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The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1917-03-30
Changes In
School Laws
Synopsis of Work of Recent Legislative
Session at Boise.

certain complicated provisions which
are of no real value and have al.eidy
gwen rise to legal conflicts.
(h) Sec. 1900, The second provis
ion allows independent districts to
levy over the maximum of ten mills
up to Is mills with the approval of
the state board of education.
(cl Sec. l29aa. This provision was
passed 10 1918, but owing to conflict
with other bills has been declared by
the courts of non-effect. 1t attempt
ed to change the number Of teachers
required to constitute an independent
district Glass "a" from 35 to 20.
The educational system has been
running on this basis for three years
and this amendment is included
simply to validate the intention Of
the Legislature in 1918 aud the actual
conditions now existing.
Senate Bill No. l67.-The present
laws contain mass Of ambiguous
and conflicting provisions concerning
the qualifications Of voters at school
elections. After the most thoro study
of this question with the aid of
county superintendeDts, school, trus-
tees, and legal advice, this Act is
submitted, which clears up the whole
matter and reduces it TO absolute
simplicity; the new provision; are as
follows:
~ All persons over the age of q
who have resided in the district
where they offer TO vote at least 81
days Immediately preceding the
election and who are:
(a) freeholders, including both
husband and wife when the freehold
is community property; or,
o. parents having children under
81 years of aye.
Senate Bill No. 1lO.-This is pro-
badly the most far-reaching measure
in the educational fleld. 1t has ar
exceedingly interesting history f.
the bill as passed is radically differ
ent from the original, altho aimed u
solve the same problem.
In its first form the bill provided
two contrasting courses OF study, on
for the rural population, seven month
year :or ten years, the other fo
centers of population nine months
year for eight years. 1t also provide
in all districts, both common ali
i independent, that the board shoul
Y DIX the length of term, thus repealin
the present minimum Of nine month
y for large districts.
1 The new bill makes no change !
the law as to school term, but cal
for a course of fundamentals for mil
imum term schools and commissio
to study the whole problem of tt
curriculum and work of schools.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1917-03-30

WASHINGTON-The secretary OF
the interior has advised Representa-
tive Smith that steps are under way
To consummate and ratify the ex-
change of some 300, 600 acres Of school
lands in Idaho for compact bodies of
forest reserve lands without waiting
longer for congressional authority.
This exchange has been held up be-
cause heretofore the department hes
maintained that legislation was
necessary to make the exchanges
legal, but already similar exchanges
in South Dakota have been ratlded,
and the land Office is now working on
the approval of the Idaho lists, The
secretary says If the lists are in all
ways regular they will be approved.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1917-03-30

j. P. Morgan & Co of New York,
it was announced March 26, have
agreed to advance an amount up To
1000, 900 without interest TO relieve
possible embarrassment of the depot
quarternlaster of the war department
there 10 the purchase of army supplies
Recently the depot quartermaster
was compelled to stop payment for
supplies because OF the exhaustion Of
funds owing to the failure OF congress
to pass the army deficiency bill.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1917-03-30
Idaho State News Items.

At American Falls, Idaho seed
peas are in great demand this year.
The Fourteenth legislative session
cost approximately $S0,000.
Utah and Idaho will have over
$50, 900 acres planted to beets this
year.
The Idaho Power Co., filed an $751;
846, 900 mortgage, at Boise, the
largest ever recorded 10 the state.
Prices of hayln the Boise valley are
now the highest they have been in 25
years. Authentic instances in which
$40 a ton has been offered are report,
ed. Numerous sales at $25 a ton are
reported.
The governor has signed Moody's
hill calling for years residence in
the state before a decree of divorce
can issue, instead OF six months as al
present. The law does not go int
effect for six months.
J, X. White, state sanitary inspec-
tor, is preparing plans for sprinI
drive against dealers who are sellint
adulterAted oils and gasoline, ant
premises to get them 'if they don'
look out"
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1917-03-30
The governor has cut nearly $780,


