Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-08-04
MORE PRISONERS
LEAVE STATE PEN
THREE ESCAPE IN COAL CAR MAX.
ING TOTAL SEVENTEEN IN TWO
MoNTHs-sUsPEcTs CAUGHT.
FIRST IS IN CAMP At BORDER
North Dakota Soldier Boys Enjoy
Some Service on Way south-Wreck
Causes Slight Damage to Cars But
No Injuries :, :iiIitiamen.

Some Service on Way South-Wreck
Causes Slight Damage to Cars But
No Injuries :. s:iilitiamen.
Three more convicts have escaped
from the North Dakota state peniten-
tiary here making II in all who have
gotten away in two months.
The prisoners were at work In q
coal car unloading coal. They knock
ed out the old false end in the car and
made new one, concealing them
selves behind it. An inspector looked
through the car and failed to see them
before the car left the prison yard and
another guard was on top Of the car.
Frank Talcott, the warden. was noti-
fed by special agent for the North
ern Pacific railroad, working several
hundred miles farther west, that he
had arrested three men who corre-
sponded to the description of the con-
victs.
First Regiment at Border.
The First regiment Of the North
Dakota national guards arrived in
camp at Mercedes, every man in the
best of spirits.
No mishap occurred during the en-
tire trip. The nearest approach to one
was when the regiment figured in
wreck near Odem. One section back
ed of the switch into another section.
Slight damage was done to two OF
the cars, but no one was hurt.
The Second and Third battalions
were consolidated at Odem.
Boys Get "some Service"
The soldier boys from North Dakota,
in striking contrast to their less for
tunate comrades from points in tho
east, enjoyed some service" and good
substantial food enroute to the south
land.
After spending q month in camp
sleeping on the hard ground and go
ing through a grue,ling routine of drill
each day, 1t was real treat for the
North Dakotans to climb aboard real
Pullmans and sleep between nice
clean white sheets.
Enjoy Comforts and luxurtes.
Slipping ice cold lemonade twice .
day at meal times on the train had
tendency to make the boys feel like
kings. According to the quartermas-
ter's department, there we're lemons
enough on board to furnish the boys
with the delicious cold drink twice .
day during the entire trip.
And for all this comfort and even
luxury the North Dakotans can thank
their kindly commander, Col. ]. H.
Frame, who saw to It that Ibis boys
would not suffer-"
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Tax Board Gets Only 5000.
The tax commissions contention
that it was entitled to $16,S00 for clerk
hire instead of $4,000 was overruled in
an opinion handed down by the SUI
preme court. 1t was written by Judge
Goss.
Wide interest has been aroused In
the case because Of the possibility Of
the court ruling on the constitutional
fly of the act creating the tax commits.
sion, a decision which would have at
fected the board of regents and the i'm
migration commission, and migkt have
compelled the calling of an extra ses-
sion of the legislature. But the court
found that without taking into consid-
Grafton this question the commission
was not entitled to the extra sum.
The legislature of 1915, while intend
ing to pass a bill reducing the MEM
bership of the tax commission from
three to one, passed an appropriations
measure that carried $4,000 q year for
one commissioner, $1,000 year for .
secretary and $4,000 for clerk hire.
But the bill for one-man commission
did not pass.
The commission then brought &C.
ton to have the original appropriation
made in the act of 1911 providing 3d.
900 year each for three commission
ers substituted for the 1915 appropria-
ton. The supreme court upheld this
contention.
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Heat Hurts Wheat Crop.
R. F. Flint, state commissioner Of
agriculture, has estimated that the
North Dakota wheat crop this year
would be 100000 bushels. just half
Of what 1t was last year and 25.000.000
bushels less than the federal estimate
of July 1.
Rust, heat and flood waters are the
three factors that have reduced the
prospective yield. Commissioner Flint
stated days of terrific heat have caus-
ed serious losses.
The labor situation continues unsolv-
ed and Mr.. Flint has advised farmers
to reduce to a minimum the number of
laborers they employ.
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