The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1919-09-25
CAPITOL NEWS Letter
By EARLE H. TOSTEVIN

On recent trip of the Flying
Squadron, Attorney General LANCER
was personally present at the raid of
still operated by an 1rishman. who
was busily engaged drawing off the
potheen. Now this lrshman is tenn
peramental Mick and very much ad-
dicted to the verse of Tom Moore.
LANCER looked over partlllon to
where the moonshner was at his
work. The Mick was whistling bal
lad and the words OF the song struck
him as apropos for he looked up with
Il grin and remarked;
"Bill, your bright smoile haunts me
still"
"Service men fall in for parade"
was the order to the several hundred
doughboys at a barbecue dinner in
connection with The Homecoming
celebration at the Missouri Slope
Fair at Mandan. The boys "fell into
line," and so did two girls, one wear
ing the gray green service uniform of
the Y. NJ. c. A., the other the blue
garb Of the War Camp Community
worker They hiked all the route of
the parade to the fair grounds. cts
like old times" they said and it's
great to be with the doughboys
again. The Y. NJ. c. A. girl was
Miss Hazel Nelson of Valley City,
OF 0f OF 70 r;o{o t.
Nelson. and the other was Miss
Emmy Jane Burke, sister of Ex-Jus-
tice E. T. Burke.
"There are at least 100 men in the
penitentiary today for stealing all the
way from $40 to two or three hun
dred dollars. Some of them have re-
| ceived as nue.. as six years in the
state prison and are serving their
time. If Ugland, who stole nearly
100000, must serve only nine
months in the stale penitentiary, the
other fellows should be released i'm
mediately or should have been out
years ago. These poor devils may
not have any friends higher up but
they are entitled to just the same
treatment as Ugland, no more and no
less," said Attorney General William
LANCER today in letter to the mem
bers of Governor Frazier's parole
board.
D. H. Ugland was entered at the
state penitentiary for a. five year
stretch on Dec. II, 1918, after hav-
ing pleaded guilty to three different
charges in connection with defalca.
tions and Irregularities in the Knox
State Bank, amounting to nearly
100000. He WAS released under pa
role on Sept. 10th. LANCER had pre-
viously learned of an effort to secure
his parole and on March 18th wrote
protest to the board and a request
to be heard before the man was re,
leased.
Scores of protests against the pa.
role of Ugland have been made to
the Attorney Generals office.
'Teachers wanted in North
Dakota Teachers wanted for
rural and graded schools in
North Dakota, $s5 to $3.50 per
month. Write Bureau of Certif-
cation, Bismarck, N. D."
The above advertisement in the
Minneapolis Journal is duplicated in
recent issues of Indiana and Wiscon
sin papers, and is evidence of just an
other little stepping over the bounds
and encroachment on the office OF
Miss Minnie Nelson, superintendent
of public instruction.
The board of administration in
making job for E. P. Grain, passed
a motion "to appoint clerk to have
charge OF examination of teachers and
issuance of certificates.
Grain now styles himself the "Bu
reau of Certification" and is seeking
teachers. The school. boards hire
teachers, at least they always have up
to date, and the state superintendent
has in the past and still is in daily
correspondence with teachers and
sch ol boards.
/ 1t is a case Of merely butting in or
the part of Grain. Grain issues the
certificates which permit teacher tc
secure position in North Dakota. II
teacher in lls.lng her qualifications
failed to register as a socialist; would
she get job? Or if there be large
number of socialistic persons reply te
the advertisements inserted in othel
state papers by Grain, would there be
any question as to those not social
lists getting certificates? Those are
questions raised hy those interested
in the monumental grab of.the duties
Of Miss Nelson, who the majority o.
the people of the state decided should
have charge of the work.
State Auditor Carl Kositzky Fri
day, Sept. 26th will stand trial or
charge of assault and battery prefer
red by G. K. Gummerson, reporter
for the Courier-News at the capital
Last Friday the patience Of Kositzk,
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