Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-07-31
THE GRAND LOTTERY.
Last Act in the Throwing Open of
the Indian Reservation.
Drawing Takes Place In FL Reno. d.
t., and IL Witnessed BY Thou
sands of Pcoplc-Novcl and
Interesting sight.

FL Reno, q. T.. July 29.-An is ex-
pectancy among the thousands of
honeseekers here over the grand lot
terry that began Monday morning.
There are $4,000 claims to be distrib-
uted. and so each of the 165, SOS per
sons who have registered during the
past Is days has about one chance in
IL of winning. While the great ex-
citement of the run" which has
heretofore been a part Of other land
openings in this part of the country
is lacking. the last act in the throw
ing open TO settlement OF the Kiowa-
Comanche reservation was not with
out life and animation.
The drawing is being conducted in
the center of the city. and witnessed
by thousands OF people. IL is being
held on large platform in the open
air. w. y. richards. assistant COM
missioner of the general land office,
and who has had charge of the regis
tration; ID. II. Dyer, of st. Louis,
former United States district attor-
ney, and Frank Dale, eN-chief Justice
OF Oklahoma, are conducting the
drawing
interesting. On the platform are
two oblong box wheels, each Is feet
in length, one to hold the names of
the applicants for homesteads in the
III Reno district. and the other for
those OF the Lawton district. Into
these wheels are placed envelopes
containing the names of all the reg
istered applicants. The envelopes are
first brought to the plat form in pack
ages consecutively numbered A cor
responding series of numbers. upon
slips. are placed in another re-
ceptacle. from which they are drawn
out at random. The package of en-
velopes bearing the first number
drawn is the first to be placed in the
drawing box and well distributed,
when another number was drawn and
another package of envelopes dis
tributed, and this course will be con
tinued until all of the envelopes have
been placed in the box wheels, after
which the wheels are revolved for
sufficient length of time to insure
thorough mixing of the envelopes.
In each wheel there arc five nper-
lures from which the envelopes are
finally drawn. Ten men. one for each
aperture. perform the actual draw
ing. The order in which they began
was determined by lot.
The first envelope drawn was No.
]. which was at once opened and
the Identification slip which il con
tanned was given corresponding
number, and the name and residence
which appears upon the slip is pub
licly announced. This course wAs
pursued, Numbering each envelope
and it's contents consecutiveIv. until
25 numbers were drawn from one
box, when an equal number were
drawn from the other box in n sim
liar manner. This course was pur-
sued until 500 names had been drawn
from each box.
After the names have been drawn
and announced they are recorded and
notice was mailed to the one whose
name is drawn. The drawing will
proceed in this manner until every
envelope in the boxes is drawn out.
Only 1000 envelopes, 500 for each
district, was drawn Monday. After
the first day the drawing will pro-
coed with greater rapidity. and it *
expected that the last envelope will
have been drawn by Thursday hight.