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Hundreds in Grangeüille for Fourth of July Celebration IDAHO COUNTY FREE PRESS WITH WHICH IS CONSOLIDATED THE ORANGEVILLE GLOBE VOL. 39. NO. 8. ORANGEVILLE, IDAHO, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1923 $1.50 THE YEAE HERE ON 10 Congressman Arrives Idaho Unannounced on 4th of July; Traveled with President Legislator Home from Four Months' Official Trip from Canal Zone to Alaska Predicting bumper crovs in all parts of Idaho, Burton L. French, represen tative of the First Idaho district In the Congress of the United States, was in Orangeville Wednesday noon. Cogressma French, who was accom panied by John McEvers. former Orangeville boy, now assistant U. S. district attorney for Idaho, arrived in Orangeville unannounced. He and Mr. McEvers were traveling by automobile from Boise to Moscow. Congressman French, who is a mem ber of the house appropriations com mittee, recently was on an inspection trip with committee members which took him to naval institutions, stations and projects in the east to the Pan canal, along the Pacific coast Off Panama. ama and thence to Alaska. Congressman French and party attend ed the Pacific and Atlantic fleet re The tour comprised four view, months. Mr. French ig enthusiastic over Alaska, but declares the territory pre sents many problems in the way of development which the government must handla Hie trip to the northern country was primarily to study con ditions there, In order that he might make intelligent recommendations as to th„ needs of the country. Mr. French was with President Harding's party enroute from Cache Junction, Utah, to Pocatello last week. 'The president was given a tremen dous reception at Pocatello, and made declared Mr. It was the largest crowd an admirable speech, French. that ever assembled in Pocatello. Mr. French is delighted with crop prospects all through south Idaho and on Camas prairie. He predicts, with th„ harvesting of the gigantic crop, improvement in, conditions in Idaho. Mr. French will spend some time at his home in Moscow. CELEBRATION LASTS TOO LONG; 3 FINED Four young men, all said to be under 19 years of age, were Tirrested in Grangeville Thursday morning by Deputy Sheriff Ben Robertson, and w er„ taken Indore H. Taylor, police magistrate, to answer to charges of disorderly conduct snilty. and were fined $15 each. One P*id his fine, while an automobile in which the quartet was riding when wrested wa» held as security for pay ment of the fines by the remaining three. Thp boys bad attended the Fourth °* July celebration at Clearwater and are declared to have not been through celebrating when they arriv *d in Grangeville. Sheriff Eller was called to Clear water Thursday morning by persons who complained of hilarious conduct They pleaded ny ruffian« in connection with the celebration there. The sheriff made no arrests. When he reached Clear water the roughnecks had absconded. EHELD TO FEDERAL COURT Cottonwood Men Waive Ex amination on Liquor Charge . ®? lr T Niebuhr * r - both of and Otto Alchlmay lunin* Cottonwbod, waived pre fer r ry , < ' xamini 'tion before H. Tay fllk* o Comjn is8loner, in Grange cho r ' ' atur <iay. on federal liquor s ' an, l were held to answer to court at Moscow, on bond each, which they furnished, rood J""" Were arrested at Cotton (U.i,, s b<*riff Eller, who seized a aUon If, 11 ' 1 with two worms, a 12 nd » 1 ' fr>Ur T'terts of m«)onshlne avi* . ^ Uai ttity of mash, alleged to * belonged to the pair. ere V' Marsh *l West was rnm», l ? tUr<iay ' representing the gov ] n th e case. federal f $50n The Indians Decrease in Numbers; Tribe Is Losing Rapidly President Harding Finds Time to Harvest Kansas Wheat • y-':'-- t ■ -, ■ - $ ■»V: ■ ' m Supt. O. H. Lipps, of the Fort Lap wai Indian school anil Nezperce reser vation, has just completed taking the census of the Nez Perce Indians for the fiscal year ended June 30, which shows a decrease of 82 members of the tribp residing on the reservation since the census Inst year. W • „• . „ V N 1 ( On June 30, 1922, the number Indians on th„ census rolls totaled 1497. Itirths since