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HOUSE BILLS INTRODUCED.
WED nesday.)

H. Z. S4-Byrne, Eckert, kurtz'
Hoare and Dupuis-To provide for
the erection of a building in connec'
ton with the North Dakota Expert
mental sub-station at Williston, to 'pe
designated as the farmers building
Appropriation of $4,000 asked.
H. B. S5-Fraser--COncurrent reso'
luton that appropriations committees
of the house and the senate meet IN
Joint session for purpose of discuss
ing budget or general appropriation
bill. 4.
H. B. So. C. .Miller-Relating to
administration of state aid for rural
schools. Chief purpose is to aid In
promotion and standardization OF the
work and thereby increase efficiency
of the work.
Senate Bills First Reading.
S. B. 6-Ellingson-wrongful inn
prisonment of prisoners. Estate al.
fairs.) ,-.--, ..er.v - 4.
S.tB. Observation-Disclosures OF
school funds on farm loans. (School
and Public Lands.) 7Is
8. b. Notwithstanding to
length of time of legislative sessions.
Estate Affairs.)
8. b. 27--McLean-Frequency legls-
lative sessions Estate Affairs)
s. B. STANDARDIZATION and
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WORLDS BOOK OF 1917

The year 1916 was one Of important
records in war abroad and in peace.
industry and legislative progress at
home. Among students, teachers,
newspaper men and general readers
there will be daily, and sometimes al
most hourly occasions for reference
to the dates of events, the text OF new
laws or other documents, the statis'
tics Of trades, finance or elections.
This surprising importance of the
twelve months Just past places fresh
accent upon the fact we'll established
under tests OF other years, that The
World Almanac and Encyclopedia is
the American publication pre.eminent
in the matter Of meeting reference de-
mands of every kind. In the 1917 is
sue Of nearly 1900 pages, this annual
presents the last word Of the calen.
dar hour for the first and last OF its
uncounted consultants. 1t runs the
ravage of events from pugilism to
president-making, from politics to
preaching, from automobiles to agrl.
culture, from records Of destruction to
records of construction.
In the pages given to war are a
chronological table of battle events
abroad, the Kaiser's peace proposal.
President Wilson's note to the bellig-
erents, a list Of peace societies and
movements, the text Of our own Army
Bill, details Of American preparedness
plans, texts of peace treaties, and con
tr;hutions IN relief funds
The new United States general rev.
enue law, including income tax chang
es, is printed in full. There are also
the national laws on farm loans, rural
post roads, trusts and child labor, to-
gether with various State laws on
workmen's compensation and widows
pensions. There is review OF oil
important legislation of 1916 in New
York and the other States.
Election figures include. the official
returns of the presidentialvote from
all the States. Statements are given
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Readers Column

