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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-10-25
BANK ROBBER RETURNS

Ernest SAKE, paroled prisoner
wanted for the robbery of . bank at
Rigby some time ago and who made
his sensational flight across this Sec
ton OF Idaho in q red car closely fol-
lowed by officers from Bonneville
county, and who made his escape
into the brush near Soda Springs,
where 1t Is supposed he hid the cash
he got away with, Is thought be back
in the Soda Springs-Montpelie
neighborhood on a search for the
hidden cash.
Word was received recently by the
sheriff's office that a man had been
assaulted, thrown out of his Ford
car and left by the roadside to die
near Soda Springs and that the as
sailant had made away with the car
Later word was received that the
man who made the assault is Ernest
SAKE, the wanted bank robber and
fugitive from justice.
The name Of the assaulted man
has not been learned. He was driv-
ing along the road near Soda Springs
when he picked up a man to give
him ride. The stranger made an
assault on the driver badly wound
ing him by beating him over the
head and throwing him out of the
car. The man whom it Is thought
to be SAKE, is supposed to be looking
for the hidden cash taken from the
bank
SAKE has had a varied career
around this part of the country and
has been in trouble many times. He
was released from the Idaho state
prison on parole shortly before the
Rigby bank robbery. The bank rob-
berry is well remembered here and
the long chase of the red car, which
had been stolen, across country
when it was abandoned and the
men escaped.
Billy Finkler, a former Idaho
Falls boy, sent to state prison for
robbery and paroled, was arrested
soon after the sensational escape
while trying to board a train at
He was taken to Rigby |
where he was identified as the COM
panion of SAKE at the time of the
bank robbery and taken back to the
The stolen Ford car, nearly new
bears serial number 7,714,65S and
Idaho state license number 51,835.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-10-25
HIS MOTHER WANTS THEM

Mrs. Mary Holcomb of Spokane
wants some copies of The Idaho Re-
publican of October 4, containing the
fine write-up and picture of her son,
H. H. Holcomb, the clown and win
ner of the 500 chaps given by Mr..
Leo Henesh. Mr.. Holcomb sent one
copy to his mother and she wanted
some others to send to some of her
cousins at Sioux City, Iowa. She
wrote to us for them and we were
sold out, but we recovered two
copies. Won't somebody else look
among their papers and send her
one? Address Mrs. Mary Holcomb
Spokane, Wash, E. 1904 Providence
Ave.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-10-25
INDIAN COMMISSIONER CAME

Cuarl0S n. burke, commissioner
of Indian affairs came out from
Washington recently and held a con-
ference with the Shoshone and Bana
mock Indians at FIT. Hall. He was
accompanied there by Indian Agent
William Bonner and former Senator
Fred T. Dubois, and the commits
sioner gave fine address, speaking
thru interpreters Ed Lavatta and
Lewis, one speaking Shoshone and
the other the Bannock language
He explained that he had come
out from Washington to see them
and talk with them about their busi-
ness affairs and especially about the
sale of their lands In the FIT, Hall
bottoms for the reservoir. He ex-
planned to them by plain illustration
just what 1t Is to have the govern
ment take ones land or ones home
or any of ones property for public
purposes and have the price set by
mutual friends after hearing both
sides. He assured them that when
the price of their lands is fixed, it
Will be fixed by men who will be in
structed to allow just as much for
the Indian lands as they do for the
white mems lands, and to remember
that the Indian loves his lands as
his home and it Is enough to ask him
to give up something he loves when
he is paid full value for it as we
count values in dollars and cents. He
said he had not come to Pocatello
and Blackfoot to see white men, but
had come direct to FIT. Hall to talk
with them, and wished every one of
them who wanted to talk over any
thing with him would feel free to sit
down with him and explain all his
views; that is a part of what he came
out for. He said it had been re-
ported that the agent, Mr.. Bonner
had gone to Washington to look
after the sale of the Indian lands,
but that this was not true Mr.. DON
ner had been in Washington on
Indian business, and while there had
talked to them about getting fair
appraisement of the lands, and he
had urged the Importance of it, say
ing the bottoms were the Indians
chief source of income and their |
winter home and must not be con-
sidered unimportant merely because
1t was bottom lands and swampy In
places.
I1O odlu tudL uc anu O6udLOTl
Dubois were members of congress at
the same time, and they had worked
together earnestly seeking to see
that the Indians received fair play
and had their property protected. He
and Mr.. Dubois are both anxious to
develop the greatest possible wealth
by the combination of lands and
water for irrigation, and are both
anxious to protect the Indians from
being cheated by tricky men who
urge them to take what are called
competency papers and then sell
heir property themselves without
their friends as to it's
7alue.
Regarding the sale of whiskey to
Indians, he said the white people
ire having the same trouble about
he sale of whiskey among them
Ind the Indians can help to stop it
~ reporting the facts to the officers {
When sales are made or when they {
lnow where liquor is kept. He in {
-estigated the Indian schools, includ- {
ng the Episcopal mission school, and
pent half day sitting among the {
ed men, who had something to say {
o him, and his secretary took short t
and reports Of it all.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-10-25
OLD SETTLER TALKS

