The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-09-19
ACTION I TO H)l|DuP . j.
FUND FOR SCHOOLS
TAXPAYER WOULD STOP PAYING
DEFICIT OUT OF CURRENT
FUNDS.
2,058 MEN GIVEN POSITIONS
State Public Safety Commissions En-.
ployment Bureau Also Assigns 961
Women to Places During Month
Of August.

st. Paul.
Injunction proceedings have been
started by J. F. Mussel, a taxpayer
OF Foley, Benton county, to restrain
state officials from paying out Of cur.
rent state school aid funds the de.
f1c1ts In 1915-1916 state aid to high
and graded schools as ordered by the
state high school board after Cover.
nor BurnQuist vetoed the $1,070,193
speciol deficit appropriation voted by
the last legislature.
In the action to test the legality of
the high school board order, District
Judge Haupt Of Ramsey county, on
application by the compliments at.
torney, signed an order to show cause
returnable next Saturday and ad.
dressed to G. G. Schulz, state superin.
tendent Of education; Henry Rines,
state treasurer, and J. A. o. Preus,
state auditor.
Mr.. Mussel alleges that the payment
OF the deficit from current bonds as
proposed is unauthorized and contrary
to law and that it will deplete cur
rent school aid funds, increase his in
d1V1dual taxes as a property owner at
Foley and cause him irreparable dam.
age. He contends further that the
1917 state school aid appropriation Of
$2,637, 545 for 1917 and $2,400,000 for
1918 will be needed during those
years and that payment Of the exist
Ing deficits from either amount would
simply create new deficits.
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Many Are Given Employment.
The special employment bureau
opened by the Minnesota Public Safe.
ty commission in Minnesota to give
statewide war time service, furnished
jobs to 2,058 men and 961 women dur
ing August, the report of Assistant
Superintendent H. J. Beckerle to the
commission shows.
While $500 application for help
were received, 3,175 men applied for
places and 2,058 reported that they
obtained work. That there is short
age in harvest help is shown by
special statement revealing that 1923
applications for work and 996 for help
were received and that 951 places
were filled. The report showed that
1874 women applied for places and
that 1876 applications for help were
listed. Nine hundred and sixty-one
women were hired, including three
on agricultural work.
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Sizing Up Draft Timber.
Capt. M. R. Nyman was in the Twin
Cities from Camp Dodge, Des Moines,
comforting with local draft boards re-
garding the quality of men to be fur
n1shed to the camp in the first con-
tlngents. He is executive officer of
ammunition trains and has been de-
tailed to line up the trained timber
in the first delivery to the draft army
for special work in various services,
supply, sanitary, engineering and the
like.
AS the local boards have based their
groups of men to be sent first to camp
according to occupation as we'll as
previous military experience, Captain
Nyman is getting a line on the number
OF skilled men, such as chauffeurs,
bakers, cooks, carpenters, blacksmiths,
wagon makers, and so on, to be ex-
pected from Minneapolis.
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Two Officials Face DisloyaIty Charges.
Two inspectors in the state dairy
and food commission are facing dis
loyalty charges. A. J. Anderson,
Lindstrom, inspector of canneries, is
accused of using abusive language
toward Governor Burnquist in recent
conversation with w. w. Rich, door
keeper at the capitol, and was sum-
moned to appear before Commissioner
James Sorenson to explain. Affidavits
from citizens at Barnum received al
legged that John E. Lindberg cream
cry inspector, said he was ashamed of
the American flag, as recently report
ed. Commissioner Sorenson said the
Lindberg case will be investigated by
the civil service board and similar
action taken against Anderson if the
charges are pressed.
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SearchIights for Capitol Dome.
The old incandescent lighting sys-
tenn for Illuminating the dome of the
Capitol has been replaced by new
system of high power searchlights.
Six 1000 candle power search lights
have been installed on the roof for
lighting the dome, and four 580-can-
die lights will be turned on the Amer
lean flag on the East wing Of the
building.
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To Handle War Exhibit.
H. e. Wright, former assistant pub
licity agent for the Minnesota State
Fair, has been appointed by the gov
eminent to take charge Of the organi-
cation of war exhibit for the mem
bers of the American Association Of
Fairs and Expeditions, whose fairs are
held late in the fall. Mr.. Wright has
been in New York for several days.
He severed connections with the Min
nesota Fair to assume his new work.
The first fair at which this exhibit
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