June .30, 1922, 22 (11 males and 11 females). Deaths since June 30, 1922, 37 (16 males and 22 females). Dropped from the rolls on account of being mixed blood and not being born on the reservation recognized by the Nez Perces as In dians and non-residents, 43. The total number enrolled on the lists when the figures were compiled was 1415, 089 mall's and 726 females. It will be noted that the death rate continues to exceed the birth rate has been the case for a number I years. Dast year the births were and the deaths 62, being an excess deaths over births of 17. This year the excess of deaths over births is 15. ils .: ; v ■ pip - J*"** 8 ^«fvest-sun beat down on lTe6ldeut''Ua..dlng as he gave 'or the gaâ and threw the tractor □to geaT to start the wheat-cutting season near Hutchinson, June 23. Then Hie President gathered up bundles and shocked them with the remark. Thla is how >ve do it In Ohio." 1 A STATE TO SCORCH MEN WHO SELL MANGE KILLING ELK IN SELWAY FOREST RESERVE Lewis ami Clark estimated th,» num ber of Nez Perces at 7850 and Cataldo stated that they numbered, about 5000 when he first came among Elk In the Selway National forest ane reported to be suffer ing from mange, and some are dying from the disease. It is lielieved by game experts that lack of salt is causing the dis eas«'. R. E. Thomas, state game warden, has ordered that a ton of salt l>e distributed ln th« Sel way forest. them in 1868. Tuberculosis made its first appear-1 ance among th*. Nez Perces about the year 1872. Since then their nurniter inis been gradually decreasing. 'When the allotment schedule was approved In 1895 trust patents were issued Miller Company Purchases Building Occupied by Main Street Garage Miller Hardware & Implement Co., through the purchase, from Herman Bock, of Napa, Oat, of the building owmpied by the Main Street garage, will have a home of its ovm in the center of the business section of Orangeville. The Miller company has for many years, been located at the east end of the business district Details of the transaction for pur chase of the garage building have just been completed. The deal was made through the Elmers - Graham agency. A. Urbahn, manager of the Miller Hardware & Implement Co., lias made no definite plane for removal of the stock and business to the new loca tion, but announces the move will be made during the coming winter. Ex tensive alterations to th^ building are planrH'd. Walter McAdams, pro prietor of the Main Street garage, will continue to occupy th„ building until it Is required by the Miller company. INDIANS ASSEMBLE IN CAMPMEETING Hundreds of Indians from the north west are In attendance at the annual Nezperce campmeeting, which opened June 27 a« Talmak's grove, two miles south of Mason Butte, and nine miles southwest of Craigmont. The camp meeting, which annually attracts many white visitors, as well as hundreds of Indians, will continue through July Every morning at 5 o'clock the In dians meet In a sunrise prayer meet ing, and the next number of the day, with the exception of Sunday, it 9. the children's hour, in which Indians leaders take charge. There ar„ dally choir practice, musical programs, ations and Bible study classes and rec reation of every sort that would ap peal to the grownups and children of the several tribes. Leading the camp rfleetlng are Indian preachers . or FUNERAL SERVICES FQR MRS. OLIVER held in Funeral services Walla Walla, Wu., on last week for Mrs. Rebecca Oliver, a pioneer of the west. Mrs. Oliver for merly resided in Grangeville .but for the last twenty years she had made her home in Walla Walla. Mrs. Oliver was bom in Allen comi ty, O., on Jan. 5, 1842, and was 81 old at the time of her death. were Wednesday of years , , , She came west in 1871, and had made lier home in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Surviving her are her E. W. Oliver, of this city; four sons, John Oliver, Grangeville; A. N. Oli ver, Moscow; B. H. Oliver, Clarkston, and A. J. Oliver, Savageton, Wyo., and by two daughters, Mrs. Haynes, Walla Walla, and Mrs. A. J. Holsclaw. husband, ervllle. nated as a nnrse pital, Lewiston. Olive MISS