money for speculative purposes is not
a friend Of our schools.
The league leaders say that the
people approved this measure at the
election. That is false statement.
The people at the last election ap'
proved the act of the 1915 legislature
repeating the terminal elevator levy.
The increased bonding Of the state
and the use of the school fund to
speculate with has never been de-
manded until now it appears in the
revision Of the state constitution.
The state constitution is already
amended so that the state can build
terminal elevators. Have you league
men any idea OF what it will cost to
build terminal elevators to handle the
grain of tho, state of North Dakota?
Governor Erazier and Townley use
the success If the Irvine plant as an
argument in favor of the other pro-
posed plants but they don't say a
word about the cheap labor in the
Irvine plant. TO be fair, they have
to add the existing wages mot con-
Wet wages) ITO the other expenses
and deduct that from the earnings,
and see what is left.
AS long as the state has not tried
out the terminal elevator proposition
there is no need, of changing the con-
stitution.
The proposed constitution gives the
legislative assembly power to exempt
any or all classes of personal prop
erty from taxation. Why give the
legislature such a power; is it the
Henry George single tax theory they
have in view?
l hope the hold-over senator's have
sense enough not to be influenced by
those that rally to Bismarck Not all
of us farmers are adventures of the
Townley type: but if Townley shall
rule, North Dakota has a good chance
to become indebted.
If you leaguers are so numerous as
You claim YOU can erect those enter
prises on the cooperative plan and
earn all that money yourselves, or are
you afraid to risk your own money in
such a profitable investment, which
you claim it to be.
Yours for fair play,
S. S. QUANBECK.
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duration county officers. ELECTION and
Election privileges.)
S. B. -Hamilton-TaXes Of i'm
provements on lands. (Taxes and
Tax Laws.)
Report Committee Of Whole.
Recommended to pass as amended:
Fl. 3. 81 and 39-Temperance meas
llres.
II. B. 1-Wiley-CreatiOn OF
branch school in Morton county for
agriculture.
H. B. 65-Hagan-Relating to ap'
pointment of state board of regents.
RI. B. 23-Noltimier-Mu Municipal
steam-heating plant
H. B. 59-Providing for delinquent
taxes, penalty and interest thereon.
s. E. 4-Gronvold-Rural credits.
S. B. 9-MartinRelating to foreclos-
ure Of land contracts.
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No officer, agent or employe OF a
railroad company, express company or
other common carrier or other per-
son engaged in the dray business, liv-
cry business, or any private person
may knowingly receive, carry or de-
liver, directly or Indirect y, any in
toxicating liquors to or. for any per
son within this state. or into this
state to be used for any purpose, eth
er for personal use, or to be used lot
sale, gift or barter, as beverage, or
to be kept for sale, gift or barter as
a beverage, if senate bill No. 80, In
troduced yesterday by Senator Heckle.
becomes a law. The violator OF any
of these provisions, under Heckle's
bill, becomes liable to fine of not
less than $1O0 nor more than $500,
and Imprisonment in the county jail
not less than sixty days or more than
12O days. 3H
Which means that under bone dry
prohibition, which the supreme court
of the United States, in its ruling on
the Webb-Kenyon act, has held en-
forcible by any state, a small drink
may cost 100 iron men and mean
60 days sojourn in jail. And the aver
age North Dakotan doesn't want his
drinks that badly.
The transportation or handling or
or delivery of any intoxicat-
ing liquors to anyone in North Dakota
is construed blythe Heckle bill to con-
stitute a common nuisance. Any such
carrier upon application of the attor-
ney general OF. states attorney and on
conviction Of having committed VIC
lation may be senjoined by district
court from engaging in any of the
above acts such order to remain in
force for year from date Of service.
Any person Violating. the terms OF
any Injunction snail be punished for
contempt, In the first offense, by fine
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in the strict enforcement of the pro-
hibition laws, The Tribune will back
Mrs. Anderson and Mr.. Watkins to
the limit in putting through bone
dry measure.
But we refuse to assist any meas.
ures that smack Of pork or have the
slightest porcine flavor.
Let rs join forces and make her
bone dry.
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ments by the national parties.
FROM RENv,LLE COUNTY COURT.
Mohall State Bank, a Corporation
Plaintiff and Respondent,
VS..
Duluth Elevator Company, a Corpora
ton, and Monarch Elevator Com
pany, a Corporation, It's Successor
Defendants and Appellants.
Syllabus: Where the holder OF
chattel mortgage is requested by an
elevator agent to induce the mort
gagor to- deliver grain covered by such
mortgage to the elevator operated 'py
such agent, and subsequently STANDS
by and sees the grain sold and dellV'
cred to such agent and permits pay
ment therefor to be made to the mort"
gagor without informing the purchas'
err of the mortgage lien and makes no
demand for either the grain or the
proceeds thereof until more than two
years after the grain has been sold
and delived. he is estOpped from as
sorting any lien under such mortgage
against the elevator company.
From a judgment of the County
Court Of Renville County,, Crewe, ].
Plaintiff appeals
Affirmed.
Opinion of the Court by Christian
son, ]. Mr.. Justice Grace, being dis
qualified, did not participate.
Grace & organs, Mohall, for APP
pellants.tr
Purcell & Divet, Wahpeton, for Re-
spondeGt.
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What Bone Dry Prohibition
Will Mean to North Dakota

