The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 16, 1932, Page 2

2. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1982 SREY TEE Ee RTALSMOR ER TIA Judgment of Pioneers Is Reaffirme ing Incidents of Pioneer Days in City DEVELOP AT POLLS THROUGHOUT STATE Valley City, Hankinson, Lisbon, and Grafton Have In- teresting Contests BISMARCK HAS BEEN CAPITAL SINCE TERRITORIAL DAYS State Refuses to Repudiate Selection of Capital Site Made By Alexander M’Kenzie, Judge Spaulding and Others After Months of Effort Heads were held high in Bismarck Wednesday as an em*, a Soe cata battled citizenry surveyed the fruits of victory. | Fargo, N. D., March 16.—(AP)— With the victory came the realization that the new capitol Spirited municipal elections shared ildi ° » establishe Aube cchte north the interest spotlight when North building would be established on the historic old heights north Dakotans marched to the polls Tues- of the city where the original seat of government has stood gay. since territorial days. Personaiities rather than issues First located on Capitol Hill almost half a century ago, the historic dominated the balloting with mayor- old edifice had stood as a landmark and a symbol to the people of North alty fights in at least four North Dakota until its destruction by fire in 1930. {Dakota cities bringing new record Still vivid in the memory of some of the state's hardy pionccring folk, numbers to the polls for a primary is that memorable day when the cornerstone was laid with all the pomp and | election. | ceremony befitting the establishment of an empire state. | Featuring the municipal elections A distinguished company of world oe was the spirited mayoralty fight famous statesmen and financiers came} ,, - ‘which developed in Valley City and here in September of 1883 for the ded | oval ‘rien be AUGER to tke: Which brought 2,388 voters, a rec- featory ceremonies. Mingling with| people fora vote, ‘The 1951 legisias O°, number, to mark their ballots. these and celebratics of a dozen na- tions, were a milling throng of plains- men with here and there an Indian to lend color to the scene. Grant Was Present General U. S. Grant, James J. Hill, senators and cabinet members were here as well as delegations of diplo- mats from the principal nations of Europe. History describes the laying of th: ture investigated the claims of the removal faction and rejected them as being without merit or basis in fact. | However, the petitions were not with- drawn and the matter was referred to the people in an initiated measure. Homes Threatened With their homes threatened, the savings of a lifetime imperilled, the citizens gf Bismarck rallied to the Fred J. Frederickson, incumbent, de- feated Vic Vaupel by an overwhelm- ing majority of 1,816 to 572. Vau- pel had campaigned on the platform he would “clean up” the city and de- clared that if elected he wauld dis- charge the present police depart- ment. In Hankinson, Max Wipperman, Sr., defeated William S. Schutt, it cumbent, for mayor in a sticker cam- cornerstone as a gala event, outstand- | cause of retention with overy resource ;paign after a heated battle which ing in the chronicles of those fron-|at their com Thousands of let- | brought practically every eligible tier days. ters were circulated among friends| But the people of the tiny town of {throughout the state and everything! Bismarck Had inoe secured the capital | Possible was done in an effort to keep | without a tremendous sacrifice. In a|the capital here. . | day when the dollar carried a t On the eve of victory in their latest mendous purchasing power, the citi-| fight, “old timers” recalled some of | zens of a small frontier town raised/the high lights in the history of city | $100,000 as a contrib n to the build-| that has housed the state government ing fund and purchased a 320-acre|{0r So many years. Some of them; tract for the capitol grounds. There ;harkened back to the frontier settle- | were no rich men living in Bismarck |Ment in the "70 when Cuseter and his in those days and the sum was raised; men left on the ill-fated expedition | at a tremendous personal sacrifice to|into the Little Big Horn. They re- each and every citizen. [membered the early struggles of the} Othe:s had bid for the seat of gov- Settlement for existence and its; ernment. The territorial commission, /towth into a community large | set up to select the logical site, be- |€Mough to bid for the capital of a ter- came the target for savage attacks|Titory. Others remembered some of when their decision was made known. | the names so closely associated with | However, when the smoke of battle} the development of Bismarck. There had cleared away, the feeling