Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-01-23

Lieutenant Mervin G.. Mcdonnell Sc
cond lieutenant assigned to the Third
battalion, Second infantry. as battal-
ion quartermaster and commissary and
Captain Daniel F. Bank, Company c.,
Caldwell, called at the adjutant gen
erals headquarters yesterday, to dis
cuss military matters.
Articles of incorporation were filed
with the secretary of state by the Cen
trail Coal & Seed company of Boise.
The company is capitalized for s25 600
The incorporators are William H. Nc
Guffin, Edward McGuffin, Don McGuf-
I'm, c. F. Harmon and H. w. Baker.
State Came Warden Jones announc-
ed yesterday there is enough spawn
now in stock in all of the hatcheries
maintained in the state to stock
streams for the present year.
The work of remodeling the state
treasury and insurance department for
the reorganized land department will
start tomorrow. The corridor will be
closed and the present public entrance
to the general office of the land de-
partment will be used as an entrance
to the geenral office of the land de-
partment while the private entrance to
the treasury department will be used
as the main entrance to that office
State Pure Food and Drug Inspector
j. X. White was notified yesterday that
four drug stores were raided al Mos
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seizure act for the purpose of confs-
eating liquor but all of the pharma-
cies were given clean bill of health
and the officials secured little salts
faction for their trouble. They did
seize some samples of "Digesto" and
Peruna and will have them tested to
determine the percentage OF alcohol
they carry.
The school trustees in Preston,
Malad. Paris. Montpelier st. Anthony.
Rigby and Idaho Falls were visited by
DR. E. o. Sisson, commissioner of edu-
cation while he was in the southeast
last week and conferences were held
with Superintendent HUMPHREYS of
the industrial training school. DR..
Sisson stated the actual matter of fact
school problems that face the districts
were discussed and he considers the
conferences he had with the trustees to
have been beneficial.
The state board of education which
meets here tomorrow will visit the deaf
and blind school at Goodng in body
and probably one other southern Idaho
state institution, before adjourning. 1t
Is the policy of the board to make
these visits independent of the board =
committee visits. Summer school work
will also be gone into while the prelim-
mary investigation into the budgets of
the various state institutions for the
next biennium will be taken up. An
other meeting of the board will be held
in April.
State Horticultural Inspector Guy
Graham yesterday announced the ap-
portionment of funds by districts for
horticultural inspection for the season
of 1916 as authorized by the horticul-
tural board.
change in the high school English
course will go into effect at the COM
mencement of the second semester on
next Monday morning. The state
course of study provides that three
years of English shall be required for
graduation, but the outline of the work
is left largely in the hands of the var
ious individual high schools.
Out of the three year course one Sc
mesier viii be devoted to the study of
periodical literature. This will include
reviews and discussions of modern
writer's, the best magazines and news
papers and present day poetry. One