Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-05-03
ATTORNEY GENERAL
NOT TO KEEP FEES
LANCER SAYS HE WILL PAY
THOSE EARNED UNDER BILL
~ INTO TREASURY.
DoINGs AT STATE CAPITOL
What is Transpirins In the Different
Departments Where the Affairs Of
State Government Are
Administered.

Administered.
Bismarck
Attorney General LANCER ruled that
he cannot retain attorneys fees under
Senate Bill II. His opinion was sub
mitted at the request of the governor.
II cannot retain attorneys fees as.
sessed as part of the costs in actions
prosecuted under this law to prevent
unjust Determinations and the vic.
lation Of rates made by the board of
railroad commissioners" says the at
torney general in his opinion. There
is no question but what legally I
should pay into the state treasury the
net amount of attorneys fees earned
by this office and wish to say en-
phatically that l shall pay such at.
torney's fees into the state treasury"
torney's fees into the state treasury"
N. P. Heads Visit Governor.
General Supt. G. l.. Nichols Of st.
Paul and Superintendent w. E. Der.
ner Of jamestown called on the gov.
ernor and the railway commission,
proffering the best services of the
Northern Pacific in any emergency
that may arise through the war
Many Tags. Sold.
Up to date the automobile registra-
ton department of the secretary of
states Office had issued 10000 license
tags. netting the state $92, 400. approxi.
mately two-thirds Of which will go
into the state highway fund. 1t is
estimated that less than fifty per cent
Of North Dakota's motor cars now are
equipped with 1917 tags, and thor.
ough campaign is about to be launched
against the tagless auto.
Fears Depletion Of Appropriation.
The state auditor has asked the at.
torney general for an opinion as to
whether counties which accept re-.
sponsibility for patient committed
to the state hospital for the insane
and proceed for number of years to
pay for that patients care, may, after
everyone has forgotten all about the
original circumstances, suddenly dis.
cover that the patient to begin with
was a nonresident and thereupon de-
duct from the current fees due the
state the entire amount paid. This
has been done in a number of in
stances recently, Trail county deduct
Ing $4,000 in one lump. If this prac-
tice continues, the state auditor fears
the appropriation made for the care
Of patients directly chargeable to the
state will be depleted.
New Fire Marshal Named.
H. L. Read, for "a years an attache
Of the state fire marshal's office and
for 20 consecutive years secretary Of
the North Dakota Firemen's associa.
ton, has been appointed state fire mar
shall by Governor Frazier to succeed
A. H. Runge. Read has been assistant
fire marshal for the last four years.
Can't Pass the Hat.
The proposal to pass the hat" to
collect funds for the maintenance of
Sunday baseball is taboo under the
Sunday baseball law passed by the
recent state legislature. according to
the decision Of Attorney General viii.
liam LANCER.
Appoints Efficiency Commission.
The personnel Of the new North
Dakota efficiency commission to direct
the states efforts for a greater pro.
duction Of foodstuffs. has been an
bounced by Governor Frazier.
The members named are John H
Worst, New Rockford: Oscar ]. Sci
Ter, Jamestown: w. r. Porter, Fargo;
J. M. Still, Beach; Horace Bagley,
Towner; Mrs. Mary Darrow Weible.
Fargo; Mrs. Mildred B. Wick, Cava'
lier; M. v. Boldly, Fargo; D. E. Ship
ley. Bismarck; o. o. Morrell, Surrey,
and Howard R. Wood, Deering.
LANCER 10 Upheld.
In sustaining demurrer to the
complaint in the case of Blumehar,
versus Macdonald, the supreme cour,
has again upheld Attorney General
LANCER In the famous Glen Ullin wine
cases, which LANCER started when az
states attorney Of Morton he directed
the seizure of ninety barrels of wine
at Glen Ullin. The court on the re
hearing has held that Sheriff Macdon
aid held the wine on a valid ordel
from a Justice court and that tn,
plaintiff had shown no good reason
Why Macdonald should give up tn,
turntables. The action was brough
by Blumehart and other owners to re
cover possession Of their wine, on tn,
grounds that the sheriff had no lega
authority to conflscate 1t. The court,
first ruling was for Macdonald, ant
this decision is reiterated in passing
en- the rehearing.