Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-08
NORMAL SITE WAR
AT M|NOl PROVES
TO Be Big Farce
DIFFERENCES NO NEARER BE:
ING SETTLED THAN THEY
WERE At FIRST
No RESULTS FROM ELECTION
BOARD WILL PROBABLY MAKE
SELECTION SOON WITHOUT
ASSISTANCE
Conflicting Reports from Scene OF Ac.
ton May Result in No Work Be-
ing Done on New Normal School
Buildings This Summer or Fall
Get Together Meeting Seems I'm.
possible.
No RESULTS FROM ELECTION
ESPECIAL to the Trlbune)


MINOT, Aug. 8-An animated con
test is on today at the meeting of tn
committee of the state normal boart
which met here to 60 over the results
of yesterdays election as to location
of the site of the new normal.
The south hill people who callet
the election and carried it by vot'
of ISL to Sc arc endeavoring to per
suade the board to abide by this re
suit and the boosters Of the nortl
side and the valley sites who secured
875 names on a petition against 6
south hill maintain that their petition
should be recognized. :.
1t is probable that another elect
ton will be called.
Minot is still up in the air so fal
as a decision in the location of the
normal school is concerned. The
election held yesterday to determine
the sentiment of the residents re-
suited in a farce according to the
claims of the faction leaders. Out OF
one thousand legal voters in the town
only 217 ballots were clst, and ii
is claimed the reason the vote was
SO light is because one faction OBJ
-jected to the election.
On the face of the returns the
position of the normal board in locat.
ing the big school on the south hill
has been vindicated.
No matter what action the board
now takes much dissatisfaction will
follow. Disinterested parties are free
with the declaration that the state
board made mistake when it waver-
ed in it's first decision and permitted
the question to be reopened.
"The people of Minot seem to for
get that the school is state institu.
ton and not a local one to be hand
led as the waring elements of that
town see fit." said a state officer in
discussing the matter today "The
normal board is presumed to be act
ing for the best interests of the state
and the school and not as boosters for
local real estate Dealers"
The board does not meet in Minot
today. The time for the next meeting
of the board has not been fixed. Very
the. normal board members
expected that the question of the
site would be decided by the election
held yesterday. And the board may
take that view of it and act accord
ing to the showing of the returns.
The following dispatch was received
by the Tribune last night:
Especial to the Tribune)
MINOT, N. d., Aug. THE election
held today to determine the sentiment
of the voters of Minot on the location
of the new Minot normal school re-
suited as follows:
For the south hill site, originally
selected by the board, Isl; for the
500 Valley street site, 81; for the
north side site, 5.
AS there are about 1000 voters in |
Minot only small proportion partic.
pated in the election and it is doubt
Ful if the state normal board which
meets here tomorrow will pay any at
:ention to the results.
The North side boosters and the
Valley street people generally failed
% take part in the election, maintain
ng that the ballot was prepared by
he South Hill people for their special
benefit.
The situation, as Indicated, in the
above telegram, remains practically
Unchanged. A later dispatch from
rom another source reads:
Especial to the Tribune)
MINOT, N. D., Aug AT the gen.
,ral election held at the city hall to-
lay to determine the sentiment Of
he citizens of Minot the North Side
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