Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1889-08-08
THE PRIZE DISTRIBUTION
The Con. Con. Acting as Lottery
Supervlsor-How it Was
Done.
Pleasant Social Events = Some
Sheep Statistics-Base Ball
Game To-Day.
THE STATE! CAPITAL LOCATION.

THE STATE CAPITAL LOCATION.
The Great Fight Taken from the
Voters and Decided in the Conven-
tiOn.
Elsewhere in The Alert is the full re-
port of the committee, to the constitu
tional convention, locating the public
buildings of the new state. It will be
a keen source of regret to many In
jamestown to learn that their anticlpa-
tions were not realized in regard to the
permanent location of the capital.
Our natural location as the railroad
and commercial center of North Dakota
was very favorable to this, and large
unbiased sentiment outside of this city
and county existed which, if allowed ex-
presslon, would have voted for Jamestown
for the state capital. Whether this
number would then have been sufficient
or not with a fair vote, to win for us, IS
doubted by many Of our own citizens who
know that the population of the Red
river valley is at present much IN excess
of that in the western portion OF the
state. @a- .~r a.-. 1..aa
The influences that will keep the capi-
tai at it's present location were more than
enough to overcome all opposition. The
Northern Pacific railroad company de
sired the buildings to remain there for
many reasons: the Aberdeen, Bismarck
& Northwestern company worked for the
same end. The claim, as town and as
community Of citizens, which Bis
marck presented for retaining the cipi-
tai, We're. AS all candid persons must ad
nit, strong in their turn. In addition,
money was used freely and its power
was, as always in such cases, sufficient.
jamestown knows, however, that she
has the best of all the Institutions Of the
new state, the insane asylum. This will
be shown in the increasing appropriation
for maintenance and enlargement, and in
the future building Of the institution for
the feeble ninded, TO be maintained in
connection with rhe asylum. This fact
had also great weight in the decision OF
the committee.
It has been circulated to some extent
that Stutsn1an county's delegates were
not acting in good faith at Bismarck in
the capital matter. The Alert has infor-
nation from most of the citizens who
have been in the lobby at Bismarck,
that our delegates, Messrs Fanch-
er, Camp and Blewett, have done
every thing in their power to aid the city
they represent. Besides this,the citizens
who have been there at their own ex-
pense, did all possible to do, with the
forces and means at command. The
truth is evident now that the effort to
get this public institution was not the
result OF the strong combination it
should have been, and which at one time
it promised to be-. Small jealousies and
groundless suspicious served again, as on
past occasions to break that united
action which might easily have carried
its point.
jamestown will flourish and grow into
city without the capital. It's railroads
and rich agricultural lands assure that
The enterprise of it's citizens will take new
channels and, if temporarily dlsappoint-
ed, it should be a greater inducement
than ever to work for the future, and re-
member for our advantage the lessons
and mistakes of the past.