Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-11-28
NEWS NOTES OF IDAHO


and contractor of Moscow died sud-
denly of heart failure at his home in
that city.
Threshing in the upper Lemhi val.
ley is completed. The grain yield has
been unusually good, the oats going
as high as rs bushels to the acre in
some places, which is good crop for
an altitude of 5000 feet and upwards.
With the probability that the office
of adjutant general will be declared
vacant at the beginning of the next
year, there has been considerable
speculation as to what officer in the
National Guard will be appointed by
Governor Alexander to be its head.
Saturday afternoon the second foot
ball teams of the University of Idaho
and Washington State college will
clash in Moscow in gridiron battle
that promises to be battle to the bit
ter end. After the defeat of Idaho by
W. S. C. the scrubs will try to even
up things little.
Governor elect Alexander spent
some time at Occur dAlene confer
ring with the people as to their wishes
on matters of legislation administra-
ton, etc. There were office seekers
among his attendants, but they were
given to understand that the plum
tree will not be shaken for some time
to come.
In a letter forwarded to the Belgian
consulate at New York by the Lew
iston commercial club the consuls at
tention is called to the fact that the
Lewiston Land and Water company
has several thousand acres of land
which it will rent on shares to Bel
gian refugees. The land is productive
and water for irrigation will be fur
nished free by the company
DR.. E. T. Powell assistant state vet
erinarian, states that there are no
cases of the foot and mouth disease
among the cattle of Idaho, as far as
he is able to learn. No reports of such
disease have come to him. DR.. Powell
has just returned from Shoshone coun-
ty, where he found conditions salts
factory
The new system of hurry ups" re-
Gently adopted by the university of
Idaho faculty is in vogue and is ex-
pected to prove highly satisfactory.
When a student drops behind in any
subject under the new system he IL
sent reminder" at the end of the
week and talks over the deficiency
with the dean of his respective col
lege. The second time a warning is
necessary it is sent to his parents and
then unless the student makes SER
ious attempt to catch up he is requir-
ed to drop school work.
Five negroes were appointed by
Governor Haines to represent the
state of Idaho in the work that is be-
ing done by the Afro-American league.
The men are S. E. Bailey, Elmer T.
Smith, R. B. Smith, Boise; H. T.
Owens, Occur d'Alene; John S. Pier
son, Pocatello. 1t is the purpose of
this association, according to the Off
GERS, to erect building and make an
exhibit at the Panama-Pacific expo
sition for the purpose of awakening
interest among their race and of rem
dering a stewardship for their so years
of freedom.
For the purpose of starting fund
for the erection of statue to Rev.
H. H. Spaulding, the first Presbyter-
ian missionary to come to the north
west as a co-worker with DR.. Marcus
Whitman, memorial services will be
held at every Presbyterian church in
the state Sunday, November 20, the
sixty-seventh anniversary of the Whit
man massacre. The churches in
Washington and Oregon have likewise
Joined in the Spaulding memorial
movement. The plan is to erect a
monument at Kamiah over the graves |
of the missionary and his wife. Kam-
iah was the scene of their greatest la
bors among the Indians.
The department of agriculture has
the investigation of SER
ious disease which is affecting the |
Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep and
the mountain goats, and is reported as
existing on the Lemhi national forest
In Idaho. The forest officers think
that it is the same disease that caused
the mountain sheep to die in great
numbers during 1928. The nature
of the disease is not known, though 1t
results fatally and sheep affected with
1t seem to have rough and NANCY
coats and are very much emaciated.
Three bureaus of the department are
engaged in the study-the biological
survey, bureau of animal industry, and
the forest service