The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-28
NORTH DAKOTA
NORTH DAKOTA
BOND ISSUE CASE.
Fargo Attorneys Furnished a Legal
Opinion and Put In a Bill
for $500.
Question as to Liability Lies Be-
tween the State and Treas
urer Mcmillan.
spaoial to The Journal.

Special to The Journal. sg
Bismarck. N. D., Sept. 2s-A bill for legal
services aggregating something $500 has
been filed with the state of North Dakota for
payment by Newman, Spalding & Stambaugh.
OF Fargo The bill is for professional services
In the of State Treasurer Mcmillan, for
whom the firm in question furnished an opinion
regarding the status Of the $75O,O0O of bonds
authorized by the last legislature for the state
educa tional institutions.
When the matter of the state bonds first came
to the attention Of the people Of the state, it
was after, an opinion had been obtained by the
state treasurer from Newman, Spalding s, Siam
baugh that the bonds were unconstitutional and
that the state treasurer could not furnish the
mo for their purchase Following this opin.
money for the bonds. Then suit was brought
to force the payment for the bonds, in the;
nature Of test case, and the suit was de-
Tended for the state treasurer by the Fargo firm
being prosecuted for the state by Attorney Gen
eral Erich and Judge Corliss Of Grand Forks. It
is for these services that the bill Is now pre-
scented to the state.
SO far the bill has not been audited for pay
ment by the state auditing board, and question
will probably be raised as to whether the state
is liable for the claim or whether the claim
should be paid by the state treasurer himself
Those who should be informed say there is no
fund out Of which the claim could be paid, even
If 1t were just obligation of the state and that
tt is matter that would have to go to the legis-
lature for payment.
Fast Freight Run.
The 500 road is doing an extensive stock ship
ping business in this section and it broke its
record on the Bismarck extension Saturday, when
eighty-two carloads of stock shipped by farmers
and ranchmen in this locality, were taken over
the road to Chicago, arriving in Minneapolis in
a twenty-hour run from Bismarck, distance of
42O miles. The average speed maintained was
over twenty miles an hour.
Stockwell on State Aid.
State Superintendent Stockweu Is making a
trip thru the state inspecting the high schools
that have made application for state aid.
Speaking of the proposed extra session and the
needs of the educational institutions Mr.
Stockwen says that the educational institutions
are in need of state aid and that upon whether
they receive 1t or not depends to a large degree
their growth and usefulness.
1.-THE institutions are at that stage" said
he when they will either progress rapidly or
retrograde. It Is a critical time for all of
them, and naturally the state department Of pub
lie instruction would like to see them aided
financially, If 1t is possible to do so.''
Nine. de Mores to Give a Party.
Zine. de Mores, who expects to remain ten
days longer at Medora, has sent out invitations
to all the residents of Billings county to attend
an old style frontier Dance to be given by heI
! to the residents Of the county where her hus
band was one Of the most conspicuous figures
| twenty years ago. 1t will be held in the public
hall at Medora, the same place where Presi
| dent Roosevelt greeted his friends Of the COW
| country after he was elevated to the presidency