Divorces may be obtained after residence of
six months on the ground of adultery, cruelty, desertion or neglect for
one year, habitual drunkenness for the same period, felony or insanity.
There are a state penitentiary at Boisé, an Industrial Training School
at St Anthony, an Insane Asylum at Blackfoot, and a North Idaho Insane
Asylum at Orofino. The care of all defectives was let by contract to
other states until 1906, when a state school for the deaf and blind was
opened in Boisé. No bureau of charities is in existence, but there is a
Labor Commission, and a Commissioner of Immigration and a Commissioner
of Public Lands to investigate the industrial resources. The offices of
State Engineer and Inspector of Mines have been created.
_Education._--The public schools in 1905-1906 had an enrolment of
62,726, or 81.5% of the population between 5 and 21 years of age. The
average length of school term was 6-8 months, the average expenditure
(year ending Aug. 31, 1906) for instruction for each child was $19.29,
and the expenditure for all school purposes was $1,008,481. There was
a compulsory attendance law, which, however, was not enforced. Higher
education is provided by the University of Idaho, established in 1899
at Moscow, Latah county, which confers degrees in arts, science, music
and engineering, and offers free tuition. In 1907-1908 the institution
had 41 instructors and 426 regular and 58 special students. In 1901
the Academy of Idaho, another state institution with industrial and
technical courses and a preparatory department, was established at
Pocatello, Bannock county, to be a connecting link between the public
schools and the university. There are two state normal schools, one at
Lewiston and the other at Albion. The only private institution of
college rank in 1908 was the College of Caldwell (Presbyterian, opened
1891) at Caldwell, Canyon county, with 65 students in 1906-1907. There
are Catholic academies at Boisé and Coeur d'Alene and a convent, Our
Lady of Lourdes, at Wallace, Shoshone county, opened in 1905; Mormon
schools at Paris (Bear Lake county), Preston (Oneida county), Rexburg
(Fremont county), and Oakley (Cassia county); a Methodist Episcopal
school (1906) at Weiser (Washington county); and a Protestant
Episcopal school at Boisé (1892). The Idaho Industrial Institute
(non-denominational; incorporated in 1899) is at Weiser.
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