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Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-08-03
GEORGE BASKET REMAINS
FOUND IN SNAKE RIVER.
Young Man Commits Suicide by
Jumping From lewiston
Charleston Bridge.

George Basket, bookkeeper
in the Empire National bank of
Lewiston for several years, COM
mitted suicide in Lewiston, Fri
day afternoon by jumping from
the Lewistoh-C Charleston bridge
into Snake river. His remains
were found three miles below
Lewiston in Snake river, Tues
day. The young man, 81 years
of age, was exceedingly popular
in Lewiston and his rash act was
a great shock to his relatives and
most intimate friends. He was
married to a daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Kettenbach and
had a daughter four years old.
The funeral was held from the
Kettenbach home yesterday.
In a statement given out by
E. M. Ehrhardt, president of the
bank the reason for his act can
be readily comprehended.
"The national bank examiner
inspected the bank at the end of
June and reported its books,
securities and cash as correct.
Friday morning the banks own
auditing committee began its
usual biennial examination with
out giving any notice of it's in
tention. A short while after
wards Mr.. Basket left the bank,
which was an ordinary occur
renee. The committee meantime
began to find discrepancies be-
tween thes individual accounts
and the ledger totals. The COM
mittee is working continuously
but has by no means gone en-
tirely over the books. The irregu-
lalities so far disclosed are moi
large or serious, and may be
counteracted or otherwise in the
final adjustment. The bank holds
a surety bond on that position
for $4,000, but this will scarcely
cover the discrepancy so fan
found. The bond was no larger
because Mr.. Basket held only 6
clerical position, and had no &C
cess to the cash or securities
whatever. We have not yet as
certained how the cash coul(
have been taken out of the bank
because of the close check main
tanned in that department.
The bank is not in the leaS
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-08-03
WHAT 1T TAKES.

According to the Dearborn
Independent, Henry Ford's
weekly, translated into food, at
the prices the farmers gets, it
takes sixty-three and one-half
dozen, or 1852, eggs to pay a
plasterer for one day of eight
hours work in New York City.
1t takes seventeen and one-haf
bushels of corn, or a years re-
ceipts from half an acre to pay a
bricklayer one day. 1t takes
twenty-three chickens weighing
three pounds each to pay a
painter for one days work in
New York. 1t requires forty
two pounds of butter, or the out
put from fourteen COWS, fed and
MIXED for twenty-four hours, to
pay a plumber fourteen dollars a
day. To pay carpenter for
one days work, 1T takes a hog
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-08-03
COUNTY SEAT NEWS ITEMS

The funeral of the two-and-a
half year-old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Burns was held at
the Catholic church Monday and
was largely attended. The burial
was made in the Grangeville
cemetery.
The John Steinhouse residence
on the edge of town was COM
pletely destroyed by fire Monday
Afternoon. The building, outside
the reach of the city fire mains,
was soon consumed by the
Flames. Neighbors helped re-
move most of the contents be-
fore the fire, which started from
a defective flue, got much head
way.
The county school superinten-
dent reports that IL teachers
took examinations for grade
certificates and 8 children took
eighth grade examinations the
past week. Among those taking
teachers examinations were,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Whiteside
of higgins, Mrs. r. D. Mack,
Mrs. Myra Persons, Mrs. Gay
Eimers, Mrs. Ray Harlan and
Mrs. Ira Hazelbaker of Grange
vile, and John B. Carter of Kam-
iah.
|
H. E. Coram of Craiglmont has
purchased from James Richards
a half interest in the City cafe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Coram and daugh-
ter have arrived in Grangeville
and Mr.. Coram has become act
lively associated in the operation
of the cafe. Orchestra music will
Re featured at the cafe on Satur-
day nights and Sundays.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-08-03
IDAHO GOVERNMENT FOR
1922 COST S21, 402,5
Large Percentage of Money Was
Spent on Road CONSTRUCTION
Education Cost Large Sum.

