The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-04-14

The country school districts
that have no saloons, have
''kick' coming at the present
Idaho school law. One-half of
the license money collected goes
into the school fund of the dis
trict in which it is collected, and
the other one-half goes into diff
ferent county and State funds.
This excludes these country dis
tricts that have no license, and
they have only the school levy,
which is very light, to maintain
their schools. This law proves
a great benefit to the towns that
have licenses, but works hard
ship on the country districts.
Had it not been for this law,
Challis District No. /, which con-
tains nearly one-half of the
school children of the county,
would not have been able to run
school over three months last
year. How would it do to enact
law whereby the whole amount
of license money will be thrown
into the General School Fund of
the county, and it to be divided
among the different districts of
the county per capita, in accor-
dance with the school census of
each district ? We do not believe
that a district with 8 or 10 schol-
ars should be entitled to as much
money as district with 100
scholars where it is necessary to
employ two teachers. This
) would be rank injustice to the
large districts. Another fraud
is our free text book system. It
is a grand thing for the eastern
book syndicates, where all of our
books for public schools must be
purchased at enormous prices,
, but it is proving a very disaster
Gus scheme for our schools. Be
sides the books are of a third
class quality, and a number of
, them are filed with lies and are
| not fit to be placed before the
, children of an uncivilized country,
to say nothing of having them
r forced upon the children of an
enlightened people by goldbug
book firms of the East
At the immigration Conven-
tion held in BOISE recently, the
8 following officers were elected
: President Eugene Buchanan,
: of Moscow.
. . Secretary-John NJ Haines, of
? Boise.
2 Treasurer. o. Baker, of
= Boise.
Executive Committee-The Of
ficers above named and the fol-
n lowing: A. d. Morrison, of Ida
! no Falls; J. T. Morrison, of Cald-
well: V. D. Hannah, of Weiser;
: James A. MCGEE, of Nampa;
E William Bulge, of Paris; w. B.
: Hepburn, of Osborn.
/ Vice-presidents and members
: of the organization from each
+ county, are as follows:
! Ada county-To be named.
d Blaine-F. III. Parsons, IT, e.
n Picotte.
Bannock-N. FL. Coffin, w. A.
r Hyde.
o Bear Lake.. C. Patton, H.
q II. Hoff.
n Bingham-B. Cluff. Jr., Geo.
e P Ward, Jr.
) Boise John Ireton, A. Rinear-
v son.
s Canyon-B. P. Shawhan. A.E.
Gipson.
Cassia-Horton D. Haight, J..
k L. Smith.
n Custer-O. E. Penwell, M. M.
" Sweet.
# Elmore-A. B. Clark, George
% L. Cole.
Y Fremont-Thomas E. Kicks,
IS William F. Rigby.
b Idaho-A. F. Parker, @. M.
If Day.
i. Kootenai- Charles E. Martin,
le Henry S. Melder.
E. Latah-A. t. Spotswood, Ell
rt mer Jolly.
IT Lemhi-Thomas Elder, Chet.
IS Mathewson.
le Lincoln-B. G. Mullins, w. W.
ID Priestly.
r, Nez Perce-Col. Benz. Booth,
IN G. w. Shaft.
le Oneida-George G. Parkinson,
a. M. w. Pratt.
Id Owyhee-Robert Noble, L. A
q. York.
le Shoshone-To be named.
IN Neutrality-suspicious. G. Gal
Id loway, J. f. Smith.
IS At this convention all the diff
at ferent counties in Idaho were
IL represented, with the exception
S; of Lemhi and Idaho.
Oregon Democrats declared for