Good Old Days May 5

8 years ago

The Commoner

May 1, 1891

The sealed report of the commission appointed to select a site for the state agricultural college and scientific school was opened and read by the governor this morning. Pullman gets the prize.

This is the substance of a dispatch which flashed over the wires into Colfax Monday morning.

It was received with a degree of surprise, and, as a matter of course, a degree of disappointment, for it was confidently believed that, should the commissioners select Whitman county, the advantages which Colfax presented, together with her liberal offer of 320 acres of th...