Twenty-one million four hun
dred two thousand five hundred
seventy dollars is the amount ex-
pended by Idaho during the two
year period ended December 81,
1922, according to a detailed re-
port on receipts and disbul.se-
ments prepared by State Budget
Officer George w. Lewis and
submitted to Governor G. c..
Moore today,
This amount is divided into
the following subdivisions: Total
expenses, $8,939,647; new con-
struction, $5,901,, 1926; redemp-
ton of debt, $3,003,017; trust
accounts, $3,558,079.
The item of total expense re-
presents the cost of government
for the two years. This covers
salaries and all expenses of state
departments bureaus and instl-
buttons. A large portion of this
amount comes from sources
other than taxation.
The governmental cost of the
two years is covered by the two
items of expense" and new
construction" which total $14,-
841 ,473. Of this amount over as
per cent was spent for highways,
Approximately FL per cent, 49,
138,850, was spent for educa-
tional purposes. The next largest
item is general government, OF
state departments, which con-
summed $40 per cent or $859, 408
More than 100000 appropriated
by the 1921 legislature was not
expended and reverted to the
state general fund, according tt
the report.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-08-03

weighing ITS pounds, represent
ing eight months feeding and
care.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-08-03

Hemstitching. Mail orders
attention. Pauline Steltz.
Genesee, Idaho 29-4
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-08-03
Observation-Disclosures.
D R P HEU N
SATURDAY, AUG. a

You may have wondered
whether a ring-leader may
be a gentleman in real life.
If you should do come to us
next Saturday night you
find the riddle solved great
ly to your satisfaction when
seeing
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-08-03
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29
If You Need a Medicine
 You Should Have The Best

Have you ever stopped to reason why it is that so many products that are extensively advertised all at once drop out of sight and are soon forgot ten? The reason is plain-the article did not fulfill the promises of the manufacturer. This applies more par ticularly to a medicine. A medicinal preparation that has real curative value almost sells itself, as, like an endless chain system, the remedy is recommended by those who have been benefited, to those who are in need of it.
 A prominent druggist says "Take for example Dr. Kilmer's Swamp loot, preparation I have sold for many mend, for in almost every case it shows excellent results, as many of my customers testify. No other kid ney remedy has so large sale"
 According to sworn statements and verified Testimony of thousands who have used the preparation, the sue cess of pr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is due to the fact, so many people claim, that it fulfills almost every wish in overcoming kidney. liver and bladder ailments, corrects urinary troubles and neutralizes the uric acid which causes rheumatism.
 You may receive sample bottle of Swamp-Root by Parcel Post. Ad- dress Dr. Kilmer & Co.,, Binghamton, N. Y., and enclose ten cents; also mention this paper. Large and me- dium size bottles for sale at all drug stores.--Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29
BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERALD
JUNIORS AT WORK 1 ON INCINERATORS
Will Try To Find Means To Provide For Scientific
 Garbage Disposal

Since Birmingham needs garbage incinerators and the city can't af- ford them, the Junior Chamber of Commerce has set about to devise ways and means to help the city finance proposition t9 provide them. c. F. Warn, secretary of the Junior Chamber, announced Wednes- day that the directors of the or ganization had authorized com mittee composed of John Dearborn, chairman: T. A. Nickel and NJ. N. Kronenberg, to go into the matter thoroughly and report a recom- mendation.
 R. ". Roberts reported to the board of directors that all business interests and citizens in general who had voiced an opinion on the matter were in favor of providing some scientific means of garbage disposal in order to do away with ill-smellins dumps, but that lack of appropria- tion for the purpose prevents the city commissioners from erecting a suitable plant
 If the need of incinerators is bad enough, the Junior chamber direc- tors say-and it seems to be-there ought to be some possible means of providing for them. MT. Dearborn's committee will confer with the city commissioners, committees repre- senting other organizations, or citi- zens generally who are interested in the incinerator issue, and will well come suggestions for possible solution of the problem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29
HARDBOY PRUITT
 GREAT FLANKMAN

