The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-01-28
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LEGISLATIVE NOTES.

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The members of the legislature viii
visit the brick plant at Hebron in
body Feb. 7. They may 60 on another
iunket to the Wilton mines.
Gunder Reishus, register of deeds OF
Ward county for ten years, and no"
chief enrolling and engrossing clerk
in the Senate, is in Minot, spending
the recess with his family.
The house of representatives has
passed a bill abolishing capital pun
ishment. Might just as we'll, as not a
hanging has occurred in the state in
ten years.
Tuesday was pay day with the legis-
lators and altho they drew SIS a day,
this but little more than pays their
expenses. One legislator found that
his earnings did not meet his hotel
bill by three dollars.
There are quite number OF news
paper men in Bismarck just now,
either employed in various capacities
in the legislature or on the Bismarck
publications. We did not count noses,
but understand that the Fourth Es-
tate is represented by just sixty-two
in the Capitol City.
J.L. Enright, the popular represen-
tative of the Washburn Coal Co., OF
Wilton, is in the city today. The Will
ton mine employs 300 men who are
turning out 1900 tons of Ignite daily.
The Washburn company has done
good deal for Wilton, which is one OF
the best built towns on the 500, the
now being 1900.
Judge Burke, of the Supreme court
has a twelve-year-old son who is one
of the strongest lads in the state for
his age. He stands five feet and eight
inches tall and is of athletic build.
The lad has not slept in doors in years,
and attributes his robust nature to
this fact.
Miss Erma Jones, who is employed
as a stenographer at the legislature
arrived from Bismarck Wednesday to
spend the recess with her parents.
Miss Jones has made host of friends
at Bismarck and is easily one OF the
most popular young ladies attending
the assembly.
Hon. Staale Hendrickson, OF Coteau'
is receiving congratulations from ev-
ervwhere because his house bill No. ~
passed, which makes it necessary for
a unanimous opinion of the supreme
court before an act of the legislature
can be declared unconstitutional. The
bill still has to run the gauntlet OF
the Senate.
Senator Ellickson, of Sharon, N. D.,
was in Minot Wednesday enroute
home from Douglas, where he attend
ed a meeting of the stock holders OF
the Douglas State Bank. The senator
admits that he participated in slicing
a good sized melon, this being one of
the best years in the history Of the
bank.
A bill has been introduced in the
house providing for the removal OF
the state capitol to New Rockford.
Editor Olsen of that city and half
dozen other workers, were at Bis
marck early in the week lobbying for
the bill. They appear in dead earnest
and are quite indignant in their de-
malls that all they are after is an in
sane asylum.
The Knight Printing Co., a non
union concern, has yet had no trouble
with the union printers, who threaten
ed to start something early in the
session. The Knight plant at Bismarck
has been equipped with three linotype
machines, and the legislative printing
is being handled with dispatch. Econ
omy is the watchword with the legis-
lature this year and the prospects are
that the printing expense will not be
over half what it was two years ago.
Ole Axvig of Milton is 70 years of
age and is one of the most interesting
in the legislature. 81 was
a member of the house fourteen years
ago and I expect to come back again
in fourteen years. will be only 81
years old then, and Pm good for a
hundred" Ole confided to the Indepen-
dent representative. Ole is one Of
those big hearted Norwegian farmers,
a true gentleman, a diamond in the
rough. He is the father of seven
sons.
C. A. Grow, chairman of the public
roads committee, introduced what the
independent considers is one Of the
most important bills yet brot before
the legislature, yet it met defeat.