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Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-05-17
PREDICTS TAXES
WILL Be DOUBLED

Washington, May 16.-Representa-
tive Hill Of Connecticut. Republican
member Of the ways and means COM
mittee. warned the house the pending
war taxation bill is but a start toward
the taxation this country must stand
because of the war with Germany and
that another revenue bill probably
must be passed next December
II have no doubt" said Mr.. Hill.
"that notwithstanding the $1,SOO,00O,
900 we will raise this year by this bill
we will be called on to raise $780,
100000 or double the amount of taxes
next year.
Il think our expenditures this year
vii! bs 34a,ee8, 100000, counting the
eest Of financing the allies.
I'VE might as well face this proposi-
ton like men and not haggle agout a
tax on tewelry. q tax on automobiles,
and this tax aud that. 1t Is going to
reach everybody before we get through
with It..
1--WE have practically entered pro
gram of financing the allies at the
rate of $400, 100000 month. think
that is conceded: We will have ex
hausted the autherizad bonds by July
There are fourteen months of the lie
Of this bill, May and June and the
fiscal year of 1919. At $4OO, ,0O0, 900 &
month we will require $500, 900, ,O0t
bonds and we have authorized only
| $4,000 ,000, 900 for the allies"
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-05-17
Death Of Mrs. VIM. N.g.l

Mrs. VIM. Nagel died suddenly
Saturday night at the family home
near the state line from premature
childbirth. She was taken i'll some
time Saturday and when DR.. Tho
mas of Fort Yates, who was called
during the afternoon arrived she
had been unconscious for some time
and died soon afterward. The
funeral was held Monday forenoon
interment being made in the Mis-
sion cemetery south of Fort Yates.
Services were conducted by Rev.
DR.. Beede both in English and Ger
man. Mrs. Nagel was "a years old
and her untimely taking off is a
hard blow as she leaves nine child
rem. They are Bertha 10, Christina
13. Alexander IL, Fred 10, Rein.
holt 8, William 9, Martha 6, Freda
4, and John 2 years old. The Nage]
family moved here about two years
ago from Emmons county, and q
number Of relatives and friends from
over the river were present at the
funeral services. Mr.. Naeel and
motherless children have the sincere
sympathy Of the community on the
Occasion Of their bereavement.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-05-17
Order Your Coal Now
Advise Sent Broadcast
Owing to Probable Car Shortage Next
Fall People Of Northwest Urged to
Lay in Their Coal Now

"Order your coal today" is tho
warning sent broadcast over the
state by the Minnesota Railroad and
Warehouse Commission. 1t follows
assurance from federal officials and
the national war board that the
coal supplies will be made available
this summer and the threatened
shortage next winter will be averted
provided the public oo-operates and
orders coal for immediate delivery.
The commission urges all retail
coal dealers to order Immediately
next winters supplies of coal, and
suggests that they urge their GUS
toners to take direct delivery Of
whatever coal they will need in the
coming year, as II will be really inn
possible for the railroads to take
care Of all orders for cars for coal
shipments during the fall and win
ter months, when grain and agricul-
tqral products are being moved.
Louis Endres, president Of the
Fort Yates Commercial Club has
been considering for some time the
problem Of fuel for next winter,
and it is likely that at the next
meeting Of the CLUB arrangements
will be made to buy coal for the
community and have it shipped
down from Bismarck by boat as
was done last year,
The chances are that if the coal
supply is laid in early in the sum-
mer, it will be considerable cheaper
than later on, and in these war
times il is the safest and best thing
to do.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-05-17
Industrial Training Is
Fitting Indians For Life
Course of Studies Recently Adopted
in Government Indian Schools Are
Proving very Successful

