The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-06-21
PRICE Of Irvine To
Be INCREASED SOON
ADVANCE COMING NEXT YEAR
BECAUSE OF DIFFICULTY IN
PROCURING FIBER.
HAPPENINGS AT STATE HOUSE
What North Dakota Officials Are Do
ing In Administration Of Laws.
In the Different Depart
ments at Bismarck.

Bismarck.
Twine will be advanced in price next
year, according to word received here.
State prison Irvine is now being sold
at five cents less than private COM
panies sell it for.
The state is now finding it difficult
to buy fiber, the price having increased
rapidly and unless money can be Dor
rowed, the state may not be able to
secure the fiber in the fall.
1t is estimated that this years out
put will reach $4,000, and it is also
estimated that next years fiber at the
present prices will cost to produce the
same amount of twine s565,00O
Asks Probe Of Petitions.
Railroads are waging a strong cam
paign in this state securing petitions
asking the state railroad commission
to support a Is per cent rate increase.
Petitions are being received daily by
the commission. The commission 10
opposing the increase.
An interesting feature Of the petit.
tions is that nearly all are made out
In the same handwriting, including
the petitions sent in by the CONNER
cial clubs. For this reason the petit
lions will be sent to the interstate
commerce commission and a request
made that the activities of the rail.
roads in this state be investigated.
G%uardsmen To Get Pay.
The state auditor is completing the
warrants for $4,000 to be distributed
July l in sums ranging from $50 to
$50 in pensions to 700 North Dakota
national guardsmen, who served last
year on the Mexican border.
Trail County To Appeal.
Trail county will appeal from the
decision of State Auditor Kositsky in
which he held that that county should
pay for the keeping Of Louis Romol,
an inmate of the state insane asylum.
The county claims that the man is not
a resident of that county and never
has been. The expense charged
against the county for the care of the
patient is ~$1,335.47, he being a patient
at the jamestown asylum since 1907.
New Man On The Job.
J. E. Kaulfuss, late of the Univer-
sity of Maine and the Maine highway
commission, in whose service he spent
six years, and more recently technical
writer with the International Core
spondence schools, has arrived to take
up his work as field mar with the state
highway commission.
State Falls Short Of Mark.
North Dakota's registration total,
completed by reports from Stark
county, went v names over Ad.
jutant General Tharalson's final esti.
mate of $4,000, and fell $4,000 short
of the federal census estimate. The
discrepancy is accounted for in part
by the fact that 5000 men are enlist.
ed In the federal service. Probably
a thousand o national guardsmen
have taken the federal oath, exempt.
ing them from registration. There
are 57,099 citizens and friendly aliens
88, negroes 7,025 and 615 alien enc.
mics. Exemptions are cited by 20. 900
citizens and friendly aliens and 27,19O
note none
State to Curb Auto Cheats.
More than 1000 residents of North
Dakota, state officials announce, have
cheated the state by buying auto tags
In Minnesota. Secretary of State Hall
had issued an order to all border coun-
ties not to recognize Minnesota tags
on North Dakota cars.
Regents Custer Case Appealed.
Attorney General LANCER has filed
in the state supreme court here a for
NAL application for a rehearing in the
suit brought OF behalf of Governor
Frazier to GUST the State Board of
Regents on technical grounds. The
suit resulted in a judgment for the
defendants.
#. Lincoln May Have Officers Camp.
Adjutant General Tharalson has re.
ceived advices which, he said, caused
him to believe that Fort Lincoln, neal
here, is being considered as a site for
n OF the succeeding officers train
ing camps. He declined to make
known the nature Of his information.
Rates on Ignite Advanced.
Rates on Ignite coal will advance
eight cents a ton under authority CIV
en- by Senate Bill n, it was announced
after a conference of the railways
with the railway commission. So far
as was ascertained from the confer
ence the act will have the effect of
lowering no rates but of boosting sew
eral.
Competitive Rates Allowed.
Permission to the Northern Pacific
to meet short-haul competition at New
Rockford and Darlington from the
Great Northern and the 500 line, re-