HISTORY MOMENTS The Idaho State Historical Society reports that during this week in history: The legislature approved the act of authorizing the issuance of bonds to build an Idaho Territorial Capitol Building on February 2, 1885. Although it was more than twenty years after the Idaho legislature located the capital in Boise, and after several unsuccessful attempts to get the U.S. Congress to build a capitol, territorial secretary D.P.B. Pride finally persuaded the legislature to appropriate $80,000 for the structure. However, construction was delayed when residents of the city of Hailey obtained an injunction. They felt the capitol should be located in Hailey. The red brick structure was finally completed and served not only the last four years of territorial government (1886-1890) but also the first twenty-two years of statehood. Idaho began creating what today is the Department of Health and Welfare on February 2, 1885. Although statehood wasn't granted until 1890, a $20,000 bond for the construction of an Idaho Insane Asylum in Blackfoot, which developed into State Hospital South. That facility evolved ultimately into an entire agency of state government. Idaho's first Criminal Code went into effect on February 4, 1864. This action gave Idaho bona fide laws against crime for the first time since the creation of the Territory in 1860. Governor Frank Steunenberg approved Idaho's first anti-gambling law on February 6, 1899. On February 8, 1889, Elmore and Logan counties were created out of Alturas County at the end of a bitter 42-hour continuous session of the legislature. A reorganization Council had held elected officials overtime and forced them to restructure county boundaries in order to get essential statutes enacted.