900 from the total appropriation
bringing total net amount down I 0
So. 74O,ll3 SO, less by 100000 than
total appropriations years ago.
The railroads are asking regulation
at the hands Of one national board
instead of as state and federal boards
as at present and no good reason has
been advanced against it. II the
railroads would fight the move it
would probably be forced upon them
at once. says news note.
A. II. Nihart of Bull has shipped
half ton of balei hay to his brother,
j. L. Nihart at Garland. Utah, by
parcel post, paying $2l 60 postage.
This odded TO the price Of the hay,
made the cost $46 80 ton. Hay has
become scarce and costly in this sec
tion on account of the late spring.
Miss Ethel Redfeld, state suparin-
tendent of public instruction, is busy
sending out statements OF new legiS
lation affecting the school laws, to
the boards of district directors over
the state. There were l8 bills passed
by the legislature, which will affect
the schools of the state, and Miss
Red6eld is anxious that the parents
and directors become familiar with
them at an early date.
An application by o. E. Stangland
and associates of Spokane for 25-
year lease from the state foI the
dredging OF the bed OF the Occur d.
Alene river for minerals was made
with the state land board Friday.
After some discussion the application
was referred to R. N. Bell. state mine
inspector, for Investigation. Stang
I land>aDd his associates hope to re-
cover values from tailings carried
down the Occur d'Alene from the
mines above. They offered to give
the state per cent of the net profits.
Governor Alexander summarily dis.
missed w. G. Scholtz, head Of The
state farm markets bureau, Friday
when he called him into his Office and
accepted resignation prepared two
years ago, on the day that Scholti
was given the position he now hal
ben thrown out Of B. Harvey ALL
red, speaker of the lower house of tht
Fourteenth session of the Idaht
legislature, has been promised th
position Scholtz holds. He Will taxi
office April |. According to Seholtz
the governor said he was dismissini
him because of friction in the ad
ministraton.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1917-03-30

Sixteen members OF Harrison camp
No. 324l, Royal Neighbors, went 10
r 'se Lake, Friday night, to assist
D4puiy L.bbie VonHosteen 10 organ
izing Syringa camp. Oracle Winnie
Wood of narrlso1 camp, and her
staff Of officers put on the degree
work Initiating IS members. The
Modern Woodmen entertained with a
luncheon, and a dance followed.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1917-03-30

Lumber companies of the Inland
Empire have on their books orders
sutlic ent TO dll 5000 or 10000 cars,
and have been refusing further orders
because they can not hope to make
delivery for three or four months OF
more, according TO A. w. Cooper,
secretary of The Western Pine Manu-.
facturers' association.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1917-03-30
FROM OVER ,NTY
CEUR D'ALENE

DAMAGES which altogether will
probably amount to few thousand
dollars were done by the Wind storm
which ragged here last Friday. Most
of the destruction was done between
400 o'clock 10 the afternoon and 900
o'clock ln the evening, following the
Palouser, dust stolm. and the brief
rain Of mad.
Ten feet Of snow on the Spokane
International right-ofway between
Occur d'Alene and Occur d'Alene
Junction shut off train each way
two days last week. A snow plow
was put INTO operation, and traffic
has been resumed.
The county officials are responding
To the wave Of patriotism which is
sweeping the county during these
perilous times To show their own
patriotism, as we'll as to rouse the
feeling in others, they have ordered
that the American flag be displayed
at the court house.
County Superintendent r G. Eg-
'bers has issued warning TO the
teachers of the county that they be
sure to obtain receipts for their rail,
road fare when they come to attend
the tri county teachers institute here
April 2. This receipt, properly O
K'd. at the institute, will entitle the
holder TO one-third fare on the return
trip Without the going receipt,
this reduction will not baf9rante1.
A squirrel determination campaign
was started Monday in Kootet al
county ty County Agent Herbert III
Beier, assisted by w. e. Crouch OF
the United States department ol
agriculture. A series OF demonstTa-
tion meetings was arranged through
out the county at which the poison il
i prepared and its use explained.
f. E. Wounacott, county assessor
filed suit In the district court Il
recover from the county $450 salar,
and $l4 40 expenses. The commits
soners have entered an order refusing
to pay any salary to Wonnacott unit
certain amount is reached whereby
they will be able to pay back to TN
county money which. they charge
was held out by Wonnacott durin,
his former tenure of office 10 1911.
A masSmeeting of citizens passet
resolutions Monday, approving III
steps taken by President Wilson +
protect rights OF American citizen
on the high seas, and wired them I
the national capital. A similar reso
luton was sent the same day by tn
I chamber of commerce.
Wor,eY, Idaho, is now Fan incol
porated village, and will 50 renal
i unless an appeal is taken frcm th
$ erler of the county commissioners
, The board accepted the petition of 4
property owners of the town, an
made 1t municipal corporation. I'll
petition sets forth that the place hi
a population of over ZOO The boar
. of trustees Is as follows: w. 2. Jone
{ w. +. Bayne, Charles Wing, L.
, Chance aud S. w. Vowel. TT
meeting for the Incorporation of II
r town was he'd Monday of last wee
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1917-03-30

