Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1880-08-13
Idaho Capital to be Placed on Wheels.

eastern portion, while III the centra
and southern it has barely held its
own, and with small prospects for the
future. The Capital surroundings, SC
far as the country is concerned are
far from hattering Ada county, the
Capital county, has increased little
during the ten years last past, while
Boise and Owyhee counties have de-
creased as much. This state of things
has inspired the people of the eastern
counties with the belief, and not with
out reason, that they can move the
Capital from the barren plains of Ada
county to Blackfoot, or some other
point on the line of the Utah North,
ern railroad. The Blackfoot Register,
a new paper published at Blackfoot,
advocates the measure boldly and
with apparent confidence that the PEG
pie of the eastern counties will all sup
port such a move with hearty good
will, and suggests that if the northern
counties will join hand with them the
removal can be effected at the coming
session of the legislature, and AS a SOD
held out to the northern counties. the
eastern counties will relinquish all
further claim upon the northern coun
ties, and suffer them to 60 to become
part of the state of Washington.
We are aware thatthe eastern counties
have never placed strong barrier to
our going to Washington, concedine
that our natural geographical position
dictated that we, of right, belonged to
Washington rather than to Idaho.
The same concessions have frequently
been made by sensible men in the
southern and central counties; but
the persistent efforts of the Boise CITY
faction, headed by Kelly of the States
man, have been to stave Off such a
change of boundaries, and under some
pretense of eventually furnishing a
new territory out of part of Oregon,
they have been inducing us for years
to wait and wait while they have
reaped the full benefit of our annual
revenue to the territory without our
deriving but very small benefit from
the territorial government. We have
demonstrated our united purpose to
become disintegrated from Idaho and
be attached to Washington as soon as
practicable and the ring at Boise hay
ing the appointees of the government
at Washington, mostly under their
control have heretofor,, been able to
defeat us in getting severance, while
Washington remained territory.
But now Washing;on is about to be-
come a state, their power is not so
great in that respect, and the ring who
have so strenuously opposed us have
no longer any control of the appointees
from the President, and the coast i.
more clear for us. We have no Just
reason to suspect that the eastern
counties will not keep their word with
us and let us go, if we will help them
to remove the Capital the coming
Winter. We do not wish to mani
fest any revenge towards South Idaho
for once having bereft us of the Capt.
tai of the territory; but if we are to
so to Washington and the center of
population Of the remaining portion of
Idaho is removed to eastern Idaho.
where the prospects are so much better
for the future than in south Idaho.
certainly we can do no less than to
help eastern Idaho in direction that
will benefit the residue of the whole
remaining territory alter we have been
severed, At any rate the proposition
of these eastern counties in relation to
the Capital may well be considered by
the people of northern Idaho. and in
selecting our members of the Council
and House, we should select such men
as can take in the whole situation and
do what is bes' for our people and
they should be men, who cannot be
wheedled into any trap after they get
to Boise City, that will defeat the will
of the people in regard to our becom
ing part of the state of Washington.
LARGE FLUME. Wslla Walla is tohave
large f1ume from the mountains, II
miles distant, extended to the city,
through which logs, lumber and fuel