Those who have followed the
progress of the improved course of
study recently adopted by the de-
partment of the interior for use i'm
Indian schools express great satis-
faction at the success the plan has
had thus far.
Under this plan the Indians
schooling covers period OF ten
years, and direct connection exists
between his school work and his
subsequent life work. The course
OF study was outlined late in 1915
by committee of eight experts,
who met in Washington and con-
sidered the latest practical suggest
ions advanced by American educa-
tors.
AS result, Indian schools are
now models Of practical utility.
They lay a real foundation for fr-
ture work in agriculture, home
economics, trade. and Industry
combining vocation courses with
regular public school grade study.
AT the fourth grade the primary
division ends and the prevocational
begins. Three hours daily are now
devoted to industrial work, 30 min
utes Of it applied to instruction,
the rest to production. The aver
age is maintained throughout the
fifth and sixth grades and affords
general preparation for the courses
offered in the vocational divi-
sion.
When the pupil reaches the voca-
tiona! division, he has probably de.
cided upon his future occupation,
and his work begins to assume a
more definite direction. He i
taught industrial geography and ag.
ricultural botany and vocational
arithmetic. Each day he is give n
four hours Of straight industrial
work. Each week he is given per-
sonal instruction for one and one.
half hours; each week he devotes
2 hours to drafting and twenty and
one.half hours to practical applica-
ton Of the principles he has learn
ed.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-05-17
Germans Develop New
Determined Resistance
Assume Offensive Against Both French
and British, But London Report.
Attacks were Repulsed

London, May 16.-The front in
Northern France is witnessing an in.
creasingly determined resistance by
the Germans to any further advances
by the British and French.
Evidently with heavy reinforce
ments at their command the German
armies in both the Arras and Aisne
fields of operations are launching
heavy assaults at the points especial
~ menaced. Thus the British are be
ing attacked around Bullecourt and
the French along the Chemin des
DANES plateau.
At both places the German attacks
as reported in the British and French
ohcial Statements. were repulsed by
the entente ferces,
The French armies are under new
command. General Petain, chief OF
staff Of the ministry of war, has beer
appointed commander:in-ehiet at the
French armies an the French front.
Although beset with innumerable
difficulties the provisional government
of Russia will make an effort to
ama1gamate the diverse interests
which, by their conflict, have made
an ordered and efficient government in
Russia impossible. 1t announces IN
q proclamation.
The eauncil of soldiers and work
Men.s delegates, comprising mainly
the Socialist and extreme radical ele
ments, is formulating program Of
conditions which would permit So
eiahst entry upon representation ii
the ministry.
this follows the councils urgin,
upon the army at the front the neces
sity of ceasing to fraterntze with th.
Germans and an appeal to it to re
au1ne the offensive against them ant
thus best serve the cause of genera
peace.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-05-17
Roosevelt's Army Plan
Approved In Congress
Confsrses on Army Bill Endorse Col.
Roosevelt Plan for Volunteer Divi-
zion For Aid Of French

Washington, May 1e.-senate and
house conferees on the army bill
agreed to report the measure with pro.
vision authorizing the president to
raise the volunteer division Colonel
Roosevelt desires to lead to France,
No other changes in the bill were
made by the eonferees.
Whether Colonel Roosevelt and a
volunteer force 90 abroad remains for
the president to decide. The provision
agreed to by the eenferees makes it
optional and not mandatory on the
president,
The esnscription age was left at
twenty-one to thirty years, inclusive.
Before the week ends the conferees
hope to have the bill finally adopted
by both heuses and sent to the presi.
dent:
Appropriation Of $750,0OO,OOO, of
which nearly $4oo,OOO.OO0 is to be i'm
mediately available, for federal pur.
chase and construction of feet Of
merchant vessels. was agreed ts by
the senate appropriations committee.
Legislation authorizing the govern.
ment te take over necessary ship.
building facilities also was approved
OF the appropriations which viii be
added to the $2,S00, 100000 army and
navy war budget $25O,O0O,OOO will be
authorized for new construction and
slightly less than $150,oO0, 600 for pur,
chase Ct shiSa wherever available
4he remainder will be authorized, but
not Immediately appropriated.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-05-17
Seed. Issued

Seed for issue to the Standing
Rock Indians has now been receiv-
ed and given out except the flax,
which will arrive this week and be
issued in ample time for seeding.
The issuing Of seed was delayed on
account Of the company to which
the contract was let in March were
unable to furnish the seed and Su-
perintendent Kitch was forced to
buy in the open market. The price
to the Indians remains that fixed
in the contract while seed was
cheap, the company defaulting hav.
ing agreed to stand the loss.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-05-17
Local Happenings

