The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-20
MOVEMENT BEGINS
TO MOVE CAPITAL
SUPREME COURT DECISION MAY
BENEFIT ANOTHER CITY.
Announcement Comes that Effort Will
Be Made to Change Executive Center
to Fargo or Grand Forks at Next
Session of Legislature-Fire Insur-
ance Suit Settled.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal ..-s
Grand Forks, ~ D., Nov. 2o.-while the Bis.
marck frienus of the capitol-commission bill, de-
clared unconstitutional by the supreme court
claim that the decision will only result in q
delay of two years or till the next legislature
conVenes, there Is general feeling In some Sec
tions of the state that it may mean more, and
the announcement that effort will be made
at the next session to remove the capital to
either Fargo or Grand Forks would not be sur
prls1ng. prominent member Of the lower
house, who was in Grand Forks at the time the
decision was announced, said to h e j o u r n !
correspondent <s ...-
''If Grand Forks and Fargo can get together
and will make fight to remove the capitol
either to one city or the other, the western and
northern sections Of the state can be depended
on to go with them, and that means nothing
more or less than that the capitol can be
moved" ~'
For years there has been feeling that If
the legislature convened in of the larger
cities Of the state there would be differeat
kind of legislation enacted. The difference in
environments would naturally lead to a change.
The men who go to Bismarck every two years
to-. to make AXE the laws have only as associates the
men who want laws passed or killed, and usually
1t is fight from the opening to the close of
the session for or against few measures, while
needed legislation is overlooked relegated till
the other measures disposed of. A session
held under different conditions and with different
surroundings, it is contended, would result in a
change. ?.
There seemss to be disposition to fight among
the politicians and the party leaders in the state
and the results in other states that have been
boss-r1dden for years has but strengthened the
bel1ef that something is about to happen in
North Dakota.
Insurance Case Settled. g.:
Judge Amidon of the federal court directed a
verdict for the defendant in the case Of the
Farmers Independent Elevator company of Den
b1gh against the Fire Insurance Company of
North America. The suit brought to re.
cover $500, representing insurance Of s4 500 on
S1,OO elevator building.
stroyed by fire two years ago. The insurance
company resisted payment Of the loss on the
grounds Of fraudulent proofs of loss.
Recalls "General'' Ward.
:. From Melbourne, Australia, comes news tc
the effect that Arthur B. Worthington, a relig
1ous 1mposter who fraudulently obtained a large
sum OF money from Of his followers and
who was sentenced to seven years. Imprisonment
Is stated to be in danger Of losing his mind
ana mas been transferred to Melbourne for ar
| examination.
This information recalls the meteoric residence
| of Worth1ngton at Grand Forks under the name
of General A. B. Ward He came here in 1898
accompanied by a young wife whom he had re
Gently married and who was afterwards be-
| fr1ended by prominent Minneapolis women wher
she was deserted. He will probably not escape
| having his full history known in Melbourne
where John P. Bray is Americas consul general
He knew Ward in North Dakota and it is thru
him that the news Of the criminal has beer
received.
Track-laying on the 500 extension from THE,
River Falls, M1nn to Kenmare, this state
has been completed the connection being made
at Mylo, twelve miles east of Bisbee. The
eLee! crews nave peen delayed several weeks by
the uncompleted condition of considerable of thu
grading. ~ -
With fitting ceremonies r. B. Griffith and the
@ heads % Of the several departments of his Ontario
store lald the frst bricks in the foundation wal
| OF new building which is expected to he com
pleted By next October.