The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-02-11
IDAHO STATE NEWS

1lflh annual twenty-mile dog race at |
Ashton. scheduled for February -.
Loss of 5000 was caused last week
when fire destroyed the home of A. ID.
Boylan, seven and one-half miles west
of Bull.
Dozens of protests are going to Boise
against the proposal to change the tu-
berculosis hospital fund to the credit
OF the state insane asylum.
The outlook for sheepmen is improy-
ing and conditions are better. This is
the view of Hugh c. Wood, general
manager of the Wood Livestock com
pany of Spencer.
The hrst cooperative creamery in
Power county opened last week at
American Falls with a heavy run Of
fine butter. 1t is operated by nearly
$50 farmers of Power and Bingham
counties
Directors of the Twin Falls Canal
company have announced reductions
in salaries of employees of the corpora
ton affecting all salaried departments
from the general manager TO ditch
laborers
County auditors of Idaho effected a
permanent organization at a meeting
ut Boise. Plans were made for the
holding of the next annual convention
of the auditors and Il tentative consti-
tuition was presented
Directors of the Twin Falls cham
Der of commerce have passed resolu-
tons protesting against pending egis-
lation, which, ii is asserted, would
abolish the office of the state COM
missioner of education
Efforts are being made to get the
federal fish hatcheries to stock the
back waters of the Miner. dam. Lake
Walcott at Minidoka dam and back
waters of the proposed American
Falls dam with game fish.
Members of the "Muckers club n
University of Idaho organization COM
posed of students in the college of
mining engineering, have announced
their decision TO wear at all times "a
fic.ally selected leather ties.
Apportionment of the moneys in the
public school interest fund has been
made by Ethel +. Redfield. state SUI
perintendent of public instruction. The
total amounts to So96 27337. which will
he divided among the fortyfour coun-
ties.
MinidOka county has valuation OF
$14,Sl2, 495 in lands and buildings, ac-
cording to figures given in the agri-
cultural census made in 1919 and just
published The number of farms is
given at 1924. The average yield of
hay is 3.74 tons per acre.
The Carey Valley Reservoir com
pany. engaged in installing the Carey
irrigation project i'm Blaine county
has been successfully financed. Work
on the project has been in progress
for two years. About 'S30O,UOO has
been spent in the construction.
A. A. Amos, former member of the
police force in Boise. turned highway
man recently and, with Albert Mof
felt. held up number of Chinese
gardeners, robbing them of severa
hundred dollars He is now occupying
cell in the state penitentiary
Total cost to the state of Idaho fol
the instruction and maintenance in thu
higher educational institutions for th'
year 1920 amounted TO Sl,l4S,2S6.1o ]
is shown in report submitted by th'
state board of education at the reques
of certain members of the house.
Dad" Allen, who was the last sur
vivar of the battle between the keaf
sarge and the Alabama off the eoas
of France. has joined his shipmate
ON the "other side" Allen died las
week at the little station of Owyhe
on the Oregon Short Line railroad
Charles A. Elmer, state commission
or of public investments and mem
her of Governor Davis cabinet in tn
state commission form of government
dropped dead while going from hi
home to the state house To work Hear
trouble was the cause of his sudde
passing away.
The secretary of agriculture, In con
pliance with the recommendation mao
nv Senator GOoding and Represents
ing the requirement that grazing fee
on forest reserves shall be paid IN
spring thirty days in advance of ORR
ing stock into the reserves, and 81
tending the time for payment to Al
gust l.
Resolutions providing that the raj
roads serving the northwest take IN
mediate steps toward the adiustmef
of their rates ON all products of IN
soil produced in the northwest an
seeking eastern markets. "as vi
nearly a. may Ice restore the relation
ship of rates which existed prior to u
war" were passed ri the shippers-c'
riers' conference nj Boise.
The county auditors. in session
Boise. went on record as being +"
posad Ia the passage of the propose
Witty bill. which provides for the 10
fRer extension of time on the paYhe