Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-08-02
OAK0TANS MAY GO
TORUSS|AN FRONT
TELEGRAM CONTAINS HINT-sEc
oND TO REPORT At PALo
ALTO, CAL.
DoINGs At STATE CAPITOL
What 10 Transpirins In the Different
Departments Where the Affairs Of
State Government Are
Administered.


Administered.
Bismarck
Russia, instead of France, may be
the ultimate destination of North Da.
kota troops, it was indicated by wire
received from the war department by
Colonel Frank White, commander of
the Second regiment, directing him to
report by wire to the commandant of
the western division, at Palo Alto, Cal,
as soon as the inspection and muster
of the regiment is completed.
Keep Militia in State, Plea.
Governor l.. ]. Frazier has followed
suit with other governors of the north.
western states in an appeal to the fed
eral war department not to send the
guardsmen to southern training camps
until the weather is more agreeable. It
is the opinion of the different cover.
nors that the sudden change in eli
mate in the move to the south would
greatly affect number of the men.
The first of October is the date the
governors say 1t would be safe to move
the troops. The training camp for the
North Dakota guardsmen will be Dem.
ing, N. M.
District Board Has Big Job.
North Dakota's district exemption
board has mans sized job ahead of
it, in the opinion of John N. Hagan,
commissioner of agriculture and labor
and member of the board. This board
must decide all claims for discharge
based on industrial grounds, that is,
claims by drafted men who want to
be discharged from service because
they are engaged in industries neces.
sary for the maintenance of the war.
Librarian Goes to War.
Stewart S. Williams, legislative ref.
erence librarian at the capitol, has left
for New York, where he expects to
sail Immediately for France as SER
geant in the Quartermaster depart
ment.
Projects Found Acceptable.
State Engineer Jay w. Bliss, who
also is secretary of the state highway
commission, is back from an inspec-
ton of federal aid highway projects
In Cass, Richland, Trail, Griggs and
Foster counties, made in company
with Assistant Federal District En-.
gineer Scales of st. Paul.
Engineer Bliss reports that these
projects were found acceptable to the
district Office, and that the process of
procuring federal and state aid may
be expected to proceed without undue
delay.
Some State Binding Irvine Left.
Chairman Lewis of the state board
of control and Warden Talcott of the
state penitentiary, announced that
there is good chance for farmers and
farmers clubs or cooperative socie-
ties, who were originally turned down
on binder Irvine orders. to get some
of the state-made Irvine after all.
No Funds to Pay Council.
To provide the North Dakota Coun.
Gil Of Defense with funds to meet its
running expenses of $3.50 a month dur.
ing the coming 10 months, President
V. H. Stickney and Secretary F. o.
Helstrom in conference with Cover.
nor Lynn ]. Frazier, agreed that mem.
bers Of the board be asked to exc.
cute note for $4,000, with the under.
standing that the governor will go be-
fore the next legislative assembly and
ask for an, appropriation which will
take up the note and relieve the in.
dorsers.
The state has little money left in
Its emergency fund, and there seems
to be no other way of financing the
council, according to the members.
B. G. Marks, treasurer of the Bis.
Llarck chapter of the Red Cross, has
received $50 from more than 200 con-
victs in the state penitentiary here
as their 'bit" in helping to win the
war. The convicts recently petitioned
Warden F. S. Talcott for permission
to raise $50 from their earning, which
average from Is to so cents a day,
and their, request was granted.
inspection Of Second Begun.
Captains Huddlestone and Cook, reg
ular army officers detailed from Fort
Smelling to inspect the Second regi-
ment, have left Bismarck on their tour
OF the state. Every company Of the
Second has been at company rendez-
vous since the call came July Is. and
majority of the companies are re-
crutted up to near war strength.
Officers have been commissioned for
all but one or two of the captaincies.
The Second as we'll as the First has
received many applications for enlist
ment from drafted men, but under in.
structions from the war department,
all of these are being held up.