The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-09-20

o tnan LOCO licenses have been
issued 70 deputy inspectors under the
new North Dakota grain grading act,
Chief Assistant Inspector J.. A. Nc
Govern announced.
Miss Harriet Schultz, who resigned
as teacher of German in the Mandan
high school, writes to ask if the posi-
ton is still open. She declares that
it is almost impossible to find a posi-
ton as teacher of the German Ian
guage. Throughout the Northwest.
she says, high schools are abandoning
German or cutting down the course.
The Mandan high school has added
Spanish to its curriculum and offers
a very limited course in German.
A telegram has been sent by Gov
n Frazier, Chairman A. Andahl
and Commissioners Bleck and John
son of the state railway commission,
Commissioner Hagan, Attorney Cen
eral LANCER and Secretary of State
Thomas Hall to the North Dakota rep
r~esentatives in Washington that if the
new food administration requires the
elevators will only require thirty days
for grain storage will cause a depres-
sion in prices and will cripple the
transportation facilities, congest ter
minals and will take away from the
producer all the protection which pro.
visos in the law intended to give.
j. H. McInerny, president of the
East Grand Forks Brewery company,
and ]. N. O'Keefe, secretary, have
been held to the district court by
Judge Phil Mclaughlin at Grand
Forks. They are charged with GRIM
inal conspiracy in the various cases
growing out of the recent raid made
on the brewery by state officials Of
North Dakota. Besides the criminal
conspiracy charge they were also held
to the district court charged with vio-
lations of the North Dakota bootleg
ging law. They were held on twenty
nine Of these cases, the state orig
inally charging forty-six violations, but
later Diminishing seventeen.
On the basis Of seventy.three re-
ports gathered from twelve counties
in Northern and Eastern North Da-
kota crop conditions are good and
much more satisfactory than last year
because of the higher prices obtain
ing. Thirty cities report conditions
fair; twelve reports say that the crops
are only about so per cent of the
average, but generally much better
than last year. Seven are of the opin-
ion that the crop is pretty light and
five maintain that it is just about av-
erage. In other instances reports say
conditions are fine; others again main
tain that two-thirds of a normal crop
will be the result. In two cases less
are estimated.
Thomas Cooper, director of the
North Dakota experiment station al
Fargo, is confident that the govern
ment call on this state for an increase
in rye of 1OO,O 600 acres will be met
On the basis of the present govern
ment estimates, North Dakota has this
year produced $4,000 bushels of rye
OF twice the production in 1916 and
nearly four times as great as the 1915
production. The fact that returns
from rye are nearly as great as those
from wheat, and the further fact that
the planting of rye comes at a time
when farmers are best able to do the
work, lends support to the hope that
the governments call on this state
will be answered %favorably.
The North Dakota Federation u
Women's Clubs will hold its twenty
first annual session in Dickinson or
Oct. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Club women Of
Dickinson are planning an extensive
program of entertainment for the Wis
itors and it is expected that one Of
the largest assemblages of club womer
to meet in the state will attend. The
great war question Of today as re
CARDS women will be discussed. Noted
speakers will give addresses on Food
Conservation" and Red Cross Work.
Mrs. John Dickson Sherman of Chi
cago, chairman of the conservation de
partment of the General Federation Of
Women's Clubs, will speak, and Mrs
Cyrus Perkins of Grand Rapids, Mich.
chairman of the art department of the
General Federation, will also speak.
The assessed valuation upon which
North Dakota will levy 1917 taxes will.
be $3.50, 600, 900. approximately 1872,
OO0, 900 greater than in 1916, F.. E
Packard, chairman of the state tas
commission, announced upon compile
ton of the work Of the state board Of
equalization. The principal gain is
S19, 900, 900 in the assessed valuation
of North Dakota railways, which tota
$4,000 900, against $4,000 900 in 1916
Telephone properties are raised 10(
per cent and left at 100000, agains1
$415,4S3 in 1916. Telephones are
boosted 40 per cent to $1,900,000; ex
press companies are raised so per CEN
to 500, 900; Pullman companies are
increased 300 per cent to 100000;
farm lands are left at 1 5000, 900
Personal property is valued at $67,
0 10000 and town and city property a