Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-01-03
HIGHWAY BOARD
MAKES ANSWER
State Engineer Bliss Replies to
Charges of Extravaganza
Made BY State Auditor.
news OF STATE HOUSE
What North Dakota Officials Arc %.
Ing In the Administration Of Laws
In the Different Departments
At Bismarck.

| At Bismarck.
In lengthy communication reply.
Ing to charges OF extravaganza made
against the state highway commission
by State Auditor Kositzky. State En-.
gineer Bliss says among other things:
The state auditor carelessly re.
marks that 330.OS9.3S has been spent
for salaries and travelling expenses.
AS matter OF fact. tho sum mention.
ed includes postage. supplies. equip.
ment, furniture and fixtures. five Ford
cars, printing, telephone and tele.
graph charges. freight. express, dray.
age. and the State Highway commits.
sion's salaries and expenses ($61O.OO)
to the sum of $S.229.22, much of which
are assets and can not be chargeable
solely and exclusively to the first nine
months work of the commission. Az
stated sum of $4,000 was specifically
provided for the purpose Of Immediate.
ly organizing the State Highway com.
mission and performing all the neces.
sary preliminary work; purchasing
supplies, Office and field equipment
and securing expert assistance. Con.
sequently the expenditure OF not over
$4,000 of state highway moneys de-
rived from the licensing of motor ve-
hicles has been made
with due Difference to the state
auditor and his counselors. let me say
in behalf of the state highway oom.
mission that 1t considers itself as much
responsible for, and the guardian Of,
the state road funds as anyone else.
in addition to being in position to
judge whether or not such expendi-
lures are being made wisely"
Must Unload Cars Promptly.
Attention to the necessity Of speed
ing up car movements is called by
Capt. I. r. Baker, federal fuel adj
mlnistrator, in an appeal to the
chairman Of each district committee
Of North Dakota. "Your committee
can be of great service in urging
consignee to unload cars promptly
upon receipt Of them." says Captain
Baker. you should give the matter
all possible publicity and work up
public opinion so that It will be un-
popular for anyone to delay the un-
loading Of cars, particularly of coal
cars, or otherwise delay car move.
ment"
Should Have Grain inspection.
]. A. McGovern, chief deputy in.
spector of grades, weights and meas.
ures under North Dakota's new grain
grading act, has supplied the rail.
way commission with copy of cir.
cular which is being mailed to all far.
mers whom the grain grading depart.
ment has on its lists, advising them Of
the importance of having their grain
graded and inspected by a deputy
state inspector before selling It, Mr..
McGovern notifies the farmers that
graingrowers have lost four cents a
bushel in many instances through hav.
ing their grain graded in lower
sub-class than they were entitled to.
or through selling the grain without
inspection or grading.
Many Appeals For Seed Corn.
Hundreds of persons are asking for
seed for sowing purposes, but the
agricultural college laboratory is un.
able to build the state seed list be-
cause the farmers are so slow in senc-
ing in their samples. according to H.
l.. Bolley, secretary of the North
Dakota Improved Seed Growers as.
ISOLATION and state seq commissioner
Mr.. Boiley declares that North Da.
kota grown corn which will sprout
apparently Is scarce this year. and
that any one who has a few ears of
corr hung up for show purposes
should be patriotic enough to have 1t
tested and see to it that 1t gets in
the hands of some reliable farmer,
who will increase 1t for seed purposes
next year.
Want inspector Removed.
The removal of ]. A. McGovera,
state inspector of grades, weights art
measures, is requested in a petition
by N. G. Nelson, II. ]. Arnold ami
H. A Rasmussen, elevator agents In
northwestern North Dakota, against
whom McGovern recently directed
charges which failed when the state
railroad and elevator commission in
vestigated McGovern is charged with
inccmpetency and the petition insist,
that his method of grading has often
brought marked discrepancy between
the grades allowed in North Dakota
and those fixed by the federal officials
at terminals, with the result that
grain buying is made particularly haz.
ardous.
Predicts Great Meat Shortage.
A forecast that there will be a big
shortage Of meat stock and scraln.
BILE for breeding stock at the close of
the year. is made by Professor ]. H.
Shepperd of the North Dakota agri-
cultural college husbandry depart
ment. According to Professor Shep-
perd. 1t is time to think very care
fully where and what feed can be Sc
cured to the best advantage. He says
that little laxative grain feed can
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