Governor Alexander exercised his
veto power ln killing % of total of
1876 bills passed by the Fourteenth
session of the legislature.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1917-03-30

Inc SCnool laws OF loanO were
amended or affected by new laws
enacted by the recent Legislature
of which the following is synop-
sis sent out by the state depart
ment of education at Boise:
House Bill No. us, amending
Sec. 16o.-This bill changes the
upper limit of the compulsory
period from IS to 16 years of age.
House bill No. 1I8, supplement-
ing Article XXIII.-This bill con-
tains two small amendments per-
fecting the act passed in 1913 to
guarantee free high school tuition
to all children OF high school grade
in the state:
(D Authorizes the county super
intendents to draw order for county
warrant to transfer tuition to
another county;
(2) Provides that for the pur-
pose of the Article only such high
school work will be credited as is
approved by the state board Of
education or the county superin-
tendent.
House Bill No. 257, Sec. Sc a.
This bill fixes the minimum county
levy at an amount equal to SIS per
child of school age.
House Bill No. 3o4, Sec. 81
(a) This changes the minimum
census from IS to IS. The result
will be a somewhat fairer distribu-
ton than the present law provides.
(b) Raising the maximum ap-
portionment for teachers in con-
solidated and rural high schools
from $2oo to 5000 year.
Both OF these provisions are
really based on the new SIS mini
mum county levy.
House Bill No. gao, Article
VlII.-Makes the following modl
hcations in the bond law 'fol
common school districts:
(a) Sec. 76. Raising the limi
from 4 to 6 and requiring that al
bonds shall be issued on the amor
tization plan.
(b) Sec. II. Checking extrava
gance by allowing protest whe'
more than one half of the propert
is owned by residents.
(c) Sec. IS. Requiring bonds t
be offered first to the state boar
of land commissioners.
(d) Sec. SO. Placing responsi
bility for payment of bonds on tn
county commissioners and treasui
er.
House Bill No. 324.-This bl
empowers school districts employ
ing go or more teachers to estat
lish teachers retirement tune
The principal conditions are thi
the teachers to be pensioned sha
be not less than S. years of age
case of women and not less than
years Of age in case of men; sha
have taught not less than IS year
IS of which. including the last I
:. shall have been in said scho
district in case of men, and IN ca
of women shall have taught tor
years, IS of which, including Il
last 10, shall have been in sa
school district.
House Bill No. 375.-This 3
contains three provisions as follow
(a) Sec. 129 III. The first proylsi
refers to the special tax which may
levied for maintaining gYmnaslu
AT present this tax is limited only
the provision that the grand to-
district tax may not exceed 20 mi
This means that it would be lega
impossible for some districts to II
10 mills ror the support Of gymn
ium. This bill limits the gymnasl
tax absolutely to a maximum of
mill.
The amendment also cuts
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1917-03-30

The report of the state mine in
spector shows gross income OF Idaho
mines is $40, 900. 900 for 1916 of which
about $l1 500, 900 was paid in diyl-
deuds.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-21
Mrs. Husted .spurned @ Ford Her Husband
 Offered to Give Her

