STATES & CITIES
Once cold dawn last week, explosive flames spurted from the top floor of North Dakota's four-story brick Capitol at Bismarck. So quickly did they devour tindery old boards and plaster and dry bales of official papers, that by noon all that was left of the 46-year-old building was smoking rubble. When the State was still part of Dakkota Territory, frontiersmen traveled long western miles to stare in pride and wonder at the structure's once famed "gingerbread" architecture.
Lost in the fire were invaluable masses of State papers, tax documents, land and mortage records....
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