Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-08-23
M'vEY RESIGNS AS
STATE SCH00LHEAO
QUITS STATE UNIVERSITY TO Ac.
cEPT POSITION WITH KEN
lucky INSTITUTION.
DoiNGs At STATE CAPITOL
What 10 Transpirins In the Different
Departments Where the Affairs Of
State Government Are
Administered.

STATE 60votnmen1 are
Administered.
Bismarck.
Announcement is made from the Of
flee of the state board of regents of
the resignation of DR.. F. L. McVey,
for eight years president of the Uni.
versity Of North Dakota at Grand
Forks, to accept the presidency of the
University of Kentucky at Lexington,
KY. DR.. McVey has had the new DO.
sition under consideration for some
time.
President McVey came to the uni
versity eight years ago from Mime.
sofa. where he had just completed a
term as state tax commissioner, prior
to which he had been professor of
economics at the University of Min
nesota. The state board of regents
is not prepared to announce his sue.
cessor at the state U.
Must Organize to Get Uniforms.
Only such home guard organizations
as have the character of state police
or constabulary and organized under
the direction Of the governor will re.
ceive equipment from the federal gov.
eminent, according to instructions
sent out by the military department
today.
Valuation Must Be Increased.
North Dakota must have an as.
sessed valuation of $685., 100000 to pro.
duce sufficient taxation revenue to f.
nance its operations for the ensuing
two years, State Auditor Kositzky to-
day advised the state board of equal
ization. The present assessed valua-
ton is $S48,000,00O, and the neces.
sary increase IL smaller than antici.
pated.
Receives Many Requests.
Governor Frazier is receiving many
requests for the recognition of home
guard companies in various sections
of the state, and the chief executive
ts compiling information which will
enable these companies to win speedy
recognition, uniform and equipment.
Stock Yards at Harmon.
The railroad commission has been
advised that the Northern Pacific Of
ficials have authorized the construction
OF stock yard at Harmon. This is
the outcome of request of the farm.
ers and citizens of the neighborhood.
Steele Man Appointed.
o. A. Engemoen of Steele. former
assistant cashier in a bank at that
place. has been named by Examiner
J. R. Waters deputy state bank ex-
aminer to succeed Deputy Stangler,
who Is In the military service of the
state.
Many Farmers Want Exemption.
North Dakota claimants for exemp-
ton on agricultural grounds to the mum.
Der OF ESQ or more had filed claims with
the state board when it met at the
capitol yesterday afternoon. Many of
these claims came from counties which
have certified no lists of accepted reg
1strants to the state boord, and Chair.
man Luther E. Birdzell issued a state.
ment to registrants advising them that
they are not expediting action upon
their claims by filing in advance of
the time specified, which is five days
after their names are certified to the
state board from the local body.
ITO facilitate action by the district
board" advised the chairman, "all
claims submitted to it must be sub.
stanttated by affidavit of claimant and
at least one disinterested householder,
not relative Of the person called,
who is personally cognizant of facts
bearing upon the claim.
No Undue Raise In Ignite Price.
There Is no indication of any effort
upon the part of North Dakota Ignite
miners to combine to unduly advance
the price Of coal in this state, DR.. v.
H. Stickney of Dickinson, president Of
the North Dakota defense council, an
nounced prior to his departure for Chi
cago to attend the conference of home
defense councils of the sixteen coal
producing states. At Fargo DR.. Stick.
ney was Joined by Dean E. ]. Bah.
cock of the North Dakota school of
mines, head Of the fuel committee Of
the state defense council and member
OF the national body. DR.. Babcock has
procured comprehensive data on the
Ignite resources of North Dakota,
whose store Of this fuel has been es-
timated by the United States geo
graphical survey to exceed 700 billion
tons, and he will advise the confer.
ence that North Dakota is in posi-.
tion to handle its own ruel problems
and to solve those of sister states.
North Dakota's difficulties lie on
Its eastern frontier" said DR.. Stick.
ney. Zone Of our problems will be
to educate our eastern counties and
perhaps adjoining states as well to ap-
preciate the value Of Ignite