w. H. Groesbeck, who lives just
east Of town and south of the asylum
farms, says he read the account of
the Iowa picnic at Centerville and
has lived at most of the places men,
toned as the former residence of
those at the picnic, and would enjoy
visiting with any of them.
Mr.. Groesbeck is eighty-three
years old, has good memory and is
full of the history of the settlement
of western states.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-10-25
INJURED BABY RECEIVERS

Drace, the two-year old son of Mr..
and Mrs. F. G. Kutnewsky, formerly
of this place, but now of Fresno,
Calf, who was seriously injured
when struck by an automobile about
six weeks ago, has now fully re-
covered and is able to be up.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-10-25
wnen rumbIera Stick.

When two glass tumblers stick to-
gether SO that here is danger Of
breakage in separating them, put cold
water in the inner one and place the
outer one In warm water. They will
come apart at once.-Designer Maya
zine.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-07-14

putt?' she demanded "Rn45-
gasoline that really makes the a. y, y
for it is gasoline that maEas ~ 60
engine run and the engine maj .s
car run. See?' es ne
But Buddy was not even 70 t.,.
with this enlarged and details5 'y''
PLANTATION. Billy, the l2-year.oI5i tx *
was determined to get bacE = ~ KY
causes. -'s.
isis, that amt so bad but H..
makes the gasoline explode Tba al ls5
gasoline wouldn't be worth A.: oa
dong if it wasn't for the sns~l, Ing my
that sets it off. think H. p,ls
battery and the gasoline that raaii '
run the car" a'y
"Well, if you're going to he
finicky about it," big brother m, =
"how about the oil. Where IN "a
the engine be in five minutes if y
wasn't for the oil? Why. I tbjrt
But mother took a hand in The .,
gument at this point.
Children, believe You bev, ~
overlooked the real force behind
momentum of the car" She stst ~
"All of these things that von,va
mentioned have share in II.
matter, it's true, but what would any
of them amount to if it wasn't e.,
the driver who sits at the wbasi
After all, it seems to me thar il !.
the driver who makes the car pon
Your mamma is mighty close "a
right" dad put in then. "Sbe i
getting hot" as the kids saw. wb.n
she named the driver. The raai
power that makes our car run, and
keeps it running, is your dad,
pocketbook KANSAS City Star
CHAUTAUQUA begins july 30
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-07-14

"Why, Bud, the engine does, of
course" big brother explained. "The
engine runs 'putt-putt-putt' and
makes the wheels of the ear turn.
See"
Buddy WIS willing to accept this
explanation but big sis was inclined
to split hairs on the matter
Eyes, Charles, but what is it
makes the engine go 'putt-putt-
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-07-14
The Source of Power

Thefamily had strayed into one Of
those elevating arguments that hap
pen in almost every family. The.
Towers started dinner by talking
about their car. Buddy, who was 4
years old. began it all by asking what
made the car run.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-07-14
cHAUTAUQUA begins July so.

Big Cincinnati oil company burned.
All the neighbors got about ten
scares TO the gallon.
American fountain pen won the
highest award in South America, be
fore anybody could borrow it
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-07-14
CHAUTAUQUA begins July 30.
Had Bladder Trouble

Had to geJ mp four and five times
at night, but | can sleep good now
writes H. D. Gaines Topeka, Kansas.
Il have taken three bottles of Foley
Kidney Pills and | am about we'll .
Backache, rheumatic pains, kidney
and bladder troubles quickly reliev-
ed with Foley Kidney pills
Sold Everywhere
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-07-14
Correets Stomach Disorders.