Of not less than s1O0 nor more than
$1,000 and be imprisoned in the coun
ty jail 60 days to one year. For the
second and each successive offense,
of contempt the punishment prescrib-
ed is imprisonment for not less than
one year nor more than two in tho
penitentiary.
Senator Martins bill, No. 50, also
introduced yesterday, provides: cit
shall be unlawful for any person,
firm or corporation to import or bring
into this state in any manner what
soeyer intoxicating liquors or bever-
ages the sale of which is prohibited by
law. It shall be unlawful for any
common carrier doing business in this
state to transport into, import or ship
into this state such Intoxicating IL
quors.
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NORTH DAKOTA IMPLEMENT
MEN MEETING IN FARGO

Fargo, N. D.. Jan. 24.-Just after
she had been Invested Of the 1000 far
mers that attended the Tri-State
Grain Growers convention here last
week, Fargo again threw open the
doors of her hospitality today to the
North Dakota Implement Dealers as
ISOLATION, for a convention that will
last two days.
T. N. Witten, Trenton, Mo-, is the
big noise of this convention. He has
been successful in closer affiliating
city and country, with the Trenton
Idea," which he will expound at the
convention.
The entire morning was taken with
an examination of the exhibits that
pack the Fargo auditorium, and get
ting acquainted. Addresses by officers
business sessions, report of commit.
tee and a question box occupied the
balance of the day.
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FROM A MEM Der.
Minnewaukan, N. D.,
Jan. 70, 1917.

hlluCNduhd ~. ~,
Jan. %, 1917.
Editor Tribune:
l read in your issue of January 16
that Mr.. Townley, in a speech made
at Steele on the 18th, said Indian
fighters and COW punchers planned the
constitution to suit their needs"
have no quarrel with the gentleman,
his political aspirations or the kelt
he represents. l have had no part in
the political activities of the state for
years and am not an applicant for po'
litical preferment.
I am myself a farmer residing and
working on the farm from which
write this article. Whatever will ben
eft the farming business Of this state
will benefit me. shall not at this
time discuss or venture an opinion on
the merits or dement's of House Bill
A." and with the statement l find in
the Tribune, IF the league program is
thwarted by holdover senators, there
is danger of all past labors and ex'
pense to get control of the executive
branch of the government being vast.
ed through delay" have only to say
for that information, II thank you
much and wish you we'll" 1t is with
the criticism Of the members of con-
stitutional convention that take ex.
ception. Having been member. ]
have right to say 1 know something
of the manner of men that made up
that body
l have no records here to consult
and am speaking solely from memory
but if you will consult the records OF
the men who were members, you will
not find me far wrong. il. =:
/ can call to mind but one member
who might be said to have ever been
an "Indian fighter" Hon. William
Bulge, of Grand Forks, who did his
Indian fighting in blazing the trail
from Bismarck to the Black Hills-a
vocation that took nerve, foresight,
and redounded to great benefit OF the
territory through which he passed.
He, as head of the university board,
did more to build up that institution
than any other man in the state. |
can call to mind but one man, . mem
Der, who could be said to be Cow
puncher"-a slur term for stock
man-f4on. William Ray, Of Stark. AS
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loyal citizen, honest a man, as God
ever put breath in.

