Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-25

AROUND the 0tate !
'use-% ;
| ing water, so the public will anxiously
await the final report of DR.. Ruedige'
. Friday Oct. 10, has been set aside
as School Day for the Industrial Elk
{ position. 1t is not known just why
Friday, the 18th should have been
hit upon for the educators and edu'
| cational institutions to have their in.
ming unless it is to discourage the
old superstition that Friday is an IN
lucky day, and that an unlucky mum.
Der should attach itself to the immut.
able laws of time and space, renders
the situation all the more strange,
The handsome premiums provided
for this department will prove at.
tractive and all the county and city
superintendent of schools in The
state have been urged to contribute
Supt. Taylor is in communication
with the school officers and he Is firm
in the belief that the showing made
by the North Dakota schools will be
something to excite pride. Able edu-
Gators will be present on this oc.
casion and will deliver short address.
es. School Day promises to be a
feature of the big show.
w. A. Godward, formerly superin-
tendent of the Devils Lake schools
was at the state capitol today. He
is looking up the record of the coal
lands of the state and incidently
visiting old friends.
Miss Fannie Slattery, one of the
stenographers in the state land de-
partment Is confined to her home to-
day by illness.
Another officer of North Dakota
has had his pay stopped. This time
the victim is J. D. Herman, of West
Superior, Wis. Back in 1905 law
was enacted authorizing the cover.
nor of North Dakota to appoint an
inspector Of warehouses for the state.
The appointment went to J. D. Kern.
an, of West Superior who holds the
job for Wisconsin. The appointment
was for two years at $25 month.
The statute makes no provision for
and Herman held on
until 1911. Then some vigilent de-
putty in the state auditors office dis.
covered that the state had been pay
paying out $500 a year without war.
rant of law for a period of three years
or more Something like 81 900 Of
good cash has been going to West
Superior with no hope Of return. The
bills escaped the critical eyes of the
auditing committee and were paid
regularly until week ago. Then the
end came and If North Dakota main
tains an in spector of warehouses at
Superior he will have to serve with
out pay.
The following complimentary letter
has been received at the Office of
the state auditor:
August II, 1911.
Hon: D. X, Brightbill,
State Auditor,
Bismarck, N. D.
Dear SIR
want to thank you very cordially
for your compliance with my request
for information from your office The
material received is in every way
satisfactory and covers the ground
carefully. have on many occasions,
in the course of reseach work cover.
ing several years, to apply to public
officials or boards for information,
and l have never had an application
so fully and satisfactorily answered,
or not in a spirit of greater courtesy.
Again thanking you for your kind and
careful advice, am,
Very truly yours
T. G. Pyle.
1t may be added in this connection
that the state auditor is not alone in
a display of courtesy. There is not
a department at the state house lack
ing in courtesy, yet few people of the
outside acknowledge it with such fine
discretion and grace as Mr.. Pyle has
shown in his letter.
Application for charter mas been
made to Secretary of State Morton
by the Williston Elks Home Associ-
alton, of Williston, N. D., The pur.
poses of this corporation is to build
and maintain an Elk's Home, to pur-
chase real estate, transfer the same
to lease ground and to do all things
CONSTANT with such an enterprise.
The corporation is to have three d.
rectors and the ones to serve the frs
term are Austin johanna, Nicholas
Hays and Thomas Mckay. The off,
GERS in addition to the above named
are l.. s. Champine, president; Nicho-
las Hays, vice4presdent; Aaron J.
Bessie, secretary. The line of the
corporation s SO years. The capital
stock is $25 900 divided into 250
shares of 500 each.
A charter has been issued to the
Northern Security company, located
at Mnot, N D. The purposes of the