The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-01-31
IDAHO BUDGET

Of the Western Retail Lumbermen ut
Boise, February 1922 are virtually
completed.
Ada, Gem, Twin Falls and Payette
counties are the big apple producers,
and the outlook for the coming season
Is especially bright in Payette county.
A civil service examination will be
held in Pocatello February IS, to Sc
lect a candidate for postmaster at that
place, the position paying $500 per
annum.
Judging from the number of entries
for the rabbit and pet stock show to
be held In Caldwell February 4, 5 and
!, 6, the show will be one of the biggest
In the state.
The students army training corps
having been demobolized; the Univer-
sity Of Idaho military department at
Moscow Is now reorganizeds upon the
reserve officers training corps basis.
Eleven western states will be repre-
sented at the Western Dairy Products
show, Western Dairy Instructors as
ISOLATION, and Western Dairy confer
ence, to be held at Boise, February
TO- II and -.
The county commissioners of Valley
county have rented rooms in the Cas-
cade school building to accommodate
the county officers who have had Of
fees scattered over the town since
the creation Of the county,.
Not a single case of influenza has
developed at the university at Moscow
since the opening of the winter quar-
ter, January 6. A physical examina-
ton Of every member Of the student
body has failed to reveal even a sus-
pect.
DISBURSEMENTS from the state insur-
ance fund for payment of claims under
the wOrkmen's compensation act were
$63 1896 during the first 10 months of
operation Of the fund, and the income
from premiums, fees and penalties was
$245,71
Twelve thousand acres of state land
in Madison county, which was ill
volved in the Rexburg land sale can
celled by the former land board, may
again be put up at auction, it was in
dictated at the meeting of the state
land board last week. =
Because of an estimated saving of
$40 for every dollar expended in poi
soned bait to kill rodents during the
past year in Blaine county, the county
commissioners have increased the ap-
preparation for this work from $500
for 1918 to $500 for 1919.
Lemhi county, through temporarily
organized farm bureau, has requested
the services of an agricultural agent
and the county commissioners have
made appropriations which with state
and federal funds available, will more
than meet all necessary expenses.
Wong Hong, Chinese laundryman
from Cascade, was the victim Of a
murderous assault in Chinatown at
Boise. He was knocked down with the
butt of revolver, fearfully beaten
about the head and face and robbed Of
a sum Of money estimated at 5000.
That Idaho will next year be a
greater factor in the fruit business of
the northwest is the belief of Harvey
Alfred, retiring director of the state
farm markets bureau, who has COM
pleted survey Of the state on several
of the more important fruit lines.
Lemhi, the banner beef county of
Idaho, is still turning off about 700U
beeves year for the hungry multi
tudes of the east. In order to confirm
her claim to leadership in beef produc-
ton, she now has at least dozen |
heavy breeders of Shorthorn stock of
renowned pedigree.
Certified copies of the house joint
resolution which made possible prompt |
ratification by the state legislature of |
the federal prohibition amendments |
have been forwarded to the presi-
dent, ,the speaker of the house of |
and the president of |
the senate from the office of Governor |
Davis.
The Boise Statesman says the use
by Charles Scribner & Sons of maps of |
Idaho issued in 1915 in the History of
Idaho," written by C. ]. Brosnan of
Nampa, gives Idaho one more county
than it is entitled to, the new book
Selway county as proposed In
an enabling act passed by the 18th
legislature, which the citizens later
voted down.
The State Swine Breeders associa-
ton at the Twin Falls meeting took
steps toward the organization of dis
trict associations in four districts In
to which the state is to be divided, and
elected officers as follows: President
George Lawshe, Jerome; vice presi-
dent, A. ]. lockwood, Roswell; secre-
William Kerr, Boise.
During the recent epidemic of In
1uenza at Albion and vicinity 300 cases
we're reported at one time. AS there
vas no resident doctor in that section,
he conditions were unusually difficult
or the people to meet. However, few