The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-05
NORTH DAKOTA
GOES TO BISMARCK
All Doubts Settled as to Location Of
the Governments New
Indian School.
Enterprise Will Call for a Total Ex-
penditure Approaching a Half !
Million Of Dollars.
Special to The Journal,

Bismarck, n. D., Oct 5.-The Bismarck
citizens committee, in charge of the fur
therance of the city's interests in ~connec.
tion with the Indian school to be estab
lished at or near Bismarck by the de-
partment of the interior has received word
that the site offered by the city has been
accepted and the school located here by
the secretary. At a meeting Of the COM
mlttee arrangements were made for. OBJ
tanning title to the site and its transfer
to the government. The school will be To-
Gated on the bluff overlooking the Mis-
souri, river and near the steamboat wharf
There are 160 acres in the site, the greater
part Of which belonged to the Northern
Pacific company, but which has been
given by the road to the citizens commit
tee as a site for the school. There is a
tract OF few acres which must be pur-
chased by the city and for which negotia-
tions have been completed.
An appropriation of $4,000 has already
been made for beginning work, and it is
understood that the plans of the depart
ment contemplate the establishment of one
Of the largest Indian schools in the coun-
try at Bismarck. The total expenditure
for buildings and improvements will prob
| ably not be far from half million dol
lars when the institution is completed
The climate and environments ) of the
school will be largely similar to those en-
the school will be practically central in
the western Indian district.
/ It's Second Institution.
The Indian school will make the second
extensive government institution that has
been landed by citizens of Bismarck The
| first was the new Fort Lincoln, three miles
| southeast of the city, where there are sta
| toned two companies of infantry, and
where about twenty modern brick build
ings have been erected in the last three or
| four years. :~e -. :.
| With the completion of the work under
way, there will be at Fort Lincoln two
| barrack buildings, each sufficient for 100
men, three double sets of officers quart
.ers, non commissioned officers quarters,
hospital building, guard house, admins
tration building, commissary; and quarter
masters department., with other smaller
structures, and ai{cornpleteE water and
sewage system. .---r r.
! T. Sixth District Physicians. rs
The physicians of the sixth judicial dis
| tr1ct have organized a local medical So
ciety with DR.. F. R. smyth of Bismarck
as president, DR.. G. e. Chamberlain, Bis
marck, vice president, and DR.. F. B.
Strauss Glenullin, secretary and treas
.urer. Drs. N. O: Ramstad, Bismarck, G..
B! Perkins, Dickinson, and G. B. Furness
Mandan,s will be censors. The purpose OF
| the society will be the promotion of ac-
quaintance and friendly feeling among the
members, the furtherance Of the scientific
study of medicine and the enlightening ot
public opinion with regard to sanitation
q and hygiene .~.s.-y .-.,. ~
i A large portion of the grain exhibits or
display at the state fair at Mandai1 have
! been obtained for the states exhibit a,
st. Louis, and have been packed anc
shipped to the state agricultural college al
Fargo, where the state exhibit is beins
made up. - = =, .-~s:: .::.