The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-24
NORTH DAKOTA !.
NO BUILDING now
Action Of Treasurer and Adjourn
ment Of Court Fatal to Hopes
Of Institutions.
Handicap on Education for a Year
Fate Of Murderer Rooney
Definitely Settled.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal. ...ss
Fargo, N. D., June 24.-The adjournment Of
the supreme court before the appeal in the case
against State Treasurer Mcmillan could be per-
fected is fatal to the erection of buildings at
the different state institutions this summer.
Even If decided in favor of the state the delay
will be too great, as twenty days are required
to reassemble the supreme court and ten days
more would be necessary for the arguments and
the decision. This would make 1t the latter
part of July. and 1t would be impossible to COM
plete any Of the proposed buildings by the time
college work is resumed this fall, and many
could not be made ready for the heating plant
before cold weather.
There ia much disappointment over the ad-
journment Of the supreme court as it was under
stood that body would wait a day or two till
the appeal could be prepared. Friends Of the
different state institutions are inclined to be
sore at State Treasurer Mcmillan for his abso-
Lutte refusal to help DISPOSE of the bonds. There
is not place but needs additional build
ings, and educational work in the state will be
handicapped for year.
Rooney Cannot Escape.
'John Rooney must hang. The supreme court
yesterday decided that lie must pay the death
penalty for the murder of Harold Sweet. The
case is one OF the NEST peculiar in the criminal
practice in this state. Rooney and two pals
attempted to hold up three young boys named
Sweet Of White Earth, Mimi, who We're camp
Ing on the outskirts Of Fargo last August whtle
on their way to the harvest fields. Rooney anG
Harold Sweet were engaged in scuffle, whel
the latter was fatally shot. Rooney was cap
tured by the other brothers, and his partners fled
Rooney was tried and convicted. The hearing
was during the legislative session, which passed
a bill requiring that all executions should b
In the state prison at Bismarck. The legisla
| ture also changed the law, requiring that si2
months must elapse between the date sentence
was imposed and the execution, as had formerly
been the practice. gt... .t.
After the measure had been signed by Gov
ernor White Judge Pollock sentenced Roone!
in March to be hanged June 20 in the stat'
prison. making the date only little over tire,
| months, he had not been informed of tn,
time extension. When he learned of the mistake
the prisoner was brought. back from Bismarck
and new sentence imposed, to become effectiv
in September. and conforming with the law.
| Rooney's lawyer appealed, holding that tn
| condemned man had been convicted under on
| law and sentenced under another, and that tn
| last law provided additional penalty In tina
| the time of preliminary imprisonment was e1
| tended three months and the sentence to b
! CARRIED out in the state penitentiary instead Q
| the county jail, The supreme court has, Jus
decided the new law is all right, and Rooney wi
be executed in September. = E,ej
He will be the first man to be hanged in th
| penitentiary and the first to be executed -unde
| the new law Rooney has long criminal recor
| Of having held up farm laborers here ever
| fall. ."r'