleveland, Chio collided with a horse be- known as the slaughter house road, breaking the animals leg and throwing the car into the ditch. The right rear wheel was broken and the back end of the car on the same side smash- ed in. T. Clark alleges that the boys were driving fast and reckiess, while the boys claim that they did not see the animal until it yan into’ them throwing the car into the ditch. Mr. Clark was taking his horses to pasture, |Clark also filed an attachment against the Buick, for damages, in the amount of $125. The hear- ing in this case has been set for Tuesday in Judge Hussman’s court. The Ohio boys had been work- ing for Ed Nelson of the Den- ver section and had brought some of their fellow workmen to Cottonwood and were on their way to Grangeville where they ere visiting at the home of John Pulse, a relative. SMITH-CONE:: Miss Edith Smith, deputy treasurer of Idaho county, and Maurice Cone, son of Mrs. Otie L. Cone, county treasurer, of Grangeville, were united in mar- riage at the Episcopal rectory in Lewiston, Thursday by the Rev. D. J. W. Somerville. | Mr. anc Mrs. Cone will make their hom ot Fort Hall, Idaho, where Mr. Cone has accepted a position a: | government mainte Y {|| Through the Land of (ean I longing to T. Clark on what is|* The animal had to be killed. My. ! | the old road. | | | | | Re | SHOOT TO KILL IS MAYOR'S ORDER LEWISTON POLICE ARE TO GO THE LIMIT AGAINST HOODED MOBS. | i “In proper cases you are in-| structed to shoot, and shoot to) kill,” says Mayor William Thom- | son of Lewiston in written in-| structions issued to Chief of Po- | lice Eugene Gasser and approv- | ed by the council at a meeting | held one night this week. - The} action of ‘the mayor followed the | appearance Friday night of three hooded persons at the home otf} Georgia Cross, a negress, when, threats were given her that she| must change her conduct. The} communication of the mayor con- | veying the official instructions to | the chief of police follows: “My attention has keen called to an unwarranted raid made| Friday night on the home of a! resident of this city by a band| of hooded individuals. Masked people trespassing upon private | property or invading the home, of any resident of this city must) be promptly arrested, held and punished according to law. In} ease of resistance you are here-| by instructed to use whatever force is necessary to compel obe-! dience to constituted authority. | “To this end you will assure | yourself that all members of your force carry arms at all| times and are proficient in their | use. In proper cases you are in- structed to shoot, and shoot to! kill. | “Citizens suspected of crime, under our constitutional guaran- | tees, are entitled to a fair trial. | Our government has the sole} right to sit in judgment in all cases where a law is violated, | end no individual or group of in-| dividuals will be permitted to} usurp or exercise any part of | this authority. An attempt vo do so is an infinitely more dan- ; gerous assault on our liberties | and institutions than any crime! thus sought to be corrected. } “A menace of this sort should | not be permitted to survive in| this community. To this end} you will see that all your men are supplied with a copy of these | instructions, and have the means | and abilitv to carry them into «ffect with promptness and pre-| cision.” apres | WANT ROAD COMPLETED. | The speedy completion of the} north and south highway is de-} sirable, according to all reports | received from Idaho cities. Gov- | ernor C. C. Moore, speaking at the Lewiston-Clarkston fair, said “the south wants the north | and south . highway completed, | Commissioner Hall is giving this} road every attention, and it 1s} known that it can be finished at comparatively small additional, cost. The commissioner wants this road to be one of the state’s | greatest assets, and he is Teaving | nothing undone. The uncom-| pleted 28 miles above and below | Riggins will receive immediate} attention, and trucks have left} Boise to clear away the high! center and to make turnouts on} This work will) cost about $20,000, to be paid) from the state gasoline tax | fund.” BUM | several days. | on |the water in the mountain hav- | MILL IS RUNNING. | again become contributors of the | over the property. DEATH TAKES MOTHER | LEAVES 4 CHILDREN, | Mrs. Joseph Kaufman jr., Dies In Home of Father In Missoula, Montana. R. A. Nims received a tele phone call from his wife, Mon-! day noon, advising him of the! death of her sister, Mrs. Joseph | Kaufman jr., of Maras, Mont., who died at the home of her father, David Fish, in Missoula, Montana. Mrs. Kaufman was born at Marysville, Montana about 30 years ago and when a mere baby removed with her parents to the, Nezperce section where they liv-) ed for many years. She married to Joseph Kaufman jr.,| of Cottonwood in 1910. She is survived by three sons, ages 11,/ 8 and 6 and a baby girl one year, of age, her husband; father,' David Fish; brother, Arlie Fish} of Missoula; and sister, Mrs. R.