Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-04-05
man RUNS SECOND;
CANNOT GET OFFICE
suPREME COURT HOLDS paa
QUALIFICATION OF FIRST MAN
DOES NOT PUT NEXT IN.
DoINGs At STATE CAPITOL
What Is TranspirIno In the oLhsren,
Departments Where the Affairs Of
State Government Are
Administered.

Bismarck.
A man who was second In a race
Tor . public Office must remain sec.
ond. even though the candidate who
finishes first may be disqualified, rules
the North Dakota supreme court in
affirming the decision of the Morton
county district court in the case of
Woll versus Jensen.
H. l.. Woll and H. X. Jensen were
candidates for superintendent of
schools in Morton county ut the last
election. Jensen finished FIRST, and
Woil then contested his once on the
ground that Vol is not qualified I'M.
der the laws Of North Dakota to be
superintendent Of schools. The ruling
of the Morton county district court
against VOL now is confirmed.
Which means that Morton county
must hold a special election II it
wishes to enjoy the luxury of a new
county superintendent of schools.
After Telephone Companies.
A telephone company maintaining
300 miles of rural telephone lines,
and which has never previously paid
single cent In taxation. will pay
taxes hereafter as a result of the cam.
paign launched by State Auditor Ko-
sticky.
Eleven distinct rural telephone com.
panfes center at Harvey, six at New
England. and eight ut another point.
| according to reports received nv the
auditor.
investigating Roads.
T. Warren ALLEN, general INSPECTOR
OF the United States office Of public
roads. Is In the state at the present
time. accompanied by T. O. Hathaway
of st. Paul, district engineer, and they
are investigating North Dakota's road
building plans with view to deter.
mining how this states $4,000 slice
of the Shackleford post roads aid will
be investigated.
Ignite Output Grows.
The inspection Of the Ignite coal
mines Is under the direction of the
state engineer. who is ex-officio state
coal mine Inspector. An inspection ia
made every other year information
for the intervening year being secured
by furnishing the mine operators with
blanks which they forward to the of.
fee.
According to information collected
by State Engineer ]. w. Bliss, the
production Of Ignite coal during the
calendar year 1916 was 66O, ISL tons. an
increase of 1913 per cent over the
production for 1915. the gain in ton.
mage being 74,635.
School Heads to Confer.
Commissioner of Education E. B.
Craighead announces that a confer.
ence OF normal school heads with the
deans OF education of the university
and the agricultural college will be
called at Fargo in the near future,
when there will be discussed means
of cooperating in the coordination of
North Dakota's educational system.
Later the deans of the colleges of
engineering OF the university and the
agricultural college and probably
members Of the faculty will be called
together with a view to effecting a
satisfactory division Of the engineer.
Ing work OF the two institutions,
along lines proposed in the recent
educational survey.
Receiver Appointed.
Assistant Attorney General Bron.
SON. upon his return from Grand Forks
announced that John Vallelly is to be
receiver for the MOI thern Fire and
Marine Insurance company which has
been ordered by the court to suspend
further business.
important Insurance Case.
A question Of much Importance in
the insurance world is involved in the
case of Joseph Donahue. administra.
tor. VS.. the Mutual Life Insurance Co.
of New York, appealed by the latter
from an adverse decision in the vii.
liams district court. which was argued
In supreme court.
The company issued policy on the
life Of Williams county woman. who
died few months later in givins
birth to child. The company de-
clined to pay the amount of the policy
on the grounds that in making applica
tion for the insurance the woman had
not stated she was soon to become q
mother. The issues are whether the
statement made in an application fol-
an insurance policy become part OF
the contract for insurance. and fur
thermore whether questions as to the
health Of the applicant should involve
expected motherhood.
| Ruling on Professional Men.
Dentists. surgeons, medical men
chiropractors. osteopaths. opticians
obstetricians. optometrists and otherl
who make a business Of curing OF
patching up bodily ills and defects
are held to be in the same class ethi
cally with an attorney at law in ar
important opinion handed down BY
Attorney General LANCER, In that any
one Of these practitioners may be de
barred from further practice In NORTH
Dakota on conviction Of unprofes
/ Aional conduct and aNfPar the sovoNa