Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-01-07
RAIL COMMISSION
SETTLES OLD CASE
SENDS PAPERS IN BANKRUPTCY
MATTER-REPoRTs coLLEc-
TIoNs DURING 1915.
NEWS LETTER FROM CAPITAL

Interesting News Of State House Hap.
peninss and Reports Of Officials
Arranged for Convenience
of the Busy Reader.
Bismarck.
The railroad commission has sent
the papers which closed series of
claims against bankrupt elevator
company of the state, which have been
pending for the past year and involv-
ing an amount about $4,000. Most
of the claims in this case were paid
quite promptly by the bonding COM
pany last winter, but it has required
the time intervening to clean up the
rest of the cases, owing to imperfec-
lions in the evidence of Indebtedness.
The claims department of the rail:
road commission has collected in the
past year about $4,000 for grain stor-
age ticket holders against grain deal
ers who failed during that time, and
this without cost to the ticket holders
or litigation. This work is not obli-
gatory on the part of the commission,
but it has offered it's good Offices in
the cases mentioned and has been very
successful in bringing the trouble to a
conclusion agreeable to both sides.
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For Educational Survey.
U. S. Commissioner of Education
Claxton announces that he has Sc
cured DR.. L. D. Coffman, Dean of the
College of Education, University Of
Minnesota, to serve as third men,
Der of the survey commission for the
educational institutions of North Da-
kota. DR.. Coffman will cooperate
with DR.. w. T. Bawden, of the U. s.
Bureau of Education, and DR.. E. b.
Craighead, of Montana, who has been
previously engaged by the State
Board of Regents to participate in
this survey which is being made I'M
der the direction of U. S. Commits
sioner of Education Claxton.
DR.. Coffman is a specialist along
certain lines Of education and won a
great deal of fame at the University
of Illinois prior to his recent acquisi-
ton by the University of Minnesota.
The State Board of Regents feels
that great deal of progress has
been made in securing the services
of such specialist to cooperate with
the other men engaged in the survey.
A great deal of progress is expected
to be made on the survey during the
month of January. DR.. Bawden comes
from Washington and will be met by
DR.. Craighead at the State Normal
Industrial School at Glendale on jan
uary 5, and will begin the second visit
to the educational institutions at
that time, along with DR.. Coffman.
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Bonding Law Invalid?
Whether North Dakota goes into the
bonding business will depend upon the
supreme court decision in the injunc-
tional proceedings brought against the
measure by representatives of Fargo
bonding concerns. The arguments were
made Dec. and an early decision is
expected. 1t was found impossible to
start the business on Jan. /, 1916, as
contemplated under the act of the
last legislative session.
Considerable difficulty has been en-
countered by the advocates of the
measure. The thirteenth legislative
session put over bill for a state
bonding department but the constitu-
tionality of the measure was attacked
and the supreme court by a vote of
four to one held it invalid.
Authorizes Seed inspection.
The state pure seed law authorizes
the botanfst and state seed commits
sioner to investigate the quality of
the seeds grown by any grower in the
state of North Dakota and when he
has satisfied himself as to the quality
to make list of the names of such
growers and show the amount of seed
which they have on hand as seed for
sale for sowing purposes. This list is
sent to any person who wishes to buy
such seeds. This, in theory should
aid wholesale seed houses in the state
to procure good stock of seed AMI
should aid any other buyers or grow
ers to locate good seed.
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Chief Engineer Named.
Steve Calvelage has been appointed
chief engineer at the state hospital for
the insane, succeeding Thomas Petit
grew, who died recently. Mr. Calvel-
age is young man, 80 years of age,
who began work eight years ago under
Mr.. Pettigrew at the hospital. He
has grown into the position, making
good in the different positions in
which he has been placed. His friends
extend congratulations upon his ap.
pointment.
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Fatten Lambs on Alfalfa.
An indication of what alfalfa will do
for lambs is found in the record at
tanned by the Williston experiment
station, which sold 21O lambs at Is
cent premium, topping the days sales
at $3.50 per hundred. The lambs were
procured from Montana ranges late in
September, and were fed for three
weeks on corn stubble, six weeks on
wheat stubble, and finished on alfalfa
and flax straw. A gain of twenty-five
pounds head was made in the period,
netting gain of approximately S225.
Mccormick Back in Opera.
Chicago, Jan. 3.-The Chicago OPP