The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-06-15
STATES {
CELEBh At
YANk1u MONDAY.
Weeks Observance
of Anniversary is
Begun
GOVERNORS TALK
Jayne, Burke, Lee, Herried,
and Elrod are Scheduled
for Speeches

Yankton. s. D.-Yankton, the
mother city of the Dakotas, Is lat
home" for a week beginning yester-
day for the first homecoming the
Dakotas have v e experienced. The
occasion is the celebration in fitting
manner of Dakota's golden jubilee of
SO years of pioneer life and achieve
ment. There is no question the
event is appealing to the hardy pion-
GERS in a way that no event has eve
done before. Within a month, with
no previous organization, Yankton
county produced an old settler as
ISOLATION with over 500 paid up
members. For months the leading
topic of conversation everywhere has
been early incidents of pioneer life.
So much so was this the case that a
local paper got out a 60-page special
edition, filled largely with early re-
miniscences. 1t was a great success,
as it covered the whole field of pio-
neer activity from who was the first
governor, the first real settler, to
the first school house; the storms and
the floods, even the earthquakes were
mentioned, and 1t all fitted the
mood of the pioneers. AS a jubilee
of SO years of experiences in any line
statehood, or private business, nee
essarily means retrospection so in Da-
kota's jubilee, long forgotten, events
are being dug up and brought to
light. 1t was ascertained Dakota's
first governor, William Jayne, 1861
1863, whose appointment as govern
or of Dakota was one Of L~incoln's
first acts as president, was still alive
and living at the old home, Spring
field, ILL.,, whittier he had retired on
resigning the Office of governor. He
asked to be present and will
come, although he is an old man now
of SIS years.
Another interesting figure in the
jubilee is Major Joseph r.. Hanson,
who came up on the Nebraska side
Dakota had been coded by the
Indians. He was amongst the first to
cross to the promised land, which
was in 1858, and of the real first set
tiers was the only n to Stick" He
still occupies the land on which he
just east of Yankton. His
Toconh Mill Hanson Sc x,oI1
Dakota writer, and also sec
of the executive committee in
of the celebration. Joseph
Hanson, jr., has also charge of the
historic pageant, which will present
to visitors the striking historic Incl
dents of Dakota, from the arrival of
the French and first set
tiers, Lewis and Clark, ETC., down to
the evacuation of their native soil
by the Yankton Sioux. A large
number of these interesting aborig-
lnees will be present by special ar
engagements and will establish an In
dian village, according to their Gus
of SO years ago. The war
dance and interesting green corn"
lance will be put on with other Pc
customs. ,
Internationally the week will have
much of interest. Vermillion for
some years claimed the first school
house, but this, after a long and
heated controversy, has
been decided to be a false claim, and
title Bon Homme, a pioneer settle
nent 20 miles west Of Yankton, real
y is entitled to the honor. A party
rom Fort Dodge, Ia, settled at Bon
domme in July of 1859, and the next
ear built a primitive school house.
Thus in many ways Yankton peo-
lie and their guests will pass the
week largely in a review of the past,
listing historic sites, listening to
alks by pioneers, many Of them to-
lay notable men. Modern attrac-
ions will blend with the reviews of
days and the week promises to
'e a most interesting one.
NATION DIES