The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-04-25

Recent Happenings in This State
| Given In Brief items for
Busy Readers.
At Potlatch, April 10, Melvin E.
Odell received painful bruises and cuts
about the head and body and frac-
tured pelvic bone on his right side
when he was thrown from a carriage
which became congested In the saw
mill. Francis Larson was also thrown
from the carriage and sustained bad
cash about the head.
Twenty Idaho counties have pledged
themselves to 100 per cent perform
ance in the Victory loan drive during
the tour of the trophy special through
southern Idaho with its burden Of bat.
tie relics from the blood-drenched
fields of France. In each Of these
counties thousands of citizens who
have viewed the war trophies guaran.
teed State Chairman M. B. Gwinn that
they would go across with their full
quota and in record time. Not fewer
than III, 900 peopei -haveyloolred at the
relics.
An experiment which will be Of in
terest to employers Of labor has been
successfully tried by a Moscow firm Of
brick makers. The company employs
a large force in its plant and its clay
beds at JOEL The men had been paid
by the day. until it was decided to try
payment by piece-work, which has
worked out SO satisfactorily that all
kwork is now being done by, contract or
by piece-work. The men are making
almost double their former wages and
the cost of the tile to the company
has been reduced little more than Is
per cent.
A check for $2S06 has been received
| by the city of Kellogg from the Mine
Owners association, being REIN.
bursement to the city for money ex.
pended by it during the floods Of May
1917, and of January, 1918. in protect.
ing property of the city and residence
property. A tailings dam of the mines
association at Osborne broke from the
high waters of these floods and caus-
4 ed the river bed to become filled with
tailings and the river to spread out
: over it's confines. In addition to this
payment the Mine Owners association
has expended $4,000 in replacing and
repairing the retaining walls of the
river through the city limits.
=, Idaho Mine Bureau Meets.
f Boise--The state bureau of mines
S created by the last legislature held its
initial meeting here Saturday with
Governor Davis, Dean F. A. Thompson
of Moscow, Jerome J. Day, Professor
? d. G. Livingstone of Moscow and State
Mine Inspector Bell present.
h A resolution was passed holding it
to be the policy of the board to cause
to be made such geological and topo-
graphical Investigations as will slim.
ulate the development Of all districts
u showing indications of metallic and
t. nonmetallic mineral deposits Of eco
IS nomic value. 1t recommended 'contin
\. uation Of the present agreement be
r. tween the state and United States bu
G reau of mines and the renewal of this
ID contract at it's expiration June 80; tc
n. cooperate with the geological survey
1t in securing typographical survey O
Il. the Teton coal basin, for the compile
al ton of primary control in Clearwater
county and the immediate publication
IN trail and northern Idaho during thu
re last two years.
y, Organize Idaho Veterans.
With but Is counties in the stat
having World War Veteran associa
tons, the state committee named b
Governor Davis at the request Q
Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roose
" welt to decide on how Idaho shall b
represented at the national conventio
at st. Louis May 8, met here SUI
day. 1t was decided not to hold
", state convention, but to proceed wit
M the organization of COUNTY units.
40 The following delegates we're name
to represent this state at Sa. Louis
~ F. A. Jeter, Occur d'Alene; Harry
Herpillods. Moscow; Thomas A. Feel
ry, Lewiston; Paul Davis, Boise,
80 Estabrook, Nampa; John s. Gree
70 Twin Falls; G. M. Booth, Pocatellc
Paul Peterson, Idaho Falls.
-, Alternates were named as follow:
P Carl M. Maloney, Wallace; E. c. Boo
~ Moscow; L. L. Robertson, Nez Perez
~ Mark Shields, Boise;' James Boon
a Caldwell; Taylor Cummings, Tw
- Falls; Laverne r. Collier, Pocatellt
w. A. Mathys, St. Anthony.
70 nf fhA of
tee are the delegates named. All We
lie present except Captain Jeter.
ess