White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-02-06
Idaho News

payment of bounties on predatory ami
mails. By repeating this law the stats
is saving about $500 day, as this is
the rate at which bounty claims were
being filed with the commissioner Of
agriculture The bill was introduced
in the senate by McMurray of Cassia
Governor Moore also received the
child labor amendment as passed by
congress, which he will transmit &c
the legislature for action. There Is
widespread speculation as to what &C
ton the legislature will take. Ratln
cation is by no means certainty.
BOISE-Following "a meeting be
tween federal and state officials al
which money for highway projects
was appropriated it was announced
that for highways in the state there
will be expended in the next two
years $1,261,554. OF this s144,0O0 is
state money, the remainder coming
through the forest service through
. federal government. According to the
apportionment made, $736,092 is avail
able for the year ending June 30,
1926, and $525, 461 for 1927.
BOISE. Governor Moore submitted
the proposed twentieth amendment to
the federal constitution to both houses
of the legislature recently, with mes
sage which made no recommendation,
according to report from the COVER
nor's office. The official document
from Secretary of State Hughes went
to the house and followed the regular
order Of business by being referred to
committee.
BOISE.-Word comes from Wash
ington, d. c., that Senator Borah, Re-
publican of Idaho, declared in the
senate recently that American agri-
culture faces destruction unless exces-
sively high taxes are reduced immedi-
ately. In nine years farm taxes have
doubled and the annual rate Of in
crease is per cent, Borah said. Bo-
rah declared the recent Improvement
in agriculture was due to crop failures
abroad and to the operation Of the
Dawes PREPARATIONS commission. He
warned however, that the Dawes plan
was "only temporary in character,
and that farmers were facing disaster
if they expected the Dawes plan to
solve their troubles permanently.
american farmers will make seri-
GUS mistake" Borah warned, IF they
attribute to temporary relief either
from the chrop failures abroad, or the
effects of the Dawes plan-what they
hope will become permanent benefits"
BOISE Fifty-four bills had found
their way into the hopper of the SEN
ate on the twentieth day Of the Eigh-
teenth session. Fourteen Of these
have been withdrawn by their au-
thors, one was postponed indefinitely,
four have been passed and the rest
are in the hands of committees COM
ing up for second reading.
BOISEEReturn to the house Of
H. B. No. 49,. the proposed statewide
2-mill school tax, with the recon-
mendation that it pass, opened again
the fight that has held an important
place in two preceding legislatures.
The bill was reported back by the edu-
cation committee. 1t was introduced
by Magleby of Madison and Taylor OF
Teton, neither Of whom is on the edu-
cation committee. 1t is proposed to
use the proceeds Of this tax for the
public schools Of the state and it
would be levied on all property of the
state. Northern counties have al
ways fought the bill because they
would pay a large share of the tax
and receive but small portion back
because it is apportioned on the basis
of the number Of school children in a
county. Southern counties would
profit generally by the law.
MOSCOW-Miss Pearl Tooley, an
employee in the drygoods department
Of David's department store, has been
notified that she and her three Sis.
ters, who were left orphans some
years ago and placed in the children's
home at Lewiston, have fallen heir
to $4,000. An uncle, who died in
France during the World war. had
willed his war insurance to the
mother Of the girls. Miss Tooley has
made her home here many years with
the Rev. and Mrs. G. M. Yearout. She
has not determined what she will do
with her share Of the money. News Of
the legacy came as surprise.
LEW1STON-Figures recently COM
piled by Fire Chief Sidney Bounds #
the Lewiston fire department shows
that the local department had splen-
did record for the year 1924. The rec
ords show clearly that the fire haz-
ards are being reduced in Lewiston
year by year and the efficiency Of the
department increased.
BOLSE-In an effort to tune in"
with station lying in the direct path
Of the total eclipse, effective in east
ern United States, Harry E. Redeker,
radio instructor at Boise high school,
was successful between 7:10 and $40
o'clock on January "a, in picking up a
/, program broadcast from station WTP,
Philadelphia, Pa, owned and operated
by Gimbel Brothers. The accom- plish-
ment; Mr., Redeker said. was unustIal.