AUBURN, Ala, Nov. 2s.E(Spe- cial.) .)--One of the best ends to play on an Auburn team in many years is Clyde Augustus Pruitt, better known as "Hardboy," in southern football and collegiate circles Pruitt halls from Thomasvile. Ala, Clarke county. He received his pre- paratory training at the Pine Hill High school Although the popular gridder has just passed his teens no football was played at the Pine Hill institution during his training there and those familiar with the Hard boy'' say that he had not been in troduced to the pigskin oval prior to his arrival at Auburn. He entered Auburn in the fall of 1917 and served a years apprenticeship on the scrub team of that year.
 In 1918 he was a member of the s. A. T. C. varsity and was again as- signed to a varsity end the follow ing season. This year Auburn shared championship honors in southern football and Pruitt was selected as all-southern end on the second pick He did not return to college in 1920 and 1921 for the footbal season but did reach the Village of the Plains in the early spring and resumed his studies in agriculture. Tn 1921 he was coach of the Thomasville High school grid team. When the fall of 1922 rolled around it found Pruitt ready to take up his old job at end where he played a great game for the whole season.
 Pruitt is a senior in the college of agriculture and is scheduled to re- ceive his B. s. degree in June He is a member of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity and Is president of the Auburn "A" club.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29
VO[UNTEE ERSSTART FILLING IF CHEST
Community Movement Which Begins Tuesday Has Nest
 Egg Of $22,000 Now

We wish Birmingham the fullest measure of success in her Communi- ty Chest campaign. Cleveland has s4,200, 900 this year and we htve raised S4,210,ooO."
 This message came by long dis tance telephone Wednesday after noon to Carson Adams, chairman of the Birmingham Community Chest campaign, which begins on December 3. from Kenneth sturgess, director of the Cleveland Community Chest fund MT. Sturgess stated that more contributors had given to the chest this year than ever before. Once adopted in Birmingham, he pre- dicted the chest would never yield to any other plan,
 Community Chest workers have been invited to assemble at 6:30 D. m. Monday in the Tutwiler hotel ball room at dinner to hear a speaker from one of the larger "chest" cities. Final lines of the Birmingham cam paign, which will begin Tuesday morning, will be laid, and nstruc- tions issued to team captains. Every participant in the movement is urged to be present.
 Civic clubs will handle the solici- tation in the business sections, and the women's special committee in the residence areas. Each club is being assigned definite territory to cover and is subdividing it among teams. The method of working the territory assigned to each civic or- ganization will be left largely to the discretion of the club, which will act under the general command and direction of the central organi- zation.
 Several civic organizations have already named their chairman and outlined their campaign plans. Fred Underwood, will be chairman and Luther Doty, vice chairman of the Rotary club section.
 Organizatsn of shop clubs in in- dustrial plants throughout the dis trfct has proceeded rapidly. Many | industries have assumed the task of handling the solicitation among their own employees. lifting this burden from the field workers. The Bir- mingham Railway, Light & Power company has detached one man to solicit every plant of the company in this county. Joubert Golslin Ma chine and Foundry company, Stock ham Pipe and Fittings company, and many other leading industries have formed their own associations or shop clubs to help fill the chest.
 Another voluntary donation of $1,000 from well-wisher, who re- quested that his name be kept secret, was received through the mail at headquarters Wednesday morning. This makes a total of s22,000 which has come to headquarters in volun- l tary advance offerings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29
SHORT IN ACCOUNT CASHIER SUICIDES
New Orleans Bank Official Is Found To Be $94,15
 In Default

NEW ORLEANS. Nov. 2S.-Follow- ing an examination today of the books and securities of the Citizens Bank and Trust company, Charles J. Theard, president of the institu- ton. announced a shortage of $94,150 in the securities owned by the bank, custody of which was in the hands of Charles Straymond, vice presi : dent and cashier, who shot and killed himself at his home yester- day.
 An investigation is being made by the banks officials to trace the missing securities It was not known in what manner the former cashier lost the money, according to MT. Theard He declared that a check of the institution last June showed the books and securities i'll good order.
 The shortage will not affect the solvency of the institution, O. H. Pttman, chief examiner for the Lou isiana state banking department, de- clared in signed statement, MT. Theard said Mir. Straymond was bonded for $50. 900, and this. added to money recovered from the estate of the deceased, would make the loss comparatively small.
 Mir. Straymond was found dead In his garage, yesterday with a bullet wound in the head and pistol ly- ing at his side,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29
SLAYER IS INSANE

