The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-07-31
MISS HATTIE BEAL. Photo BY Fred Baldwin

reached me. I didn't see a conductor or
the train either way. and was wedged in
so I couldn't hunt him up. registered
quickly and was no particular number in
| line. 1 didn't note the hour I registered
1 just registered and wondered if it would
come my way. 1t did"
Mr.. O'Brien is a brother of the gentle
man who was hurt at the packing house.
| He moved mere two months ago from
I Scranton, Kansas. He says that he will
( so at once TO the Kiowa country and viii
( get pony and ride ever the land with
a map between this and next Tuesday.
He will make Il list of 100 available claims
and arrange them in list S to his pref
! erence, and will arm himself with this
when he goes into the land Office at Law
ton next Tuesday He is undecided yet
whether he Will try to get near a town
site
O'Brien registered on the same day as
Miss Beall did, and that Bruce Griffith
did.
One Of the lucky men named in yester-
day mornings Eagle was William T.
kearns. Now the directory gives no VIII
liam 7. Kearns and inquiry about town
failed to reveal him. William C. Keeran.
who has been resident OF this city since
1874 believes that the name in transmits
sion has been misspelled and a "T'' sub
stituted for his middle initial c. He has
wired to FL Reno to find out If a mistake
has been made and he is hoping about as
fast as man can hope that William T.
Kearns should have been William c.
Keeran.
Alderman Caswell was numbered among
the lucky ones and his friends were con-
graduating him all day yesterday. His
number is SIS in the Lawton district He
VIII prove up his claim, but will not give
up his business here. Mr.. CasweU VIII
have TO resign his position as alderman.
but this VIII not be for a very great
length of time as his term of Office ex-
pires soon after the time he is required to
be on his claim. Mr. CssweT is proprie-
tor Of the cornice works on North Law
renee avenue. His many friends regret to
see him leave here but all are glad that
he was one of the lucky ones
Thomas J. House is an employe Of the
Pratt Lumber company. He has lived
here for the past two years and lived in
Allen county, Kansas. fifteen years. He
was born in kentucky. He is the yard
man Of the lumber company. Mr.. House
told an Lagle reporter last night that he
would leave Friday 10 look after .-s
claim IN tho Fl Reno district. Mr.. House !
viii make this his home as he says that /
be has had some experience IN the farm I
Ing business and has always liked 10 live /
on a farm
Mrs Alice Papes IS widow who lives /
al the corner o. Sixteenth and Park ave- /
nue.. She is the mother az J. I. Papes /
n the star She is the second Wichita /
woman 10 draw claim in the new coun- /
Try. She has chosen the Il Reno district 4
is the place OF her future home. she
was not surprised when she heard that 4
she was one OF the lucky ones as she
thought she would draw claim He- I
son has been telling her she would not
get q claim. brt he was the most surpris-
a man In this city when Pie heard u his
Mothers name being callea she viI
30 10 hIr claim as soon IS possible. but
sys she VIII drop in and tell her friends
Bows she IS getting along.
Charles HolwicS S handy Wichifa
'oy- Ills home j ten miles northwest III
Inc city. He IS about = years olI and
gas one o1 the last O. register. getting
Us nano oc tke rolls the afternoon ~
he iast day IIe S wen known ln thfs
itv and has lived on q farm ail his Hte.
r. thicss ~ IS weu able II nun o. flrr1
d The new country and rsil So to II Reno
be lrst IF IRE Neck II
ar. Waiter Bel,e. ere e The ilcxs
rawers Mond1-. when Scsn IS q reporter
or tho Easle, said he intended making
ne claim rs home al 20 70 farming so-