Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-03-06
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

st. Maries fair has been set for the
first week in September.
The Lewiston-Clarkston Improve
ment company has announced a reduc-
ton of from Is to 20 per cent in light
ing rates.
The University of Idaho won the
loving cup for the best student team
in the first annual butter judging con-
test with the Washington State col
lege.
The Northwest Live Stock associa-
ton intends to extend the scope of
the association to include the west
tern portion of the United States and
Canada.
Acting President Carlyle announces
that he has arranged to secure work
during the summer vacation for as
many of the students of the school Of
practical agriculture as desire the ex-
perience.
Announcement that the federal for
estry and postal department would
construct a wagon road from Grange
vile, Idaho, into the Elk City district
has injected new life into the diff
ferent towns in the region
William Buckley, fruit inspector for
Kootenai, Shoshone and Bonner coun-
ties, predicts that the coming sea-
son will bring the largest and most
successful crop for fruit grower that
north Idaho ever experienced.
The O.-W. R. &. N. river steamers,
Spokane and Lewiston, tied up March
1, practically all of the grain having
been moved from river points. An
estimate of the grain remaining on the
river yet unsold is placed at $4,000
sacks.
In spite of the open winter the
farmers of the vicinity of Moscow are
predicting the heaviest yield of win
ter wheat in many years. The only
severe cold weather came at a time
when there was a heavy snow and
the grain was not injured by the
freezing.
Fifteen thousand dollars has been
received by County Treasurer Kerch-
eval of Kootenai county in delinquent
taxes since January 26, the day upon
which the 1913 taxes passed into de.
linquency Several thousand pieces OF
property in the county still remain
in the delinquent lists, although the
receipts are being taken up daily
1t cost s1,5S6,791 to pay the expenses
of the state government of Idaho dur
ing 1913, while to operate during The
same period the 81 counties of the
state cost 81, 562,0SS
OF approximately $1O,500,000 raised
annually in this state to meet the gen
eral expenses of government, ST. pei
cent is raised by direct property tax
Estimating the population of the stat,
at $50 900, the per capita of assess
ment valuation is $1221.5S.
The report shows that, based upol
the vote cast for president at the las
general election in this state the ex
pense of state and county elections il
year when such elections are held
1AliOuIIo W dpPlOAAludlClJ Y1sOf ~
each vote cast. The annual cost o
maintaining the several branches o
: government is S30.12 per capita, O
which amount $1239 is expended TO
purposes of education, 1918 for road
and bridges and 40 cents for charity
The net public Indebtedness is 81 pc
cent of the total assessed valuation
or s45.1S per capita. The interest O.
the states public indebtedness
amounts to $9SS,7S2 per annum, 0
$27OS per day, and is liz per cent c
all moneys raised by direct taxatio
of property.
The equalized assessment of Idah
/, for 1913 is $427 ,553,609. Telephon
. lines bear a total assessment or 81
596,650; telegraph lines, Sl,223,015
electric transmission lines, 1882, 150
, car lines, s457, 1873; railroad lines, $85
! 457,980, and property assessed by til
; county assessors, $S5, 457 $50. The tot;
q Indebtedness of the state is shown I
be $2,424,297 and the bonded indeb
edness is $2,34S, $50. The total indeb
edness carried by all of the countit
y in the state is $3,274,5SS and the tot
+ city, town and village Indebtedness
n S4,737,051. The district school i
debtedness over the state amounts
I S. OH, 496 and the total highway an
n school district indebtedness to $34:
o 551.
e The total public indebtedness il
v GLIDING the state, county, cities, towI
and villages, school districts and hig
n way districts, amounts to S15,795,95
r of which $14,1S6,633 is bonded indet
> edness. OF 500 paid by taxpayer
II this state last year the distribution
l. as follows: Legislature, 81 cents; sc
I, rotary of state and governor, 26 cent?
=, state and county police departmer
y s5.05; finance and revenue depal
ments, $475; educational department
$42.96; judicial departments, 1921;
gal departments, 76 cents; for charit
IS $1.73; roads and bridges, s1L3O; mi