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The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-11-14
THE UNMANLY ART OF PRZEFIGHTING

The Miami (Florida) Silver Belt says that the Board of Tenn
perance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal
church "has launched a nationwide campaign for the abolition
of boxing matches"
This is absolutely incorrect, says the M. E. Bulletin. The
Board has no objection whatever to boxing. It is opposing prize
fighting and that only.
The Silver Belt expresses surprise that only thirty-four deaths
are shown in the Boards arraignment of prizefighting and says
that football has certainly claimed more victims; baseball probably
as many; hunting many more and fishing many times that num-
Der. The Miami Silver Belt says that it was about to suggest that
all sports be abolished except knitting clubs for men when they
read of an old lady who ran a knitting needle in her little finger,
tainted at the sight of the drop of blood, fell out of her arm chair
and broke her neck.
This old lady, we presume, did not, as soon as she stuck her
finger with the needle, conclude that she had herself on the run
and proceed to stick herself in the liver, kidneys and heart in
order to make a good job of it,
We have seen a pitcher at a baseball game "bean" the batter,
but we never heard his manager yelH"Bean him again. Nor did
we ever seen the pitcher rush up and proceed to finish the job with
a baseball bat. In football, when a mans nose is broken there is a
hurry call for the doctor and a substitute. The opponent who
broke the mans nose does not proceed to jump on his face and
punish him as much as possible by kicking him again and again in
the injured member.
We used to play football and we know.
In the recent fight between Villa and Wilde, to quote a New
York newspaper:
Gas Wilde crashed to the floor in the seventh, land
ing flush on his face, his right eye was closed, his left eye
was rapidly closing, his nose was spouting blood and under
his right eye there was a cash that was dripping blood.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-11-14
LET THOSE PAY WHO USE THEM

1t is strange but true that the man who will finance his bust
ness sensibly and carefully, who will buy and sell a house with
acumen and wisdom, who will choose his bank with metriculous
care and guard his personal financial affairs with the utmost skill
frequently throws caution to the wind when considering the raising
and spending of money for roads. i
It is so pitifully easy to arrange to have someone else pay for
ing on the men and women who come after us, while we use the
road! This is bad enough, as a matter of unsound economics, but
it is worse when the money so raised is so unwisely expended as
to produce a road which wears out long before the bonds become
due. In such cases, and there are many of them! the
body polite finds itself in the position of paying for roads which
no longer exist, and faced with the additional necessity of rebuild
ing the road and maintaining it, as well as paying the interest, and
finally the principal, on the bonds which build roads which wore
OUT
While there are those among us, not only here in Gallatin
county, but also throughout these United States, who still believe
that there are cases where lOng-term bonds appear to be the only
expedient, there are no cases where the expenditure of such funds
is justified for anything less than a permanent road, so located,
so built, so planned as to length, gradient, width, and location as
to make it of service to the people to come as well as those who
now use it.
1t has been said that there is nothing permanent about any
road except its location, but this is only true when maintenance is
an afterthought. It is as unsound to build a road and let it ravel to
pieces as it is to build a house and let it go implanted and I'M
insured. Paint thehouse, insure il, repair it, and it may stand for
a hundred years or more. Maintain the road as it is used, and it
should last Indefinitely. Only such roads should be built with bond
issue money, and only such roads should be built with money de-
rived from town or county or state bonds, as will serve town
county, and state for all time to come.
To do otherwise is to betray the trust of the helpless unborn
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-11-14

He could no longer see his opponent and it was only Villas
punches that made him realize he was still fighting"
Does the Miami Silver Belt see no difference between this
and an old lady sticking herself in the finger with a knitting
needle? Does it see no difference between this and baseball? } Is
it aware of the fact that even if hunting, fishing and football have
caused some deaths, that probably ten thousand times as many
people take part in these sports as in commerciaized prizefight-
ing?
When a man is hurt in real sport it is accidental. 1t is not
the purpose of his opponent, if that opponent is a gentleman, to
hurt him. 1t is not necessary to close both of a mans eyes, break
his nose and cover him with blood in order to win a baseball game
or even a football game. There is a difference and there is nc
honesty in talking ~foolishness about old ladies sticking themselves
with knitting needles.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1923-08-30
MRS. LAURA J. FEASTER
DIES IN DENVER HOME

