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Show FDR NEWSTATEj Northern Idaho Residents Will Raise Fund to Advance Project SPOKANE. Wash. Match 1 1 Northern Idaho residents, fosterinp formation of the oey state of Lincoln,; which would comprise ten counties of northern Id;. ho, a part Ol western .Montana .Mon-tana and eastern Washington, ;ue lol COtae 0 fntul to be used for propogan-j da purposfs, It WQS Htotecl bore today by Herman Taylor of tfnndpoint. Idaho. The campaign will be started within with-in a few v. ii its .: d will be carried on tor two years, he stated. The Idaho legislature recently passed favorably on the scheme to form the new slate of which Spokane would b the capital Mi. Taylor said residents of northern north-ern Idaho generally were unwilling to consider annexing of the northern part lof their state to Washington. North-'ern North-'ern and southern Idaho arc separated I by n hiKh range of mountains and this would be the southern boundary of tho state of Lincoln if It is formed. I'Our tentative plan.' Mr. Taylor as-serts. as-serts. "Is to put the question before the people whom it would concern. It is our purpose to put the matter before be-fore the Washlrgtoh legislature in 1928J |