Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-04-12
SECOND REGIMENT
FOR N0RTH:OAkOTA
REQUESTS FOR ORGANIZATION
OF COMPANIES MAY RESULT
IN NEW REGIMENT.
DoINGs At STATE CAPITOL
What 10 Transpirins in the Different
Departments Where the Affairs Of
State Government Are
Administered.

Of the North Dakota national guard
Is offered in requests from every
part of North Dakota for the organi.
cation OF new companies. Among
more recent petitions for permits.
sion to organize are those from I'm.
derwood, Beach and Crosby. The
governors mail is filled with com.
munications from patriotic communi.
ties which desire to do their share
in the hour of the nations peril, and
the files are being Immediately re.
TERED to Adjutant General Tharalson.
Governor Issues Commissions.
Commissions have been issued BY
Governor Frazier as follows:
Second Lieutenant Ward l.. Pres.
ton, Co. A. to be first lieutenant.
First Sergeant Adolph H. Schar-
nowske. Co. A, to be second lieuten.
ant.
Second Lieutenant Peter A. Du-
chene, Grand Forks machine gun
company, to be first lieutenant
First Sergeant Cyril ID. Page,
Grand Forks machine gun company,
W Uc SeCOuu lieutenant,
Lieutenant Ward l.. Preston sue
ceeds First Lieutenant Fred Graham.
resigned.
All of these commissions come d.
rect from the governor, these COM
panfes having not yet been mustered
into the federal service, as in the
case Of Co. X of Dickinson, whose
commissions must now come through
the war department.
Procedure 10 Changed.
Procedure which has obtained in
the secretary of states office for many
years with regard to incorporation
matters is reversed by an opinion
handed down from the attorney gen.
erals office. Heretofore 1t has been
the practice to mail check covering
the state tax and the charter and re.
cording fee direct to the secretary of
state, who deducts his fees and trans
fers the portion covering the state tax
to the treasurer. The law provides
that these two fees must be separated,
the state tax mailed direct to the state
treasurer, who furnishes the corpora
ton with duplicate receipt, and this
receipt must be filed with the secre.
tary Of state in company with the ar.
ticles of incorporation.
Gathering Newspaper Data.
State Marshal investigating Fire.
1ncendiarism is believed to have
been responsible for the destruction of
the public school building at Medora.
H. N. Reade, deputy state fire mar.
shall, is investigating the fire. The
building was burned to the ground
after previous attempt, made the
night before, had failed.
Master to Take Testimony.
North Dakota officials have been ad.
vised that the United States supreme
court will soon name master to take
testimony in the suit brought by North
and South Dakota against Minnesota,
involving claims for flood damages in
the Red river valley. States Attorney.
General LANCER says two additional
drainage projects, now contemplated
in Minnesota, would work greater
damage to North Dakota lands than
has already been wrought.
Highway Commission Organized.
Preliminary organization of the
State Highway Commission. in &C
cordance with the law passed by the
last legislature has been perfected at
the capitol. Governor Frazier assum.
ing the craftsmanship and State En-.
gineer Bliss the secretaryship. Two
appointive members of the board have
not yet been chosen by the governor.
This board will handle state road work
in accordance with the federal road
aid law. the state and national com.
bining for the construction of a sys'
tenn of highways in the state.
Pledges Loyalty Of State.
Governor Lynn j. Frazie- of North
Dakota has authorized the following
statement: president Wilson in this
crisis may depend on the support Of
every loyal North Dakotan. There
never has been any question as to the
stand Of North Dakota in any matter
where loyalty and true patriotism
were concerned. There can be NJ
question now"
School Site Decided On.
The board Of regents has selected
the site for the proposed new norma
school which is to be located at Dick
inson. The site Is west of town, ad
Joining the townsite. and is on Ian,
now belonging to J. c. Young Of st
Paul. This in reality is the best Ia
cation for q normal school of all tn
sites that were offered by thu city.