Mrs. Laura Jane Feaster, wife OF
James A. Feaster, passed away In
the family home at Denver, about A
Wednesday morning, after six weeks
illness of pneumonia.
Mrs. Feaster, who was 45 years
old, was born in Benton county, Ark,
on Ndv 81, 1877. She grew to wom-
anhood in Arkansas, and seventeen
years ago was married in that state
to Mr.. Feaster. Immediately after
ward she came to Idaho county to
reside and had since made her home
here.
Mrs. Feaster is survived by her sor-
rowing husband, by daughter, Olga
Lee, 10 years old; her mother, Mrs.
Margaret Elliott, in Arkansas; three
sisters, Miss Allie Elliott and Mrs.
Hannah Tells, in Arkansas, and Mrs.
Mary Miles. in Oklahoma, and by two
brothers. John Elliott, in Oklahoma,
and William Elliott, in Missouri.
Funeral services were held Thurs
day afternoon at 2 from the Denver
church, and were largely attended by
neighbors and friends. Many floral
offerings attested to the esteem in
which Mrs. Feaster was held by all
who knew her. Burial was in Denver
cemetery.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1923-08-30
How Many Bulls
Are Sc IL Bulls?
Here's the Answer

The problem of deciding what
constitutes a half bull arose be-
fore the state board of equaliza-
ton, in Boise, recently, when the
board inspected returns of the as
SCISSOR Of Gilmore county. who re-
ported having found just thirty
six and half bulls in that
stock-raising county. Just how
the Gilmore assessor found just
half a bull was ''baIll" ON the
record that required little think
ing to solve.
Officials in the Idaho county
assessors office do not make
"bulls" of this sort, in their re-
ports to the state, but Assessor
Ingram and Deputy Van Deventer
found no difficulty in explaining
how the bull or rather half
bull, in the Gilmore assessors rec
ord occurred.
Frequently bulls are owned by
two stockmen in partnership and
one-half the assessed value of the
bull is charged against one man
and one-half against the other.
IN the Gilmore case, il is appar-
ent that the assessor or one of
his deputies assessed one of the
owners OF the animal for his
half but neglected to assess the
other owner for his half of the
bull.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1923-08-30
Of
.Y|ELDMADEO
1921 ACRES
Harris Figures Total Crop
Will Reach Almost Million
and Half Bushels This Year
Ideal Weather Prevails for
Threshing and Much Grain
Is Hauled to Warehouses

Wheat yield ON Camas Prairie for
! 1928 is estimated at /, 453.025 bushels.
of an approximate market value OF
81 ,162 400, according to estimates pre-
pared for the Free Press this week
by l.. NJ. Harris, well-known real es-
tate dealer Mr.. Harris places the
value of wheat at so cents a bushel,
and estimates that the average yield
will be thirty-five bushels to the acre.
These figures are believed to be con-
servative, and were reached by Mr..
Harris after careful observation of
crop conditions and acreage.
Camas Prairie proper, on which the
estimated yield is made, comprises
the area from Mt. Idaho and the
Fairview section, on the east, to and
including the Cottonwood, Ferdinand
and Westlake. districts, on the west,
and from the Salmon river breaks,
ON the south, to the Clearwater can
yin on the north.
Area of agricultural land in Idaho
county is 174,38316 acres, and a care
full and systematic estimate dis
closes that, Of this area, approximate
ly 5S,121 acres have been sown In
wheat on Camas Prairie during the
1923 season.
The estimate by Mr.. Harris does not
include all the wheat grown in Idaho
county in 1923. In the Clearwater
country and on Salmon river, and on
Doumecq plains, wheat is raised, but
the wheat lands in those sections are
for the most part widely scattered.
With ideal weather, threshing has
proceeded without interruption during
the last twelve days. Much wheat is
being delivered to Grangeville ware
houses and the volume of sales by
farmers is about the same as at the
time in previous years,
warehouse men declare.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1923-08-30
STATE TAX LEVY
CUT ALMOST
Is MILL

