The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1916-12-21
ENDORSEMENT FOR
DICKINSON SCHOOL
JUSTIFICATION FOR ESTABLISH,
MENT OF NEW NORMAL CON-
TANNED IN SURVEY REPORT,
STATE CAPITOL HAPPENINGS
News Of North Dakota Officials and
and institutions Arranged in Com.
pact and Convenient Form for
Readers of This Paper.
STATE CAPITOL HAPPENINGS

Bismarck
Endorsement for the Dickinson Nor
NAL school from a high source is con.
tanned IN the long-awaited report OF
! the educational survey conducted in
North Dakota year ago by Commits
sioner of Education Z. B. Craighead
with the assistance of P. P. Claxton
United States commissioner OF educa
ton, and the latter's staff
While the recognition comes too late
to have any effect on the recent cleo
tion, where a favorable majority of
nearly 10000 indicates that it was not
needed, it is gratifying to friends of
the new institution to find it's estab
lishnlent justified by so illustrious an
authority.
Rail Board Tours Canada.
/ The railroad commission left recent
ly for weeks tour of Canada in the
prosecution of it's investigation into
the feasibility of terminal elevators
a duty which was imposed upon the
board by the adoption of the terminal
elevator amendment at the recent gen
eral election.
The commission was to visit Winni
peg, Regina and Port Arthur and was
to then drop down through Wisconsin
and Minnesota to investigate terminal
elevator conditions there.
The board was also to consider the
question as 1t is affected by the feder.
al inspection and grading Of grain, and
it hopes to be in position to present
an intelligent and comprehensive re.
port to the fifteenth general assem-.
bly,.
Several important rate cases will be
left over for the new commissioners
| to wrestle with. These will include
the express rates on cream, protested
by the Crane Forks commercial club
/ and the interstate freight rates pro.
test of the Fargo Commercial club,
both of which will be heard in Jan.
uary.
| Would Vindicate Worst.
| A demand upon the legislature that
1t recognize John II. Worst, former
president of the North Dakota agricul.
tural college by electing him president
emeritus of the college," is made by
the Cooperative Herald, tn Society of
Equity paper.
Mr.. Worst has twice been elected
president emeritus, each time by the
boards governing institution, but the
tender was made under conditions
"humiliating and unjustified,' and
each time it was refused, says the
Herald
The announcement by the publica,
tion is taken as indicating Worst's
personal attitude on the question, and
the proposition practically is assured
of being given legislative attention.
Restraints Hanna's Order
Holding that they had voted them.
selves salary to which they were not
entitled, for services which were never
performed; that they had rendered
bills in excess of the legal limit, in
favor Of themselves and had voted
their payment; that they had violated
the statutes in failing to advertise for
bids on bridge work whose cost ex-
ceeded $100 and that they had voted
the county surveyor a larger salary
than the statutes provide, Governor l.
B. Hanna has ordered removed from
office Chairman William Colgrove and
Commissioners John A. Rieger and
Paul F. Schmidt of the Hettinger
county board.
TO Change Regents Law.
The Society of Equity interests here
have launched propaganda for an
amendment to the state board Of re-
gents law that would increase the
membership to five and make the com
missioner of agriculture and the super.
lntendent of public instruction ex-offi.
clio members.
In addition the creation of separate
educational boards to govern the ag
ricultural college and institutions
teaching industries and agriculture 10
proposed.
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For City Ownership.
Comprehensive legislation to make
effective more general establishment
OF municipally-owned public utilities
Will be presented to the North Dako
ia legislature this winter as a result
OF the action of the Fargo Trades and
Labor assembly, which has placed
under way in Fargo a movement for
the establishment by that city of a
municipally-owned electric power