Show COMMISSIONERS 1 HOLD CONVENTION Session in Boise This Week Develops Many Inter Interesting Interesting esting asUng Features LIVE TOPICS ARE DISCUSSED to Auditor Tn lor Says It Is Im Tm Impractical practical to Obey the Law Gov Governing Go Governing Taxation In lii Idaho Idalia OISE Idaho Dec 16 A three BOISE B 13 days day session of ot the tho county count com corn commissioners missioners of ot the state has Just come to a n close It is de declared lared to have been tho the most moat success successful successful successful ful meeting of or the hind kind ever held In Inthe Inthe Inthe the state Among tho the topics discussed and formed into resolutions tho the following Uniform good roads care caro of or feeble minded children I and constitutional amendments affect affecting affectIng ing log sheriffs and assessors Practically cally call every ever county count In the state was represented there being over 60 50 mom mem members hers bers present Meetings were held hold In Inthe Inthe inthe the hall hail of oC representatives In the capi capital capitol capitol tol tal Convention was wall called by b Gov GO Ii James H Brady who opened with a aI I speech setting tho the purpose of the I mooting and und for fOl consideration sug suggesting suggestIng gesting matters Like tho the assessors of the tho state In convention assembled the commis commissioners have found tho the tax tac system an nn unsolvable problem lem and have therefore had to evade ovado the direct question quention and pass resolutions favoring I better bettor legislation for fOI the tho present it itla ItIs itis Is la mutually understood un that they the will go on much in the same sarno way wa va as they have been in tho the past PMt though the course is in opposition to the tho law According to a n statement by b State Auditor Taylor it is impractical to obey the laws yet et embarrassing to toi i admit It Should the law bo be followed p and property be assessed at Its full value more than a n year veer ear would be wrung from the people for I 1 fixed taxes than are arc necessary for tor the H demand domand for which the tho tax is assessed I i The annual school tax tal for tor Instance Is 5 mills on tho dollar doliar lIar of oC valuation Should the tho valuation bo be arbitrarily in increased Increased increased creased four tour times tho the present amount Just four tour times tho present tax UlC would have havo to be paid There are 1110 a n half halt dozen or more special taxes provided by b law which require a 5 percentage levy upon valuations These funds now produce annually annual and an anthe the state auditor pointed out that should valuations bo be raised to a cash basis 1 these fixed funds would produce at least annually which is far tar in excess of tho the present needs neo A committee was appointed to draft recommendations making revision of ot tho the present revenue laws law which shall bo be presented to the tue next convention of oC the commissioners to bo be held In this city beginning the tho second Monday In December 1910 which convention It ItIs ItIs itis Is proposed will draft resolutions recommending to the eleventh ses sos session sessIon sion of oC tho the legislature tho the needed changes In our revenue system stem FEEBLE MINDED CHILDREN I In his opening address Governor Brady stated No 10 state stat in the Union takes better etter care of at its Insane Its deaf dear and und blind or of oC Its poor than Idaho But there thoro is a u class claes of oC unfortunates that the state has not properly pro provided vided for or and amI that Is the feeble mind minded minded minded ed children ren Ever sinco I have been identified with the civic life Uto of this state I have discussed this subject both privately end and publicly and nn I In Intend Intond Intend tend never to stop unless s my m voice tails falls me until these children have havo a ahome homo home and I feel teel and know that you OU will wiil do your our utmost to advance this cause causo Just as rapidly as possible The convention accordingly adopted a n resolution r favoring tho the erection of an institution for the tho education and care of the feeble minded children of oC the tho state the expense to be bo borne borno pro rata by b the counties In proportion to I the number of such children coming from the several counties GOOD ROADS The Tho good roads feature of the con convention convention consisted principally in an Il 11 Illustrated 1 d lecture by Prof S C Lancas Lances Lancaster tel ter of or Washington ton the keynote of whose whoso talk was Good roads mean progress Where here you OU have these ex Ox excellent excellent thoroughfares tho the standard of or citizenship is higher A bond Issue In Instead Instead instead stead of or working a hardship on any anyone anyone anyone one does docs quito the reverse and If IC you OU want to make the most of oC your our op opportunities opportunities opportunities and get et people to settle here you must bo be able ablo to show them I that you have excellent highways and that tho the muddy mudd roads have hao passed PURE FOOD CAMPAIGN The address of state slate pure puro food com corn commissioner missioner was one of the Interesting features of tho the convention This man who has hw waged such sueh a war against tho the slaughter houses and dairies In Inthis Inthis inthis this state turning things and raising Cain in general gave gao an account of oC himself and his doings before the commissioners who listen I ed cd with marked attention to tu all ho hud had to say S Mr SIr Vallis stated I that Inasmuch ns as asIa I he lIu considered that two of our main innia food products were cre meat and amI milli ho hc 11 had ha begun his warfare first on the slaughter houses and Hn the dairies and un as soon Hoon as ho gets these cleaned up lIP ho lie will start on something else Ho llo stated that the present law mw needs amending and that he ho will recommend to tho next legislature the tho creation of or ofa ora ofa a law compelling slaughter houses 10 to take tako out a license before they the can cando cando cando do business Said he Tho Tue most filthy conditions Imaginable now exist In III some somo of oC these places The Thc slaughter slaughterhouses slaughterhouses houses for or Instance are alo compelled by liv bylaw b law to bo be located beyond tho the limits of or an Incorporated town and then wo we forget all about them The chief of police considers tho Inspection of such sucha a 11 place out of ot his Jurisdiction jurls and und tho the county board of health which is com composed composed comPosed posed of tho the three commissioners and county health physician considers It has nothing to do 10 With them and the tho result of It Is the proprietor has hns been Immune from Interference It Is lEi dif hf different different ferent now no because tho the state has hastal taken tal en hold of these matters and an in intends Inton intends tends ton s that those thoRe who manufacture food shall do o so under proper sanitary con conditions FAVORS SECOND sECO T During the convention Gov Brady Brad went on record as ns n I favoring a a constitutional constitutional constitutional amendment which would woul permit sheriffs and an assessors to continue in of oC floo floe for more moro thou than one term torm A permanent organization was form formed formed formed ed by the commissioners electing Rob Robert Robert Robert ert Sterling of Shoshone county president resi resident dent and F R n Sherman of Twin Falls county count secretary I G SOCIETY lY Pursuant to a 11 call by Gov James H Brady Brad a good co crowd of or Interested per persons J persons r rIons sons Ions gathered at the state stale capitol and mid discussed the question of ot Idaho geog geography geography raphy and map making as M a result of ol which the Idaho Geographical society was as formed Tho Tue object of this organ oran organization shall be to study the physical features of the state tho the correction or of maps and the tho th provision of or names The Tho organization is to be lie statewide In its Ita It scope a member of tho advisory com corn committee committee to be selected from each bounty count The Tue permanent officers elected to head this society are ure James Jr president D C N Little vice Ico president pre Edward L Yells Wells secretary and treasurer t reI E S Wooster rooster S Belle Bello Chamberlain and G B Manis members of the executive committee ANOTHER DIVIDEND DIVI D DJu Judge Ju gO Fremont Wood ordered another dividend to be 00 paid yesterday by thu the defunct Capital State bunk bank of OOOO which Is Just 6 5 per cent of tho the money depositors had with aith tho the bank hank when It ItI I went vent ent to the wall ail This will not make mako 75 fi per cent of the Indebtedness paid or approximately |