Mills H. Husted, the Greenwich so- .ciety man, went on the witness stand in the superior court yesterday after noon and defended himself against the change of cruelty made by Jessie Shepard Husted. He denied he had treated her cruelty. Husted admit ted he objected to his wife going out with Miss Billie Birks of this city and, also objected to her meeting Charles Conrad of New Haven. Ho claimed that his wife had taken din- ner with Conrad at Mamauguin. near New Haven.
 Husted declared he offered to buy his wife a Ford but she scornfu1ly re- fused He denied offering her s1,000 to get a divorce After she had been away two months Husted offered to take her back if she would stop drink ing and give up Ter old friends. "I don't. love you. I hate you,'' Mrs. Husted is said to ihave replied. The trial was resumed this morn ing before Judge Curtis.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-21
GROWING SUBMARINE PERIL

HE MOST recent reports of British submarine losses is
 far from encouraging. It not only shows dimnuon or the submarine peril but indicates that the destructive power of these boats the The underwater becoming more bold Relying their low visibility they come to the surface and at of five six miles, fire upon armed merchant ships The attack upon the Moreno scrbed by the department of war; example This armed ship exchanged 200 shots with submarine yards ship on fire had to be abandoned The submarine probably escaped without serious injury sa.
 The newer submarines built apparently with sistance than former but rely principally upon nvisb ity.
 These facts, slowly accunluatngT give weight cuslons of Bridgports great exper Simon Lake steadily held to the view that weapon sgis ably successful against submarines that the low visibility of the submarine should be by visibility in the commerce carrier. f3
 Suppose the Moreno had been running just awash She might have escaped the attention of the gether But in the other the upon equal terms
 It is not too late for the government seriously the advantage of the underwater type carrier such as Simon Lake proposes.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-21
Miss Spooner Will
 Have Park Theatre
 Summers for 5 Years

The confidence of Miss Cecil Spoon CT in the future of Bridgeport is re- fected in the fact, made known to you that she had. taken 8 five years option on the Park theatres summer seasons, as medium of her stock company enterprises.
 :, Miss Spooner's New York ventures in the near future no doubt will oc- cupy most of her time during the winter months, but she has faith in the future of Bridgeport, and has confidence in the loyalty of the pa- irons of stock who have made her former enterprises here successful.
 In connection with Miss Spooner's lease, it became known today that s. 2. Poli, who has taken over the Lyric theatre, has also become the owner of the property in Housatonic avenue, occupied, on a lease. by Jacob Rup- pert, the New York brewer.
 The plan of the vaudeville magnate, according to we'll informed persons, Is to construct a large theatre on the Lyric site, for the expansion of the motion picture patronage in this cifv
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-21
HENRY O. TANNER, NEGRO ARTIST

There are very few men among the
 negroes who have attained fame, who
 have become big men, but no one
 will deny that distinction to Henry
 Ossawa Tanner, who was born in
 Pittsburgh fifty-ei-ht vee-l go, and
 whose paintings have won TOT him the approval of the artistic world.
 The son of Benjamin T. Tanner, Afri-
 can-American Methodist Bishop of
 Philadelphia, he spent his youth in
 the Quaker City. He was born art
 ist and as a boy took delight in
 sketching the animals at the Phila- delphia Zoo. His ability attracted the attention of Thomas Eakins, and
 through his influence the young ne-
 gro was enabled to take a two years course at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. His next step was to hold an auction of all his canvasses. which netted him $500. With that | sum he went to Paris and almost inn
 mediately the negro youth became
 the favorite pupil of the great Benja-
 min Constant. Later ze studied unLer Jean Paul Laurens. After two years his funds gave out and he went to
 Brittany where living was cheaper. l His first picture to attract universal
 attention was Daniel in the Lions Den" which received place or hon-
 or in the Paris salon. This was fol- lowed by s'The Resurrection of Laz-
 arus'', which won gold medal and
 was purchased by the French govern
 nent. From that time on Tanner
 devoted himself to religious subjects and soon attained erninence as the foremost painter of religious subjects l of his generation. In 1899 he mar
 ried Jessie Macauley Olssen of San Francisco. She gave up a promising operatic career to become the wife of the artist. Tanners works of ari are not only today found in many o1 the great public and private collec- ] tions, but in the Corcoran Gallery al l Washington. The Carnegie Institution the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and other galleries on this side of the Atlantic
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-21
E. \. lOUNSBURY
 CHIEF CLERK OF HARTFORD AGAIN
Former Bridgeporter Sue ceeds Stratford Man,
 Ousted From Office.