A coated tongue and bad breath
are symptoms of digestive disorders
and demand prompt treatment. If
neglected will cause nervousness,
sick headache, bihousness, gas and
Correct these dis
orders with Foley Cathartc Tablets.
Sold Everywhere.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-07-14
WISCONSIN is MIGHTY EMPIRE
IN MAKING
Tells The Story To Tourists In Of
ficial Figures Compiled From
Official Files.

blast. Bernie ZielsdOrf, who keeps
Marthon Park looking like "Spotless
Town." has already, in early June,
put up a party over night from
Florida and another from Missouri. |
We don't expect to see many people /
from these far off points If they
continue to come from the remote |
corners of the country Wen soon
have to build more lakes. Seven out
Of ten of our visitors know very
little about Wisconsin except that it
has miles of wonderful roads and
thousands of jewels of lakes.
Many of them actually believe that
it is all a semi-wilderness, where the
bear, wolf and wild cat have their
habitat; where the Indian rules sup
RENE, roaming all over the country
as he follows the seasons, and where
they have heard a few of our raw
ing statesmen are always planning
to do some direful thing to the
government of the United States.
Wisconsin is a mighty empire in
the making. If you don't believe it
look over these figures. They are
from the Official statements of the
State departments. Have these fig
ures at your tongues tip when a
tourist asks for information.
''Throw Away Your Hammer And
Get A Horn"
Wisconsin produced in the year
1919 the following
Butter, Cheese and
Milk ....... $220,000,000
Foundry and Machine
Shop Products 49,. 220,000,000
Automobiles and Parts. 120,000,000
Meat Packing ..... 140,000,000
Leather ...... 95,000,000
Lumber and Timber
Products 49,. 49,. 100000
Paper and Wood Pulp 80,O00,Oo0
Flour .......,... 58,000,000
Boots and Shoes $50. 46,000,000
Ship Building . 44,000,000
Furniture .. 43,000,000
Agricultural Machinery 43,000,000
Railroad Car construc-
tion ...... 36,000,000
Copper and Tin $3.50. 100000
Electrical Machinery. 23,000,000
Candy ............. 25,000,000
Bread ......... 20,000,000
Canning and Preserves 100000
Besides all these products sold by
Wisconsin in a year here are some
interesting facts that tell of the
growing greatness of Wisconsin in a
little different way
The Wisconsin Dairy Products in
1919 sold for thirty million dollars
more than the total value of all the
Iron Ore products in the United
States.
The famous Wisconsin Cheese
brought eight million dollars more
than all the gold mined in the U. S.
in 1917.
Our good old friends, the dairy
cows turned out products in 1917
worth fifty million dollars more than
the coal from tie Illinois mines.
Wisconsin leads all states in the
Mississippi Valley in 10-year average |
acre yield of cereal crops
Wisconsin produces more tobacco |
than C,,ha
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-07-14

CHAUTAUQUA begins July so.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-07-14

CHAUTAUQUA begins July 30
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-07-14

To use Red Crown is the essence
of economy-not from the stand
point of purchase price alone but
from the results earned.
When Red Crown is mixed with
air in your carburetor it causes per
feet combuStion-this means the
irreducible minimum of carbon de-
post, consequently less fouling of
spark plugs-it means less expense
for grinding valves it means a
smoother running motor-it means
little, if any, pre-ignition. When
you use Red Crown
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-07