Tax levy for state purposes this
year will be 47736 mills. The levy
was fixed Monday by the state board
of equalization in the closing session
of its annual meeting, which began
August 10. This is a reduction of
nearly two-thirds of a mill in the
levy.
The board announced reduction
of about $1,000, 600, the exact figures
To be determined later, in the asses
sed valuation Of the state. The re-
result of the two actions combined
will be saving to the taxpayers from
the bill they were obliged to meet
in 1922. The 1922 levy on the larger
valuation was 5391 mills, and that in
turn was a reduction from the pre-
vious year.
State Auditor 70. G. Gallet, State
Treasurer ID. f. Banks and Atty Gen.
A. III. Conner were the members of
the board present when the levy was
fixed. Gov. G. @. Moore and Secre-
tary Of State T.. A. Jeter were on
their way for visit Of inspection to
the Idaho insane asylum at Blackfoot
and industrial training school at st.
Anthony.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1923-08-30
bR0THERL0ST
FOR Is YEARS
FOUND AT LAST.
Jesse Neal Learns for the
First Time Parents, Brother
and Sister in-Law Are Dead
Mother Sought for Him in
Vain, and One Year After
Her Demise He Is Located

A reunion Of two brothers, Lem and
Jesse Neal, in Grangeville. recently
ended a separation of twenty five
years. during which all trace of Jesse
had been lost by members of his fam
lily, and repeated efforts to locate him
had been in vain. Mr.. Neal, whose
home is in Los Angeles, is ardompan-
led here by his wife.
Travelling in all parts of the United
States and abroad in the last quarter
If n century, Mr.. Neal had failed to
communicate with his family, and
they knew nothing of his wherea-
bouts About two minths ago Mr..
Neal CHANGED to meet someone i'm Los
Angeles who knew his brother, Lem.
and who told him he was in Grange
vile. Jesse Immediately wrote to
Lem, who answered the letter, and
informed the lost brother that during
the last six years their father, Samp-
son Neal, their mother. Mrs. Sarah
G. Neal, their brother, William Neal,
and Mrs. Lem Neal, had passed away
in Grangeville.
Jesse Neal Immediately arranged to
come to Grangeville to visit his broth
err. Another brother, Walter Neal,
lives in Canada.
Jesse Neal is a cook, and his work
has caused him to travel widely. He
has been in South America and in
England, and in virtually every part
Of the United States.
Prior to her death, year ago,
his mother, Mrs. Sarah @. Neal, had
lOnged to see her lost son, and had
advertised in newspapers, hoping to
find him. but her efforts were fruit
less.
Lem Neal said Wednesday that the
last time he saw his brother, about
twenty-five years ago, it was by the
nerest chance that he came across |
him. Lem Neal at that time re-
sided in Boise. while his brother was
raveling with a show troup. OBJ !.
serving a crowd in front of a store |
Lem, out of curiosity, stop
,ed and was greatly surprised to see |
wing in the window a hypnotic sub
ect, fast asleep. The sleeping man
WIS his brother, Jesse.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1923-08-30
Miss Telcher Is
Bride; Wedding
Unique Affair

