The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1907-01-23
ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO
THE SAUK COUNTY RISTORl-
CAL SOCIETY.
, OLD WISCONSIN NEWSPAPER
Coins, Trap, Confederate Money, In
dian Stone implements and Other
Curios Added to Collection.

Since our last report the following
contributions have been made to the
Sauk County Historical society and
are now on exhibition in the court
house:
Conrad Egerer of North Freedom,
gives a discarded piece of metal which
was once a diamond drill used in the
North Freedom iron field. The drill
was once set with diamonds valued at
$3.50 or S400 apiece and the whole was
worth 81 300 or $4,000. Itis curious
relic to those who have never seen a
drill of this kind and who have heard
so much about them in recent years.
A. Johnson gives mink or musk
rat trap once owned by Yellow Thun-
der. The trap is hand made and was
given to Mr.. Johnson by Big Bear.
Mr.. Johnson also gives an auger
which is hand made and long ago was
used in the West Indies to tap molasses
barrels.
Mary B. Wood of Reedsburg, sends
a sand blotter used by her father, the
late DR.. William A. Wood. The blot
ter was brought from Dexter, n. Y.
in 1852 and has been in Sauk county
since 1854. Miss Wood also sends
three sketches of Sauk county scenery,
Horace M. McElroy of Janesville,
gives a celt from Denmark, knife fake
from st Acheul, France, and pipe
from Two Rivers, Wis. 1t may be of
interest to state that at one time
people all over the world used imple-
ments made of stone not unlike the
Indians in this country. The celt and
knife are from the stone age of Europe.
Mrs. John Luce of the town of Fair
field adds a deed made in 1890 by
Benjamin Reed to Abigail Leonard
and two daughters. One of the daugh-
ters was Mrs. Luce's grandmother.
A commission to Harrison Hackett
dated April6 1882, is also contributed
by Mrs. Luce. Lieut.. Hackett was
IuG ldGuST Oh IuG QOnOT.
Secretary Charles e. Brown of the
Wisconsin Archaeological society sends
from Milwaukee a fossil obtained at
Kewaunee, Wis.
Edward Faller sends from North
Freedom a fine discoidal, three arrows
and,two fragments. They were found
on section 25.
Mrs. d. Jerome of La Vale, sends a
copy of Harper's Weekly, which con-
tains a report of the assassination of
Abraham Lincoln.
DR.. r. O.. Th waites, secretary and
superintendent of the State Historical
society, sends copy of the Green Bay
Intelligencer for October 8, 1884, being
No. IA of the first newspaper published
in Wisconsin. The old newspapers of
that day were peculiar in that nearly
all of the space was devoted to legal
matters of state. Personals, accidents
and information of a gossipy nature
was not printed then.
DR.. Thwaites also sends bill of $40
and one of $50 issued by the Confeder-
ate States of America. The former bill
is dated February II, 1864, and the
latter April 6, 1868. He also sends a
piece of Revolutionary currency of
six shillings $1.5O in U. S. currency
issued by the state of Pennsylvania
and dated April 10, 1777.
Fred Alvin of the town of Prairie du
Sac, gives a lot Ofspurious arrow points.
Mr.. Alvin has found the secret of tax
ing broken point or a piece of filing
and converting it into perfect speci-
men. Mr.. Alvin also gives a piece of
steel and some punk to show what was
used in starting fire before the days
of matches.
George Owens of the town of Fair
field contributes 13 arrow points and
knives.
Fred Alvin of the town of Prairie
du Sac, loans celt, axe and hand inn
plement.
S. Jennings of Baraboo, contributes
a piece of steel once used in his grand
fathers family. With it one could
light pipe or start fire in the old
DAYS. The article is more than 100
years old.
VIM. Stackhouse, the ex-sheriff,
Loganville, gives an old canteen which
he carried through the war. AS once
said of Kansas it has seen better days.
John Paddock of the town of Bara-
boo, gives Is pottery fragments found
on his farm. He also contributes 20
arrow points and 10 blanks.
VIM. HI. Fay of Baraboo gives 80,