The Bemidji pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minn.) 1896-1917, 1901-09-05
Capital
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court. under authority conferred by the
last legislature, has found itself con-
| fronted by an apparently endless
amount OF work "A revision Of the
Minnesota statutes was made in 1856,
| and since that time the statute books
have become incumbered with a great
mass Of conflicting laws. many OF
which will have TO be repealed. In
Massachusetts, where the laws were re-
yised. and complied In 1881. the COM
mission now at work has recommended
the repeal of something over 5000 OBJ
| solete acts which have been rendered
| imperative by subsequent enactments,
although never specifically repealed;
and the commission is still at work.
| The work of the Minnesota commits
| sion up to the present time has been
| largely preliminary. Scrap books have
! been made containing all laws passed
| within the past seven years. Others
contain the decisions Of the supreme
court, annotated for easy reference.
| With tAe aid OF these books, the revised
| statutes Of 1866 and a private cornpila-
ton issued by law publishing concert
| In 1884. the commission Is now about
ready to get down to business.
Judge Daniel Fish OF Minneapolis,
member OF the commission, says the
confusion seems interminable and that
| the laws are In even worse shape than
| the legislature realized. There are all
sorts Of acts upon the statutes which
have since been declared unconstitu-
tional and which must be removed.
There are two log lien laws, diamet-
really opposed to each other on vital
points, both Of which are In full force
and effect. The chapter relating to
the formation Of corporations has been
amended time and again, until now II
| IL hopeless confusion, and the. dairy and
food act Is also in a bad way owing 10
carelessness, an amendment when
should have been passed simply as an
amendment to Session. 1 of that act,
having been made to apply to the en-.
tire law, so that all following sections
We're virtually repealed, although such
was not the intention. There IS
constitutional provision against special
legislation, with which. In the opinion
of Judge Fish, the sheehan home rule
bill Is inconsistent. Taking III all to-
gether the commission has, found itself
with very much tangled legal skein
that must be unraveled and set to
rights. The body meets biweekly at
the capitol.
The summer training schools held
this year in forty-seyen places in the
state were unusually interesting ana
profitable. The reports now in the
office Of State Supt. Olsen show an at
tendance of more than 1000, with an
average attendance daily Of 3,206. The
figures do mot include the summer
school at the university nor the COM
binef school at Simpson, Big Stone
Lake. S. p.
The largest Individual school report
ed was ut Mankato. 1t had an enroll
ment OF 245 students with an average
daily attendance Of 166. The school at
Simpson was combination Of two
schools, teachers going from both Min
nesota and South Dakota. 1t had an
enrolment of 2H students.
The average age Of the teachers at
tending the school was twenty and the
average age at which they began TO
| teach was eighteen. The report or the
| schools show that $40 Of the teachers
attending were high school graduates:
1922 were normal school graduates ana
Sc had college education There We're
Ego first grade certificates, 1877 second
grade and 7O1 third-grade held by the
teachers attending the summer schools.
Among the improvements introduced
| into the summer schools this year was
1.-The model school which Is similar TO
1 the city training schools. 1t was found
to be q great help to the teachers In
| giving them a knowledge of the raeth-
DDS employed in the best schools.
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| state Auditor Dunn has arranged
twelve land sales in the northern part
Of the state. The sales last year We're
cancelled because of poor crops, ana
1.-The fact that the lists contained nuns
her Of delinquent tracts on which the
owners could not then have redeemed.
/ The sales will be held in Wadena.
Becker, Clay, Otter Tail, Rosean, NOR
man. Polk, Marshall Kittson, REQ
Lake, Morrison and Benton counties.
| The places and dates of sales are:
| Wadena. $3.50 p. M, Monday, Oct Z.
Detroit, 0 a. M, Wednesday, Oct .. T
! Moorhead. 8 a. M, Thursday, Oct. 10.
| Fergus Fails, 1890 a. M, Friday, Oct.
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| Roseau, 10 a.. m, Saturday, Oct. H.
Ada, 9 a. M, Monday, Oct. IA.
| crookston, 10 a. M, Tuesday. Oct. 10.
Marren, II a. m, Wednesday, Oct. 10.
Hallock, p. m, Thursday. Oct. ~.
Red Lake Falls, p. M, Friday, Oct.
IS.
Little Falls, 2 p. m, Tuesday, Oct. ~.
Foley, A p. M, Wednesday. Oct 23
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| seyenty-four cases of smallpox were
reported to the state board of health
for the two weeks ending Aug. 20. This
Is a decrease of so per cent from the
| previous two weeks. The largest num-
Der of cases Is from Todd county. There
were twenty-three cases in Grey Eagle
township. st. Louis county has twelve
new cases, of which eleven are IN
| Fioodwood.
Bills amounting to S1,613 were pre-
sented to the state auditing department
for oil used in killing grasshoprers In
| the Red river valley during the last
spring and summer. When the grass
hoppers appeared Gov. Van SAINT sent
Prof. Forbes, acting state entomologlst,
to fight them. AS an Involvement TO
| farmers TO make a vigorous fight with