loyal a citizen, honest man, as God
ever put breath in.
Without reference to "House Bill
49," let me say in defense of the con-
stitution builders, "by their fruit shall
We know them" What state of them
all has builded better, faster and more
substantial, than our own. What peo-
pie have been more contented and
prosperous. In what state have laws
been passed that could not be passed
under our present constitution. and
which have been tried out and found
to be of special benefit to the former,
and has failed because it has been
declared to be unconstitutional? On
dian fighters and COW punchers'' in
deed! l can call to mind at least q
members who were bona fde farmers,
not farming the farmer" but actual
tillers of the soil. recollect no single
article advocated by any of these
gentlemen and defeated because it
extended advantages in the way of
passing laws in the interest of agricul-
ture. If conditions have so changed
as to now make revision desirable,
that can be no just basis for criticism
of its original builders.
More than one-fourth of it's mem
bers have since its adoption been Sc
lected for. places of honor and trust
in either the state or nation. call to
mind B. F. Fancher, president of the
convention, since insurance commits
sioner and later governor: j. F. Selby,
United States attorney; B. F., Spauld-
ing, member of congress and chief
justice supreme court; NJ. n. Johnson,
member Of congress, both house and
senate; w. f. Purcell. United States
senator; w. s. Lauder, three times
Judge Of district court; John Garland,
United States district and circuit
Judge; Roger Allen, lieutenant COVER.
nor and governor; David Bartlett, three
times lieutenant governor; Edgar w.
Camp, United States district attorney
and now chief counsel of the Union
Pacific railway; w. J. Clapp, superin-
tendent of public instruction; II. L.
Holmes, twice state auditor; S. H.
Moore, twice Judge district court at
Duluth, Mimi; Knudt j. Nomland,
state treasurer; James F.. O'Bryan,
United States district attorney; Rob
ert M. Pollock, speaker in seventh leg
islative assembly; Andrew Slotten,
member board railroad commission
ers; Elmer D. Wallace, lieutenant gov
ernor; John Almond, member state
senate, and E. A. Williams, surveyor
general and speaker of the house.
Some names that should have been in
this list have no doubt slipped my
memory These men all took prom
inent part in the building Of our con-
stitution. They were neither "1ndian
fighters or cow punchers." When
Lincoln said ;"you can fool all the
people some of the time and some OF
the people all the time, but you can't
fool all the people all the time," he
but propounded trueism, as true as
the gentleman will find the Chinese
proverb, "chickens come home to
roost."
More than one-third of the mem
bers of the constitutional convention
are dead and l shall feel that 1t IS
time for me to be when am not ready
and willing to defend their memory.
l have the honor to be,
Yours truly,
R N STEVENS.
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FOLEY'S VIEWS.

,MedOra, y. d., Jan. rs, 1911.
Editor tribune,
Dear Sir: Poor cow-punchers, ho~
many sins are laid to thy charge?
You have served the purpose of the
land shark, confidence man and char
latan. And now whom are you serv
ing? When the last revised edition
comes from the printer we expect to
read that it was the puncher, and not
the Jew, who crucified our Saviour.
When a, public mans statements
over the State about persons and con
ditions, which statements are untrue
and the >untruthfulness could have
been easily ascertained; and these
false statements have a tendency to
create prejudice against one class
of our people, what are we to think
of the man? Dishonest in one thing
dishonest in all things. If it is neces'
sary to resort to falsehoods to revise
the constitution; then God help our
people.
The only COW country ever in our
state, worthy of the name, was locat-
ed along the Little Missouri river
mostly in old Billings county. The
severe winter of 90 years ago about
wiped out the cattle business, which
never came back to what it had been.
The constitutional convention was
elected in 1889, when the counties OF
what is now Golden Valley, Slope and
Billings had about $50 population, OF
which less than 100 were voters. VIII
liam Ray. a railroad man, of Dickin
son, represented all this vast district
am unaware of single article in
the constitution placed there for the
benefit of cow-punchers. The only
representative this county had in the
legislature in cattle days was All
White, in 1897. If any laws passed
by any of our legislatures were for
the especial benefit Of cow-punchers
we should like to know where they
can be found. On the contrary. the
cattlemen have often been held up
to scorn, and today the land own
ers along the Little Missouri riye
are unjustly taxed, compared to those
of the Red river.
Yours truly.
JAMES w. FOLEY.
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ENTERS A PROTEST,

