The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-15
THE BUGLE
Sisseton Boomers Ready for the
Great Land Race.
TWO IOWA GIRLS IN THE CROWD.
Places in the Line at the Land ONCE
Worth S150-How the Signal
Will Be Given.

WArERrowS. S. Oak, April 1.-THE adj
ers was very marked today. The line be-
fore the land office was greatly heightened.
Places in the line are held as high as $50.
Company A, of the state troops. has been
placed at the orders of the sheriff, but as
the crowd is orderly it is not thought that
their services will be required, and
tomorrow they will probably be ordered to
the reservation. The march to the reser-
walton continues. Many OF those intend
ing to file have concluded to avail them
selves of squatter's rights. Liverymen
have formed a combination and anything
less than $40 for team tomorrow will be
laughed at. 1t is rumored that an order
has come from Washington City compell-
ing everyone to file and thus cut off the
squatters. If such an order does come
there will be trouble.
BROWNS VALLEY, Mimi, April a.
Small bodies of men are making for the
reservation, in order to be advantageously
located when the rush begins tomorrow.
Crowds are reported to be congregated all
along the line. 1t Is reported that some
700 men are on the northern line, who in
tend to settle in body, and have laid out
plans for townsite in the center of the
quarter section of land they will occupy.
Such location is not warranted by sur
rounding conditions, as it is fifteen miles
from any railroad. but it is said here that
the location is directly under the north
western route of the new airships from
Chicago, and the company will build de-
pot when it is organized. The mud is a
foot deep, and it is still raining. There is
every prospect for stormy day tomorrow.
Tomorrow morning troops will sur
round the reservation on the north and
east boundaries. 4 bugle signal will open
firing. which will be the signal for a
helter-skeiter race. At least 500 horsemen
will engage in a desperate race over the
reservation for the future Sisseton town.
Mamie Schaler and Bessie Cole, two
pretty Anamosa, Ia, girls. are out after
land. They are unprotected, but every
man in the crowd has sworn to see the
girls located on the best half section of the
reserve.
FARGO, N. D., April IA line was
formed before the land office last night,
and is growing rapidly. Most of the men
have provisions, chairs and blankets, and
are making themselves comfortable The
crowd was orderly, and no trouble is
feared. The office has not yet received the
official plat of the land and. although a
messenger rode all night, it is thought 1t
will not reach here in time.
Ell RENO, o. T., April 14.-Some of the
land on the Observation-Disclosures reserva-
ton is of fair farming sort, but most of it
Is poor. A few would-be settlers are dis
gusted with the outlook and are leaving,
but their places are being rapidly filled
1t is reported that the Cheyennes held a
big ghost dance on Monday night. The
'sooners" found in Deer Creek were es-
corted to the line. Trouble is not feared
with the Indians, even though they have
the Messiah craze
WAUBAY, S. d., April 1.-THE Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul road has train
ready-to start for the Lake Traverse lands,
which is the most fertile part of the Sisse-
ton reservation, tomorrow. The train will
run to the border, and, at the signal, make
dash for the lands. At the end of the
road townsite companies will have convey
ances to take settlers to the exact claims.
The railroad promises to accommodate all.
Trouble is feared when the train starts if
everybody is not taken.
HANKINsoN, n. D., April 14-The excite
ment over prospects of the opening of the
reservation tomorrow is intense. The
crowd is good natured and no trouble is
anticipated.