| A. Nims, of Cottonwood. Mrs. Kaufman removed to! Missoula about a month ago to| reside there for the winter when | she was taken ill, suffering with asthma, an ailment she had for) rhany years. Mr. Kaufman had} planned to join the family later. He was called and arrived in time to see his wife before she passed into an unconscious state | which lasted for seven days and from which she never revived. Funeral services were held in| Missoula, Wednesday and her re} mains were laid to rest beside| those of her mother who died in| February. Mrs. Kaufman is bet- ter known to many, by her mal- den name, Reo Fish. The family is well known here | and they have the deepest sym-| pathy of the entire community. | O’CONNER FISHES OUT PIPE LODGED IN WELL. Fxpect to Have the Big Pump Running Again by Sat- urday Night. The 820 feet of 4-inch pipe that became lodged in the Cot- tonwood well when workmen cropped the same while attempt- | ing to raise it in order to place a new valve in the bottom of the well was fished out by Tom O’- Conner, the veteran well driller of Nezperce, Tuesday evening | after working at the job for All but the last | two links of the pipe were fished | out by Mr. O’Conner, they hav-| ing stripped their threads while the continued jarring was going Wednesday morning, the resi- dence section of the city was without water for the first time, | ing been shut off and saved for fire protection. The business sec- tion of the city is being supplied with water from the little pump near the tourist park. Workmen are now busily en- gaged in placing the pump and pump house back in position and | it is expected that the large pump will again be placed in op- eration tomorrow night. Im the work of fishing out the lost pipe, Mr. O’Conner was as- sisted by Mr. Steinbach of Grangeville, whose machine was used for the heavy work. Mr. Steinbach before remov- ing hig well drilling outfit back | to Grangeville expects to drill several wells in this section. | Significant mining news was/| received from Elk City in Cot-| tonwood, Monday indicating that | the gold mining zones of central | Idaho are rapidly coming to the| front and await only a substan- tial highway construction to} whose values | many precious metals have been known for years. The stamp mill on the Ameri-| can Eagle mine is reported to be turning out gold in a quantity | exceeding all former operations under the management of A. W. Boyd of Spokane. A number of gentlemen in} this community are interested in the American Eagle mine. among | them being Jacob Lies, Marcus | Lies and Bernard Schmidt. The last two gentlemen named de- parted for Flk City, Wednesday evening. They went to see the mill in operation and also to look [ests land in the county. NEWS AROUND THE STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF THE STATE Eugene V. Debs, Socialist party leader in America and five times its nominee for presi- dent, will be a visitor in Pocatello the later part of this month. The long fight that Benewah county has been waging to gain assessment on the Coeur d’Alene and St, Joe Naviation company was won on August 25, when the state equalization board decided that 15 per cent of the Red Col- lar Line’s assessment was to be added to Benewah county’s list. ‘ Word has been received in Grangeville from J, Frank Sinis that oil has been struck on his property in California. Ina letter to his son he tells of three flowing wells on the land in which he holds one-sixth inter- est. Two wells ate bing drilled on property owned entirely by Mr. Sims. This land is encirclea by oil producing wells belonging to other parties. Harry Pruitt, Waha, Idaho, Saturday won the annual buck- ing contest at the Lewiston- Clarkston tri-state fair, with Carl McCullugh second and Thomas Sutton third. Despite an unfavorable wind that kept many from the grounds there was a large crowd to witness the final program, and the Indian events, both in parades and horse races, proved popular. Governor Moore has taken a definite stand against the re- lease from the state’s prisén of A. S. Embree, W. BE. Herd and R. Quackenbush, convicted of violating the state criminal syn- dicalism law. The American Civil Liberties Union of New York City, it is alleged, is writ- ing letters to Idaho citizens urg- ing them to make pleas before the state board of pardons for the release of these men. A. H. Connor, attorney gen- eral, Friday approved the peti- tion for forming the Social * ty of Idaho, filed several days ago with the secretary of state by Charles Camans, state organ- izer. The petition was a sam- ple copy of the one the organk zers of the new party proposed to circulate in the state for suf- ficient signatures to enable the party to be legally recognized in the next election. Frank K. Hyde, formerly of Boise, who gave himself up to Los Angeles police Friday, was secretly indicted some time ago by the federal grand jury on charges of embezzling funds from the First National Bank of Buhl, Idaho. E. G. Davis, Unit- ed States attorney, said the to- tal amount alleged to have been embezzled would reach approxi- mately $10,000, extending over a period of about two years, Appeal to the state supreme court from a decision of Judge E. C. Steele of the Second judicial district, in the case of MeCon- non & Co., against Jesse W. Bur- gess and others, has been taken by-the company. The trial court dismissed the action of the Mc- Connon company which sought to collect $368 for flavoring ex- tracts handled by Burgess as its agents. The defense was that the extracts were strongly al- coholic and by testimony it was shown that the extracts were purchased by several persons for beverage purposes as_ intoxi- cants. Idaho’s share of the net re- ceipts from national forest re- serves in the state for the year ending June 30, amounts to $148,705, Gov. C. C. Moore was informed in a letter from the United States forest service. A check for this amount will be forwarded. Under a federal law, 25 per cent of all money paid into the United States treasury from national forest earnings is returned to the state in which the forests are Iccated. When the money arrives it will be apvor- tioned to the counties for school purposes on the basis of the number of acres of national for-