did you see her doing that before the
call of any other person, that is, looking
in the mirror and the using of the tooth
brush on the hair?"
Yes. have seen her look in the mir
ror before Mr. Becker, the artist, came
there These are the only two.
Mr. Becker was the artist who made
the pastel portrait of Miss Southmayt
shown on this page. It may be that he
gave Miss Southmayd some reason to
think he was IN love with her, for Susan
Wilkins testified that ''he seated Miss
Southmayd on corner OF the lounge in
the library Ito pose for her portraitl and
stood back over her by the table, and he
said, 'Oh. my queenf and she screamed
with laughter.
! So here was an artist (who gol several
pretty batteries ana calling the old maid
''my queen Who knows but what some
of those attentive money, beggars really
lid pretend to be in love with the old
lady?
There was a curious quirk IN Miss
Southmayd's habits that both sides sought
to use as proof of their contentious. Wit
ness after, witness told that Miss South.
mayd was extremely untidy as to her own
person, and unusually particular about
the cleanliness OF others
Mary Bryant graduate nurse, teSti-
fed that Miss Southmayd wore high,
heavy shoes while in her nightgown, that
she was very untidy, had not been bathed
or bathed herself and would not allow
the bed to be changed nor the room
cleaned. and would not allow fresh air in
the room.
eve suggested to her." Susan Wilkins
added, "that her sheets were very soiled
for the doctor to come in-and she
would say we will wait. 1t doesn't
make any difference to the DOCTOR Any
time | saw her in bed she had her under,
clothes on.
Catherine Strube, another servant,
swore that Miss Southmayd only had two
of each undergarment, and that she only
washed her clothes once year, that she
kept soiled garments in closet in her
room and sometimes burned them. A
large hamper. said TO contain a years
accumulation of soiled clothing, was
brought into court. but Surrogate Foley
would not allow it to be placed in evil
dence.
Scattered throughout the testimony
were references to Miss Southmayd's
careless habits, and the alienist for the
contestants said that this was symptom
of senile dementia
Now, when Colonel Stimson, attorney
for the benefciaries in the will, came to
cross-examine Catherine Strube, he asked:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-07

When Miss. Southmayd came into her
fortune seven years ago it was $4,000,
600. The church people and the charity
workers were very busy and attentive to
the old millionairess-t-and when she died
she had only half of her fortune left In
wheedlng slices of that million and u
hall out of her it is not surprising that
th2 old woman Inistooll the sweet and
Il ri }g Ht"e,'ions Nfo~ something more
Wien tie 1ld millionairess refused to
tai; % friend over the telephone who
had bad cold for fear she herself might
CT CT the cold-that certainly was
peculiar
And wien clA Miss -Southmayd who
had been aro3Hd Ter house all the fore
noon in her nightgown, suddenly dressed
in her black suit, put on her fur coat and
high boots and went out to make a call
with the bottom of her nightgown show
ing below her dress-well' was this the
absent minded act of a very old person;
Or was it evidence of deranged mind?
When sixty witnesses take seven weeks
to give their testimony a good many
things, of course, are narrated, and
among some of the more unusual things,
which were told about the rich old heir
ess, there were several which seemed to
indicate that she was rather vain old
lady, and even at the age of ninety sus-
pected that many people who We're kind
to her were really anxious to marry her
And this may not be so crazy as it
seems. There probably are good many
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-07

people in the City of New York who
would have been very glad to marry
woman OF ninety with a million and
hall dollars IN the bank. Miss South
mayd may have been shrewd enough to
realize this,
Miss Alice Ogden. second cousin of
Miss Southmayd. who didn't get anything
in the will. testified about what MISS
Southmayd seems to have considered
little affair with DIR Charles Lewis Stat
terry, now Bisnop Coadjutor of Massachu
sets, but then rector of Grace Church.
New York.
On the second anniversary of her
brothers death, Miss Ogden said. Miss
Southmayd, then eighty-fve years old re-
ceived letter from DR.. Slattery sympa'
thizing with her on her brothers death.
The letter was signed: Faithfully yours,
Charles l.. Slattery"
"Miss Southmayd said to me-, Miss
Ogden continued, Nov, what do you
think of that?'
81 said, 4 think that is very nice
letter.
"She said But what do you think of
that signature? Don't you think that
shows a great devotion?'"
This was in 1918. the year Miss South
mayd drew up her will.
The letters of coincidence became
yearly matter. In 1914, according to
Miss Ogden, the letter from, DIR. Slattery
was in the same general tenor, and Miss
Southmayd 'said practically the same
WaokHU
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-07

