The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-06-28
PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATIONS
OF STATE COMPELLED TO PAY
EMPLOYEES sEMI-MoNTHLY.
HAPPENINGS AT STATE HOUSE
What North Dakota Officials Are Do
ing In Administration of Laws
In the Different Depart
ments at Bismarck.

oAoA4d1 Sh.
Under a law effective July 1, public
service corporations in North Dakota
will be compelled to pay their en-
ployes semi-monthly. The system Of
two pay days a month was advocated
successfully in the last state assem-.
bly, by the railroad brotherhoods.
craighead Returns.
DR.. E. B. Craighead, commissioner
of education, is home from New York,
where he attended a meeting of the
Carnegie foundation, Of which he is
a member, and from Washington.
Cannot Withdraw Now.
Secretary of State Hall has received
a Geographic demand from Judge Hick
of Pembina that his name be with
drawn from ballot as candidate for
Congress in the First district. Sec
rotary Hall has announced his inten-
ton, however, of ignoring the request
n others expected, declaring no
change could be made in the ballot at
this late date.
Good Success in Recruiting.
July Is, in the opiSion of Adjutant
General Tharalson, will find the First
regiment, North Dakota National
Guard, recruited to full war strength.
AS previously noted, Co. l of Wahpe-
ton already musters it's full war CON-
plement of $50 men, and Co. H, James.
town, has attained the same distinc-
ton. Co. X of Dickinson ranks Sec
ond, with 40; Cos. A, Bismarck; F.,
Mandan; NJ, Grand Forks, and C, Graf
ton, are we'll over 100 men. and the
companies below that quota are meet.
Ing with good success in recruiting.
Guard May Go to Tacoma.
The North Dakota national guard
may train. at American Lake, near Ia
coma, WASH, officials of the guard
unit admitting that it is a possibility.
Orders have been received stating
that the North Dakota guard would
be attached to the twentieth division,
which includes Washington, Oregon,
Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. This
division will train at American Lake,
1t is believed. Several weeks ago or
ders We're received that the North Da-
kota guards would be stationed in
the southern division and would
probably train at Deming, New Mex
leo.
There is a possibility that if a Sec
ond regiment is formed in the state
one regiment will be sem to Deming
and the other to American Lake. The
guard officials are making efforts to
hold the regiments together in case a
second regiment is formed. The en-
tire first regiment of the guard will
be called into service July Is.
Cattle in Demand.
THE demand for good feeding stock
in North Dakota is remarkable" said
DR.. w. F. Crewe, secretary of the
North Dakota live stock sanitary
board, recently. THE King Commits
sion company at Mandan within the
last few weeks has shipped in and
sold 5000 Texas range yearling heif-
ers, and I have just been issued a per-
NIT for bringing in LOO more" Every
one. DR.. Crewe states, seems to be
feeding cattle, and North Dakota will
have plenty of food to market on the
hoof next fall if there is sufficient rain
to make good grass.
Fewer Laborers Coming to State.
According to a recent announcement
OF Robert J. Leth, state farm help
specialist of the United States depart
ment OF agriculture who is directing
the cooperation of labor needs in
North Dakota, recent advices from
Washington indicate that the army
of harvest laborers moving north is
constantly decreasing. This is due to
the fact, says Mr.. Leth, that the win
ter wheat area was badly hit last
winter and a large amount of wheat
was winter killed. The result is that
there is a great deal less wheat to be
harvested in Kansas and Nebraska
this year than usual with a consequent
smaller demand for labor. This de.
crease in turn reduces the number
of laborers who may be expected to
come to this state from that source.
In view of which it is incumbent
upon the farmers to make their wants
known as soon as possible so there
AAoy NC ~ ucAdy dI harvest LlLu6, Tue
critical period Of food gathering.
Guardsmen To Get Pay.
The state auditor is completing the
warrants for $4,000 to be distributed
July 1 in sums ranging from $50 to
$50 in pensions to 700 North Dakota
national guardsmen, who served last
year Oil the Mexican border.
Interest In Guard Appointments.
With the appointment of Major G.
Angus Fraser of Fargo as adjutant
general to succeed T. Tharalson, there
Is much discussion among the officers
Of the national guard as to who will
be named brigadier-general on the for.
nation Of a new regiment. Several
contend that the appointment would
Se given to Adjutant General Fraser
or to Colonel Frame by succession.
others claim that former adjutant
generals would be in line for the ap-
poiutment. 1t is generally believed
however, that the governor can ap
point whom no desires.