Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1920-01-04

roads and bridges it appropriated. ell
Their directly or through bond issues,
81, 96S, 900. For buildings and repairs,
including Shoshone park and correc-
ton of river channels, 1t appropriated
$1,724,311.
For education. including appropria-
lions for the state bureau OF mines. for
the purchase of lands, for the indus
trial training school and the state deaf
and blind school, the Legislature ap-
propriated the sum of $2,460,616, or
more than for any other purpose.
A direct mill tax was levied for
road purposes which will bring In APP
proximately $1,S50,000. This sum is in
addition to the vast amounts raised by
counties and highway districts and
coming from the federal government
through the federal aid act. Alto
gether Idaho will have spent more than
SIT, 100000 for roads this year. 1t Is es-
timated.
FINISHING CAPITOL
Perhaps the most striking construc-
ton achievement made possible by the
last legislature will be the finishing Of
| the state capitol, Bonds to the
amount of 100000 for the addition
of the two wings to the main unit were
| authorized, and the work Is now under
way with provision in the contract
that the wings must be completed by
the last of next November.
Other appropriations for buildings
and repairs We're as follows:
Lewiston Normal. new administra-
ton building. $4,000; tuberculosis
hospitals, u of q mill tax, approximate
ly $1S7,50o; completion Soldiers Home.
! $4,000; new wings at Idaho state SAN
itarium, Nampa, 100000; dormitory
for women and kitchen at state peni-
tertiary, $4,000; psychopathic hospital
and furnishings at Idaho insane asy-
lum, Blackfoot, $12,500; isolation hos
pital and barns at north Idaho asylum,
$4,000; south wing University of Idaho
administration building, fire protection
system, walks, etc. $74,361; Lewiston
Normal, movable dormitories, venti-
lation system. $1,000; Albion Normal,
walks and lighting system. $4,000; Ida
no Technical Institute, Pocatello, COM
pletion of physical education building
heating plant improvements, campus
extension. $4,000: Idaho industrial
training school, girls building, granary
shed, $67,700; deaf and blind school,
Gooding, laundry, shop, etc., $6B,250.
FUNDS FOR EDUCATION
The detailed appropriations for ed
ucational purposes, including the deaf
and blind school and the industrial
training school, which are grouped UNI
der the educational department, and in.
GLIDING also federal aid projects, such
as the state bureau of mines, were al
follows;
Lewiston Normal, Sos, eco; vocation.
al education, $4,000; state board Of
education. 35S.150; University of Idaho
$1,123,8s2; Albion Normal. s1ss,000
Idaho Technical Institute, including
$4,000 to buy additional lands, $685.
900; state industrial training school
$3.50, 400; deaf and blind school, $3.50
074; state bureau Of mines and geolo
gy. $4,000.
For the general expenses Of the stat'
government an annual ad valorem ia,
Of 32,000.000 was levied.
FIVE AMENDMENTS
Five important constitutional amend
/, ments will be submitted to the voter
of Idaho at the next general election
} These include the following proposals
) That the state supreme court member
ship be increased from three to five
> that the jurisdiction of the supreme
I court be extended to the findings of tn
t public utilities commission; that tn
states bonded indebtedness limit b
Increased by t2.00O,000 to permit tn
/ issue of highway bonds and the avoid
ing Of q direct tax levy; that the stat
y may control and promote the develop
: ment of the unused water power with
/ in its borders; and that the state ma
sell annually 200 sections of schoo
: lands instead of 100 sections.
]. -->><
y The wives OF Siamese noblemen Gu
their hair SO that 1t stands straight u
on their heads. The averabe length /
about one inch and half.