The Kendrick gazette., 1920-12-10
IDtaO NEWS PlaieRlPbS
George }. Davis Killed.

George J. Davis Killed.
4 BARSTOW, Cal.-George J. Davis,
a painter Of Pocatello, Idaho, was
killed in the freight yards OF the
Salt Lake route here Saturday when
he tried to board moving train.
pr. A. K. upham Given Reception.
\ COW.-Saturday there was a
large attendance OF Moscow and Uni
versity, of Idaho people present at
the reception rendered DR.. A. H. Up
ham the new president of the uni
versity.
Many Judgeships to Supply.
BOISE. The general switching OF
judgeships due to the ratification Of
q constitutional amendment increas-
ing the number of judges on the su-,
preme court bench gives Governor
Davis an opportunity to fill number
of positions on the bench.
ear-Traeedy.
SPOKANE.-Enraged because his
foster daughter, Miss Daisy Fehl-
''haber, age 19, would not return home
with him, Thomas Ridout, age So. a
Northern Pacific section foreman at
Occur d'Alene threw carbolic acid IN
the girls face Saturday. .Ridout then
attempted suicide by swallowing BIZ
schloride of mercury tablets which he
had on his person. =
Matt Dowd Furnishes 5000 Bond.
LEWISTON, Idaho-Matt Dowd,
former well-known Lewiston business
man who forfeited $2500 bond and dis
appeared in November, 1918, while
waiting trial on statutory charge.
has arrived here again in custody OF
Sheriff Porter Shaffer. Dowd was
arrested in San Francisco on bench
warrant. The charges against Dowd
we're based on evidence in probate
court of Mary Evans and Inez Platt,
minors, against whom the statutory
offense was alleged. The girls later
were sent to the state reform school.
Judge Scales released DOwd on $4,000
cash bond and set December Z for
his hearing.
Reoraanize Live Stock Show.
N.-Reorganization OF the
Northwest Live Stock Association
preparatory to incorporation as a
stock company was completed Sat
urday when an executive committee
of II was named by President E. j
Iddings and R. s. Erb, chairman OF
the reorganization committee. The
committee is as follows: A. A. Sea
borg, Henry Thiessen, J. L. Chapman
w. j. Jordan, E. J. Iddings, F. s
Randall, O. M. Mackey, E. A. Cox
]. e. Kincaid, H. H. s. Rowell ano
In. s. Erb. The association will bt
incorporated for $4,000 and ovel
$50, 900. in shares Of 500 each have
already been pledged. Shares art
sold on the basis of $40 annually
for 10 years.
For Land Timber, $2,sos, 1886.
During the biennium OF 1919-192'
the state land board sold 1892,
| acres of state land for a total OF 81,
| 8O9,9S5 and timber covering 2O,76'
acres for $957,4s7," says the STATE
land commissioner of Idaho.
"Total sales for this period hav'
amounted to $3,767,473.
"This money is all placed at inter
est, most Of it at per cent, ant
yields approximately $230,OO0 to tn
benefit of the common schools ant
special state grants for which it com
poses a perpetual fund, the interes
alone from which may be used. Th
state now has about $14,0O0,0O0 o
such money invested, from which, tc
i gether with the leases, the state bene
fits a million dallars yearly.
j The land sales for the last tW'
4 wears almost doubled the precedin
period in volume at an increases
4 price of so per cent per acre, an
1.-THE timber sales quadrupled Il
volume and in price received.
1 "In 1918 the unsurveyed state Ian
within the forest reserves, amount
ing roughly to half million acres
was exchanged for other land. TIL
law then was construed not to PEI
init the exchange Of the surveye
land, of which there is about 10000
lacres. Now, according to recen
decision of the supreme court, thi
may be done, and theer is a propos
;, ton under consideration for the e.
change of these lands for a compae
lhlock on the forest-reserve borders.