The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-02-28
IDAHO NEWS PARAGRAPHS
Recent happenings In Th&s state
Given In Brief Items Nor
Busy Readers.

its report on the investiga ton of the
adiutant generals department Mon
day. The report was adverse TO the
administration of Repres, sntative 9.
s Moody, former adjutaiat general,
according to report
Pinioned for seven hours beneath a |
fallen tree, w. e. McNeiE was dis
covered in the woods near Edgemere,
where he had been working s1Qne, re-
Gently. Both legs were bro ken and
his right shoulder dislocatet, but is
believed, despite his injuries and the
exposure, that he will recover.
The republican majority failed to
get through the house of re presenta-
tives at its Saturday session the res
olution, looked upon as party pledge,
proposing an amendment to th.e state
constitution to give the Idaho Power
company power to contrur am pro-
mote the development of unusf d wa
ter power within the state
Praise Our Experts.
That extension workers Of. Idaho
have saved to the state dun in the
last year a grand total OF s 81 $1,000
and that this is 1920 of the al mount
saved in SO northern and western
states, with total of 116 o county
agents as compared with 33 in Idaho,
was one Of the points brou: ght out at
the convention of extensio, i workers
| in Moscow last week.
Idaho ,excels all other states in
| saving grain by "roden control,
| which means the dest tmcti@n of
squirrels, gophers and OIL ler rodents
that destroy crops, incl, n1ing jack
rabbits. The report sho, Us that the
SO states saved grand total Of 81,
672,91S in 1913 by this I he of work
and that Idaho saved $1,5s 1851 of this
sum, or 51%.
Help Cattle Raj selS.
In blackleg treatment oil cattle thu
33 states saved during 1918 $474,953
OF which Idaho saved 5A.36a. or 10Y
per cent In fighting j insect pests tn
33 states saved $2,624 yO44 and Idah
saved $134,940, or SIC B.. In increase
potato production, due tf, th work; @
county agents, the S3 states made TO
the farmers s4s4,542, sof whi, h Idaho
share was $1S2,713, ,r 1891. Idaho &c
$40 of the increas ed. closer ,eed pr
duction as a res, lit Of the work (
county agents anfl arm burea as, wit
, $19,500 increase out of Al total of $2e
$50 for the 80 s,tat' IS.
Wheat P'-odU :tion Increas ed.
J. Wheat is an i Important item in a
, OF the sstern farming stat es al
idaho's '4ncreas ed wheat pro 1uctio
due to the wo rk of the ,agen is. WI
: SlS6'SS q, out Of total for the
, state 4 of ST.! 1886, making Haaht
, sha' q $500 In smut control Rtaht
agf -nts and farm bureaus save ID 81
oSO of t'ota of $4S4,542 saved i'm t
80 states, Id aho's share being 1870.
. Ot her Items Saved.
n Other it, Ems in which the eoun
l. agents AMI farm bureaus ado led
! the ne pr Gifts of the agricultu raj
q dustri' IS Of the state are he I'd
. prove meRt, $16,045; seed sci ectit
$lS,3 -; sugar beet production =
900, and we ed eradication, $500. OIL
|
pre- fits to he farmers and live ste
in. eerests of the state up to $2.1! ITO
Idaho Auto Roads.
N The good, roads bill before the
islature hats the Endorsement OF
y state highway department and is
/ / of the most important measure t
has been introduced. The ty Jc-I
levy on approximately a total val
ton of $3.50, 100000 will raise a .
huo sufficient to build many miles of
ior roads during the next two years g
''es maintain them as well as others n
constructed. Sixteen links in the ST
md highway road system are taken CT
hts, of and among them the money rails
'ns, under the levy is apportioned In
ned dition there is almost an equal 81
raised through federal avenues 9
cial from counties. The mill levy apr
God Torment is as follows:
Idaho Oregon highway-Canyon
w $4,000, and Owyhee, $4,000.
Idaho-Utah highway-Bannock
ha $4,000; Franklin, $4,000.
IN North and South highway-Ko'
hill. mai county, $4,000; Benewah, $3.50
I1atah, $4,000; Nez Perez, $42,0
enc Lewis, $4,000; Idaho, $2S5,000;
vid. Jams, $125,000.
.nd Panhandle highway-Boundary
S$D2. 900; Bonner, $4,000; Koote
,ds $4,000. j
: - North Pacific highway-Shos
,he Co., $4,000; Kootenai, $4,000.
Lewis and Clark highway
!, hor !Perne, $4,000; Clearwater. $27,
ana \ Idaho, $4,000.
.rd Idaho Central highWay-Elmol e
mo $4,000; Camas, $4,000; Blaine,
,vitn. 900. Butte $4,000. /
Siawtooth' Park highway-Li i
Co., $4,000; Blaine, 100000; Gu
800 AGO. 7 ,amhi. sos 600