Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-04-01
IDAHO NEWS PARAGRAPHS
Recent Happenings In This State
Given in Brief items for
Busy Readers.

| Al 0Otuf Acne, SATURDAY, MI. ana
Mrs. II. 0. Helgesen celebrated their
golden wedding.
Five hundred persons attended the
community banquet given at Rath-
drum recently in honor of the re-
turned soldiers and sailors.
Fire completely destroyed the large
barn on the premises of John Carey
at Occur d'Alene saturday The barn
contained valuable furniture and be-
longings in storage. Efforts were
confined to saving Mr.. Careys home.
The loss is estimated at $4,000
Pearl Bailey has returned to Occur
d'Alene City from a trip up the lake,
where he had been making prepare
tions for the big Occur d'Alene river
drive for the Shoshone Lumber COM
pany. Mr. Bailey has picked 30 men
to handle the $4,000, OOO-foot drive
this spring.
A. Il. Alger of Occur d'Alene has
received word from his son, Russell
Alger, in France, stating that he had
AtNClNtu al u lOuT
months university work in Paris. He
will study French language and Fran
co-American relations. Russell Alger
is a graduate of the Occur d'Alene
high school and had taken higher ed
ucational work at Washington State
college and the University of Idaho.
He went overseas with the 25th en-
gineers.
Mining School Succeeds.
Students enrolled under the federal
board of vocational education and the
state of Idaho not only added to their
knowledge of mining methods, but
earned wages at the regular rate in
recent weeks, according to f. II.
Skeels, director of school No /, Morn
ing mine, Mullan, Idaho, in an Off
cial report.
Political Plums Fall.
William J. Hall of Wallace was
given the portfolio of commissioner of
public works, recognized as the most
important of the nine cabinet posi-
tons created by the last legislature
in the new law changing the system
of ldaho's government next Monday.
Mr.. Hall has for the last few years
been. assistant manager of the Fed
eral Mining company at Wallace. He
is considered well qualified to take
the position of commissioner of pub
lie works, which carries with it SUI
peryision of all building operations of
the state, including the expenditure
Fof $9000,000 for the erection of two
wings to the state capitol and the ex-
penditure of millions on Idaho roads.
jay Gibson, present state bank com
missioner, is to be commissioner of
commerce and industry and head that
department. Governor Davis announ-
ces. 1t has been conceded for some
time that Mr.. Gibson would be given
the position. Besides having charge
of his present department he will al
so supervise the state insurance de-
partments.
The cabinet went into power Mon
day. Idaho is the second state to
adopt it, Illinois being the first
otdte survey assured.
with the signing by Governor
Davis of house bill No. 40 there has
been created in Idaho bureau Of
mines and geologn, which, if proper
ly directed and adequately supported,
should in time become an important
factor in the development of the min
eral resources of the state" says
Francis A. Thomson, dean of the
Idaho mines school.
"The board of control for this bu-
reau is composed of Governor d.
w Davis, as chairman; the presi.
dent of the Idaho Mining associa-
ton, Jerome j. Day of Moscow; the
professor of geology at the UNIVERSE
ty of Idaho, ID. c. Livingston; the
state mine inspector, Robert N. Bell,
and myself as dean of the school of
mines, as executive secretary.
THE initial appropriation is $780,
600 for the biennium, the general dis
tribution of which is provided for
by the act as follows:
For cooperation work with the
United States bureau of mines, $751;
600, to be matched by a like appro-
priation from federal funds; for CO.
operative topographic and geologic
work with the United States geolog-
ical survey. $4,000, which also is to
be matched by similar federal APP
preparation; for general geological
economic investigation of the min
eral resources of the state, $4,000.
The new bureau will therefore be
the means of expanding in mining,
metallurgical Investigations and in
geologic and topographic surveying
the sum of $4,000 during the pres
ent biennium.
'The first board meeting is to be
held at Boise on Monday, April Z, at |
which time plans will be adopted |
outlining in a general way the work |
of the next two years.
"The cooperative work in topo-
graphic surveying will be of fully |
as great value to the agricultural |
and forestry interest of the state as
IN the mining industry