Local happenings
Albert Gipp came down from So
len the first OF the week and is busy
putting i'm crop on the old Frosted
place west of Fort Yates.
States Attorney johnson came
down from his home at Solcn ycs-
tcrday and went to Sclfridgc in the
afternoon to look up some matters
in that locality.
j. G. Shields who went to Fargo
last Saturday to take the exanlina-
ton for the officers reserve corps of
the army, returned Tuesday. lie
was unable to pass the cxamina-
ton on account OF impaired eve
sight.
Jesse Take Alive and Joe Fast
horse were arrested in Mclaughlin
last week by Superintendent kitch
on the charge OF intoxication and
were brought to the Agency guard
house. Mr.. kitch says that booze
and prairie fires is taboo on this re-
scrvation. ...
A. o. Schimansky and James
Zcllnki OF the Solcn State Bank
came down yesterday, and tho lat
ter will be in charge of the Fort
Yates bank for IL few days while
Cashier jacobson and Mr.. Schiman-
sky are looking after some outside
collections.
G. L. Wynkoop, who lost his
tent and belongings in prairie fire
which swept over his homestead
west of selfr;dge a couple of weeks
ago, returned Friday from Bismarck
with a new outfit and team which
he shipped to Cannonball, and went
out to his place again Saturday.
Mrs. Serina Hokanson, mother of
the Hokanson brothers, and their
sister Miss Hanna Hokanson, came
over from Fargo last Friday for n
visit. Mrs Hokanson made her
home here last year for a short
while and returned to Fargo on ac.
count of illness in the fall. She has
recovered from her sickness and ia
again in fair health considering her
age.
J. G. Shields went to Fargo Sat-
urday to take the entrance examin-
alton for the officers reserve corns
of the U. S. Army. Ii he passes
the examination he will go the Fort
Smelling training camp and i'm due
season receive commission in the
army. Mr.. Shields is veteran of
the Spanish-American war having
served with company in the Iowa
national guard.
The Pioneer is in receipt of a let
ter from a former officer of high
rank in the South Dakota National
Guard in which he states that re-
cruiting will begin in few days at
Mobridge, $. d., with the view of
raising volunteer troop to be part
Of Rooscvclt's first. division. Good
men over 25 years old are wanted.
Men who have had experience in
: camp life and know how to take
care Of themselves. The letter fur.
, ther says that Indians who are
physically fit are invited to join.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-05-17
CHICAGO GRAIN BAN
MADE PERMANENT

Chicago. May 1s.-The directors Of
the Chicago board Of trade extended
until further notice the regulations
covering dealings in futures which
were put into effect Monday.
Representatives Of the leading grain
exchanges Of the country at meeting
here also recommended to their re.
spective exchanges that they continue
until further notice the restrictive
regulations which were put in effect
Monday.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-05-17
CONVENTION CALL ISSUED
North Dakota Republicans Will Nomi.
nate for Congress.

Fargo, N. d., May 16.-The congress.
sional district Republican convention
TO nominate candidate for congress
to succeed the late H. T. Helgesen will
be held in Grand Forks June 20, the
formal call being issued by the con-
gressional committee, headed by
Bernt Anderson, Ramsey county, and
Governor Frazier's appointee to the
state board Of control.
The call recommends that precinct
esucuses DO held on June z - -,
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-05-17
BILL TO AID PUBLISHERS
News Print Paper May BE Declared
Public Utility,

Washington, May e.- News print
paper would be declared q public util-
ity and the federal trade commission
would be. authorized to fix its maxi.
mum price by bill introduced by
Senator Robinson Of Arkansas, who
declared the print paper industry to
be trust controlled.
Unless some relief is obtained
thousands Of publishers will be driven
out of business" he said,
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-05-17
BRIroNs APPROVE COURSE
Favor Forming League Of Nations to
Enforce Peace.

Favor Forming League Of Nations to
Enforce Peace.
London, May 16.--A league of ma
tions to enforce peace, as championed
by President Wilson, William H. Taft
and other American statesmen, was
endorsed in a resolution adopted at a
meeting attended by 1,20O representa-
tive men, including clergymen and
members Of the houses of lords and
commons, held under the auspices of
the League of Nations society. Wis.
count Bryce presided. The other
speakers were Most Rev. Randall
Thomas Davidson, archbishop of Can.
terbury; Lieutenant General Jan
Christian SHUTS. Baron Buckmaster
Lord Hugh Cecil and Viscount Har
court.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-05-17
Ressue. Sitting Rull'.-Negative