MANRING WEDS LOS ANGELES MAN Miss Jennie Manriug, of Grange ville, and Gustav W. Schneidau, of Txis Angeles. wer„ married Wednesday evening In the Episcopal rectory, Lew iston, by the Reverand D. J. W. Som The bride rec««ntly was grad from White's hos TO MEET MONDAT Quarterly Session of Commis sioners to Open in Courthonse Board ot commissioners of Idaho county meets in tibe courthouse in Orangeville Monday, in regular quar terly session. In addition to routine business, much extra business come before the board at the July session. Th,, board will open and ex amine bids for construction of a con crete sidewalk eight fee*- wide for a block ita front of the courthouse, will examine proposals for furnishing the county's winter fuel supply and hold a hearing on the matter of a proposed herd district in the South Fork coun try. The board will sell at public auction twenty-nin,» pieces of real es tate belonging to the county, and two automobiles, formerly used by the county, farm agent GRANGEVILLE TRIMS KOOSKIA'S INDIANS GraugevUle'g baseball team defeat ed the Kooskia Indians, in a game here, last Sunday, hy a score of 7-2. i IT MAY BE A GOOD IDEA, BARNEY.-BUT WHAT ARE WE TO DO WITH THIS PERFECTLY GOOD FOUNDATION? ,1K % \ V t ■ " v. x I, V1 ^ x ■> u xx • ■Ç1 * " i // ; m ■ V x//, •y X baBucWs m*ricetin6 PIAN O • ^ f x V \ Jr gj, s m Vv iüi ^ * ■S' m m 0 , »■ is N* % & y iS 'S // »• J **~j*fV cv '/m. 1 1 w (Hi » Atl Commissioner of Finance Seeks Advice on Blue Sky Salesman E. W. Porter, Idaho state finance commissioner, has addressed a letter to the bankers throughout the state, warning against fake investments. Mr. Porter states in his letter that numerous complaints reaching his de partment indicate that a vast amount of stock in hazardous and probably fraudulent enterprises, ig being sold in various parts of the state with out penpit from the department and in violation of the law. Th» letter askg the bankers to no tify Mr. Porter's office by wire the name of any company, and the agent's name, operating contrary to the law. Hp states that it is the hope that the department of finance may be able to prevent the looting of unwary people in the state by the sale of worthless stock. GRANGEVILLE FANS RECEIVE FIGHT NEWS Much interest was taken here Wed nesday in th,, Gibbons-Dempsey fight at Shelby, Mont. New's of the progress of the fight was furnished the fans by the Free Tress. Bulletins from the Free Press offhv also were read at the baseball grounds. Local fans were keenly disappointed that Jack Dempsey, world's champion heavyweight boxer, was declared the winner of the fight on points, after Tom Gibbons, his challenger, had stood against him for the full fifteen schedule«!' rounds without a knockout. In 1895 trust patents were 1887 Nez Perces, thus showing a de crease in population since that time of 472 or 25 percent In the twenty eight years. The' low birth rate and the high death rate is responsible for this ah normal decrease. Had the Nez perces increased in the same proportions as the white rae; their number now, estl-1 mating from the date of their allot ment twentv eight years ago, should be about 3000 or more than mice the present number. ' From tin's., facts it would appear to be only a matter of time when the tribe will become extinct. __ , __ __________ , STATE COMPENSATION _ Fay Andrews, of Orangeville, will receive state compensation of from $12 to $16 a week, for a period of 200 weeks, for injuries which he ANDREWS TO RECEIVE incurred May 24, 1922, while in the employ of Idaho county on th,» Adams road and which injuries resulted in the amputation of one of his legs. Herbert Wing, assistant state at torney general, has ruled that And- j rews is entitled to state compensa- 1 tlon. -V a hearing on the matter In Orangeville, April 16, before G. W. Suppiger, a member of the state in dufrtrial accident board, Andrews' ' case was presented by his attorney, i W. L. Campbell, who has been active in behalf of Andrews at all tim««, The state insurant*,, fund resisted pay--of ment of the claim, alleging that And- j rews' leg was diseased prior to the j accident, and claiming it