People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1895 — Wants the Capitol. [ARTICLE]

Wants the Capitol.

St. Paul, Minn., March 14.—Although the state capitol commissioners have contracted for a new capitol site in this c (t,y, as directed by the state convention, the city of Minneapolis, through Mayor Pratt, the park board and city council, to-day Resented to the house a proposition that Loring park, a thifty-six-acre park in the residence portion of Minneapolis, would be donated to the state for a capitol site if the state would locate the capitol there.