Frank Fiske rescued an old mega
tive of Sitting Bull taken by Barrie,
the famous frontier photographer,
who had studio at Fort Yates
years ago in the building moved
last week by j. N. Carignah. The
plate was found under the building
when it was being. moved. The
plate was broken. but most Of the
face of the old medicine man shows
on the picture developed from it.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-05-17
Beware Setting Prairie
Fires Warning Given
Setting Prairie Fires Violation Against
Both State and Federal Laws.-
Many Fires Recently

Prairie fires have been numerous
in this section of the state the past
month, and much land has been
burned over due to carlessness of
persons unfamiliar with fires in
country of vast stretches of prairie
when once under way.
For the benefit of newcomers and
settlers who have located here the
past fall and spring the Pioneer
publishes this warning and quotes
from Article % Of the Compiled
Laws Of North Dakota the following
sections relating thereto:
Prairie Fires Forbidden-If any
person shall cause to be set on fire
any woods, marsh or prairie, or
any grass or stubble lands, except
in the months Of July and August,
except as herein provided, shall be
: deemed guilty of misdemeanor,
and punishable by fine, and impris-,
onment not to exceed six months
in the county Jail, and shall also be
held liable in a civil action to any
person damaged by such fire to the
amount of such damage,
Fire Permitted, When-For the
purpose Of destroying any grass or
stubble that may be on any piece Of
land at the time any person COM
mences to break or plow the same,
it shall be lawful for such person to
set the same on fire any time in the
year; provided, that at the time
of setting such grasses and stubble
Y on fire there shall be a strip Of land
well plowed or burned over at least
= fifty feet in width completely en-
comprising the place where such
fire is set.
When Prairie May be Set on
Fire-For the purpose Of making a
fire guard it shall be lawful to set
ssson fire a strip Of prairie not exceed
ing one hundred feet in width,
which shall be protected on each
side by a strip Of plowing or burn
ing not less than five feet wide, and
at such buring there shall not be
less than four men present prepar-
ed with water. and suitable appli-
! apces to keep such fire under con.
troll.
In addition to the above from
the state laws there is also pro.
vision In the Federal statutes
against setting prairie fires on In
dian reservations and Indian lands,
and in the event of conviction 8
more severe penalty prescribed than
that provided in the state laws.
esss Every homesteader, farmer and
rancher should use every precautior
to prevent fires, and when fire does
occur, it is the duty of every citizer
to turn out and help put the firt
out and prevent the spread Of dam
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-05-17
refuses TO Discuss Peace.

Berlin. May 1e.-Chancellor Won
Bethmann- -Hollweg answered the peace
interpretations In the reichstag by
saying that It would not serve the In.
tQIalta & thl -sapat41 :
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-05-17
To Bismarck

Superintendent j. B. Kitch went
to Bismarck yesterday to be pres
ent at the term of Federal court in
session there this week.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-09-28
HENS DIDN'T
WORK OVERTIME
TI1rES
AT STATE CAPITAL.

INDIANAPOLIS. IND. Sept 2S-In-
diana hens laid s31.264.75S eggs in 1915.
and they did not work overtime IN
fact. 1915 was not a big year for eggs.
These figures are contained In statis-
tics just made public by the state sta
tistician's office.
These eggs were worth in the market
a total Of $15,589,0oS.
There were in Indiana in 1915, &C
cording 70 these statistics 6s2.247 doz-
en- laying hens. and they produced the
73,41S,799 dozen eggs
This means hat each nen laid SIS
eggs in that year. which is not bad for
a Hoosier hen.
The statistics say that the Ss2,241
dozen hens were worth S6.950.251-
4 total Of 567.455 dozen IF all kinds
OF poultry was sold in 1915. for 49,
91O.S49.
And now for the cows Of Indiana.
Al total OF 45s.140 cows were MIXED
in 1916. These cows were worth S2l-
613.S61.
The reported entire amount Of milk
produced was 1S2.oO5.o67 gallons, worth
S~25.T91.ssS.
The total amount Of cream sold was
3o.l62.Sls pounds. worth S6,97S,369.
The total amount of butter produced
was 17,1s5.S17 pounds, worth S,4o3,llS.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-09-28
LOGANSPORT
Gets NEXT
MEETING