Aneta, N. D., Jan. %. 1911.
Editor Bismarck Tribune.
Dear Sir: | see in the papers that
the leaders of the Non-partisan league
are trying hard to get the state con-
stitution revised in a jiffy, so it will
be possible to increase the debts OF
the state of North Dakota, and also
get hold of the state school fund.
Now, Mr. legislator, why be in such
a hurry? Neither the Non-partisan
league program nor the league cam
paigners demanded such a radical
and speedy action. If you league leg
islators had told the voters before the
primary election, that you would re-
wise the constitution so you could get
the state into deeper debts, and use
the school fund for speculative pur-
poses, where there is no guarantee
Of it's success, it is very likely you
would have been defeated.
Before the primary election you
league candidates stated most en-
phatically that Townley was not your
dictator, nevertheless, you now ap-
prove of everything he advocates.
The proposed revision of the con-
stitution is so radical that your boss,
Townley, did not dare to mention it
before the election, but you approve
Of it just the same. Doesn't that look
suspicious?
II you were loyal citizens you would
not attempt to change the constitution
on the proposed plan, but follow the
plan specified in our constitution.
The state received the school lands
and land grants to the educational in
stitutions from the federal govern
ment for the sole purpose OF main
tanning the schools in the state. From
that land lot OF money comes into
the school treasury. The politician
Who attempts to squander or use that
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ta'S educational InStitutIonS'
Those engaged in research work at
the Agricultural college should also
spend reasonable proportion Of their
time in eaching This seems reas-
enable recommendation on the part OIL
the survey experts. 1t is pointed out
that the German system places con-
siderable emphasis upon the neces-
sity of those engaged in research to
devote some time to teaching.
Criticism is made of the mainten'
ance at the Agricultural college OF a
preparatory school, The Tribune
does not know whether the recon-
mendation to abolish this feature IS
based upon a careful examination OF
rural school conditions or not. Near
ly 45 per cent of the registration In
this school comes from Cass county,
which would indicate that the state
is furnishing Fargo with free high
school al the expense Of the tax pay
ers. In 19l4-15 only 1873 students were
enrolled.
The survey experts found just what
The Tribune pointed out two years
ago when agitating the board of re-
gents system that low grade normal
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MAKE " BONE DRY.

Senator Heckle has the correct solu-
ton OF the liquor issue which thrusts
itself upon every legislature usually
in the form of q salary grab bill such
as House Bill Il two years ago and
House Bill 81 this session.
The adoption of bone dry law
will give rs prohibition that prohibits,
reinforced by United States gu
preme court decision. We hope to
see Mrs. Elizabeth Preston
an Rev. Watkins traasSes their At
fsctioas iron House Bill 81 to Senate
an IS.
- absoiute ssi1saee q IT. belief
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1HEDA BARA.

Theda Bara is the star OF the new
William Fox photoplay, "The Vixen
which will be shown at the Orpheum
theatre tonight. In this picture, the
eminent actress has returned to the
type of role which gained her her first
fame.
Miss Baa plays the part Of Elsie
Drummond, who lures lover away
from her sister, Helen, and then
throws him aside, when he loses his
money. Her next move is to take an
other of her sisters lovers; this time
the man keeps his money, so Elsie
keeps the man.
The denouement comes some years
later, when the deceit which Elsie
had practiced toward her sister Is
proven. 1t is then that Helen's for.
bearance saves her from an unhappy
home life.
J. Gordon Edwards directed this pic
ture for Mr.. Fox
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Probably the best that can be said
of President Wilson's address before
the Senate is that it is ideal and
utopian, utterly impossible of consid-
GRAFTON seriously at this stage of the
war.
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Editors Note-This column be-
Ionus to the readers of the Trib-
une. In it will be printed all sign
ed communications which are not
IibeIous in nature or intended to
reflect upon anyone's character
or reputation. Temperate com.
munications are solicited upon
live topics.
Of course, the views expressed
are not necessarily the convIc-
tions of the Tribune.
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'THE TRAIL OF THE
LONESOME PINE

Will be seen at the Bismarck tonight.
with Charlotte Walker, the celebrated
American actress. in the same role
in which she scored such a phenom-
email success on the speaking stage.
Prominent in her support is Theo'
dore Roberts, Thomas Meighan and
other memmers of the Lasl1y all-star
organization.
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There'll be seven eclipses this year.
not counting ri. G. Of LIS eclipse OF
the weekly wage.
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Hoboes are to aid tho United
States health service in fighting
germs Thus do our cherished fa-
bles perish!
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The new year has begun a sad har-
vest in the passing of two such char
acters as Dewey and Buffalo Bill
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(: What ! do not wish men to ::
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Editors Note:-This is another
of series of articles dealing with
the report recently issued by the
board Of regents on North Oako'
ta,s educational institutions.
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ORKIS w. ROBERTS,
Meteorological.