Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-10-04
u. S. FUEL COMMISSION BUuE,
TIN SAYS FUEL MUST COME
FROM THERE.
HAPPENINGS AT STATE HOUSE
What North Dakota Officials Are Do,
ing in Administration of Laws
r in the Different Depart
ments at Bismarck.

leldS for the bulk of its coal other
Shan Ignite during the coming cold
season is an impression gained from
late bulletins of the United States fuel
commission. Very little Montana coal
will com into the state, they believe.
Mines at Red Lodge are controlled by
che Northern Pacific, which will con
E5ume practically the entire output of
&hese fields in it's locomotives and
shops. Bear Creek coal has been com
mandeered by other railway compan-
ses, and the Wyoming mines are the
glearest source of supply other than
NATIVE Ignite fields left open to North
Dakota.
Wyoming has a great wealth of coal
land can easily supply the northwest
srn district which, it is understood,
mas been assigned to the producers of
1his state, with instructions to take
care of this territory and to leave 9TH
scr districts to other fields.
Decides Board Of Regents Case.
A majority of the state supreme
court in opinions filed find that George
"A. Totten of Bowman, and Robert
Muir of Sarles, Nonpartisan league
sappointees, are entitled to seats on
Tthe state board of regents, and that J.
"A. Power of Leonard and Emil Scow
Of Bowman, incumbepts, whose terms
expired July /, 1917, must make way
Cor them.
This supreme court decision gives
Governor Frazier control of the
Inn,l oF roonr{c D~l ,,,4l - -
higher institutions of learning in the
state. He seated one of his men,
Rev. G. e. Vermilya Of Valley City,
several weeks ago, when Frank White
resigned from the board to become
commander Of the Second regiment.
The seating of Totten and Muir leaves
Chairman Lewis F. Crawford OF Sen
alinel Butte, and DR.. j. D. Taylor of
Grand Forks i'll the minority.
Frazier Honors Requisition.
Governor Frazier has recognized
cequisition papers issued by Govern
Or Lowden of Illinois for the return to
shat state of Arthur Noffke, who is
neld in the Eddy county Jail at New
Rockford. Noffke is charged with an
:hccomplice Of entering a flat in Chi
-cago last April, attacking the proprie-
dress, tearing from her ears earrings
valued at several hundred dollars and
taking $3.50 in cash.
Light Year Fer Hail Insurance.
The season just closed has been the
highest for the state hail insurance
department since the fund was estab.
ilshed, Insurance Commissioner OILS.
ness advises. The total amount col
3ected in premiums will not much ex-
:icee $4,000, as against $4,000 in 1916,
out out of this fund the state pays
o2R per cent on the losses as ad-
justed, as compared with SO per cent
paid LAST year.
Farmers put Off insuring their
crops until they were certain they
would have something to insure; hail
storms early in the season were few,
and farmers saw no need for protec.
f'tion, and the drouth insurance COM
panies, writing about $4,000 worth
of business in the state, cut in on u.s."
said Commissioner Olsness in explain
ing the falling off.
To Make Own Grain Tests.
The state grain grading and inspec-
zion department has installed at it's
Offices in Fargo a complete grain
grading and testing equipment. The
apparatus is valued at several hundred
dollars. Heretofore the department
has been compelled to rely upon the
agricultural department for these
tests. Hereafter the tests will be
made in the Office of The grain grading
commissioner, and much time will be
saved.
Babcock to Head University.
DR.. d.. ]. Babcock, dean of the col
Eege of mines, was elected acting presi-
dent of the University of North Da-
Aota to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of DR.. F. L. McVey, at a
Joint meeting of the board of regents
and members of the faculty held at
Grand Forks for the purpose of con-
a5lderlng a successor to DR.. McVey.
DR.. Babcock is the senior dean of the
university, having served for many
years as dean of the college of mining
engineering. He has come up with
the university through it's years of
struggles and the committee feels that
no man on the faculty is better fitted
TO carry on the work If the institu-
Ttion.
Can't Store Prairie Chickens.
Game Warden William Rekes made
application for a writ Of mandamus
compelling Secretary George Hogue
of the North Dakota game and fish
board to issue permits for the storage
of prairie chickens on the grounds
that the provision of the old game law
permitting the storage of prairie
chickens had not been repealed by
the new act passed at the last session
OF the state legislature. The applica.
tion was denied by Judge Mussells In
district court, who ruled that the old
law had been repealed.