Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-01-04
County Commissioners
Held Two Day Session
County Commissioners. Convened Tues.
day and Held a Busy Session.
Stiles Again Chairman


Stiles Again Chairman
4 The board of commissioners i
Sioux county convened for the Jan
uary meeting at the court hots
Tuesday and held busy >two-da,
session, adjourning wednesday cv
; ening.
W. r. Chart, commissioner from
the Third district, is the only nev
member OF the board. The othe
commissioners, J. A. Stiles from
the Second district, and j. C. Leach
from the First district, were re-elect.
ed, and entered upon their seconc
term.
Il The law provides that following
the first election in new counties
two commissioners shall serve four
years, and one commissioner two
years. The commissioners drew
lot for the short term which fell to
/ j. A. Stiles. The reason for the
Flaw is that otherwise terms of all
4 the commissioners would expire
the same time.
!. A. Stiles who has been chair
/ man of the board since the organi-
zation Of the county. was again
| named chairman for the ensuing
year.
| The bid Of the Dakota Trust Co.
Of Fargo, for furnishing bonds. for
the county officers for their ensuing
terms was accepted. with exception
| of the bonds FOR auditor and county
| treasurer
Attorney General Langer in a let
ter to the beard advised them not
to enter into contract for the audi
tor and treasurer's bond at this
time for the reason that he will at
tempt to have the U. S: Supreme
court pass on the State Bonding
law before April 1st, and if the
high court holds the State Bonding
Act constitutional the county will
save the premium on these two
bonds.
| On motion the county treasufer's
bond was increased from $40, ,W0.D
to s15, ,O0.W. This was done for
the reaso" that the county treasurer
during the next few months may
have funds on hand in excess of
the amount of bis original bond.
The petition of residents of con-
gressional townships 129 and $50,
range 80, that these two townships
be organized into civil township
to be known as Mentz, was granted,
and January %, get as the date for
the first town meeting at which
complete set of township officials
will be elected. These officers will
hold until the annual township
election in March. This is the first
civil township organized in Sioux
county and takes in the two extreme
west end towns in the county
Petitions for two bridges over the
Cedar river which forms the bound
ary between Sioux and Grant
counties, were laid over for the rea-
son that joint action must be taken
by the commissioners OF both coun-
ties, and the cost borne equally by
each county. One petition calls
for a bridge north of Keldrop and
the other north of Thunderhawk.
\ number of applications for
abatement of taxes on land in the |
west end of the county opened for |
homestead entry in 1909, and on |
which final proof has been made, /
but patent not issued for the reason
that Congress extended the deferred
payments until 1918. were laid over
pending an opinion as to the legal
ity of the levy by Attorney General
LANCER.
Several applications for abatement |
of taxes where land had been as
sessed before final proof had been !
made, were granted.
Road supervisors were appointed |
as follows:
Thunderhawk Dist. No. 1-Mentz |
township. Supervisors will be ap- .
pointed by town hoard.
Keldron Dist. No. 2-Harry
Knoke. !
Morristown Dist. No. 3-Ap-
pointment later.
swastika Dist. No. 4-Joe Hen
gel /
Rodgers Greek Dist. No. 5-Ap-
pointment later.
Selfridge Dist No. 6-J. F. Teeter.
Fort Yates Dist. No. flames
Molash.
Cannonball Dist. No. Sap
pointment later.
solen Dist. No. 9-Jacob Froe-
Itch.
Porcupine Dist. No. 1o-E. L.