Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-01-16
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

department OF horticulture Tor the last
four years, has rendered his resigna-
ton.
Professor e. ]. Iddings is spending
several days in looking over a number
of sheep feeding experiments which
he is conducting * Caldwell.
Governor Haines has appointed
Henry Thiessen, a prominent stock
man at Sweetwater, a member of the
state sanitary live stock board.
The Lewiston land office has been
notified of the passing to patent of
2770 acres of Northern Pacific script
land, most of which is located in
Clearwater county.
Fire in the Hotel Moscow at Mos
COW Saturday with every one of the
81 rooms occupied with from one to
four persons, resulted in a stampede
of partly dressed guests to the streets,
and did an estimated damage of $4,000
to the building and furniture, fully Gov
cred by insurance.
1t is not probable that Kootenai
county will receive the apportionment
Of $12 900 offered by the state highway
commission for the construction of
the countys part of the proposed road
leading from Spokane to Wallace. In
order to make the state aid available
it would be necessary for the county
to deposit the sum of $4,000 with
the state treasurer.
Boise was chosen as the next meet
ing place of the state dairy association,
which closed a recent session at Good
ing. New officers are: Gustave Kunze,
Bull, president; H. ]. Youngs, Twin
Falls, vice president; E. V. Ellington,
Moscow, secretary; d. r. Hubbard,
Kuna, treasurer; Arthur Bulge, Pa
ris; G. D. Hodge, North Lapwai; T..
H. McDermott, Meridian, executive
committee.
An elaborate bulletin is being pre-
pared by Professors Jones and Colver
of the department of agricultural
chemistry at the university on the tim
Der soils of Bonner, Kootenai and La
tab counties. The bulletin will include
a chemical analysis of more than 125
different soils that are found in the
timbered regions of these three coun-
ties. 1t will be published within the
next few months.
The County Treasurer of Bonner
county has made his report to the
county auditor of taxes collected for
1913 as follows: Total state and coun-
ty tax, $3.50, 123.S6; special school tax
s42,441.25; special road tax, $404.O6;
Standpoint, $15,596.95; Boomers Ferry
$1O95.97; Hope, sS332S; Clarks Fork
S2673.51; Kootenai s3SS.2S; East Hope
s2SS.5O; Priest River, $31S5.2S, and
sidewalk, Boomers Ferry, $44S.0S.
Name State Highways.
The state highway commission has
officially named the trunk lines of the
state highway system, composed Of
, 1862 miles and traversing 81 counties
as follows:
South Idaho east and west road, the
Idaho Pacific; north Idaho east anC
west road, the Northern Pacific; high
I way to McCammon, Idaho-Utah; high
: way from Boise to Sawtooth range
Idaho Central; eastern north anC
, south line, Idaho-Montana. The 5000,
: 600 unsold bond issue was apportionec
! among the counties.
5 Chairman Theodore Turner was in
: structed to go to Washington and con
5 fer with the department of the interior
. to secure, if possible, 100000 for use
s on the Idaho system. A state high
way engineer was employed for a tern
. of one year. The proceeds of $4,000
. worth of highway bonds was voted
: to Blaine county. The Idaho Falls
Yellowstone park highway was official
ly declared part Of the Idaho system
and $4,000 was voted in bonds fol
it's construction.
a The commission decided to consider
: construction of trunks of the system il
. the following order:
First, New Meadows to Grangeville
3 second, Olds Ferry to eastern bound
, airy of state; third, st. Regis pass tC
Spokane, north Idaho; fourth, Idaho
! Falls to Yellowstone park; fifth, Sal
; mon City to Gibbonsville; sixth Idaho
b Montana highway, north from Idaho
2 Falls.
The bond issue was apportioned as
follows:
Shoshone, Kootenai, Latah, Nez
Perez, Bannock counties, $4,000 each;
: Lewis, Belar Lake, Bingham counties
! $4,000 each; Washington, Bonner
/ Godding and Twin Falls, $4,000 each;
/. Idaho and Ada counties, $4,000 each
! Gilmore and Cassia counties $500
! each; Lincoln and Power counties
! $500 each; Adams $1,000; Boise $1,000;
+ Bonneville S35OO; Lempi $4,000; Ere
r mont 1880; Minidoka $4,000; Frank
La $4,000.
, Harry Thaw to Be Released.
, Concord n H.-The release of Har
ry Kendall Thaw under bail would
not be a public menace, according tC
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