The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-19
FEDERAL ARRESTS
EXPECTED IN N. D.
ATTORNEY GENERAL INsTRUcTs
STATES ATTORNEYS TO RE.
PORT CiSLOYALTY ACTS.
HAPPENINGS AT STATE HOUSE
What North Dakota Officials Arc Do.
ing In Administration of Lave
In The Different Depart.
ments at Bismarck.

In The Different Depart.
ments at Bismarck.
Bismarck.
Continuing his efforts to stamp out
alleged seditious acts in North Da.
kota, Attorney General William Lam
ger has telegraphed all states attor-
neys to report all members of North
Dakota organizations suspected of dis.
loyalty. The state fire marshal also
has been directed to take every pos.
slble step to protect grain elevators.
1t is reported here that special Off.
GERS have under surveillance men
who have been distributing seditious
literature, and that several other
cases are under investigation in other
counties.
Federal arrests are expected at any
time, following reports that have
been made by the attorney general to
United States District Attorney M. A.
Hildreth at Fargo.
Many Highways Planned.
Thirty-seven hundred miles of ten.
tative trunk line highway will be
shown on maps which State Engineer
Bliss now has under course of prepa
ration and which will be placed before
every county board of commissioners
at their May meeting. The maps will
detail 1000 miles of primary trunk line
highways and 100 miles of connect.
mo Cn0nnIorU r001c T1,1 1-,,n<,,
commissions will be asked to criticize
the routes proposed, and their sugges.
tons will be placed before the state
highway commission when it con.
venes at the capital.
Great Northern Demands Refund.
made a demand on the state treas.
the terminal fund of the state in 1915
minal act is invalid. The company
to that effect.
For Good Roads.
State Engineer J.. w. Bliss has
written to the secretary of the Ameri.
can Association of State Highway
Officials, assuring him that the North
Dakota State Highway commission
stands ready to cooperate with the
secretary % war in every possible
way in the building of roads.
P. w. Thomas, bridge engineer, and
v. H. Sprague, highway engineer
10th with the state engineers depart
ment, have expressed themselves as
being ready to volunteer for active
service, should the need arise.
Mr.. Bliss has furnished the associ
alton with information regarding the
mileage and condition of roads with
in the state, as we'll as information
concerning the road building machin'
cry owned by the counties.
To New Headquarters.
Assistant State Dairy Commissioner
Abbott has gone to Minot to open
headquarters, from which point he
will operate as inspector of cream.
cries and cream stations in the north
half of the state. Mr.. Abbott has been
in Bismarck since the first of the
year. He was graduated from the
dairy course at the state agricultural
college in 1916. Devils Lake will also
be included in his jurisdiction and il
is very probable that he will be 10
Gated there for several months in the
year.
Asked to Plant Grain.
Governor Frazier has issued a proc
lamation calling attention to the gov
eminent reports showing the probable
yield of winter wheat in the United
States to be fifty million bushels short
of 1916 and calling upon the people
of North Dakota to plant every avail
able acre.
State Superintendent of Public In
%struction Macdonald in a bulletin is
sued to teachers, superintendent and
school officers emphasizes the impor'
lance of increasing the yield of North
Dakota farms and urges that the old
err boys and girls be permitted to do
their part. He suggests that manag.
ing boards plan to open schools not
earlier than October 1; that a spring
vacation Of our or five weeks be al
lowed, and that We schools be kept
open in June and July, when there is
less and cheaper farm work to do. He
estimates this plan would make avail.
able the labor of some 5000 older
boys at a time when labor is scarce
and. wages high.
Cannot Assess State.
If Governor Frazier is to enjoy the
benefits of paved streets about the
executive mansion, the city of Bis.
marck and not the state of North Da.
kota must foot the bill, Attorney Gen.
eral William LANCER ruled in an opin.
ion furnished City Attorney H. F.
O'Hare. The state, like the federal
government. cannot be assessed for
the cost Of local improvements.
Care Of Insane Expensive.
North Dakota is expending $780,.
705.19 every three months for the care
Of its insane in the state hospital at
jamestown. The state at large pays
$5,035 of this total, while the remain.
der is apportioned among the several
counties, according to the number OF
patients they have committed. Cass
county, with the largest population,