was this dis- ( ease which necessitated ampntatb" 'Die attorney general's office has ml- 1 ed against the state insurance fund, Amount of compensation will lie fixiHl by the industrial accident board. ! LEEPER TALKS j i ) AND U. S. FUG i I j Grangeville Wins Baseball Crowd Enjoys Picnic Dinner at Noon; Old-Timers' Asso ciation Picks Year's Officers Game from Nezperce; Many Celebrate at Winchester Combining the spirit of Pioneer day and Inedepcudence day. impressive Fourth of July exercises were held in Orangeville Wednesday. Although no effort mas mail,, to draw a big crowd to Orangeville, hundreds of people gathered here to spend the day. The program, sponsoreil by the Ida ho County Pioneer association and the , , , American legion, opened with a hand concert. followed by speaking in the city auto park, a basket dinner at noon, a baseball game in the after noon, between Orangeville and Nez perce, in which Orangeville won, 4 to 3. and election of officers by the pio neer association. A dance was held | \ ! . Dr ,, Hmlaml haI1 thnt night . . _ , j Program at Auto Park Program at the auto park was opened by an invocation by W. N. Knox, minister. There were songs by audience and Hon. A. F. Parker, president of the pioneer association, s i*J«e on pioneer life, ■ Is*"P<' r ' ot Lewiston, was the speaker of the day. He declared it particularly Atting that, the Fourth of July celebration and com me™«ratJon ,,f pioneer life should la* together, bemuse the pioneers taav e made much of the nation. They W itc the daring p«*opie who liraveil fji«» trials and hardships to mnquer the land. "The pioneers ar,, the foundation upon which this great nation is built," said Mr. Deeper. "Most other folk of today compare 1 to them as sandstone to granite. Even as the world is hung »I™ great, gaunt ribs of everlastig K rfl nlte. so are our institutions built "l™ "'em „ ''leal* f"** a,,< th « house whlch they have built shnl Inever fall." ) Pioneers and the Flag The speaker pointed out that the pioneers gaYe ns those things for which the flag stands sponsor, "The flag of a nation represents the hopes and achievuients, the ideals and desires, the tolls and troubles, of It* people," the speaker declared. "It re pn'wi'nts the blood of its own sons, shed on battlefields, and the tears of its women who gave them. "The armies of the great Pharoali* conquered Africa beneath the pennon* their king; Alexander's phalanx«*« traversed the world led on by some helov«*«l banner; great Caesar's legion* won for him a world itehind the eagles of mighty Rome. So in our morlem day. men have fought, and hied ami died hent*afh the glorious tri-color of France, and England's scarlet banner has floated over every sea and Son a thousand bloody battlefields. So does our flag, the starry banner, repre sent. America, the coined life-blood of our pioneer ancestors who lived ami (worked and suffered to make it what it is. It, too. has been home by lov ing hands through dangers and diffi inities, o'er many a dark field of war in every clime, that our ideals might (live; never hom,, in an unworthy cause nor by ignoble hands." Pioneers Elect Officers The pioneer association, in th„ after* noon, eks-ted officers as follows: President—M. S. Martin. Vice President—Henry Meyer. Secretary—Henry Teicher. Treasurer—Mrs. Bertha Long. Committee In charge of the celebra tion expresses gratitude for th*, priv ilege of using the tourist park for the exercises and picnic. Many Grangeville people went to Winchester Wednesday for a big <vi ebration there. Others went to Rig gins, Clearwater and Flyblow. NOW OPEN TO TRAFFIC North and South highway is now 1 open to through traffic between Grangeville and New Meadows, it 1* announced niifl it is hoiasl that the road will lie kept open throughout the The highway has been summer. closed over a section U-tween John Day and Lucile, owing to construc tion work. It is reported that five miles of the road as must now b p traveled. is not in good condition, and frequent detours are iwessary. but at th*. same time automobile traffic is possible pv«n| this section. Construction of the neu; road is proc«*Mling.