The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-09-06
lotal 1854, 774.10
Total expenditures ...... 6,468, $685. Is

alamo on hand. 81, 485, 1920. 95
The report of the state treasurer
further shows that the bonded indebt-
edness of the state on July 1, 1917,
was $462, 000. During the fiscal year
the bonded Indebtedness of the state
has been decreased by s116,7OO, the
report further shows.
Exemption Board Working Hard.
Industrial exemptions in five addi.
tional counties have been passed upon
by the district exemption board.
Claims were considered from viii.
llams, Dunn, Trail, Steele and Oliver
counties. The percentage of exemp-
ton ran about the same as thew did
IN the other counties, approximately
10 per cent of the applicants receiv-
Ing exemptions. The district board
has resorted to night sessions in or
der to dispose of the industrial ex-
emptions by the end of another week.
AS soon as the industrial exemption
claims are finished dependency appeals
will be taken up.
More Maps of State.
The railroad commission has or.
dered the printing of 1000 wall maps
of the state to be distributed through.
out the state. The commission has
received many requests for wall maps.
and the action taken was inspired by
a general demand for such maps.
Deputy Inspectors Licensed.
More than $500 licenses have been
issued to deputy inspectors under the
new North Dakota grain grading act,
Chief Assistant Inspector ]. A. McGov.
ern announced. Since the supreme
court handed down the decision up.
holding the decision that the law was
constitutional and also cleared up 9th.
er questions of the new law.
Protest Against Storage Rules.
A telegram was sent by Governor
Frazier, Chairman A. Andahl and
Commissioners Bleck and johnson of
the State Railway Commission, Com
missioner Hagan, Attorney General
LANCER and Secretary Of State Thorn
as Hall to the North Dakota repre-
%sentatives in Washington that if the
new food administration requires the
elevators will only allow thirty days
for grain storage will cause a depres.
sion In prices and will cripple the
transportation facilities, longest ter
mlnals will take away from the r O
Queer all the protection which pro-
v1sos In the law intended to give.
Postpone Hearings for Harvest.
a members of the North Da.
kota railway commission are too busy
getting in their 1917 crop or helping
ne1ghbors get in theirs to consider
other matters just now, it is probable
that u~nimportant railway and tele-
phone hearings scheduled for the com.
ing week will be postponed until the
harvest rush is v
Many Counties Make No Reports,
Out of the SO counties in the state.
29 made no report on assessments on
wheat stored in elevators, according
to State Auditor Carl Kositzky. The
law provided that wheat in storage is
assessable for tax purposes.
Drafting Orders Given Boards,
President Wilson's proclamation ex.
planning the attitude of the govern.
ment In regard to the drafting of men
with dependents was received by Gov
ernor Lynn J.. Frazier and immediate.
ly transmitted to all the local exemp.
ton boards in the state. The presi.
dents explanation makes it clear that
in cases where absolute dependency
rests on the person called that exemp.
ton should be made. The order will
probably change the attitude of sew.
eral exemption boards throughout the
state who havo not been exempting
men with