a UNIQUE marriage was that of Miss
.stner fletcher, of this city, and Wes-
Dn Il: Henry, of Yakima, Wn., per-
prmed beneath the pines of Nurss'
rove south of Grangeville, Wednes-
ay morning at 10.
The ceremony was read by
n w. d. Henry, father of the BRIDE
loom, and pastor of the First Bap-
st church, Yakima. The marriage
cense had just prior to the ceremony
zen issued by Henry Telcher, clerk
'ne district court, and father Of
~ bride, while Mrs. Telcher and
Us henry, mothers of the bride and
suesroom, signed the marriage GER
acate as witnesses. Besides the par
ss, only witnesses to the ceremony
me me- MISSES Alvena Meyer, Phoebe
'illeu and Ethel Henderson.
me wedding party returned to the
.ner nome, where twenty guests
gre awaiting them, and at II o'clock
M udlng luncheon was serfed, after
no MI ~, with good wishes Of the guests,
bride and bridegroom, with their
| ars departed by automobile for
,"iston where the newlyweds board
~. Train for Ashland. Ore. where
Iisb s aaS positions as teachers in the
sns PRIDE is the only daughter Of
ma anu Mrs. Telcher. She was born
I'm, cared here and was graduated
kbio, o,angeville high school. after
fcss;nrsn e attended Linfield college,
radnastd.iie; Ore, from which she
|eld coll, iast spring, 1t was at Lin
Fror, d:g that she met Mr.. Henry.
b Pao;s nneid college he transferred
be fa university, Forest Grove,
8 tbo rom rom which he was graduated
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1923-08-30
F|RF mss A Hall Defends North-South Road
|a]LUESAC Is Commissioner Reviews Situation
PUTATs75,000 Answers State Highway Critics

| A ANSWERING recent criticisms OF
~ policy and construction method.
employed ON the North and
South highway, w. J. Hall, state com.
missioner of public works, has issued
statement giving the states point
OF view on what has been done on
the thoroughfare.
He gives the course of the highway
as it travels north from Weiser to
the Canadian line When completed il
will touch the county seats of ten Ida
no counties. He tells of all bad sec
lions OF the road and declares that the
Lewiston, Whitebird and Culdesac-
winchester grades are about the most
remarkable examples of highway de-
vel0pment in the west.
Mr.. Hall takes up the criticisms
that have been made because federal
aid and federal aid standards have
been employed in the construction of
this highway. Without federal aid, he
says, only a narrow and much inferior
road could have been built and the
cost would have been considerably i'm
excess of 80 percent of the cost of the
present road
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1923-08-30
$4,000 LOSS IN
LUMBER FIRE AT
CARIBEL MILL

Fire destroyed 100000 feet
of lumber, valued at $50, 900, at
a mill at Caribel, Wednesday
night. The lumber was owned
by A. III. McKeen, who operated
a sawmill nearby. The mill, 200
feet from the burning lumber,
was not damaged by the flames.
The lumber was under con
tract to the Occur dAlene LtIm-
Der company. at Occur dAlene.
Interest of the lumber company,
estimated at $4,000, was cover
ed by insurance. Mr.. McKeen
had no insurance on his proper
ty. Origin of the fire Is I'M
known. 1t was discovered at 8
o'clock and the lumber burned
until after midnight Fire spread
into adjoining timber lands,
where it was burning Thursday,
but. if heavy winds do not de-
velop, it will soon be controlled.
The fire was plainly visible
from Grangeville, rorty miles
away. The northern skies were
illuminated, and the flames re-
sembled a volcano in eruption.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1923-08-30
Eeveuteen Business Houses
and Residences Destroyed;
Only $4,000 in Insurance
IN Are Frame Structures,
and Little of Contents Are
Saved from Seething Flames

culdesac Enterprise, plant of
which was burned in Sundays
fire. will be temporarily printed
in the Free Press office.
Fire originating from unknown
,uses in Hotel Culdesac, at 2:3O
kunday morning, destroyed seventeen
BUSINESS houses and residences in the
|own entailing loss of $65,O0O to
s75OO0. with about $4,000 insurance.
Fhe buildings destroyed were frame
&tructures, and all burned to the
round. Most of the contents were
destroyed.
Not building ON either side Of
be street was left, except the Mid
kay garage, tile building, across
he street from the hotel.
Those who incurred losses due to
be fire were:
H. R. Newman, implement ware
house.
Grant Smith & Co., highway con-
Factors, office.
]. A. Douglas, vacant building.
Mrs. Nellie Cope, vacant building.
S. L. Wilson, dwelling.
Mrs Dickerh0tf, hotel.
Vollmer- Clearwater company, small
uilding.
A. B. Olin, lanilding, occupied by
Irthur Boehl with pool hall.
Mrs. Nellie Cope, building, occupied
v A. 5. Farmer. confectionery.
Ida Sprague. building. occupied by
: Swanson, barber shop.
Al Fonburg. building and stock of
arness.
f. W. Cass, building, occupied by
7. L. Fellows. general merchant.
E. r. Whitney, shoe shop.
Z. ]. Meier, building, occupied by
I. ]. MCPHERSON, meat market.
Mrs. May Burke. dwelling.
+. ]. Meier, building, occupied by |
uldesac Enterprise, J. c. Bulen, pub
sher.
Mrs. Mary Culver, residence.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1923-08-30
STATEMENT MADE
BY HIGHWAY HEAD
Mr.. Halls statement follows:

