The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-05
TAKE CHANCES IN
PAYING SOLDIERS
BANKS RUN RISK IN CASTING
VOUCHERS FOR THERE MAY
BE LACK OF FUNDS.
HAPPENINGS AT HOUSE
What North Dakota Officials Are Do
ing In Administration Of Laws
In The Different Depart
ments at Bismarck.

menCS at BISMARCK.
Bismarck.
Banks over the state which have
offered to take up vouchers from
guardsmen entitled to a pension un-
der the provisions of an act of the
Fifteenth legislative assembly appro-
priating $4,000 for their benefit, may
find themselves a few dollars out of
pocket if they persist in the practice
and Adjutant General Tharalson has
asked that they hold off until his de-
partment learns just where it is at"
The banks patriotic motive in Of
fering to do this for the boys is very.
creditable," said the adjutant gem
eral, "but in view of the complications
which may result, l must ask that
they desist for the present. The act
appropriates $4,000, which will per-
NIT us to pay the full amount of the
pension provided for in the bill, $50
to 625 men. AS a matter of fact, $50
enlisted men were mustered IL at
Fort Smelling last February, and we
do not yet know how many of these
men may be entitled to this pension.
Robinson Says Regents Safe.
Declaring that the case presented
only a kindergarten matter, and that
attorneys for the state ought to show
that the governor "is a little king and
that he has an appointing power
which may be exercised without any
statute" Justice James E. Robinson,
in his regular weekly letter, holds
that the supreme court should deny
Attorney General William S. Langer's
petition for the overthrow of the pres.
ent state board of regents, in order
that Governor Frazier may find places
for his appointees, whom the senate
In the Fifteenth general assembly
thrice rejected.
Food for State Schools.
Contracts for provisions for board
ing houses maintained by the state in
connection with various educational
institutions were awarded this week
by the board of regents. The Fargo
Mercantile Co. was the best bidder
on approximately s1,100 worth of
groceries for the agricultural college,
Minot normal, Glendale normal in.
dustrial and Wahpeton School of Sci
ence; Nash Bros. Of Grand Forks re-
ce1ved the contracts for the univer-
sity and the state normal at Mayville,
aggregating $1,000, and the Valley
City Grocery Co. will supply the Val.
Icy City normal with approximately
$500 worth of provisions.
In the bidding on meats, the Cud-
ahy Packing Co. was low on hams for
all the institutions, which will cost
about $500, and the bacon and lard
contract, about $500, went to the
Horned Packing Co.
The Baldwin Flour Mill Co. of
Minneapolis will supply -four to the
boarding houses at the Agricultural
college, university, Valley City nor
NAL, Mayville normal and 'Wahpeton
school of Science, while the Russell
Miller Milling Co. has the contract at
Ellendaler the total for all institu-
tons being $1,000.
New Briefs in Regents Case.
Additional briefs have beer submit
ted by both sides in the custer suit
brought by Attorney General LANCER
before the supreme court against the
de facto board of regents.
The briefs are in regard to the ex-
piration and term of office of ]. A.
Powers and Emil Scow, the two
members whose terms expire July /.
Dan Brennan, assistant attorney
general, holds that this question is
not now before the court, which only
has to decide whether members of the
board are legally entitled to their
seats. He also contends that the law
providing for the board expressly says
that the terms of Office of the mem
bers shall expire on July 1, and does
not say that they shall hold office
until their successors qualify.
The opposing attorneys hold that
as the successors to Mr.. Powers and
Mr. Scow were not confirmed by the
senate that they must hold Office I'M
til their successors qualify.
New Dickinson Normal School.
The Dickinson state normal, under
plans upon which the board of re-
gents is practically agreed, will be
opened for the summer term in 1918,
with a president and four instructors,
handling courses in English, his
tory, mathematics, sciences, methods,
psychology and pedagogy. Originally
there was some thought of endeavor.
ing to open the normal this summer,
but it was found that the $4,000 avail
able for maintenance is so small that
no good results could be expected.
Ruling on Professional Men.
Dentists, surgeons, medical men,
ch1ropractors, osteopaths, opticians,
obstetricians, optometrists and others
who make a business of curing or
patching up bodily ills and defects
are held to be in the same class ethi-
cally with an attorney at law in an
important opinion handed down by
Attorney General LANCER, in that any
n of these practitioners nay be de-
barred from further practice in North
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