Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-10-25
LOOKS FOR many
AUTOS NEXT YEAR
sEcRETARY OF STATE HALL Elk.
PEcTs TO SELL 5000 LICENSE
TAGS FOR 1918.
DoINGs At STATE CAPITOL
What 10 Transpiring In the Different
Departments Whore the Affairs OF
State Government Are
Administered.

Departments Where the Affairs OF
State Government Are
Administered.
Bismarck.
Application blanks calling for the
lew 1918 model of automobile license
tags are being mailed out from the
secretary Of states Office to the more
than $4,000 North Dakotans who reg
istered motor-vehicles this year. Sec.
rotary of State Hall anticipates that
$4,000 automobiles will be licensed in
1918, and the revenue from these cars
will approach 100000, all of which,
after the cost of tags and an econom-
ical Office expense is deducted, will
go into the state and county highway
funds.
Fees will range from Sc for two.
cylinder cars of 211-inch bore, up to
$50 for 12-cylinder, 12O.horse-poweg
machines.
Puzzle for Fraser.
Adjutant General Fraser is trying
to figure out how to comply with in
structions received from Provost
Marshal General Crowder in Wash.
ington ordering him to move lone per
cent of the states negro quota" for
If the instructions were followed, he
points out, some self-sacrificing negro
in North Dakota will have to consent
to be cut in half and sent to Camp
Dodge with the negroes being ordered
there.
The list of negroes eligible, the ad-
iutant general says, is fifty, and one
per cent of this amount would mean
one-half of a negro.
The adjutant general is awaiting
further Instructions.
State Invests In Liberty Bonds.
The North Dakota Liberty Loan
Bond quota was -swelled 100000,
when State Treasurer John Steen pre-
scented an application for that amount
Of bonds from the teachers pension
and retirement fund, of which he is
treasurer. The pension fund now
amounts to $4,000. The trustees
and N. C. Macdonald, state superin.
tendent, have agreed to the invest
ment.
Stacker Banks to Suffer.
North Dakota state banks failing to
do their bit with the Second Liberty
Loan will be penalized when the Sc
lection of repositories for state funds
is under consideration and in other
matters over which the state has con
troll, Examiner j. r. Waters advises
A. r. Rogers of Minneapolis, Liberty
Loan chairman for the Ninth reserve
district.
Similar word has gone forth in Min
nesota and South Dakota. Oficials Of
these commonwealth have held that
banks which are not behind the gov
eminent in this crisis are not entitled
10 any special favors from their gov
eminent.
Grant County 10 Slow.
Grant county, the newest in North
Dakota, is in trouble again. The states
most recent complaint against the
county. is that officials have failed
to report tax collections to the state
auditors Office as required by law. In.
stead Of reporting every month as re.
quired, the officials have not reported
in three months, according to the all.
ditor.
Macdonald Not Candidate.
Il have never been a receptive can.
didate for anything in my life," said
State Supt. N. C. Macdonald on his
return from weeks rural school raj.
lies. discussing the report that he was
receptive candidate" for the Office
of president Of the University of North
Dakota. Il have a man's.sized job
now" said Mr.. Macdonald, land l ex.
pect 1t to take up all of my time un.
til January 1, 1919. am not a can.
didate for the presidency of the uni.
versity. The man who holds that post
should at least have a Phi. d. degree.
and his choice should come only after
the most mature deliberation upon the
part of those who have power to make
selection"
Advise Use Of Ignite.
Utilization of the native Ignite coal
as Tar as possible; cooperation of the
railroads in establishing lower Joint
rates from Wyoming mines to points
In this state. and general conserva.
ton of the coal resources Of the north.
west are urged in resolutions adopre...
by the state railroad commission and
concurred in by Governor Lynn ].
Frazier and Attorney General William
LANCER as means Of averting Q fuel
famine In North Dakota this winter.
The situation, state oficials poin. out,
10 most serious and unless something
10 done to relieve the situation in the
near future. the people Of North Da-
kota will suffer intensely from q short.
age of coal this winter.