The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-16
vERENDRYE PLATE is
SECURED AS EXHIBIT
FOR STATES MUSEUM
Trophy of Early French Explor-
ations Into South Dakota
Children Unearth It.

VI thS ldiilouS NeEetluIye pEhlc, WlliSh
was unearthed on a high hill back OF
Fort Pierre in February, 1913, the plate
having been planted there by the Yer
endrye brothers in 1743.
On n side of the plate in five i'm
perfect lines are the following words,
roughly engraved:
Pose Par lie
Chevaly-et de I.ayr.
Lo Jos Louy Ia Londette
A Miotte
lie 80 de mars 1743.
And on the reverse side of his tablet
appears the following:
ammo XVI Regni Ludovici XIV Prorege
lllustressimon Domino Domino
Marchione
e Beauharnois MXCCCXXXXI
Petrus Gaultier de Laverendrie Posvit.
The plate was found on the highest
nil back of Fort Pierre, or an emlnence
overlooking the sweep of the Missouri
river IN its course for many miles, the
journal of Verendrye, who traversed
the region from the wilds of western
Canada to this region, and further, in
the interest Of France, before another
Wh!te man had been here, says of the
incident of placing the plate:
L placed on an eminence near the
tort a tablet of lead, with the arms and
inscription of the king, and a pyramid
OF stones for Monster lie General; I said
10 the savages, who did not know OF
me tablet of lead that 1 had placed in
the earth, that I was placing these
stones as a memorial of those who had
come 10 their country. 1 had very much
wlsned to take the altitude at this place
pul our astrolobe had been out of serv-
zee since the beginning of our Journey,
the ring being broken"
DuLlns the session of the legislature
ol 1918, on February 16, seven young
people OF Fort Pierre We're playing on
lie III Whom ~ 80 H. T.. Id
against the projecting piece of the
pate, dug it out, examined it, and
taought 1t might be the lining of a
stove. One of the party had a knife
aHa olfered to scrape off the dirt, and
did So, and discovering the old date.
Even then the youngsters had no idea
Oh the value of their find, but finally
Went nome with the plate, and when it
was cleaned and the inscription trans
ialsu INTO english, the excitement of
poan towns, ft. Pierre and Pierre, was
eeLy great over the finding of the old
tablet placed there so many years ago.
n translation of the plate in the
Ehgllsh from the French has been car
REQ on by various French professors,
n finally the matter was submitted
to the french ambassador at Washing
ton, M. Jusserand, and it is agreed up
on to be:
Placed by the Chevalier de LvR,
LA Verendryel, Lo JOS, Gouis Joseph,
ms pfother), Louy La Loudette A.
Miotte (the two employes), the S0th
of March, 1743."
The Latin inscription is translated
to be:
In the 10th year Of the reign of
t LOUIS Ky; the o illustrious lord,
ing Vlceroy, 1741, Peter Gaultier de
Laverendrye placed this"
In the seventh volume of the collec-
tons of the department of history is
contained an exhaustive paper of the
~Verendrye travels. the explorations and
discoveries, by Charles e. DeLand, a
Verendrye calendar of events, by
Doane Robinson, and the journals OF
the Verendrye's themselves, translated
from their original French journals by
the department of history for this VOL
ume, and other interesting material
concerning their journeys, the plant
ing of the plate in the name of France.
SERBIAN ARMY SURVIVOR
REACHES SOUTH DAKOTA
Lead. S. D., March 13.-The first
actual participant in the European
war to reach South Dakota is John
Trklor. who has just arrived in Lead
direct from the Balkans, where he
served in he army of Serbia. After
departing from Durazzo, one of the
chief ports of Albania, he sailed across
the Adriatic to Italy, went overland to
Naples and thence through the Medi-
terranean and across the Atlantic to
Boston. He served more than the re-
CURED time in the Serbian army. and
was granted a six months leave of
absence, his passport, written in
French, having been signed by the
Serbian minister, Lazar Lazaravich.
When he left Albania in January, 10
miles back of Durazzo, the Italians and
French and the mnan of the Mon
tenegrin armies were hammering away
at the Austrian forces. A three hours
b-ombardment of the seaport town was
witnessed by Trklor. in which six
dreadnaughts, six destroyers and six
submarines Of the Austrian fleet par
tlc1pated. Prior to the commencement
of the war Trklor for several years
was a resident of Lead, and his coun-
| tryrnen here are greatly Interested in
his stories of personal experiences.
WOMAN DIES SUDDENLY
WHILE LEAVING HOSPITAL
Ramona, S.. d., March 13.-Mrsl Fred
Croisant. aged 43, wife of a wen
known farmer living northwest of Pa
mona, died suddenly of heart failure as
she was being removed from a hospi-
tai preliminary to taking her to her
for about three weeks receiving treat
ment for heart trouble. There was
some improvement in her condition
and 1t was decided to take her to the
Tamliy nome. She died while being
taken down stairs. Her husband was
present, and was aiding her down the
stairway when the sudden n fatal
attack came.
SMALL LAKE COUNTY TOWN
REGISTERS FOR SALOONS
Madison. S. D.. March 13.-At the
annual township elections in Lake
county Tuesday. the u-nincorporated
village of Rutland voted wet" by a
majority OF II. Rutland and Nunda.
another small town. are now the onlv
cases in Lake county. Madison voted
dry" at the last spring election by e
large majority and it is not likely the
question will be an issue this spring.
TEACHER AND PUPILS ARE
AFFECTED BY COAL GAS
Britton, S. d., March 11-Esc. nino