The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-08-09
OFFICERS Of End
MAY Be DROPPED
COMMISSIONED MEN WHO DO NOT
COMPLY WITH REQUIREMENTS
LIKELY TO BE DISCHARGED,
HAPPENINGS AT STATE HOUSE
What North Dakota Officials Are Do
ing In Administration Of Laws
In the. Different Depart.
ments at Bismarck,

Bismarck.
Probably a score of commissioned
officers will be discharged from the
Second. regiment Immediately upon it's
recognition by the war department,
and before the new regiment is actu.
ally mustered into federal service, it
is reported today. These officers are
those whose qualifications do not COM
ply with the requirements of the new
militia bill of June 3, 1916, which pro-
vides that no militia officers shall re-
ceive federal recognition who were
not at the time they were commits
stoned in the active service as enlist
ed men or officers of the national
guard, officers unassigned, reserve Of
hcers or graduates of some recognized
military college or school where mill
tary science is taught under the d.
rection of a regular army officer.
Many Applications.
Applications for warehouse licenses
are being received by the state rail-
way commission at the rate of fifty a
day. AS each application must be &C.
companied by the new form Of stor-
age ticket, and as each form needs to
be carefully checked up for possible
errors, the annual task of granting
warehouse licenses is much compli-
Gated.
To Do Some Swearing.
1nasmuch as considerable swearing
of one kind or another will be done
by the county exemption boards next
week, the governor this morning re-
ceived from Washington authority to
delegate n or all the members of
these local boards official swear for
the purpose Of taking oaths and affida-
Wits.
Thinks Law Unconstitutional.
Attorney General Laanger, in a let
ter in response to a request from Rail-
way Commissioner M. P. johnson, de-
clares the fee provision of the grain
grading act to be unconstitutional and
that elevator employees cannot be
asked to grade and inspect, without
reasonable compensation grain des-
tined for a purchaser other than their
own elevator.
He declares the act does not pre-
vent the track buyer from purchas-
ing grain already inspected and that
the indemnity bond feature relating
to the purchase of grain on consign-
ment for central markets outside the
state is unfairly discriminatory and
cannot be enforced. A suit is now
pending in the supreme court to test
the act.
May Go To Pala Alto.
Indications now point strongly to the
sending of the North Dakota National
Guard to Pala Alto. CAL, for training
instead of to Demning, N. M.
The fact that the state troops have,
in the past few days, been assigned to
the Twentieth division, thus being
lined up with Montana, Washington,
Idaho and other, Western states, and
the further fact that Colonels J. H.
Frame and Frank White of North Da.
kota's two regiments have each been
called to Pala Alto lend strength to
the belief that the Western camp has
been chosen for Dakotans.
Governor HaIts Wholesale Arrests.
Governor Lynn ]. Frazier in a proc
lamation declared that police and
peace officers have no right to arrest
or search suspicious persons, and that
the activities of some police in sec
lions where I. w. w. difficulties are
feared are a trampling under foot Of
the constitutional rights of individuals
He further adds that no officer has the
right to deport a man because he is
without money Or because he demands
high wages.
Peace officers in certain sections Of
the state fear the proclamation which
was issued in the shape of a circular
letter, will have a bad effect and will
complicate the I. w. w. situation.
The letter threatened the removal O.
states attorneys, sheriffs or police
men who arrest and search vagrants
without search warrants.
Farm Labor Seeking Jobs.
While at first, farm laborers apply
Ing for work to Federal Labor Agen'
Mcdonald of Commissioner Hagan',
office were insistent that wages be spe
Gifted before they accepted a position
the present finds them ready to tax,
Jobs at going wages.
The recent heavy crop damage ha,
mad a prompt effect on the labor maj
ket. Farm help, quick to realize tina
the demand for labor will not be MOI
NAL, and that the farmer is "up agains
IT, are gladly taking jobs offered a
the farmers own terms.
Power Plant for Dunselth Home.
8. F. Crabbe, state architect, returue
from Dunseith yesterday mornin
where he made preliminary arrange
ments for installing a power plant q
the state tuberculosis sanitarium, Bid
On this job will be advertised for b
board Of control in the near future.
Had Ripe Tomatoes.
William Laist, custodian of the ca,
itol. is willing to grant others the Bi,
marck potato championship, but a.
serts that when It comes tn earlv rim