Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-12-01
G0vERNOR-ELECT
VISITS n. D. PRISON
FRAZIER HOPES TO COMPLETE
SURVEY OF INSTITUTIONS BE-
FORE LEGISLATURE MEETS.
NEWS OF STATES MILITIAMEN
Importan. item. From North pakot.
State Institutions and Officials
With Live Letters From Flick.
ertaii Guardsmen at Border.

Bismarck
Governor.elect Lynn j. Frazier has
made careful inspection of the North
Dakota penitentiary and departed ap-
parently well satisfied with North Da-
kota's present method of caring for its
delinquents
He also visited the Mandan reform
school, where Superintendent Joseph
Devtne took pleasure in showing what
the institution has and what it has not
very largely the later, for an i'm
mense amount of improvement and
alteration will be required to make
the school 100 per cent efficient.
Mr.. Frazier is making, at his own
expense. tour of inspection of the
state penal and charitable institutions.
He hopes to complete his survey be.
fore the legislature convenes and to
know something of the subject when
the appropriation bills are presented.
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Game Board to Meet.
On December 8, the annual meeting
Of the North Dakota Game and Fish
commission will be held in Grand
Forks, according to an announcement
made by Chief Game Warden E. B.
McCutcheon of Minot who spent q
short time in Grand Forks enroLte to
his home from Fargo where he at.
tended a preliminary session of the
board.
At the Grand Forks meeting, War.
den McCutcheon will suggest that the
state board recommend to the lcgis.
lature this winter that the opening
and closing Of the season and the bag
limit be placed within the power Of
the game commission. In this man
ner it is believed, the condition would
be remedied, as the proclamation
would not be issued until after the
Matching season and 1t would be pos
sible to estimate the number of avail
able fowl in the state.
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Dickinson Gets Normal.
Dickinson is assured its normal
school on two counts.
First, the constitutional amendment
will carry a majority Of all the votes
cast. The vote on the amendment in
counties whose official returns have
been reported runs even with the vote
on president, having lead 10000
votes.
Second, Attorney General H. ].
Linde has reversed his original de-
cision on the question Of the per-
centage of votes required to pass
constitutional amendment. It is his
opinion that If the constitutional
amendment receives a majority OF the
votes cast on the proposition, the
amendment will become q part Of the,
constitution.
No Car Shortage Found.
There is no general shortage Of cars
for the hauling Of coal or any ether
commodity in North Dakota, so far az
the state railroad commission has been
able to learn. Only few isolated
complaints have come from elevators
unable to procure cars at the moment
they were wanted.
The commission is inclined to dis
count stories generally carried by the
state press to the effect that car
famine impends. There is no ques-
tion," said a representative Of the COM
mission, that had we enjoyed a normal
wheat crop, the grain would be lying
on the ground at the elevators"
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Assembly To Cost $4,000.
The Fifteenth legislative assembly
Is expected to cost North Dakota $112,-
600. This is the amount fixed by the
budget committee of the Fourteenth
assembly, and which has just come be-
fore the present budget committee. The
items named are $4,000 for mileage
for the per diem of officers and en-
ployes; $4,000 for printing, and s., 900
for miscellaneous expenses. Unless the
legislature succeeds in keeping within
the amounts named, emergency appro.
priations will be necessary.
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Survey Report Soon.
4A0 pOU4lCRl1OU VI Lu0 T0pUEL u Iu6
educational survey undertaken in
North Dakota more than year ago
under the direction of Commissioner
of Education E. B. Craighead, is now
scheduled for December Even If is
sued very early in the month, 1t is
doubtful whether any very general cir
culation can be given the report before
the legislature convenes in January,
and it is probable that very much Of
the beneficial effect expected from this
survey will be lost.
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New Blow at Rootlessers.
The adoption at the recent election
of the bootlegger amendment to North
Dakota's constitutional prohibition law
has placed in the hands, of the new
attorney general, William LANCER of
Mandan, a powerful instrument. In
spite of the generally satisfactory re-
suits Of prohibition in North Dakota,
blindpigs have flourish in spots be-