Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-01-06
he wrote his. opinion holding that Miss
Minnie FNielson vas legally quahfied
TO hqldsthe' office OF state superintend-
e4ta1of public instruction.

Minnie sNielson vas legally qualified
TO holdsthe office OF state superintend-
e4ta3of public Instruction.
SgRsht to Muxsle HIM
.AltorI wrote thSt 'optnion the.
Governor and. !TOwnley wanted me
to pigeon hole it funtiYs after the
cleCtioii,sN,4 declared.Mr. Hanger.
ssAftcr the election when the
C6urte hAd declAfedSsthal N. q. q
{ Macdonald did ;n0tthayc the shAd.
0W Of . claim on tho ofaCA, the
board OF administration was an-
pointed headed ,bx.GeoEge Totem.
. man ,unfrocked by his own
church, along with: Muir, LEM
kels brother-in-law. Haean and
y a.... =, .duc...,
ttonal; policy OF tho state. They
shall study. and read. l don't
know how you feel about It, but I
don't. want my little girl to be
reading hooks by Walter Thomas
Mills, Kate O'Hare, and Ellen
Key"
Banking Operations
/. Next came the early operations II
this state of the notorious Kimball'
Hastings Co., which eliminated In thu
notorious Valley City bank deal. Thu
Attorney General went over this In de
tail showing how. Box and Hastfng'
attempted to 'do" the farmers. ant
bringing out the statement made a
the probe held by the state banking
board that BOX had said the profits o.
the transaction were split four ways
Townley and. Lelnke getting 9 share
In this connection he called atten
ton to the statement published BY j
r. Waters state bank examiner. in tn
banks affair hogan in which Water
declared that everything in connection
with the bank deal was fair. homes
and legitimate"
Meeting Waters just after he had Is
sued this statement, the Attorney Gen
eral took him to task for the deliber
ate Misrepresentation. Waters re
ply a
"Oh we'll. us fellows have got to
stick together"
The State Bank.
It was in connection with his
account, of the Scandinavian
American bank Of Fargo case
that MIR. LANCER brought out the
relations of the officials. Of the
North Dakota state bank with
those of the Fargo concern. He
read selections from the letters of
j.. b. Waters and f. III. Halliday
to the officers of the hank regard
ing the passing on of undesirable
securities, 1t is these letters
which formed the basis for tho
criminal action in which the
president of the Fargo bank was
recently convicted, by q jury con-
sisting of seven farmers and i've
labor1ng men.
He then, read. extracts from
other letters written by the state
/ bank officials to those of the
Fargo hank showing that the
public funds in the state institu-
ton were being deliberately d.
yerted to the Fargo institution in
\ order to bolster it up.
All Most Friendly.
In them occur such significant
phrases 9
II believe in taking care Of our
friends in a letter from Mr..
Halliday.
= Will $4,000 help?"
Dear. Mr., Sherman, I have ar
ranged to- divert $4,000 to you
tn tho next few days"
II sent you $4,000 yesterday,
and will try. to send you some
more as soon as possible"
All Of the last three letters
were signed by Mr.: Waters, Mr..
LANCER stated. He produced
photographs Of the letters to
prove his asertions.
Hagen's Trial
y rYo %h>~ k~1S - 81. k~s.S - ns>.
dent FIJI. Hagen, in which the latt
was-cuonHicted Of pfanntng to- deceit
the state bank: examiner, and whis
has been declared by. the Townl'
press ,to. be a "travesty. on Justice"