Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-11-26
MiIlions at Stake.

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Millions at Stake.
Assessments aggregating about $780,
100000 are at stake in suit argued
before the supreme court, when the
question of assessing leased elevator
and other leased railroad sites was sub
mitted, on appeal by both the plaintiff
"a leasing company-and the state,
from the decision of the Burleigh dis.
trfct court.
In the lower court, the claim by the
state on some sites was allowed and
on others rejected. The case involves
the taxation Of the sites of $500 ele
vators; 1000 lumber yards and 260
oil stations, most of which, it is said,
now escape taxation.
In opposition to the states plea, it
Is maintained that the sites are asses
sed as part of the rightofway of the
railroads. The land in question is
leased by the roads to the elevators
and other industries.
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Attacks on Regents Abandoned.
mo attempt will be made to hold
up the State Board of Regents, which
has the management Of the education
al institutions of North Dakota" is
a statement by man who formerly
has been active in attempting to at
tack the constitutionality of the i'm
migration bill and other measures.
Friends Of the plan urge that,
through the regents, a uniform system
Of education can be built up in North
Dakota; that the work of the institu-
lions can be correlated and co-ordi-
mated, without in any manner Grip
ping the individuality of the institu-
lions, and that the board will take
statewide view of the situation rath-
er than a local.
The board organized last July, has
inaugurated many improvements, and
has the survey of the state educational
institutions under way, as provided
under the law creating the board.
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May Recover Mileage.
E. G. Warren, former superintend-
ent of Ward county schools, must re-
turn all excess mileage charged by
him during his terms of Office. The
supreme court has reversed Judge
Leighton and, in ordering new trial,
declared that many of Warren's
charges were excessive and that the
county is entitled to recover. The
sum at stake is between $4,000 and
Sill, 900.
This case has been fought bitterly
in Ward county and entered into the
politics of the states attorneys Office.
The suit was brought by R. A. Nestos,
present states attorney.
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1860 School Children.
The tabulated report of the number
of children of school age and the
amount of tuition apportioned for this
quarter has been issued by the depart
ment Of education. This report shows
total school population of the state,
Of 1869 and the amount apportioned
$72,781.41.
Cass county leads all of the counties
in number of school children and the
amount of money received. Grand
Forks is second, Morton county third
and Burleigh county has 1888 pupils
Of school age and received $1,562.32.
Morton, the sister county across the
Missouri, with $3.50, receives $3.50.
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Hanna at Dedication.
Governor L. B. Hanna and E. J. Tay-
lor, state superintendent of public in
struction, have accepted invitations to
deliver addresses at the dedication of
the new $4,000 high school at Glen
Ullen.
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Commission Permits Changes.
The railroad commission was In SEES
sion here, hearing coal and telephone
rate cases. ]. H. Rosen, a Mandan
coal dealer, asked a lower state rate
for Montana and Wyoming coal and
also from Bismarck to points on the
500 and Northern Pacific. The Griggs
County Telephone Co. is allowed to
raise its rates as follows: Business
phones from 81 to $3.50, residence
phones from $3.50 to $1.75. On long
distance Jessie to Binford and Cop
perstown 10 cents and Cooperstown
to Binford, Is cents.
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u, s. judges Not Corrupt.
"The answer that the American ju.
dicary has to the charge of corrut.
tion," said Justice A. A. Bruce of the
North Dakota supreme court in an ad-
dress before the students of the law
school, lis that as class they have
little money" He added: THE late
Justice Harlan, after serving his coun-
try for a lifetime upon the supreme
court of the United States, and in
which time he decided cases that set
tied the right to billions of dollars,
left an estate Of only $4,000: