Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-11-24
STATE OFFICIALS
PREPARE BUDGET
HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS LIST
NEEDS FOR CONSIDERATION
OF STATE BOARD.
NEWS OF STATES MILITIAMEN
Important Items From North paket,
State Institutions and Officials
With Live Letters From Flick.
ertail Guardsmen at Border.
Bismarck

Heads Of all the state departments
at the capitol are now carefully list.
ing their needs for the two years fol.
lowing June 80, 1917, for the consider
alton Of the first state budget board,
which will meet at the state house
the third Tuesday In December. An
effort is being made to make the
acquisitions high enough, as two years
ago. when the budget system was
adopted, number of important items.
including, for instance, the publica-
ton Of the state Blue Book, wero not
provided for.
The budget commission consists Of
i've members, the governor, the state
auditor. the attorney general ant the
chafrmen Of the appropriation COM
mittees Of the senate and the house
In the Fourteenth general assembly.
Treadwell Twichel was chairman Of
the house committee and p. T.
Kretschmar headed the senate COM
mittse in 1916.
The board meets and prepares q
budget under the provisions Of chap.
ter 81 Of the aession laws Of 1915.
This budget goes to the appropria-
ton committees Of the Fifteenth a..
sembly, which passes upon the items
before they are finally incorporated.
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States Indebtedness Reduced.
State bonds totalins 31o6.7oo have
been retired at joint meeting Of the
state board Of university and school
lands and the state auditing board.
Governor Hanna ID chairman Of both
boards. State Treasurer John steen,
Secretary Of State Thomas Hall, State
Auditor Carl Jorgenson and Attorney
General H. ]. Linde are members Of
the state auditing board. All Of the
above except State Treasurer Steen
and with the addition Of State Super.
.intendent Of Public instruction e. ].
Taylor, are members, Of the state board
Of university and school lands.
The bonds taken up were retired
from the sinking fund. They included
the complete issue Of agricultural col.
lego state bonds due in 1921, $4,000,
the complete issue Of university and
school mines state bonds due in 1891,
$4,000. and 5000 Of the university
state refunding bonds, due In 1919.
The bonded debt Of North Dakota is
now reduced to only $4,000. Four
years ago the bonded indebtedness Of
the state was $937,S00.
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Athl .tics Aids Few.
That interscholastic athletics have q
demoralizing influence on certain high
school work, was the assertion of w.
B. stebbins Of Grand Forks, address
ing the secondary section of the North
Dakota Education association in the,
closing days program Of the annual
convention here. Mr.. stebbins, de-
clared that the benefits are concen.
trated to q few students. He criti-
cized the conduct Of athletic teams
away from home.
A banquet to E J. Taylor, retiring
state superintendent Of public instruc-
ton, closed the convention. Among
various propositions urged by the de-
partment Of rural education was a
state teachers employment agency
and state aid in transportation. n
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Funds for State Schools.
The state superintendent Of public
instruction has announced the final
apportionment Of the income and
interest funds among the public
schools Of North Dakota. The
amount, IS cents per capita, is small.
as it represents merely the residue
left In the fund after the principal pay
ments have been made.
The total for the state is 7,5S2.20.
Among the counties receiving the larg-
est share are Cass, with 1914 pupils.
$3,560.90; Grand Forks, with 9,1s5 pu-
pills, $3.21s.25, and Burleish, with 1891
pupils, $1.381.S5. The apportionment
Is based on q total enrolment Of 1913;
092 pupils in the North Dakota public
schools.
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All Institutions Inspected.
Chairman R. 8. Lewis is back at the
capitol after completing q tour of in
spection with other members Of the
board Of control Of the various institu-
lions under their Jurisdiction in the
northern part of the state. The board
visited Grafton, Bathgate, Devils Lake
and Sunseth, and found conditions ev-
erywhere reasonably satisfactory. Ev-
cry institution in the state has now
been inspected for the close of the
year.
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Board Proud Of Hospital.
The state board Of control takes
pride in the hospital for the insane at
jamestown, Which embraces some Of
the finest buildings owned by North
Dakota, and which is being thoroughly
modernized as rapidly as appropria-
lions can be secured. Photographs of
the various wards, the dairy herds,
agricultural scenes and other interest.
ing views have been received from