The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-05
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

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Special to The Journal. .....-... q.
Hutchinson, Mimi, Oct. 5.-Hutchin-
son beat its best record yesterday in
holding it's semicentennial jubilee cele-
brating the founding Of the town in
the Indians in 1862. Arrangements for
the occasion had been made on an elab-
crate scale and every detail was en-
acted without a hitch. Scores Of
stockaders and pioneers were present.
many from distant points. The eel
ebration opened with a parade around
the site Of the old stockade. It was
led by Al Delong, Sam Dewing and Vim
cent Coombss, three Of the original
and armed. They were followed by
cavalcade of mounted Indians; John
Mckenzie, who captured Little Six and
Medicine Bottle; John W. Hutchinson,
one of the founders of the town; log
cabin and old settlers float; cavalry
men, an Indian squaw on pony drag
ging teepee poles; the old bell from
Pendergast seminary (burned by the
Indians), stockaders and old settlers,
and 800 school children, gaily arrayed
and waving flags.
The school children then formed
about the site of the old stockade, on
which stands monument and tablet
In front Of the A0 mo onure was WSs the
speakers stand, and at the right the old
settlers, and stockaders to the number
Of nearly 200 were seated. They wore
a RHassii jnse 455sieo5 ;Home Again.
DR.. .Kee Wakefield, master of cere.
monies, then extended the freedom of
the city to the assembled visitors, and
after few appropriate words on the
significance of the occasion, read an
exhaustive and ably written paper on
the history of Hutchinson. He was
followed by DR.. Leo M. Crafts of Min
neapolis. DR.. Crafts said he claimed
no place of honor among the early
settlers, altho he came to Minnesota
quite young, being born here the >yea1
following the attack on the stockade
at Hutchinson. He showed himself t
be close student of the early history
of the state by his vivid sketch of thu
deeds of the pioneers during territorial
days and by his narrative Of the Siou,
uprising, which, he said, history woul(
record as the most awful Indian mas
sacre in the annals Of the country. Clos
inson and her pioneers, he then CAV
the signal for the unwilling of tn
monument, and as the big American
flag lifted it's folds from above tn
great granite boulder on which rest
the tablet, the school children file
the air with "The Star-Spangled Bar
ner,N the old settlers following wit
| "Auld Lang Syne."
The next paper was by R. H. M
/ Clelland Of Glencoe, who has lived i
Mcleod county continuously sine
1855.
DR.. Wakefield then introduced Colone
Randolph Won Borgesrode Of Winste
as the "only colonel Of Minnesot
regiment present, and, altho IS yea1
old, still one of the youngest men
the county, Colonel Borgesrode d.
clined to make a speech, but he IT
ceived most enthusiastic applause, a
did John. Mckenzie, who briefly gree
ed his old friends and comrades. Afte
several oldtime Hutchinson famil
songs by John W. Hutchinson, O. !
Hutchinson and other members of tn
younger generations of Hutchinson
the day closed with reproduction {
border warfare, in which band {
: Indians attacked settlers in the
3 emigrant wagons. The firing was fa
and furious and dead reds fair]
81 strewed the site Of the old stockade.- ]
q the evening there was a campfire an
b free-for-all talk, at which John M
q Kenzie gave the story Of the captul
B Of Medicine Bottle and Little Six, an
B numerous pioneers recited anecdotes {
n early days.