Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-08
BtsnlarcE's Glory.

The ALsAcE TRAIN No. 3, WILLARD Ex-
QUESTION, DICKINSON, D. T. Sept. g.
1t was grand day for
Bismarck aud she put on her very bright
est and best appearance for the occasion.
She was up by times too, to welcome and
receive her guests and as early as o'clock
the large space about the Northern Paci-
fic depot pas filled with people and the
front of Sheridan house was iterlly cram
med. On the train from the east large
delegation from Steel arrived to swell the
throng and do honor to the day. Before
the procession formed the GLOBE repre-
sentative walked through the streets to
take in the whole situation. He was up
and out by 6 o'clock and at that early hour
the Bismarck people were driving the last
nails in their decorations. The
main street presented most
lively and very picturesque view
spanned as it was by four very effective
arches and several banners while the store
fronts were covered with festive draperies
and evergreens.
There was large edifce erected for the
consisted of very fine specimens of wheat,
oats and other cereals, tomatoes, melons,
potatoes, turnips, squash and an endless
variety of vegetables. Walking through
the streets I noticed considerable improve
ments in the town since my last visit, some
six years ago, handsome brick buildings
are taking the place of the frame struc-
lures.
At an early hour
THE PROCESSION
formed and started on the prescribed
route through the principal streets to the
site of the new capitol. The people
seemed enthusiastic and turned out in
body and one could not help wondering
where all the buggies and horses
and lumber wagons came from. There
was, however, one feature which was
hardly so pleasant for the visitors, and
that was the walk up to the Capitol hill,
over unsPrinkled, dusty roads, with scores
of buggies and horses tearing along as If
on race course, raising cloud of dust,
binding and choking. Very few of the
visitors could ride, as the citizens them
selves could not see the force of giving
place to them and walking themselves.
After terrible walk through a cloud of
ground clay from the Missouri for about
a mile and half, reached
THE SITE OF THE CAPITOL,
and splendid site it is, situated upon a
hill-almost the highest point near Bis
marck, and overlooking every building in
the city, the Missouri and Fort Abraham
Lincoln. It stands upon a $50 acre lot, of
which sixteen acres are to be enclosed for
the building and grounds, the rest set off in
building lots, the proceeds to go towards
the cost of the capitol buildings. Mount
ing the scaffold upon which the ceremo-
MES were to take place l had splendid
view of the procession as it came winding
along, with firemen in uniform and several
plats transformed into bowers of beauty,
IN which beauty itself reigned in the form
of some score of young ladies representing
all the goddeses in the NEUROLOGICAL cal
endar. At the right of the capitol grounds,
upon high mound, was Gods Acre, in
which rests some dozen poor fellows who
''died in their boots" in the turbulous
times when the frontiersman was reader
with his pistol than Denny brook Irish
man with his shillalah. The ceremonial
of laying the corner stone was soon over,
as all readere of the GLOBE already know,
but there was one incident connected with
it which should not go unnsticed. Sit
ting Bull and two of his sub
chiefs and two squaws were on
the platform,and Sitting Bull, as is known
made his little speech, ''inspired by the
great spirit" but it is not generally known
that the Beautiful Feather" sister of
Taurus Racumbent, 'made medicine" over
the stone. The ceremony was in this way:
In the four corners of the box inserted in
| the stone she placed a sacred bead, and
then placing her hand successfully on each
corner of the stone she blessed it in the
name of the great spirit, and who shall say
| that her blessing was not as effective as
that of robed priest? The other squaw
on the platform was Sitting Bulls cousin