Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1885-01-03

DAko1AA1 THE EXPOSITION.

DAko1AAI THE EXPOSITION.
Indians, q Deer rark, . Bark Cabin, Model
Elevator and Other Exhibits.
New Orleans letter to the Chicago
Times: Dakota is looking fright smart
-as the colored people say down here
after immigration and capital, and has
put her very best foot foremost at the
exposition. Tho collective exhibit Of
this ambitious territory will not be COM
plete until the 1st Of January, but
enough is already shown to attract the
attention of the surious, and to render
the Dakota space one of the most popu-
lar points in the government building.
The United States commissioner for Da-
kota, Mr.. Alex. Mckenzie, and his assis-
tants, Maj. Il. D. Fleming. M. Grisby, A..
NJ. Bowen and w. II. Leverett, started
IN to give the world Q comprehensive
idea of the resources and productions of
the territory, and as among the most i'm
portant OF the latter they present by way
Of frontispiece, as it were, few Indians.
These are not good Indians, either; at
at least they are not dead ones. One of
them is Gaul, a famous chief, Sitting
Bulls major general and right bower,
and with him are his squaw
and appoose-altogether very
pleasing family group. Gaul will feel
perfectly at home, although surrounded
on all sides by the evidence of an ad :
vanced civilization, for he has bis skin
tepee and q collection of tomahaw ks, bat
tie axes and other weapons with which
the aboriginals are won't to vary the
monotony of existence on the frontier.
With view to promoting the Dakota
boom. the commissioners are considering
the feasibility of having Gaul and his
amiable spouse give daily Realistic
exhibition OF the scalping process, in
which they are experts. All that is needed
is subjects, and it has been suggested
that the wrangling politicians of Dako-
ia might be made to serve q useful pur-
pose in that capacity. AS illustrative
of Indian life and habits, collection of
relics and curiosities is shown. There
is stuffed pony harnessed to travois
or sledge, and 3 stuffed dog harnessed
to a similar vehicle, upon which is
seated the figure of q red brave
in all the glory Of war-paint and
feathers. There are also pair of bould-
ers used by ye gentle savage for grind
ing grain, and many other odd utensils
of similar character. The next feature
Of the Dakota exhibit is q circular park,
sloping from the center in all directions.
wearing bright mantle of living green,
and containing handsomely mounted
specimens of the buffalo, white deer,
antelope, elk, mountain sheep, and Wild
game of all descriptions found in Da-
kota, which are certainly triumphs OF
taxldermical art. The Indian group
with its surroundings, and the park in.
habited by wild animals, are intended
to afford an idea of Dakota as it present.
ed itself to the first set.
tiers, and the primary stage
inits settlement is illustrated b.
bark cabin hard by the park-an &C
curate model of the pioneers home
which is surmounted by the coat of armi
of the territory, and the word Dakota
in rustic letters, while above the en-.
trance is perched the American eagle,
his wings spread, and boldly screecbing
defiance to the world, and especially
to the democrats in congress,
In the center OF the. Da.
kota space is monument of "Liberty
Enlightening the World" (afte
Bartholdi.) The design of the
monument is somewhat elaborate. Up.
on base OF earth, covered with fresh,
green sod, rests the pedestal, the sides OF
which are decorated with every variety
and quality of Dakota grain in the straw,
and above it rises the figure of on i'm.
posing creature constructed by deft
fingers OF wheat, oats, fax. barley, rye,
broom-corn and all the grasses, and sur.
mounted by an American eagle with an
eight-foot spread. The distance from
the floor to the eagles head is fifty feet,
and the monument, like the territory ir
whose honor it has been named, must be
pronounced simply immense" Con.
spicuously displayed upon the sides oi
this unique granular structure are such
legends as these: Dakota, $4,000
school fund; $500 miles of railroad
5000, 900 acres of land for free homes fol
actual settlers" etc, etc. On,either side
of the monument lisa pyramid contain.
ing twelve tons of Dakota flour
and near by is suspended ir
air boat made of Dakota grains
and grasses. Dakota ingenuity, has moi
yet exhausted itself, however. 1t has
devised, among other things, model Of
8 grain elevator, showing through its
Klass sides the engine and all the machin.
cry for cleaning and elevating wheat in
actual operation; models of grain fields,
showing wheat, oats, barley, etc, as they
appear when ready to harvest
corn crib, With thatched roof and
cornice of the yellow grain. lofty
pyramid of hay, surmounted by mann.
moth stuffed OK, weight $3.50 pounds; a
higly ornamental pagoda, in the center
of which are attractively displayed heaps
of small sacks. each filled with gilt.edged
Dakota grain, to be given away al
souvenirs, number of glass-like cylin-
ders, from five to eight feet high, and q
pyramid of bottles also containing
grain. and lofty pyramid of sacks Of
the best Dakota grain. For the rest
there are specimens of Dakota
timber, among them the trunk of
an oak four feet in diameter;
gold, silver, lead and tin from the Black
Hills; coal in abundance; building stones
rough and polished; pumice stone; vepet.
ables in great variety, etc. That the
fine arts have gained foothold in, the
territory is proved by the display 81
woman's work in the gallery which
comprises pictures, carvings. needle.
work, hammered brass, ETC., etc. Among
the curioslties worthy of notice ARE the
petrifactions, one of which, found near
Bismarck. weighs one Thousand pounds
the stones from Cannon Ball river, the
weight and shape of which gave tina,
stream its name, and the trunk OF tree
gnawed off by beavers. All in all, Da
kota presents big advertisement, and
her eagles have a perfect right to scream
The territorial legislature made an ap
preparation of $4,000 for. the exhibit
in addition to the 81 900 appropriated L