Elmer H. Lounsbury, formerly of Stillman street, Bridgeport, was yes terday appointed by State Secretary Frederick l.. Perry to succeed Ray n1ond B.Comstock of Stratford as chief clerk of the department and the change will take effect June 25.
 MT. Lounsbury was chief clerk of the department from 1909 to 1913, un- der Secretary Matthew H. Rogers, and started practicing law in Hartford .after he was succeeded in the office by T. B. Myers, who was. appointed by Albert Phillips, secretary of the state from 1913 to 1915.
 MT. Comstock was notified late yesterday afternoon that his term as chief clerk in the department was to end Saturday.. He asked MT. Perry for the reasons for his dis missal and was told that it was thought advisable to have lawyer in the department as chief clerk. He had been informed by MT. Perry, inn
 mediately after the adjournment of the General Assem- bly,, that he was to
 be dismissed and the announcement was a surprise in political circles in the Capitol. MT. Comstock is a RepubH-
 can and was appointed chief clerk by |
 Secretary Charles D. Burnes, of Green
 wich. His home is at 137 Warwick avenue, Stratford.
 MT. Lounsbury had been mentioned as a successor to MT. Comstock and it has beer known that he desired to return to his old place. He was born in Bridgeport and was graduated from
 Dickinson college, Carlisle, Pa, in the class of 1903. He then entered the Yale Law school and was graduated in 1905, completing three years course in two years. In 1906 he received | the degree of A. M. from Dickinson college for post graduate work.
 MT. Lounsbury began the practice o law in Bridgeport with a classnate I William w. Bent. When he assumed his duties in the state secretary's of fee he had charge of the registration l of. motor vehicles. until provision for separate department was made.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-21
CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH

Captain John Smith, founder of Virginia and hero of our schoolboy days as well as hero of one of the first American romances, died in London on June 21, 1881. He was born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1579. His love for adventure drove him from the school room at an age when most boys should be deep in studies. He sold his schoo1books in order to get money to run away with and take him to the nearest port. He went to sea a short time and when he was fifteen years old travelled through France as the servant of several young noblemen. At this time France was at war which ended in the assassination of Henry ". Smith enlisted and fought on the side of the Protestants. When there was no more fighting he joined some English troops who were assisting the armies of Phillip II and the Duke of Alva who were fighting the Neither
 lands. Four. years later he turned up ain Scotland as poacher and lived generally wild life., A few years lat CT he was ship wrecked in the Medf-s terranean and managed to reach the island of St. Mary's. where he was picked up by a French vessel He I1lc0 HIS w dy lO <AQStAAa CA40 fAOu6Li against the Turks, was made a pris- oner by. the latter. killed his keeper and fled Sto Russia. Thence he made his way back toS England, where stor-. ies were going the rounds of the great wealth to be found in the New World. Smith formed a company, got some capital, obtained a land grant and set sail with an expedition of 10S men on December 19, 1906. During the voyage Smith was so overbear-s ing, and harsh that his crew put him in irons. They were about to return to England when a storm drove them into Chesapeake bay. They landed at what is now Jamestown on Aprii P26, 1907. Smith immediately began to explore the region and his kindly treatment of the Indians won him their respect and friendship. Powhat- an, father of Pocahontas, became his close friend. While he was absent on mission the settlers angered the In- dians and Smith, who was held Ter sponstble by Powhatan. was condemn ed to death. It was at this juncture that the interference of Pocahontas saved Smiths life. Soon after this Smith went back to England was lost sight of for nearly five years. Then he returned to the colony and remained six months He again went back to England and never returned.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-21
ADJUSTING COAL PRICES


HE COAL industry paralyzng the industries of the
 country is itself paraIyzed by the defects in transpor significant the ponsb persons but the declaration of the Federal Trade Com mission which proposes government supervision by which prime producers will be fair margin and conduct of transportation that will by the direct where it is most needed This proposal is not social sc It is directly in line with taken by the leading business Bridgeport formed organization mobilize the of Fairfield county The further proposition that the government supervision shall fa shall seize operate the mines socas New England will undoubtedly desire to avoid such necessity.