Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-07-29
GREAT LOTTERY IS ON.
Uncle Sans Fortune Wheel Turns at FL Reno
Oklahoma, Today.-Quarter Sections the Prizes

manche and Wichita reservations.
There are probably 5000 strangers
here now, and all incoming trains are
loaded. Several state delegations par
AIDED the streets. 1t is thought that to-
days crowd will be the largest crowd
of any day since the opening reglstra-
ton.
Commissioner Richards clerical forces
had a hard day. but last night every
Identification card was enclosed and all
preliminaries are arranged for the big
rattle. The platform is constructed at
the foot of the hills that rise gently to
the front and the right, forming nat
ural amphitheater.
1t is expected that 25,0OO persons will
be gathered around the stand in the
morning when the boxes make their
first revolutions and the first winners
are determined and announced
Who will get the claims drawn by
parties who may be proved ineligible is
the question that is embarrassing the
officials. The opinion is that claims un-
disposed of at the end of the stipulated
sixty days will be subject to entry under
the regular land office regulations. so 1t
is possible that after all there may be a
semblance of rush.
AT the hour set for the drawing this
morning Judge Irwin will announce his
decision in the suit brought by Lone
Wolf to enjoin the opening. There is no
other belief than that the injunction
will not issue
While the l65,S65 persons who have
registered during the last fifteen days
nave about one chance in thirteen of
winning. apparently everyone feels con-
fident of being numbered among the
lucky. The actual drawing is to be so
novel that interest is kept at a high
pitch. On the platform will be two OBJ
long wheels. each fifteen feet in length,
one with the names of the applicants for
homesteads in the Ell Reno district and
the other for those of the Lawton dis
trict. Into these wheels will be placed
envelopes containing the names of all
the registered applicants. The envel-
opes first will have been brought to the
platform in packages consecutively
numbered. A corresponding series of
numbers upon slips will be placed in an
other receptacle, from which they will
be drawn out at random.
The packages of envelopes bearing the
first number drawn will be the first to
be placed in the drawing box and well
distributed, when another number will
be drawn and another package OF enyel-
opes distributed This course will be
continued until all of the envelopes have
been placed in the box wheels. after
which the wheels will be revolved for a
sufficient length of time to insure q
thorought mixing of the envelopes.
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from which the envelopes finally Will be
drawn. Ten men. one for each aperture.
Will perform the actual drawing. The
first envelope drawn will be No. /, which
at once will be opened and the identi-
tication slip which 1t contains will be
given a corresponding number, and the
name and residence which appear upon
: the slip will be publicly announced. This
course will be pursued. numbering each
envelope and IT'S contents consecutively.
until twenty-five numbers have been
drwan from one box. when an equal
number will be drawn from the other
box in a similar manner.
After the names have been drawn and
announced they will be recorded and a
notice mailed to the one whose name
is drawn.
Indians File Claims.
Tacoma City. O. T.. July 29.-Keo
Tuck, Sac Indian, has given notice of
his intention to file upon land adjoining
the town site of Lawton. This probably
is the most valuable tract of the 10000
to be opened.
The application is made under a law
passed in 1887, which gives every home-
/ lsA.c Ind 1iaf ttrht n, NJ
of land that is not in possession of a
homesteader. This section has never
been repealed, and the right of the In
dians who have no allotments or who
We're omitted from the tribal rolls is
said to be beyond dispute.
With keo Tuck were sixty members
Of Sac and Fox tribe who propose t.
make filings. and attorneys thruout the
country are said to be searching for 9TH
( er Indians who can lay claim to lands.
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