Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-10-13
PIERRU's $1,000 CHALLENGE.

which the corr palace management
refused to admit to the building, but
which nevertheless was displayed al
Mitchell in spite of her knockers and
falsifiers.
Tae Mitchell Business mems
League was so ranked and exasper-
ated because of Pierre's success with
this exhibit, that a signed howl was
sent out, from which the following is
an extract:
mo greater fraud was ever put
up on an honest public than Pierre's
so.called exhibit of agricultural pro
ducts from Hughes county, displayed
at Yankcon and Huron and brought
to Mitchell with a blare Of trumpets
from a subsidized press and opened
in a vacant room in the new Wild
mann hotel corn palace week.
ITO have admitted the exhibit as
a Hughes county exhibit would have
been a direct insult to others show
ing the normal products of their
respective counties, 1t would have
turned the whole exposition into a
farce"
In reply to Mitchell's charge of
fraud, here is a document which
youches for the genuineness of that
exhibit so fully that no unprecedented
citizen ought to question it:
"We hereby certify that the
Hughes county exhibit as shown in
Mitchell Sept. 26 to Oct. J., 1904, is
as represented in every particular.
&C. c. Bennett, President First
National Bank, Pierre, S. d.
"P. F. Mcclure, President Pierre
National Bank, Pierre, S. d.
"A. w. Ewert, Cashier National
Bank of Commerce, Pierre, S. d.
"John Sutherland, President
Pierre Board of Trade.
y. |. Newell, Superintendent of
Exhibit"
Accompanying this is the follow
ing challenge, which nobody yet has
undertaken to accept:
There is on deposit in the First
Nanional Bank of Pierre, S. D.,
$1,000 payable to any person who
will prove that the exhibit in the
Widmann hotel in Mitchell, S. D.,
was not grown in locality as repre-
sented.
"B. A. Cummins, cashier First
National Bank, Pierre, S. D.
1t is quite possible that the
Mitchell Business Mems League
could find use for that $1,000, 80
why doesn't it hustle out and get
some atom of evidence that the
Hughes county exhibit was fraudu-
lents It simply cannot find any
such evidence, because the exhibit
was as honest as sunshine.
That aggregation Of knockers
know absolutely that the exhibit was
'as represented in every particular"
just as Messrs. Bennett, Mcclure,
Ewert, Sutherland and Newell
declare in their certificates.
They know absolutely that it is
backed by the afidavits Of the
Hughes county farmers who raised
the products, and that in no instance
was there any fraud Of any sort or
kind.
III they didn't know this, do yon
suppose they would allow that $1,000
to lie there in that Pierre bank with
out a claimant?
They know it SO well that they
placed a Mitchell policeman in front
OF the room in which the exhibit was
displayed, SO as to prevent distribu.
ton Of the cards containing the
above certificate and challenge
which cards proved that theil
accusations against this particular
exhibit, and against the whole Pierr,
region are entirely false.
In addition to these outside cir
cumstances. showing the fraud b
their howl, look at the contradiction
in their ~ statements. as signed
BY the Mitchell business Mems
League: