Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-04-21
A SPLENDID RACE.

The Rush for the Sisseton and Waltpeton
Lands When the Signal was Given
PeaceabIe Entries Made and All is Quiet,
Thanks to Admirable Precautions Taken
by Gov. Mailefte-Tda Burnett's Choice
Site.
SIssEToN AGENCY. S. D., April 16.-
The mad rush for SisSeton and Nah-
peton lands is over. and while this
morning at 10 o'clock not white man
outside of agency officials could be'found
on the great s.Flatiron' reservation, to-
night there are COCO people scattered
over it from Lake Kanpeska on the
south to Hankineon on the north.
From the firing of the guns by
members of the Eighth cavalry
and Third infantry at noon to long
after nightfall. the rush for land
was as magnificent struggle for SUI
premacy as was ever witnessed. There
was great deal of il1-feeling in places,
and in several instances boomers came
to blows, but up to 9 p. m. not a death
from violence had occurred. The early
report of the killing of a squatter
north of Watertown proves to be false.
The entry was pretty evenly distributed
through the northern and eastern bor-
ders. The squatter is monarch of all
he surveys. The filer is literally out of
the running. The man on the ground
is the owner and the squatter is on the
ground.
The race as seen from the Minnesota
border was a splendid one. Simulta-
neously with the crack of the first car
bine 100 horses dashed forward across
the line urged to desperate speed by
their shouting and squirting riders.
The much-tallled-of race for the new
Sisseton city site had begun. Strug-
Cling along in the rear came loaded
wagons To each vehicle was attached
a team of from two to six horses. Every
driver piled the lash mercilessly.
One of the leaders in the TOWNSHIP
scramble was lithe-built fellow from
Kansas City, kansas Jack" everybody
called him In the first 100 yards of
the rush his pony sunk one foot in
burrow, and the gentleman from Kan
sas landed in bunch of buffalo grass
twenty-five feet away. Rider and steed
were afoot almost simultaneously and
in less than twenty-three seconds they
were off again.
wagon laden with supplies stuck
up to the hubs in the bottom and the
driver howled wildly at his struggling
horses They made five or six convul-
sive efforts to clear the slough without
avail In an instant more the traces
were cut. the two occupants of the
wagon We're mounted on the horses and
away they went leaving the supply
wagon in the mire.
Off to the southwest on the road
&<r 1- III
was being enacted. A large number of
people had gone that way.
Ida Burnett. a graduate of the Uni
verify of Minnesota. a strillingly hand
some girl. is probably by this time the
possessor OF the choicest quarter section
about the town site to the northwest.
Miss Burnett has just suspicion Of In
dian blood in her veins. and is q de
scendent of the Sioux race. She has
been allotted land on the reserve. Be
hind the fastest team obtainable she
was drawn to the town site from the
agency. The start was made at gun
fire. and the girl was first on the field.
She stakcd out her claim and straight
way went to work on the erection of a
shanty assisted by her driver.
Gov. Mallette and $50 deputy sheriffs
are on the reserve. The latter heavily
armed and instructed to maintain or
der, peacefully if possible. forcibly if
necessary. They checked several rows
before serious results ensued. Wells
are being dug on all the claims so far
taken up. All the squatters apparently
intend to live ON their land, and in a
couple of weeks breaking plows will be
at work everywhere
Lively Scenes in Guthrie, Okla, Among
the Waiting Crowds.
GUTHRIE. o. T., April 16.-The scenes
yesterday were about the same as have
been enacted in many other days since
the opening of the Indians land was
insured. All day long the crowds have
came and gone by railway, in wagons,
in cars, on horseback. and one old col
ored man arrived astride decrepid-
looking old COW. While many of the
scores of negroes who arrive are poor
they are not destitute by any means.
The white settlers, too, are unusually
well fixed: while there are large num-
Der of professional boomers who have
nothing and never will have. A large
percentage of the settlers bring good
sized sums of money with them.
During the past week over 100000
have been deposited in the banks at
Ell Reno and Kingfs''e~ by these people.
Many of those who 81 not deposit their
money have had i s.olen from them or
have lost much of it in gambling.
The gamblers have reaped a harvest
for three or four days. One professional
gambler from this city. who has been
operating at Ell Reno for week,
cleared over $1,000 Kansas City and
Wichita have eInptied all of their
crooks into towns on the border of the
reservation and the local officers are
unable to cope with such gang with
any degree of success.
The Cheyenne Indians have stopped
their ghost dance and come in from their
reservation IN great numbers to see the
crowds. It did not take them long to
inbibe the commercial spirit of the oc-
casion and they are selling every horse
they possess for good round price and
going home on foot.
As the day for tire opening approaches
the excitement become more intense.
and it will be simply miracle if in the
finale there is not some blood spilled
among the more reckless OF the boom
erS.
The Indictment Against Eayachol.
PARIS. April 16.-The indictment of
the public prosecutor against Ravachol
and his accomplices in the dynamite
osItrages was presented yesterday. 1t
sets forth that there was an anarchist
conspiracy against public authority