pre-| Were the early political men and their | a1 machinations in behalf of the town. cuaere SEE ee eS | Among them the names of McKenzle, served. | Alexander Hughes, William Delong, Says State Unified {Clement Lounsberry, and @ score of | ‘An eminent historian, commenting | thers whose early efforts are re- on the situation in later years said: |8atded as Bismarck history. i “The act of the legislature in locating} In the last analysis it was the “old- the state capital at Bismarck unified | timers” who were deriving the great- the people of North Dakota.” est satisfaction in the victory of Bis- ‘Alexander McKenzie of Bismarck,|marck. Theirs were the recollections | Judge A. M. Spaulding of Fargo.|of the days when Bismargk made al- Alexander Hughes and a score ofjmost incredible financial sacrifice others, instrumental in locating andj that the seat of government might be keeping the capital at Bismarck, were|here. It was they who had watehed among those who labore¢ long and|the city grow hand in hend with the earnestly in the belief that the seat;development of North Dakoia. ‘Chey | of government belonged in this city. | recalled the great fire in the late '90's | Later in 1889, on the eve of state-|when the citizens of Bismarck rallied | hood, after several other towns had/ from a catastrophe which might have ; sought to get the capital, the voters | wrecked the city. of the state were given an opportun-| Theirs was the recollection of the ity to voice their sentiments at the} development of the community from polls. In the judgment of the people}a dusty frontier town of a few log the institution was logically located|huts to a modern city with paved constitution establishing it streets, public improvements and all atified by an overwhelming | the habillements of the 20th century. | More than anyone else, they real- attempts to/ized what tremendous sacrifice and Move the seat of government were effort would have been wasted had | made in the intervening 40 years but | the voters moved the seat of govern- | never got beyond the stage of agita-|ment from its time-honored site in tion for removal. | Bismarcx. Bismarck Expanded See Meanwhile Bismarck grew and cx- BAND LEVY UPHELD panded as the state grew and ex-| Enderlin—An attempt to repeal the panded. As the score of govern-|one-mill levy for the municipal band mental affairs increased more and/ failed here in the only contest in tie, more property was acquired by the/city election. O. C. Retzlaff and) state. A memorial building valued at|George Newgaard were reelected al- | into office on the crest of an all-| hecutive office wing. Representatives | voter in the city to th epolls. No less vigorous was the campaign at Lisbon where Dr. C. A. Purdon succeeded in ousting J. G. Crites from his mayoralty seat. A heavy vote was cast. Grafton sprang the upset in north- east North Dakota when Henry L. Seig was elected mayor over Dr. F.! W. Deason, who two years ago was! named at a recall election when the! city voted to operate its own power | plant. Capital removal entered the James-! town municipal fight, which saw Oscar Zimmerman, president of the ‘Jamestown-For-Capital” club, swing time vote of 3,422. Several others who have been active in the removal campaign work won aldermanic posts. Hatton cast a record vote as did Aneta. At Fairmount a four-corner- ed fight developed over an assessor job, and 189 voters trekked to the polls to pick the winner, G. A. Wil- liams. Carrington, too, had its municipal fight with the contest focusing on a city park commissioner post. | TIED FOR ALDERMAN Ellendale—C. E. Letts was elected | mayor. New aldermen are Thomas | Barta and Al Morrow. A_ spirited fight ended with H. P. Coleman andj Harry Bjornstad tied for another al-/ dermanic position. Hi PORTLAND MEN REELECTED Portland—There were no contests | in the municipal election here. C. D. Hanson and E, F. Edverg. incumbents, | were returned as aldermen. | i Agriculture Solons Confer With Hoover: Washington, March 16.—(?)