The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-04-26

the purpose Of getting the collective
and individual goats of General Man
ager j. NJ. Anderson and President
M. p. Johnson. If this was a fact
somebody evidently thought better OF
it.
LEAVES THE SERVICE.
After five years faithful service as
stationary engineer al the capitO
heating plant, Harry Buck has resign
ed to accept a similar position at the
,penitentiary brick yard Before en-
tering upon his new employment, Mr.
Buck will go to Montana to the on q
homestead.
GIVES OPINION.
In response to the state auditors
request for an opinion, Attorney Gen
eral LANCER today held that counties
which have accepted responsibility
for insane patients at the state hos
pital and which after paying for their
care number of years abruptly dis
cover they are not responsible, can
not subtract from current dues the
entire amount of money which they
have paid the state for the care OF
these wards. If a recovery Is to be
made, the attorney general rules, i;
must be through due legal process
The opinion prObaly will result in re
Loving a considerable drain on the
fund for the care of patients charged
directly to the state.
WHEAT YIELD HIGH.
North Dakotas average whea,
yield is 1868 bushels per acre for the
last five years, according to interest
ing statistics prepared by r. H
Thistlethwaite Of the state commits
sioner of agriculture's office. The
average yield for the last five years
is 1892 bushels: barley, 1888 bush
els; rye, 1856 bushels, and flax, sos
bushels. The highest yields of each
grain and the lowest for the five.yeal
period are: I, leat, 1902, 1915; 50
1916: oats, Ala, 1912; 21.5 1916; bar
ley, %, 1915; 1875, 1916; rye, 10, 1912;
1873, 1916; bax, 1913, 1916, ~, 1918
The yield in all grains except flaz
showed a decided falling off in 1915
which materially reduced the five
years average
EMERGENCY WAS GOOD.
Dunseith sanitarium is to have its
$4,000 emergency appropriation
This appropriation was provided fol
in H. B. 21S The emergency clause
passed both houses by proper major
tiles, but the engrossing clerk failed
to have the clause attached to the
engrossed copy filed with the secre
tary of state, and this clause does
! not appear with the act as published
in the popular edition of the session
laws. The attorney geenrai was ap
pealed to for an opinion, and Assist
ant Attorney General Brennan today
holds that the absence of the emer
gency on the engrossed copy is pure
ly a clerical error which SHOULD MOI
deprive the sanitarium of funds fol-
which there is an imperative, immed
late need. The Journals OF botf
houses show the emergency clause
passed in due form, and the opinion
holds that the state auditor may
treat H. B. 21S as if the emergency
clause attached had been properly
| engrossed and certified.
II - ~
DICKINSON RATE Low.
Dickinson enjoys an exceptionally
low death rate, according to stats
tics furnished by DR.. c. j. McGur
rem, secretary of the state board o.
health, covering North Dakota's 1917
mortality experience. Dickinson
most healthful of all Flickertail cit
les, is given a death rate of six per
cent; Fargo, ten; Minot, eleven;
Mandan, twelve, and Dickinson six
teen. The board of health's staisti
clan has evidently based lBismarck's
death rate on the 1910 census; as he
gives the city rate of fourteen per
cent, while, based on the actual mum
Der of deaths reported and a popula
ton of 1900, as given by the last di
rectory census, the date is but 49,
percent. Ten of the deaths reported
to the secretary of the state board a.
resident, and upon which his percent
age was based, occurred in Burleigf
county, outside of Bismarck. makina