Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-10-01
PARENTS
ARE GIVEN CHILD
SUPREME COURT OF NORTH pA.
koTA DECIDES CASE
AGAINST MOTHER.
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Bismarck.
The supreme court of the state of
North Dakota has awarded to Attor-
ney and Mrs. C. F. Clark of Cedar Rap
ids, Iowa, the S-year old boy whom Mr..
and Mrs. William J. Side of Flasher,
N. D., claimed as their own flesh and
blood. Mrs. Side tainted whsu the
decision was given. The plaintiffs, the
Sides, rested their case which had
been in progress for five days, and the
attorneys for the defendant submitted
the case without argument. The 1--WE
Judges retired and Is minutes later
returned.
Judge Fisk then arose and said;
"My heart goes out to the mother.
She has my sympathy, but the best
interests of the boy demand that he
be returned to the Defendants Tears
streamed from the eyes of the chief
justice. 1t was then that Mrs. Sidle
collapsed, and hours passed before
physicians could revive her. She IL
still in critical condition.
The five judges voted unanimously
on the question, and briefly announced
to waiting hundreds in the court room
that the opinion would be written lat
or. The Clarks left for their home in
Iowa.
Railroad Taxes Greater.
Railroads will pay about $4,000
more state taxes this year than they
did last year, that being the effect of
the increased rail valuation as fixed
by the state board Of equalization.
With the state levy fixed at four
mills. the increase in the total asses
sed valuation in the state of about $11,-
100000 on rail properties, means an
addition to their tax Of approximately
$4,000.
The increased valuation will not af-
feet the taxes that will be paid by
the railroads.
Under their valuation of approx
mately $57,0OO,000, the railroads con.
tribute for state government purposes
the sum of $228,000. In addition to
this, they also pay about $4,000 into
the state bond and sinking fund. This
latter fund is raised on levy Of 3
mills. It is in addition to the straight
four mill levy for general government
purposes.
Under the previous valuation the
railroads paid approximately $4,000
into the state fund.
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Wants State Trade Mark.
A state trademark to be placed on
all high grade farm and factory pro.
ducts is an idea of DR.. E. F. Ladd,
state pure food commissioner, that will
in all probability be brought before
the next legislature. A farmer or man.
ufacturer adopting the trademark de.
sign would be duty bound to keep the
product VI to 4 certain standard Of
quality thereby making it easy of clas-
sification by the purchaser who was
seeking high grade goods produced un.
der the most sanitary conditions.
DR.. Ladd believes the adoption Of
such standard mark would be great
commercial asset as well as a pro.
lection to the consumer, and make the
pure food department of the state a
benefit to the producers, either as
farmers or manufacturers.
Mite Operators Protest.
The Railroad Commission has re-
ceived a protest from the coal mine
operators. in the Burlington district
between Minot and Stanley. The op-
orators object to the new Ignite coal
rate, recently agreed on by the COM
mission in conference with railroad
men and the operators from all other
fields in the state. The Burlington OPP.
orators had been invited to attend the
conference but none Of them were
present. They ask that the rate case
may be reopened and another hear
ing held.
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For U. s. Road Census.
The state engineers Office, acting in
cooperation with the U. s. Office of
Public Roads, is attempting to collect
the available information relative to
roads in North Dakota. This informa-
ton, which the Office of Public Roads
is gathering from all the other states
in the Union as well, is to be used in
the publication of complete road
census of the United States. The in
formation requested of the various
counties includes the number of miles
of public roads outside of incorporated
cities.
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