FL DORADO, Ark. Nov. 2S.-A. E. Thomas, charged with murder in con- nection with the staying of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Sue Styles, of Ralph, Ala, will be committed to the state insane asylum at Little Rock, 1t was announced today. in ac- cordance with a verdict of a circuit court jury declaring him insane. Thomas trial was halted several days when two physicians testified that he was not mentally responsible for the crime.
 Thomas was charged with having fatally wounded Mrs. Styles during an argument over the disposition of one of Thomas children, which he is said to have sought to offer for adoption.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29
MAY DEVELOP RACE OF SUPER HUMANS
Says Transmission Of Improved Mind And Body Is Possible

NEW YORK, Nov. 2S.-The the ory that race of supermen can be developed by the transmission from generation to generation, through heredity of improved men tai and physical characteristics ac- quired during the lifetime of each generation, today was brought to America by Dr. Paul Kammerer, bi- ologist .of the University of Vien- ma, who arrived in the Resolute.
 The scientist claimed, in support of his theory, that he had succeed ed in teaching the offspring of land frogs to swim, developed eyes in blind newts and predetermined the color of salamanders.
 He told a group of distinguished scientists who met him at the pier and who have arranged an Ameri- can tour for him, that he had found tangible proof in animal experiments that characteristics acquired during the lifetime Of an animal can be transmitted by heredity to its young. Shakespeare Half Right.
 Shakespeare was only half right" Dr. Kammerer said. Not only the evil but the good a m&l does lives after him."
 To illustrate his theory, Dr. Kam- merer declared that prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States, if 1t would prevent the pres ent or future generation in this country from indulging it's taste for such beverages, would produce suc- ceeding generation which would have no taste for the beverag ges.
 The scientist, who recently ex- plained his theories in lectures at Oxford and Cambridge universities claimed that he had disproved Au- gust Weismann's theory of the con tinuity of the :, germ plasm. The Weismann theory is that the indi- viduais characteristics spring from of the parent, called the germ plasm and that the germ plasm is stable from generation to generation.
 Dr. Kammerer declared that every act or thought of a human being during his lifetime became part of his body and part of the germ plasm of his children to whom the acquired characteristics were trans mitted.
 If man commits a murder" he said "the thought which accom- panies it become part of the germ plasm of his children. It is the same with good deeds.'
 Q Q o
 Supports Evolution Theory.
 Dr. Kammerer said he believed man had progressed upward from a lowly origin because his natural tendency had been to improve both body and mind. And this theory, he explained, was that the superman state would be reached by the hu- man race through the gradual elim- ination of body ills, the abolishment of destructive mental tendencies and the utmost development of the cre- ative talents.
 "Eugenics is negative" he de- clared. "It seeks to improve the race by selection, instead of by pro- ducton. The children of normal parents, reared healthfully and properly educated, will be more nearly supermen than the children of a man and woman mated because of super-stature or genius"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29
F WE E
 IN GOAL MINES
Report To Bureau Of Mines For First Ten Months Of
 Year Encouraging
WASHINGTON BUREAU l
 THE AGE-HERALn C

Accidents in the coal mines of the country for the first ten months of this year were fewer than during the first ten months of last year, ac- cording to the statement of the bu- reau of mines today.
 At the same time, according to the bureau, there still remains consider able room for improvement.
 Accidents during October resulted in the death of 153 employees, accord ing to reports received from state mine inspectors. The output of coal during the month was 57,S95, 900 tons hence the fatality rate was 2.64 per million tons mined. The correspond- ing rate for October last year was 3.s3. Of the 15S fatalities during the month, 129 occurred at bituminous mines throughout the country, indi- eating a rate of 2.62 per million tons, and 24 fatalities occurred at the an- thracite mines in Pennsylvania indi- eating a rate of 2.75. In October last year the bituminous rate was 3.90 and the anthracite rate was 3.4S. The fatality rate for October, 1923, materially declined for both classes of mines.
 The total number of fatal acci dents at all coal mines reported to the bureau of mines for the first ten months Of 1922 was 2,059, represent ing 3.79 fatalities per million tons, IS compared WlLn 1sf40 1dldIlleS III lHe corresponding period last year, rep resenting a rate of 4.0S. The ire quency of fatal accidents in 1923 has therefore declined nearly ' per cent. The bituminous rate for the same month periods fell from 3.S9 to S54, q reduction of 9 per cent. The anthracite rate declined from 575 to 526, a reduction of S12 per cent.
 A gas explosion at the Midwest mine. Palisades, Col, on October T.. in which six lives were lost, brought the total number of major disasters in 1923 to eight, with an aggregate loss of 28O lives, as compared with ten similar disasters during the pc riod from January to october last year causing loss of 100 lives. To the end of October, 1923, the major disasters have caused 12.6 per cent of all deaths by accident at coal mines; in 1923, during the same ten months similar disasters caused 6.9 per cent of the deaths from all causes.
 Comparing the record for the first ten months of 1923 with the corre- spending period last year, the re- ports show reduction in the ire ouency of deaths from falls of roof and coal, haulage, explosives and electricity, and an increase in the number of deaths due to explosions of gas and coal dust.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29
WRECKED SHIP |S TONED ID MOBILE
Story Of Rescue Told By Off, fiCer Of Giant Tug
 Favorite

