The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-09-06
Idaho State News Items.

board of equalization this year 10.
creased SIS. COS, 502 over the valuation
for assessment purposes VI SIP, o65,
20l found last year, the new figure
being $3.50. s73,7O
The war chest plan will hereafter
be used IN Idaho county To meet the
demands on the public for funds, the
county council announces. All Of
the money contributed to war chart
ties will go into this fund and will be
taken from It when the quotas
desired become known.
D. w Davis of American Fails,
candidate for governor on the Repub-
lican ticket. returned Sunday evening
from the coast where he has been
visiting his family at Tokeland.
While on the coast he visited Camp
Lewis and had the enjoyable expert
ence Of going up In an airplane. He
was taken up about 200 feet.
Sergt. w. Fl. Abendroth, U. S. A.,
who is 10 Boise for time, arousing
interest in the military training pro.
vlded for boys at the University of
Idaho. calls attention to the fact
that the war department attaches
i'm nrf IN hi
August s IL closed all avenues of
voluntary enlistment except the
students army training corps.
Instructions have been received by
the army recruiting Office that men
between the ages of 46 and Sc can be
enlisted 10 the medical corps, the
ordnance department, the quarter
master corps, or the signal corps
Recruits must be physically fit and
must pass all the regular army enlist
ment requirements. Only men be-
tween the ages OF As and Sc will be
enlisted. No others need apply, &C
cording to recruiting officers.
Questionnaires to be used this
month 10 registering men within the
new extended draft age limits, which
will include all from Is up to 45
years of age, have been received by
state draft officials. The classifca-
tlons are practically the same as in
the registration of last year, although
some of the subdivisions of the
classes are amplified to make the
classitlcatlons more definite.
A suggestion for further aiding the
men who return to Idaho after the
war, has been made by G. z. Arney,
western immigration and industrial
agent of the Northern Pacific rail
road, and that is, that the returning
soldiers should have neither pensions
nor charity melted out TO them but
should be given more substantial and
dignlfied consideration and he be.
lieves this should take the form of
gifts of land.
More than 300 claims for benefits
have been filed with the industrial
accident board since it was organized
January l of this year, according to
w. H. Casady, member OF the
board. This is far in excess OF the
number of claims expected. "Ab.
normal conditions requiring the
employment OF many inexperienced
men 10 hazardous occupations are
probably the cause OF the unusually
large number of claims under the
workmen's compensation act" SAID
Mr.. Casady. MANY OF the claima ats,
no doubt, were not familiar with the
dangers attendant upon the work
they took up"
because OF a shortage of grain cars
number of Twin Falls county
elevators have discontinued receiving
wheat, the public utilities commits
sion was advised Friday by c. r.
Channel, commercial economy direct
or for the county. The seriousness of
the condition was admitted by Poca-
tello officials of the Oregon Shot
Line In telephone conversation with
A. L. Freehafer, member of the
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