—Re- j publican agricultural leaders of the} house were called into conference | Tuesday night by President Hoover. : No hint was given of the topic un-! der discussion, | Secretary Hyde was in on the meet-! ing, held in the residential part of the! white house instead of the usual ex- THIS IS WHAT NORTH DAKOTA’S NEW CAPITOL WILL LOOK LIKE Pictured here is a reproduction of the artist’s sketch of the design for the new state capitol building which has been ac- cepted by members of the capitol commission for erection on the site of the old building on capitol hill here. _ The administrative unit at the right of the picture is de- signed much like a modern office building and will be cheaper, both to build and to operate, than any other capitol building in the United States, The legislative unit of the building is located to the left of the entrance way in the center of the sketch and provides am- ple quarters for the legislature. Since this part of the build- ing will be used only two months out of every 24, it was pos- sible to make a material saving on both construction and maintenance costs by adopting this plan. Numerous other | designs were considered by the capitol commission and this one was chosen as giving the people of the state the most for their money. ‘ Facing southward across the Missouri river valley, the building will occupy one of the most beautiful sites in the state and will be North Dakota’s most imposing structure. @ half million dollars was built and dermen without opposition. John | Haugen of Iowa, Purnell of Indiana, | other properties valued at about the|skow was named park commissioner. | and Clark of New York, members of | same figure were acquired. ‘The gas tax won 234 to 142. the agriculture committee, were the | The growth of the city has grown | men called in, | hand in hand with the development; soQCIALIST GETS PLURALITY The presdient asked them not to of the government and state officials; Milwaukee, Wis. March 16.—(P)}— | discuss the meeting. | and employees have built homes her?) after having Daniel W. Hoan, Social- | i aaa ca gig 9 the value of which has been esti- jst, in the mayor's chair for 16 years, our Bank Robbers mated at several hundred thousands! miiwaukee has decided to give him| H of dollars. As a result, the develop-|another opportunity at reelection. | To Serve for Life ment of Bismarck essentially has been| The mayor polled a plurality of more ' the development of a capital city. ithan 10,000 votes over four competi-; Clinton, Iowa, March 16.—()— Perhaps the most critical period in| tors in Tuesday's mayoralty primary. | Pleading guilty to a charge of robbing the history of Bismarck and Bur-; | the City National bank here Tuesday leigh county started in January, 1931,| | of $106,000, which later was recovered, and continued through the last 14: Atlanta, Ga. March 16.—(?)—The! four men who were subsequently ar- months. Hardly had the ashes of the! city of Atlanta has voted to retain! rested in small towns between Dav- capitol fire grown cold, when a move- jas its chief executive, Mayor James/enport and Clinton, were sentenced ment took shape in Jamestown to|L. Key, outspoken critic of prohibi-'in district court Wednesday to life move the capital to Stutsman county. jtion and advocate of Sunday movies| imprisonment at Anamosa. Regarded only as a threat for aj for charity. | The men are Clifford Edward, 22,) time, the movement gained such head- | ———_—— of Clinton, and Earl Jefferies, 19, Les- way in a few months, that proponents; Seventeen different calendars arejter Stanley. 29, and Guy Edward | of the scheme in Stutsman county cir- | used in India. 4 Morris, 19, all of Louisville, Ky. ATLANTA REELECTS MAYOR North Dakota’s Old Capitcl—It Sentai Not in Vain a it DenaS Le a haa Pictured above are four scenes of the burning North Dakota capitol, taking during ihe fire the morning of Dec. 28, 1930.’ In the upper left picture, the camera, is facing directly east. A scene from southeast of the building, taken from near the Liberty Memorial building, is shown in the upper right. A similar scene, but from a greater distance, is shown in the lower left while at the lower right is a scene taken from the er Trad Goce] fulding immediately off the termination of Sixth street. In this “shot” may be seen THESE BUILDINGS WILL NOT BE SCRAPPED . Pictured above is North Dakota's old historical capitol, which was destroyed by fire the morning of Sun- had the ashes of this territorial landmark cooled before Jamestown launched its old capitol. The old capitol was built on Capitol Hill in 1883 as the capitol of Da- | dedicated Sept. 5, 1883, with a program at which statesmen irom foreign coun- | leaders of the United States were present. When the enabling act North Da- LIBERTY MEMORIAL BUILDING : rN by President. Benjamin Harrison Feb. 22, 1889, the building became North Dakota’ Shown above are two buildings which would have been scrapped if Jamestown had been victorious in their capitel removal campaign. The Memorial ited on Capitol iH building, 1 ‘Hill southeast of the site of the old capitol and also the new capitol, was completed in 1922. The bank bul! was first occupied in 1919, though the state aia not purchase it until a few years later. The building was remodeled extensively to suit the purposes of the Bank of North and several other state departments located in the structure.