MOBILE, Ala, Nov. 2S.-The United States wrecking tug Favorite. largest boat of it's kind in the world, arrived in Mobile today towing the San Gil United Fruit steamer, grounded about six weeks ago off the coast of Old Providence island.
 The story of the rescue of the San Gil was told by Bernard J. Keegan mate and diver on the Favorite, and Capt. F. Kariger, wrecking master of the tug. The tug is a peculiarly con- structed boat and has its headquarters at Gatun, Panama Canal. Keegan, the diver, holds the worlds champion ship for deep sea diving in regulation uniform. His record is 369 feet.
 The San Gil was caught in one of the worst storms hat has recently swept the seas. The rainfall for a few days averaged over 37 inches a day. The Is passengers aboard the San Gil including one baby, were put in life craft after the ship went aground, but when it was seen that the vessel would not be dashed to pieces they returned to the steamer and were rescued the next day fy an other steamer.
 The work of the Favorite was very difficult and. much diving was re- .quired. The rudder was left in the ocean, and OH her return trip the Favorite plans to rescue that.
 The Favorite will leave Mobile for Old Providence Saturday. Mate Kee- gan plans when he arrives on the island, to explore the sunken Morgan s cave on the coast fo rtreasure there The entrance of the cave is now 75 feet below the surface. The cave was at one time the headquarters of Nor gan, one of the famous buccaneers along the Spanish Main who was given the governorship of Kingston just to make him "be good"
 One of the relics aboard the Favor ite is the half-ton anchor of the old naval cruizer Iowa of Spanish Amer icap war fame, which was recently sunk off Pearl islands in naval opera fiOns
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29
Big Race Will Be Run On New Orleans Track

NEW ORLEANS, La, Nov. 2s.- Followers of the ponies from all parts of the country were here for the opening tomorrow of the fall and winter racing season run con tinuously through March IF. Six hundred and nineteen events have been provided for the s4-day pro- gram and the purses and stakes az sregate s5Oo,0o0 with the $15,OOO Louisiana Derby the feature.
 The Thanksgiving handicap with a S3,50o stake, will feature opening day at Jefferson park tomorrow for which 25 horses have been entered the distance of one mile, with Best Pal the ruling favorite tonight. Track officials have set Is horses as the limit to face the barrier.
 The track Is expected to be slow as q, result of rain which has fallen almost continuously for the last A hours.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29
WHISKY IN AUTOMOBILE
Two Arrested When Cargo Oi
 "Scotcho Is Unearthed

Two Arrested When Cargo or
 "Scotchn Is Unearthed
 tH C. Marshall and John Powers were placed in the county jail We'd nesday afternoon after the Ford car they were driving had been seized and found to contain. officers say, 2u gallons of Scotch whisky k. Hen derson, also captured at the same time, was held as vagrant. The case of the first two men will be tried in circuit court, and they are also being held for federal authori- ties.
 According to officers, the whisky bottles were covered with dirt and Apparently had been buried for a long time. The capture was made by Deputy Sheriffs H. $. Elll ana J0hn- nie Hines and Deputy Marshals Clem- ents and Britain.