Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1894-01-25
OF STATE INTEREST.
School Laws of the State to be
Had in Convenient
Form.
Unfair Newspaper Criticism
About a Useful School
Publication.

The officers and members OF the state
administration have expected that their
work would be subject to a great deal
OF newspaper criticism and unfair COM
ment. This expectation, it. seems, has
been realized quite fully. One instance
of this is shown in the statement made
by the Casselton Republican and copied
by other papers, among them the Capital,
who are seeking to discredit the admin
istration by any kind of means. The
particular criticism referred to in this
case is. that the state superin tendent of
public instruction has caused to be
printed the school laws of the state at an
''enormous expense The reckless
statement is also made, that this piece
of extravaganza goes to swell the other
numerous outrages that this admlnlstra-
tion has perpetrated on the taxpayers Of
the state"
AS a matter of plain fact the superin-
tendent of public instruction shows that
the publication of the school laws is
made necessary at least once 10 two
years. by the law itself. In addi
tion to the requirement above men
toned. which is found on page II, section
10 of the general school laws of the state.
the supply OF school laws left from 1891
was very nearly exhausted. If the new
laws had not been printed it would have
been necessary to have had the entire
edition of 1891 laws reprinted. The two
chapters of the 1891 law regarding school
lands were entirely changed by the last
legislature and condensed into one, so
that it would have been 1mpracticable
to have incorporated the changes in the
new law IN the old laws. or IN any other
form than the pamphlet which has been
gotten out.
The publication which has reused
the Ire Of the newspapers referred to. is
in reality a valuable assistance to every
school and school officer IN the state, and
to everyone interested in schools and
school lands. It is document we'll
worth the preparation and small cost.
All the laws of the state referring to the
public schools, to the educational instl-
tutions, and to the school and public
lands appropriated for use Ct schools, are
given in convenient form and easy for
reference. The laws relating to school
districts, to school bonds, taxes. special
laws, &C., are taken from the mass of the
state laws and put in shape where any
one can readily turn to them. In addl-
t1on to the work being required by law.
it seems to have been we'll done. The
Importance of the school interests to
every comfy in the state certainly ad-
mits OF the collection of the laws IN a
pamphlet form, which can be bad by
every school officer II the state. without
cost.
Steele Ozone: Last Saturday the
Benjamin house at Dawson was sold un-
der foreclosure proceedings. 1t was bid
| IN by John Rockafellow for $1,000. The
building was built in 1882 at an outlay
OF nearly $4,000, and is one of the largest
in the state. 1t was constructed by f.
w. Benjamin, late Judge Of kidder coun-
ty, and was the means of breaking him
financially. The Benjamin house is in
the shape OF an E, with three full stories
all around, painted and hard finished
throughout, and was furnished in most
expensive style. 1t was bad financial
move similar to that at Hope in Steele
county.
Rev. d. f. Baldwin. of 0hurchs Ferry,
was acquitted OF the charges and COM
plants against him at the church trial at
Minnewaukan, last week. The charges
we're OF very petty character and first
appeared in the Beusou County News.
Editor Carver, who was one Of the COM
planning witnesses, comments on the re-
suit as follows: "We make few notes
on the testimony given at the trial and
then drop the case, perfectly willing to
leave 1t IN the hands Of the All Wise One
whose judgement is infallible and who
will some time render just and right
eous judgement IN the case Rev. Bald
win is not the minister who formerly
was pastor OF the Methodist church at
this place.
The Milton Globe says that John Bid
lake, who was superintendent Of Midway
Plalsance at the Worlds fair, was given
by exhibitors the finest collection Of
photographs and foreign curioslties that
was made at the Worlds fair. Bidlake
was very popular with all exhibitors.
He has just been appointed United
States consul at Barranquilla, the post
formerly occupied by johnson Nickeus.
The Churchs Ferry Snn issued a cred