INDIANAPOLIS. Sept. 2s.-U, S.
Hauck Of Loganspor:. commissioner Of
Cass county. was chosen president Of
the County Commissioners association
Of Indiana at the closing session at
Hotel SEVERN yesterday morning. A.
H. P~ollentzke OF Valparaiso. was elect
ed vice president and Albert L, Gearing
of Indianapolis was reelected secre-
tary and treasurer. Joseph G. Hayes.
Marion county commissioner. retiring
president. was extended a vote Of
thanks for his untiring efforts in be-
half of the organization.
L~osansport was selected for the 1915
convention.
Twelve district chairmen and tne
counties under their jurisdiction were
named.
In resolutions the commissioners
pledged united support and co-opera-
tion with the state highway commits
sion. indorsed the federal good roads
movement. recommended placing of uni
form signs along highways 10 be des-
lgnated by the state highway engineer.
and that a committee be appointed to
ask for legislation increasing the sal
airy of county commissioners.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-09-28

alton will fasten the idea in the minds
OF the public.
As 2 member Of a labor union affili-
ated with the American Federation of
Labor I nave protested most emphat-
!cally against these accusations. have
always understood that labor strongly
supported The schools in Cary, but in
order 70 make certain I wrote TO the
unions in Gary asking for information.
Letters received should show up once
and for all the utter falsity OF the
Rockefeller and steel trust charges. as
Well as the charge that organized la
Dor is against the plan. The Building
Trades Council has had an opportunity
to study the Cary system at first hand
for ten years. Representatives of the
union have had men employed by the
schools; they have kept IN close touch
with the work done in the schools. they
have had an opportunity to know what
the children do after they leave the
schools.
As a result. not III h~earsay and ru-
NOR. but his hrst-hand knowledge OF
ten years experience. organized labor
indirses the Gary schools.
In view Of these facts IS %organiz-
labor in New York City going to permit
itself ID be manipulated for political
purposes when the testimony ar its
own members proves that 10 passively
submitting 10 such manipulation they
are working against the future health.
happiness and economic freedom Of
their own children?
ALYSE GREGORY.
Assistant Director Gary School League.
New York. Sept 3.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-09-28
JUDGE ANDERSON
OVER9ULES OBJECTIONS
Confirms Sale of Various
Divisions of G.. & I. in
Court Yesterday.
TINES BUREAU
At STATE tAPITAI.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. sept. Is
Judge Anderson overruled the objec-
tons Of the Peoples Trust and saw
tngs hank of Laporte, Yesterday after
noon. and ronhrmed the sale of the
various divisions Of the Gary & Inter
urban Railroad COMPANY. which we're
made recently by q master in chan
Gerry. The Laporte bank was a lien
holder aeairst the company.
The objection asked thai a receiver
be continued in charge OF the road
and that a later sale he held. when.
il was alleged. a better price than
100000. for which the Gary division
was sold. could be obtained. The
division is worth s1.500.oO and its
reproduction would cost 81. 600. 900. ac-
cording to the objection. which said
that the division had been owl
an increased net revenue under the
operation Of the receiver.
Liens prior to the lien Of the bank
amounted &c s1,2s2.51O.4s. but it was
alleged that in time all ncumbrances
could be paid of if the sale was not
confirmed.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-09-28
UNIONS Of
CARY BACK
SCHOOLS
New York World Publishes
Inquiry Made by N. Y.
Labor Unions.

NEW YORK. Sept. 2s-The World
prints the results Of an inquiry made
by the New York labor unions put to
the Gary Building Trades council ask
ing whether the steel trust or the Rock
e~fellers control the Cary schools. Pub
licity is given by the World TO the fol-
lowing statement from Alyse Gregory,
assistant director Of the Gary School
1es OF New York City:
During the past few months polit-
1caI opponents of the Gary plan have
persistently e~ndeavored TO poison lue
mind Of people against his great ed
vocational reform By asserting that the
Gary schools are controlled by the
steel corporation and Rockefeller in
terests. These charges have been re-
futed again and again. and yet the op-
ponents of the plan continue TO make
them in the hope that sufficient reite--
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-09-28

entity the government expects large pro-
ducers. under their agreement. 10 stimu-
late production, find a way to supply
raw materials 10 the smaller producers
in certain lines. particularly plates. SO
that they can take their share of gov
and allied contracts.
It Is estimated that 1000. 600 tons Of
steel products for the and
it's allies will be scheduled in the next
sixty days 10 be provided for by the
steel companies in the coming year"