Mr.. Halls statement follows:
''The North and South highway, as
designated, extends from Weiser
northerly to the Canadian boundary,
passing through Washington, Adams,
| Idaho, Lewis, Nez Perez, Latah, Bene-
wah, Kootenai, Bonner and Boundary
counties.
when completed 1t will connect the
county seats of all of these counties.
1t has been completed or is now under
construction, from Standpoint north
through Boomers Ferry to point near
Copeland; from Occur d'Alene south to
HarrisOn from Mission Point south
through st. Maries to a point about
six miles south thereof; from the
st Joe forest line north of Harvard i'm
Latah county to a point one and
half miles south of Cottonwood in
Idaho county; from Grangeville to Luz
cile in the Salmon canyon. South of
Lucille, there is considerable completed
mileage between there and Round val
ley. From Round valley to Weiser the
road has been graded for the entire
distance and is for the most part sur
faced. This section of the highway is
one of the smOothest and best roads in
the state
'All of the constructed sections are
connected with good travelable county
roads, with the exception of the I'M
completed twenty-three miles between
Lucille and Round valley, which is
rough and rocky. 1t is intended to
begin work on smoothing up these I'M
completed sections and providing ade- |
quate turnOuts as soon as the contracts |
now under way north of Lucille are
little further advanced. 1t was be-
lieved that it was well to have the
bulk of this construction finished be-
fore opening up any further work,
thereby making travel more difficult.
While it is impossible at this time,
owing to lack of funds, to begin any
further work on permanent construc-
ton standards, the road will be placed
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1923-08-30
MOST HARVEST HANDS PEACEABLE;
OFFICERS FIND LITTLE DISTURBANCE

Although hundreds Of transient
laborers are employed on Camas
Prairie in harvesting one of the big
gest wheat crops in history, no trouble
has been experienced locally with Ia
Dor, except a small amount Of agitat-
ing on the streets in Grangeville.
In the Palouse country, l. w. w. are
declared to have been active in an
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1923-08-30

effort to cause harvest hands to strike
for higher wages. /. w. w. literature
has been distributed there. Fourteen
wobblies were arrested in Whitman
county.
Idaho county officials have been
carefully watching two suspects who
persist in lettering about the streets,
but so far have found no evidence to
warrant arrests
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1923-08-30
SUES FOR DIVORCE

Alleging desertion, Il. J. Bennett, Of
Denver, has filed suit in district court
for divorce from Myrtle Bennett. Mr.
Bennett is represented by Atty. M. X.
Haftabaugh.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1923-08-30
DIDN'T WANT NEWS OF
MARRIAGE IN PAPERS

Elva Thieson McKane and Ralph
Flendenen, both Of Lewiston, were
PARTED Sunday in the Idaho county
heriff's office by Justice of the Peace
e. Byron. +. s. Rice, of Lewiston,
Fltnessed the ceremony. An effort
fas made to keep news of the mar
page out of the newspapers.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1923-08-30
800 SACKS WHEAT BURN

Three hundred sacks of wheat
burned Wednesday when smut ex-
polsion occurred while threshing was
in progress on the M. II. Biclzle ranch,
north of town. The threshing ma
chine, owned by Abe Sellards, was
damaged. Loss of wheat was covered
by insurance.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1923-08-30
BROCKMAN SELLS HOME

Bert Brockman has sold his res
idence property in Grangeville to
Grafton Johnson, who has already
taken possession.