Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1883-04-06

OF Othcsrs-men of standing and judgment, who
will exert IN influence in making that city
place where lespectabRity and decenoy will de-
light to dwell.
TIE Deadwood 1Isaes wants to know why
''B7iiy the Kid, ""Sizssed Pete," ''Lame john
ME" and sTapeworm Sam have not been i'm
morta!ized ky having counties named for them.
The Times Thinks their names are as eephoni-
ous and their services as valuable to the terri
tory a. those who have voted themselves i:nmor-
tality.
If Yankton had come to th. ir"nt for the di
vision of Dakota during the winter Of 1881 and
1882, when its representatives were in Washing
ton, with half the spirit it would now favor ally
scheme that would q i've division, the south RI
part of Dakota would now be in shape to claim
admission. They defeated division then and mus
bear the consequences.
The CAPITAL commission bill will give t. some
central point the location of the CAPITAL If Da-
k,ta, and provide 500 600 or more, for the CON-
struction of public buildings. While the oppo-
sition to the measure is making the most noise,
almost every man who stops to think before
commenting, will see that the bill, If constitu-
tional will result in great good to the territory.
AT A banquet given to the members Of the
legislature from the 14th legislative district at
Valley City on the 9Th inst, about sixty citi-
GEMS of Valley City and other points in the
district being present, resolution was unanl-
mously passed approving the action of the last
Legislature in creating the commission to locate
the capital of the territory at some central
point.
CoNaRE. sAAN KAssoN, of Iowa. wass recently
asked for his opinion of the movement in Da-
kota for admission into the Union. He advised
the people Of Dakota to call convention and
take the necessary steps to frame q state con-
etitutien and present such constitution to con-
gress, and apply for admission. 1t was MIR.
Kasson's opinion that congress would not
venture to refuse such an application, because
the democrats would not dare to afford such
capital to their opponents as would result from
. rejection of Dakota, fully armed and equipped
AGAIN the TR1DuNE asks the chamber of COM
mezce to meet at once and lay before the man
agement of the North Pacific the necessity for
m immigrant house at Bismarck, where fami-
lies can stop, if lack of means to pay hotel
bills makes it necessary to do So, while the hus-
band or father is hunting land. Mr.. Oakes said
rsiiroad company would build such house as
soon Is q necessity appeared for It, and the
necessity now exists. Gen. Haupts attention
ought to be called to the matter in such a way
that it can be referred to MIR. Oakes.
TEE citizens of Jamestown should realize that
it pays to elect business men to represent them
under all circumstances. Property at Bismarck
is worth more than double to-day the value that
would have been put upon it one year ago, and
this change in value resulted in eleoting good,
xe-toed business men to office. Livery man
who owns property in Bismarck was benefited
jamestown will be benefited by elec:ing busl-
ness men, instead of bummers, to Office. The
jamestown city election will be to morrow, and
the friends of that city hope for the election OF
McGinnis.
MINNEAPOLIS Journal: G...K. Barnes, of the
North Pacific, and 81. G. Davis of the Manitoba,
Who have been in Chicago for the past week,
returned last night. The object of their trip
was to secure . reduction in passenger rates
corresponding with the cut recently made in the
roads refuse to make any reduction between
there and this city. They succeeded, however,
in having rates "equalized'' so that they will be
q shade higher than heretofore to certain points
northwestof here, and therefore returned in
very comfortable frame ::of mind. Exactly how
grants or to the pbli Q generally docs not appear
though to the unaided vision OF the average
traveller. ,..-
The TRIBUNE sees nothing to condemn in the
capital commission organizing at Yankton and
at once adiourning to some other point The
treatment that Yankton has yhss1s the capital
commission, which embraces some of the best
known and most respectable citizens of the ter
ritory, is simply shameful. There is nothing
in the character of the commissioners or in the
work it becomes their duty to perform that just
ifies the course the citizens of Yankton have
sinoe there are those who honestly believe this,
it is right that the question should be taken into
courts but men who have acted the part OF
blaokeuards have attempted to get it there by
disreputable means, insulting IN advance the
memters of the commission-denounc!ng them
as thieves and everything vile. The people OF
Yankton who csuntenanoe the course the Yank-
ton papers have taken are unworthy to be re-
oognized by any decent body of men.
+. A RECENT Billings paper contains = letter re-
ceived by MI. George B. Hulme. from George '.
Sims, private secretary to Vice President Oakes,
of the North Pacific, which contains the follow
ing pertaining to the building Of the Benton
branch of the North Pacific. It says: You
oan consider this matter settled, viz: that the
North Pacific railroad will build and have in
operation not later than October l, branch
from Billings to Bull mountains, . distance OF
about thirty miles. Yon can use this informa-
tiOp % you deem best, but the fact remains that
1t 10 authentic" Commenting upon this the
Herald says: Il is needless to ray that this Let.
tor amounts to an official assurance OF WhAt it
purports to convey, and il there ever was any
doubt Of the road being built il will be imme-