The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-07-12
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HAPPENINGS AT STATE HOUSE
What North Dakota Officials Are Do
ing In Administration Of Laws
in the Different Depart
ments at Bismarck,

Bismarck.
Members of the North Dakota ma.
tional guard who were on duty at the
Mexican border and have not yet re.
ceived their $40 a month pension have
been paid as extra funds were pro.
vided by transferring $4,000 from the
soldier aid account to the soldier pen.
sion fund.
Last winter the legislature appro.
priated $4,000 to pay this pension,
but vouchers calling for over $50, 900
have already been filed with State Au.
ditor kositzky. The action was TAX:
en- at the meeting of tile emergency
board, the amount being transferred
from an uneXpended balance.
Isolated Cases Of Hog Cholera.
A number of isolated attacks of hog
cholera have been reported in North
Dakota. In Dickey county recently,
the owner Of a herd of several hun.
dred lost 20 animals in one day. The
county agent vas summoned, the herd
vaccinated, all dogs in the neighbor.
hood ordered killed, and the place put
under quarantine. No further deaths
have been reported. In Barnes coun.
ty E. R. Wilberg in going to his hog
pasture in the morning found one ami.
NAL dead and in a few moments the
entire herd had expired. There is no
general epidemic, but a warning has
been sent out to hog owners and at.
tention is being called to the free
virus supplies by both state and fed.
eral governments.
Dryer Gets Commission.
Joseph l.. Dwyer of Fargo, commits.
sary sergeant with the First regiment
on the Mexican border, has been com.
missioned second lieutenant, supply
company, in the new Second regi.
merit.
New Grain Inspector.
j. A. McGovern, of St. Paul, has
been named deputy grain inspector of
North Dakota by DR.. E. F. Ladd, state
inspector. McGovern has been with
the Equity Cooperative Exchange in
st. Paul for four years.
One Tax on Autos After Jan. I.
After January /, 1918, all motor driv.
an vehicles will be taxed only once
and that will be at the time the auto
licenses are secured. The cost of the
licenses in the future will be not less
than Sc for a machine up to 20 horse
power and so cents each additional
horse power. Officials state that this
will prevent Is per cent of the PEG.
pie In the state from %evading the
taxes on automobiles in the future,
which has been done to quite a large
extent this year.
Two Men Commissioned.
Commissions in the new Second
North Dakota infantry have been is.
sued to Henry T. Murphy of Bis.
marck, formerly captain of the First
North Dakota infantry company, as
captain adjutant, and Ernest Orchard
of Dickinson, deputy state bank exam.
liner, as battalion a%djutant. Major E.
c. Geary of Fargo went to Dickinson
to complete the organization of a ma.
chine gun company and Lieut.. Colonel
Tharalson and Lieutenant Neumier
went to Beach to aid in recruiting.
Welfare Commission Organizes.
The public welfare commission ere.
ated by the last legislature has met
and organized. William LANCER, at.
torney general, is chairman, and Miss
Aldyth Ward, secretary and executive
officer. J. N. Hagan, commissioner of
agriculture and labor, is the other
member.
The commissions duty is to inves-
tigate economic, moral and social con-
ditions in factories, hotels, restaur-
ants, stores, laundries and other in
dustrial institutions where girls and
women are employed.
Keep Butterfat in State.
Approximately half of the butterfat
produced in North Dakota is shipped
to Minnesota for manufacture, accord
ing to Stanley H. Abbott, assistant
dairy commissioner of North Dakota.
MANY North Dakota farmers are at
tracted by the high prices offered by
some Minnesota cream buyers" said
Mr.. Abbott, land they ship their cream
out of the state with the firm belief
that they are getting more for their
product, when, as a matter of fact,
they are often going to extra bother
and really getting less for the cream
than they would if they had sold it
in their local market"
Mr.. Abbott maintains that tests are
made on varied bases, and that in
mary instances the farmer gets less
for his product than he is entitled to.
Must Deposit Cash Surety. 4.
A half dozen assessment insurance
companies will be prohibited from op.
Grating in North Dakota unless they
deposit with the commission the &c.,
900 cash surety required by an act
passed by the last session Of the leg.
islature. To date but one assessment
company doing business in this state
has complied with the law. An i'm.
portant Chicago company has held
that so long as it has a license from
the insurance department, the com.
pany cannot be compelled to make the