Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-05-26
SUPREME COURT
UPH0LOS n. D. Law
DECIDES STATE CAN REQUIRE
SIZE OF CONTAINERS TO
BE EXCLUSIVE.
NEWS LETTER FROM CAPITAL
Interesting News Of State House Hap.
penings and Reports Of otfieiaIs
Arranged for Convenience
Of the Busy Reader.

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Bismarck.
The United States supreme court
says, in rendering decision on the
constitutionality of the North Dakota
statute specifying the exclusive sizes
in which lard may be packed for sale,
that a state has legal and constitu-
tional right to require food products
to be sold at net weight instead of
gross, and also to specify the exclusive
sizes of packages in which it may be
offered for sale. Such is the sum of an
opinion rendered by the United States
supreme court in the case of Armour
& Co.
The court, speaking through Justice
McKenna, held that there is nothing
wrong with the North Dakota statute,
| which makes it a misdemeanOr for
any one to sell lard in pals or other
containers in anything other than one,
two, three or five-pound packages, or
full number multiples of those quantt-
ties.
Rail Commission Busy.
The state railroad commission
scheduled number of important
! hearings for this week, the most I'M
portant of which, however, was the
telephone hearing at Ludden. Repre-
sentatives of practically all the tele-
phone companies in the state were to
be present, as the questions to be TAX
en- UP vitality concerned every COM
pany in the state. A hearing also
was to be held at Griffin, west of Bow
man, on the question of erecting a
new depot at the place. Thursday
conference was to be held in Bismarck
between the commission and j. H.
Pratt of Omaha, connected with the
Bell Telephone company. The follow
ing day the commission was to leave
for Parshall, where the matter of in
staling siding near there was to be
taken up.
The commission also was to go to
Funston and points along both the
Great Northern and 500 lines to in
spect q number of crossings.
X X 4
Regents Hold May Meeting.
The May meeting of the state board
of regents was to be held at the Valley
City Normal. The heads of a number
Of state schools were to appear before
the board at the May meeting.
A summary Of the state educational
| s,,rvov ,nodo nndor tho direction of
DR.. E. p Craighead and DR.. P. P. Clax-
ton, United States Commissioner of
Education, was to be submitted to the
board. The full report, however, &C.
cord:ng to recent information received
from Mr.. Claxton, will not be ready
until late in June.
The full report will be printed as
an official bulletin of the federal bu-
reau of education, and copies will be
sent here. The report. however, will
have to be approved and accepted by
the state board If regents before it
is printed.
Forecasts Big Yields.
R. F. Flint, commissioner Of agri-
culture and labor, has returned from
an extended visit in the western part
of the state When interviewed Mr..
Flint gave out some interesting inform
alton on prospects in that section of
North Dakota.
Mr.. Flint is of the opinion that
there will be but slight falling off
of the wheat crop this season and al
so claims that the damage to the
wheat crop by the wind storms was not
nearly as bad as reported. He antici-
rates another banner season for the
farmers, and states that conditions
there back up his statements.
X X 4
State Educators Meet.
A symposium of addresses delivered
by number Of high school superin-
tendents from various sections of the
state, on the general theme. The
Most Important or Essential Consid-
Grafton for Secondary Education in
North Dakota" featured the morning
session of the fifteenth annual high
school conference, which opened in the
auditorium of Woodwork hall at the
state university in Grand Forks.
4 X X
May Return To Europe.
Governor L. B. Hanna plans to re-
turn to Eupore after the expiration of
his term in office, and see the war
from the other side. He also wants to
get to the first line Of trenches which
he did not lave the opportunity of
doing in the winter He had the per-
mission to do so but would have been
required to remain in Germany 80
days thereafter and could not spare
the time.
X X X
20 New Banks in 80 Days.
Twenty new banks with total capt.
talizat;on of 100000 have been organ
;,o1 IN, Norfl, m in o,optJ,