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Show Tmlttce of Ove to Investigate the availability avail-ability of proposer! sites for the capl-tol capl-tol building in Ogden and to aid In promoting the eampAlgn for the removal re-moval o l'tho capital to this city. "That Is the thing to do. A militant spirit will not only win for Ogden the capital. but will bring to this city tho life and energy necessary to make Ogden the most prosperous, populous cltv In the lntcr-mountaln rogion." We do not wish unduly to disturb our good neighbors to tho north, but really It would be an accommodation to know when they are going to move the capital. For the present, of course, Salt Lake is the capital of Utah. And the state house will bo erected In tho capital, and not In any other city. Just by way of friendly tips, when will bo the transfer be made, and what will be the method of it? And what is tho "contest?" When the next legislature meets, Ogden will prove Its ability to build a state capltol and on that showing will labor to have a constitutional amendment amend-ment submitted to the peoplo of Utah, designating Ogden as the capital of the state. When the peoplo voto In favor of this city, as they will, the $500,000 pledged by Ogden will be put into a capltol building, and the shame of allowing the state to bc, as tho Salt Lake papers put it, a tenant In Salt Lake's City and County building shall have been ended by Ogdcu's prompt acknowledgment that a city so favored, as to he made the capital of a state, should reciprocate. WHEN THE CAPITAL WILL BE MOVED. Salt Lakers arc an impatient lot. The Weber Club had no sooner announced an-nounced the naming of a committee to select a site for the state capitol in Ogden, when the men near the banks of the Jordan demanded to know when the capltol would be moved. mov-ed. One of the Salt Lake papers asks, "When Will They Move It?" and then remarks: We gather from the Ogden Statesman States-man that the capital of Utah is just about as good as moved to the county seat of Weber. There may be some trifling formalities preliminary to the-transfer. the-transfer. But the transfer itself seems to be taken for granted. Here is tha calm and pleasing manner in which they are proceeding: "The Weber club has named a corn- |