The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-04-04
IDAHO NEWS PARAGRAPHS
Recent happenings In This State
Given In Brief Items for
6usy Readers.

At Occur d'Alene, Saturday, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. o. Helgesen celebrated their
golden wedding.
Henry Townsend. age u, veteran
Of the civil war, died at Occur d'Al-
enc recently.
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. Carey's home.
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
Pearl Bailey has returned to Occur,
d'Alene City from trip up the lake.
where he had been making prepare
tons for the big Occur d'Alene river.
drive for the Shoshone Lumber COM
pany. Mr.. Bailey has picked 80 men
tos handle the $4,000, 000-foot drive
this spring
A. E. Alger OF Occur d'Alene has
received word from his son, Russell
Alger, in France, stating that he had
received an appointment to four
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.
fino; ]. A. Lewis, section foreman of
Orofino; D. w. Smith, section hand;
Harry Smith, section foreman at Ar
ROW Junction, and two Italian section
hands were on speeder en- route
! from Orofino to Lewiston, making a
good rate of speed, when the speeder
encountered rock and the car was
hurled from the track The men were
all thrown some distance, and Krogh
plunged into the Clearwater ricer.
4 The Italian section hands escaped.
i Idahos public service commission
has served an order on railroads op-
Grated by the United States railroad
administration and on other public
utilities in the state that continued
violation of rules prescribed by law
as to notices to be given and condi.
tions to be observed when schedules
and tariffs are filed will no longer be
tolerated. Schedules and tariffs filed
under other than conditions prescrib'
ed by law will not be accepted as
binding or valid, the. commission de
clares in it's order =
Mining School Succeeds.
Students enrolled under the federal
state of Idaho not only added to theil
knowledge of mining methods, but
/ earned wages at the regular rate in
recent weeks, according to F. H
: Skeels, director of school No. /, Morn
J ing mine, Mullan, Idaho, in an Off
cial report.
Political PIums Fall.
William J. Hall of Wallace wal
given the portfolio of commissioner o
public works, recognized as the mos
important of the nine cabinet posi-
tons created by.t the last legislator,
in the new law changing the system
of Idaho's government last Monday
r Mr.. Hall has for the last few year.
Q been assistant manager of the Fed
. +eral Mining company at Wallace. HI
s is considered well qualified to talk
0 the position of commissioner of pub
: lie works, which carries with it su
J. pervision Of all building operations o
q the state, including the expenditure
+ of 100000 for the erection of tw
i wings to the state capitol and the ez
g penditure of millions On Idaho roads
I Jay Gibson, present state bank com
missioner. is to be commissioners o
n commerce and industry and head tina
J. department, Governor Davis amour
n ces. 1t has been conceded for som
= time that Mr.. Gibson would be give
the position. Besides having charg
of his present department he will al
3 SO supervise the state insurance d.
a
partments.
The cabinet went into power MOI
= day. Idaho is the second state t
= adopt it, Illinois being the first:
State Survey Assured.
Il with the signing by Governo
n Davis Of house bill No. 40 there ha
70 been created in Idaho a bureau {
c. mines and geology, which, If propel
n ly directed and adequately supporte,
.. should in time become an importar
70 factor in the development Of the mil
10 eral resources of the state" say
g. Francis A. Thomson, dean of tn
Idaho mines school.
"The board Of control Tor this b.
reau is composed of Governor !
u. w. Davis, .as chairman; the pres
d dent Of the Idaho Mining associ'
N ton, Jerome J. Day of Moscow; til
ar professor of geology at the Univers
:. ty Of Idaho. D. G. Livingston; th
state mine inspector, Robert N. Bel