The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1916-07-27
FISH FRY Placed
IN DAKOTA WATERS
HATCHERY INCREASES OUTPUT
HUNTING PROSPECTS IN STATE
REPORTED EXCELLENT,
FROM STATE CAPITOL
Bismarck Letter Giving Important
and Interesting News Of Officials
and Departments Of North
Dakota Government.

Bismarck,
Millions of fish are being distributed
by the North Dakota fish hatchery this
year in the general program for the
stocking of the states rivers and lakes,
Fish Commissioner Main reported to-
the state game and fish commission
here.
The delivery Of fish from the hatch
cry will he the greatest in the plants
history.
The board appointed twelve judicial
district game wardens, to serve four
months beginning August l, but their
names were not made public because
they will be able to do more capable
work through secrecy.
Hunting prospects in the state are
excellent, ducks nesting generally and
chickens are plentiful, according to re-
ports to the board.
X X
Boards May Not Be Legal.
The standing Of several important
boards of the state will depend upon
the supreme court decision in the tax
commission case which has just been
heard.
The commission is asking for a writ
to compel Carl ~Jorgenson, state audi
tor. to credit with the appropriations
made by the legislature in 1911, ill.,
stead of in the 1915 budget which was
made up when it was believed that a
law reducing membership in the com
mission from 3 to l would be passed.
If the court does not sustain the com.
mission it will have no money for
clerk hire.
Attorney General Linde in his brief
has set forth the argument that the
tax commission itself is not a legal
body because the ac1 creating it also
carried an appropriation. contrary to
the state constitution that provides
that appropriations must lie made in
a separate bill.
If the court s%ustains Mr.. Linde the
board of control, the immigration COM
mission II the board of regents will
be wiped out of existence.
X X
Fears Labor Shortage.
w are making an active effort to
relieve the shortage in farm labor for
the harvest and threshing season."
says Commissioner of Agriculture and
Labor r. F.. Flint.
I'VE have been in touch with labor
commissioners of the states to he
south and the U. S. department of
labor since last March, when Deputy
w. 1rysh represented this department
at the convention of labor commission.
ers of the plains states at Kansas
City. "1t was understood at the con.
vention that the U. S. department of
labor would cooperate.
"All indications point to a shortage
OF farm help during the fall season
and that prices will range considerably
higher than even last year. The class
OF labor so far reaching the state is
apparently not quite up to the usual
standard. as complaints both personal
and by letter indicate. This no doubt
is due to the unusual existing indus,
trial conditions"
Auditor Makes Report.
The eighth annual statement of the
financial condition Of the state has
Just been issued by State Auditor Carl
Q. ~Jorgenson, in which he shows
where the money raised by the com.
monwealth goes.
North Dakota's state institution, and
special funds are on deposit with CTS
state and national banks.
The lowest cash balance during 1919
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as of date October 81 when the cash
balance amounted to $~477,672.16
while the largest cash balance an.
peared as OF date April 80, at $780,.
e91.43. The settlements with the
treasurer show an average monthly
settlement balance of $%817633.S3. It
shows that 1876 checks issued during
the year 1918.
Dakota Prisoners Escape.
Twenty officers of the state prison
here secured the adjacent country with
b%loodhounds searching for six of eight
convlcts who escaped by digging a hole
through the two-foot brick wall which
surrounds the penitentiary.
Two of the prisoners, Andrew
Schmidt and Adolph T%hornburg, we're
captured at Apple Creek, a few miles
from the prison about 10 P. NJ.
Six of the convicts are white and
two are negroes. w. H. Neavells, one
OF the men, is a former guard, and is
thought to have been the brains of
the gang.
X X X
Millions For Education.
During 1915, $4,000, 900 in taxes were
PAD ny residents of North Dakota, or
SS4.94 per head. or this amount, ST..
" went for purposes Of education. ST..
ooo,ooo were spent for education in
1915. In addition, the common schools
ana the institutions Of higher learning
enjoyed a revenue of 50, 800 900 income
from federal lands. North Dakota
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