Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-03-30
ON THEIR WAY.
The Capital Crowd Make Some Remark,
At st. Paul.
pinnaer Drnr. 9th

at st. Paul.
Pioneer Press, 9th.
Dakotaians are thick here, and the |
reason of the rally ls the meeting at
Yankton on Friday next OF the nine com.
missiOners upon whom it has been de.
volved TO select site for the new capi.
tai OF the undivided territory. The
question of the division, however, enters
largely, if iflndirectly, into the general one
of removal. OF the nine members OF the
commission, three-Alexander McKen-
zie, of Bismarck; Milo w. Scott, of
Grand Fsrks, and B. F. Spalding, Of
Fargo-are from north Dakota. They
are new in st. Paul. The report that
they intended having q secret and pre-.
llminsry meeting to-day was not we'll
grounded. They were decidedly in the
minority, but have lots Of courage and
plenty Of hope. The general sentiment
among the three, and similarly expressed
BY Raymond Of Bismarck, Steele of
Steele, and Others, ID that, Whatever site
is chosen, it should be located centrally
as to the northern and southern halves,
so that when the division, which all re.
gard as being as inevitable as desirable,
comes. both north and south will be Sat
isfied. OF course these sentiments are
the outspoken ones. What the inner
CONSEQUENCES OF each commissioner may
dictate as to the best plan to be pur-
sued, is what no one as yet can find out
with any degree of certainty. There was
q conference to-day, however, and it had
to do with capital removal.
The Odessa boomers aud DEVILS lake
crowd are present in full force, and Q
good many of them will be to the fore at
Yankton. The conference Was among
the former, and gentleman who claims
to have inside information says there
was trouble. It has been borne in upon
the minds of the Odessaites and-worse
than that-outsiders that the Manitoba
road dosnt tsintend to touch their town,
and now comes to question as to what
shall be done in that event. George II.
Walsh. speaking in semi -iocular fashion
said that Odessa stood: ready to give
$250,00O. and not only 16O but 800 acres
Of land for the capital, if necessary
When reminded that the bill called for
100000, he said, laughingly, that the
other Sl5O.0O0 could be put where it
would do the most good. That there
will be war among the commissioners
seems probable. Houthern Dekota is TWO
to one in numbers, and Northern Dako.
ia has probably the shrewdest workers.
It is claimed that the Press and Dakota
ian, of lYankton, which accuses every.
body opposed to the present site as full
OF treason. stratagem, and spoils, is tc
be hoist with its own petard and an ex.
pose made OF bribery attempted and
bribery co1summated during the last
session of the territorial legislature. So
far no man living knows what the out.
come will be. There will be Q general
laundryiEg of soiled underwear surely
and hearts will ache north and south OF
the proposed line.
MIR. Scott said that probably the com
missioners would have lot Of travelling
to do before the LIST of next July, thu
time set by the law for the consHmma
tion of the removal matter.
Congressman Strait, of ths Third Min
nesota district, interviewed tonight sale
the new land district Office for northern
Dakota would probably be located q
the intersection of the Manitoba ant
Northern Pacific branches, and leav,
Creel City and Devils Lake City in til,
cold. The other two Dakota offices vii
not be located until the treaty with th,
Sioux and the cutting down of thei
reservation is sconsummated, which Strai
says will surely be done by the next con
gress. He further claimed that th,
present administration was anxious I.
effect consolidation of the Indians il
all parts of the country, and that tn
Washburn bill for putting all the Indian
in northern Minnesota in one reservation
and throwing open thousands of acres o
pine lands would pass next season. i
Straits opinion neither Hatten, Windon
nor Dunnell has any chance as successor
Of Postmaster General Howe.