St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-06
One Small Fight Over, Sleeves
Are Rolled for the
Big One.
This Is to Be for the Capital,
Which the Queen City
Wants.
Her Pilgrims to Pierre Come
Back With Dolorous
Variations.
That Place Evidently Worries
the Capital Seekers to
the South.
Special to the Globe.

SPECIAL TO the Globe. '''t F.
Sioux FALLS, April 5.-The selection
of a site for the court house and the city
election caused temporary cessation
of capital talk here, but no sooner were
both neatly settled than the committee
called meeting, rented rooms for head
quarters and started a-rolling the stone
which is eventually to cover the mount
ain S ide. Another meeting of the COM
mittee will be held at headquarters
rooms in the Grigsby block Oh Saturday
night. At this session the committee
on finances is expected to report, and
the other working committees are to be
given instructions to wade in.
Not little indignation is felt here at
the unfair work which has been done in
this county by Pierre strikers. In the
northwestern part of the county half
dozen fellows, who claim to be work
ing under the authority of the Pierre
capital committee, have been represent
ing to farmers there that if the capital
is located at Sioux Falls, Minnehaha
county will have to pay for the capitol,
and that to raise this sum the taxes of
farmers will have to be quadrupled.
The farmers who were told this story
are
NOT STATESMEN.
and without considering the absurdity
of the story, believed it then. believe it
STILL and are not a little prejudiced
against Sioux Falls for the capital. 1t
was charged that Chamberlain men had
also made similar false pretenses, but a
special telegram from that city indig-
nantly repudiates the charge. OF
course, Sioux Falls will have plenty of
time to show the falsity of these claims,
and will gain rather than lose votes
when the truth becomes known, but
this does not relieve Pierre from being
the first and only city to resort to
MICROSCOPIC SMALLNESS,
and deceit in making its fight for the
capital. Sioux Falls proposes to make a
hard fight to win the temporary capital,
but she will gladly lose it before she
Will resort to anything that will not
stand the light. She feels that there is
a hereafter, and she does not care to
forever becloud her reputation for
being bully fighter for the sake of
temporary gain. 1t is paying too dear
one, is not willing to do it.
The railroad schemes are progressing
finely. e. A. Sherman. of the Mani
toba, was in YanhtOn recently, and
submitted propositions which were ac-
cepted with alaerily. A large number
of Wilmar and Sioux Falls officials were
in the city Monday, and held a private
conference with Director Sherman, pre-
sumably IN this subject. A special
train bearing the Illinois Central off
Gals was in the city all day Wednesday.
A long conference between the officials
and the Illinois Central branch of the
capital committee was held. What the
result of the conference was has not
yet been given out: but it is cleaned
from nOn-official sources that the Hi
'noiS Central, @-' Y7fr"
LIKE OLD BARKIs,
Will be wiilin'. A great deal of prelim-
mary work is necessary to he done be-
fore any public announcement can be
made; but the boys all mean business,
and it is more than probable that the
roads will go through. If they do,
they will he built by Sioux Falls enter
prise, and they will 60 to the towns
which are friends of Sioux Falls.
A number of Sioux Falls real estate
men have been to Pierre within the
last few weeks. Some went from curl
OSity. Some for fun and some to invest:
but all returned with dolefui stories of
the miSre presented boom. One of
them said TO a GLOBE correspondents:
Il went to Pierre to invest, but
brought my money back. The boom is
all Oh paper. The town has about it
the appearance of q Deserted Village
There is but one tram day into Pierre,
and one out. There are few strangers
there now, but it is significant that
they don't stay long. The trouble is
Pierre has nothing TO boom it-eXcept
the uncertain
CHANCE OF THE CAPITAL.
Another trouble is that Pierre is in
the only section of land in Dakota that
has gone back. The farming country
round about that place has been given
up as unproductive and Improbable.
l am told that the other side Of the river
is even worse. There are thousands
and thousands of acres of good land iii
South Dakota, and why any one should
go out to this God-forSaken country in
the hope of getting free land. is more
than l can make out. One of the most
cunning schemes yet brought to light
has been devised at Pierre to boom that
place for the capital. Gaily colored
maps. showing Pierre to have some
eight or nine railroads, have been
printed in German, Norwegian. Danish
and English, and are being sent broad
cast over the territory. The impression
is created by these maps that Pierre is
the railroad center OF the new state.
whereas the cruel fact is that but one
road runs into that benighted village.
The Aberdeen News of recent date
says that the court house fight liz Sioux
Falls will cripple the capital fight here.
There is nothing in this. Of course.
Sioux Falls men can fight among them
selves like wild beasts on one issue, but
work together like soldiers and take the
fort of the enemy. Let not the Aber-
deem News. or anybody else, lay such a
fiattering JUNCTION to their souls, for
there is naught in it. &. NJ. d.