Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1916-05-26
v.nkton Plan. Bio Pageant

Yankton Plans Big Pageant
Incidents in the early history Of
southeastern South Dakota will be 70
produced in Joseph Mills Hanson's |
The Pageant of Yankton," which will
b presented in the Garden Terrace
open air theater at Yankton on the af.
ternoons Of June IA, Is and 16, under
the auspices Of Yankton college. More
than 200 persons will take part in the
pageant. Mr.. Hanson, prominent
South Dakota author and poet, will be
in active charge of the spectacle. He
will be assisted by officers of Yankton
college and members Of the CONNER.
cial club at Yankton. The Pageant
Of Yankton" is divided into three cpl.
sodes and IL scenes. Part Of the dialog
is in verse. All Of it is based on his.
torical facts, which were obtained by
Mr.. Hanson. The pageant will open
with the arrival of the "Yankton" In.
dians at foot of the bluffs Of the Mis-.
souri, river at Yankton. These Indians
were driven from their haunts in Iowa
and Minnesota and settled at Yankton
while wandering over the prairies in
search of home. Episode two will
show the coming of the first white man
to South Dakota He was Pierre Dur.
ion. He came to Yankton in 1870.
Scene two of this episode will show
the arrival of the Lewis and Clark ex.
pedition at Yankton on August 20.
1904. Scene three will be reproduc.
tion of the founding of the first trading
post at. ,Yankton by Frost, Tood & Co.
The negotiation of the treaty for the
cession of the Yankton lands will be
shown. These lands embraced all the
southern part of the present state Of
South Dakota. Scene five will show
the departure of the Yankton townsite.
This was on July 10, 1859. The third
episode takes up the arrival of the first
governor of Dakota territory, DR.. Will.
lam Jayne, and the settlement at
Yankton of his party. Yankton. the
mother of the Dakotas," was the first
territorial capital. The next scene
will show the Indian outbreak of 1862.
The old Yankton stokade will be
shown filled with refugee settlers and
their families. Relatives of the men
who we're instrumental in driving OF
the Indians will take parts in the
scene. Reproductions will be shown
of the coming of the first railroad in
1873, the founding of Sacred Heart
hospital, the founding of Yankton col.
lege by DR.. Joseph Ward, and as a
finale the ultimate city" Previous
pageants which have been given in
this section, have shown incidents
from the history of the general north.
west. The Yankton pageant will deal
entirely with the history of southeast
ern South Dakota.
Inheritance Taxes Fill State Golfers.
| Approximately $150,0O0 will be
brought into the state treasury OF
South Dakota this year in the collec
tion of Inheritance taxes, according
to the statement of H. c. Preston OF
Mitchell, member of the tax com
mission who has this department in
charge. 1t is expected that $4,000
will be received from the Williams
Deering estate, of Rock Island, ILL.,, ar
the result of proceedings just started
in Lincoln county. Attempts will be
made to collect tax from property
owned by Richard Sears, founder OF
the firm Of Sears, Roebuck & Co., in
South Dakota. Elmore w. Hurst oi
Rock Island, ILL.,, who died last July
left about 100000 of real estate in
South Dakota from which a tax will
be due. Forty thousand dollars of the
amount already collected came from
the Trip estate, of Prairie-du-sac Wia
Watertown Winner.
The eleventh annual high school
field and track meet was held al
Brookings May 19 under the auspices
of State college. Twenty schools were
; represented and there were 157 con
testants. The day was perfect and
over 1000 people witnessed the con
test. No records were broken, but
some were tied. Watertown won the
most points. scoring 26; Pierre, %;
Brookings, II and the relay race and
banner; Huron, 8; Sioux Falls, Z. Five
failed to score point. Williamson
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score of 81 out of 26 for his school
Dahl, of Pierre, made 10 in weights
and Hall, of Brookings, two firsts in
Jumps. Watertown and Pierre won
four f1rsts each in events; Brookings
2, and Huron, Redfield and Yankton
each.
Z Gives Scholars Medical Test.
DR.. W. Franklin Jones of the Uni
versity Of South Dakota gave the pu
pills of the Alexandria schools tests a.
| to their mental and physical equip
ment, which will result in many minol
Z defects being remedied. DR.. Jone.
> visited the schools upon the invitation
( of the Parent-Teacher association O
, Alexandria.
; Special Enumerator Appointed.