The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-08-08
THEY WOUEDBESTATES.
idaho and Wyoming Territories
Will KNOCK Loudly for
Admission.
What Is Being Done by Them Pre-
paratory to Assuming the Re-
sponsibilities of Statehood.
The Senate Committee on Irrigation
Makes an Gfflcial Visit to Dakota
Constitutional Conventions.

WASHINGTON Aug. 3.-Perry S.
Heath, correspondent of the United
Press, who as member of Representa-
tive Dorsey's congressional party, now
on the Pacific slope making a pleasure
tour of the far West and Northwest, has
visited all of the territories of those Sec
tions, writes from Olympia, w. T., as
follows: ''It is the opinion of Congress-
men Dorsey of Nebraska, Stewart of
Vermont, Burrows OF Michigan, and
others of our party and number of sem
ators and representatives who have
visited the territories this summer and
whom have met in the Northwest, and
l believe after a careful investigation of
the subject that
WYOMING AND IDAHO WILL BE ADMITTED
to statehood at the approaching session
of congress. Wyoming has elected her
delegates and will call constitutional
convention in September. She will pre-
sent constitution to congress with
full complement of state officers as did
South Dakota, and ask for admission to
the union. Idaho has almost completed
a constitution. Her convention met at
Boise City, the capital, on the 4th of
July, on the day the conventions con-
vened in the Dakotas, Montana and
Washington, and it Will finish its work
in few days. She will then hold her
election OF state officers ON the first day
OF October, proceeding in every step as
did the territories which are to come
into the union Of states by presidential
proclamation in October"
At Cheyenne our party stopped day
and night, and We're entertained by Del
egate Cleary and Gov. Warren. Or the
outlook for statehood, both of them said:
ave have l25, 900 people, and are unan-
imous in our demand for statehood.
There is not a single obstacle in the way
and congress cannot deny us admission.
There was at first doubt as to the pop-
u!ation Of the DakOtaS, and latterly a re-
Duted split as to the wishes of the people
for statehood. Nothing of this sort con-
fronts US. There is one great drawback
to the development of Wyoming, and
that is a lack of water. Our agricult-
ural interests depend wholly upon irri-
cation, and for irrigation we await
statehood.
DELEGATE DUDoISE TALKS.
AT BOISE City we talked to the COnSti-
tutional convention delegates, to Gov
ernor Shoupe and Congressional Dele
gate Fred Duboise. What the latter
said was the reflected sentiment of all.
1t was this: 1--WE are proceeding for
statehood exactly as congress has di-
rected for the admission of four terrific
ries this winter. Wewill present con-
stitution ana state officers, United States
senator's and a congressman when con-
gress convenes in October or December
and ask immediate admission. Our
election when the other territories elect
state officers in October will show that
we have $4,000 population. Our con-
stitution will be faultless and we will
have complied with every requirement
necessary for statehood. There can be
but one thing for congress to do and
that to admit US. We cannot help our
country with irrigation, internal i'm
provements or anything we really need
without statehood, and we will present
the strongest arguments in favor of our
admission that have ever been presented
by any territory