whole year. cannot get rid of him. He
is crazy about me- What shall / do
about him.
The letters came every year. And
"That was the way she spoke Of DR. Stat,
terry all the rest of her life-as that Stat
terry boy"
Susan Wilkins a servant said that in
1917 she heard Miss Southmayd talking
to her lawyer, Mr. Evarts, about DR..
Slattery.
'sShe was speaking Ito Mr. Evartsl of
DIR. Slattery getting her house to live in
in the Washington Square district down
town. She said that DIR Slattery sat and
looked into her eyes, but she was too old
to marry him IF she was forty-five she
did not know what she would do Susan
Wilkins testified
And in the same year according to
Miss Ogden, Miss Southmayd spoke o.
seeing DIR. Slattery's mother in church.
"'You should see the way Mrs. Stat
terry looked a. me IN church. J know she
is thinking what n good daughter-in-laW
would make know II il very embar-
RAISING for me to have these men SO in
love with me, but what am ! to do?''
Of course it is quite possible that Miss
Southmayd almost ninety years old was
Joking when she spoke of her love affairs
to her cousin and her lawyer and in the
hearing of her servant. But then is it
possible that the dear rector who took
such sympathetic interest in her affairs
did make eyes at his very rich old
parlShionerH
1t was not only Bishop Slattery who,
MISS Southmayd said. would have liked
TO be more than friend to her
ION the occasion of receiving a letter
from Mr. Evarts,' Alice Ogden again tes-
tilted she SAID Mr.. Evarts is perfectly
crazy about me He wants to marry me.
he has asked me several times He called
on me one afternoon and we were talking
about the children of some of our friends
who had gone wrong. Mr. Evarts said.
We'll, we don't have to worry about our
children, shall We?" What palmer could
you have an offer of marriage than that?
I don't know what I am to say to him
when he pins me down to an answer.
have not given him an answer yet.'"
Then Lawyer Mooney asked Susan
Wilkins what Miss Southmayd did before
Mr.. Evarts called This is what Susan
Wilkins testified.
Before he came to see her she would
walk up and down and be in her room
looking in the mirror, and she had
toothbrush, and she would put it in the
water and go and fix her hair and smile
at herself in the mirror and talk to her
self And she would do that for two
hours before Mr.. Evarts would arrive"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-07

VIE rich New York old maid. Miss
Emily F. Southnayd, was certainly
peculiar was she crazy
!. Most of us have friends or relatives
who are peculiar, we think. But what is
the dividing line between an eccentric
person and a crazy person?
This is precisely the question which a
New York jury in Surrogate Foley's
Court has had to decide in the suit
brought by relatives OF Miss Southmayd
to break her will. which left them out and
gave her estate of about a million and
half dollars to various churches and
charities.
For seven long weeks the Jury sat and
listened to one story after another of old
Miss Southmayd's peculiarities. When
she died two years ago she was ninety
years old and she certainly was an un-
usual character-but was she crazy?
In the course of the trial that able and
usually successful lawyer. Mr. Edmund L.
Mooney and and his associate Mr.. Arthur
T&;vcrno~a- read a long hypothetical ques-
ton, 20 900 words in length, and then
pau-el for breath and, looking at their
He.ic Il specialists, said:
"Nf,,at is your opinion. doctor, as to
her men al condition."
o. course. the alienists for the disin-
her ] heirs answered that i Hiss South.
mai lid all tho things set forth in the
F.. qs;aJ,fJl sac Was c. azy.
AID later On in the trial, when this
same preston was read to. the alienists
WHO al been hired by the churches and
c - Is who ten>f under the will, the
&c IL 20 the question was that old Miss
Sonl.nayd was. no doubt, eccentric, but
there was no evidence that she was in
sane. So, after all, the jury had to listen
to the testimony and settle the question
fo.' thelyel 'as.
Sozle sixty servants. tradesr1en, rela-
tives, doctors, lawyers, ministers, charity
workers and a bishop of the Episcopal
G. ~c'l all took the witness stand, one
after ano he, and told of the queer things
the old woman said and did. Many of
the shings seemed certainly very unusual.
but. after all, was there not sore | asiS
of sound common sense underlying many
Of the things, which were introduced in
y. ties inlony as evidence of greatness?
Old Miss Southmayd used to wash in
the bathtub The money she received in
change-was that crazy thing to do?
The old lady thought Bishop Slattery,
who was then rector of Grace Church,
would like to marry her. But then it
was brought out in testimony that the
worthy rector dropped around from time
to time and did not go away empty
handed when he pleaded for some of the
:, old Iady's money for his church work. Is
Il surprising that possibly the old maid
might have misinterpreted the very kind
words and warm sympathy of the dear
rector in search of money?