The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-01
LAND LOTTERY WINNERS
ANOTHER INDIANA HOMEsEEKER IN
THE LIST OF FORTUNATES.
Good-Natured Crowd of People About
the Government Wheels of Chance
All Day-4,2OO Names Drawn.

Ell RENO, o. T, July 3l-Twenty-one
hundred names were drawn from each
wheel in the United States land drawing
to-day, making the grand total 500 To-
morrow the list of prize winners will be
completed. The drawing of numbers will
continue on the platform north of the Irv-
ing school building until about 1000 names
for each land district are drawn from the
wheels. making a total of 10000 names. AS
there are about 1850 claims in the new
country. the drawing of 10000 names will
go beyond the point where persons above
1850 can get land. The remaining en-
velopes will draw blanks, but as the COM
mission desires to impress the public with
the fairness and honesty of the drawing,
every one of the 10000 envelopes
will be drawn. When the names
entitled to homesteads. however. have
been exhausted the work that follows will
be merely prefunctOry and Will be done as
rapidly as possible. Each person who regis
tered at FL Reno or Lawton will receive a
postal card showing the number of his
identification card as IL came from the
wheel. The commissioners of the drawing
are notifying by postal card each person
who draws number. The card also gives
the date on which the recipient must ap-
pear at the office of his respective land
district and file his entry. The date upon
is easily determined. In each land district
125 persons will be permitted to file daily
Those holding numbers l TO l25 must file
Aug. 8. l2b TO $50. Aug. Z. continuing In this
manner until all the homesteads in each
land district are filed upon.
The weather to-day was cool and bracing
and everybody felt anxious TO hurry the
drawing through as lively as possible. The
crowd pushed and jostled each other in a
good -natured way to get as close as possi-
BILE TO the platform. Among the first WIN
ners to-day were the following:
Lawton District. w. Line. Denison,
Tex: Elizabeth Lee Darwin G5ainesyille.
Lame, Denison. Tex. Thomas S. Lake.
West Point. Ind; S Van Zandt, Chatta-
nooga. Tenn. G. Nj. Clark. Fort Worth.
Tex; w. a. Chance. San Francisco: Robert
a. Parker. Hot Springs. Ark; Henry l..
Tension. Dallas, Tex; O. j. Ender. St.
Louis; W. NJ. Seymour. Springfield. Mo- !;
Bailey. ST. Louis. Mo; J. G. Vince. Maple
Glen. Mimi; George Spencer, Little Rock
Ark: William Landigan. Falls City. Neb /:
Moore. Rockford. Ia. W. F.. Moore, Mason,
Ia: T. Grndle. Waukesha. Ia. l. FL.
Wright. McLanesboro :, II; G. R Housley.
Mimi: Lewis Kreisher Peoria. H.: J. NJ.
Harkin Fort Dodge. Ia; Alpheus X. Rog-
tinsvllle, H.; Thomas p. Scott, Fort Worth.
El Reno District. b. Hassett. Fort
Worth. Tex; r. G. Pierce, Houston, Tex.
Herbert Smelling. Houston, Tex; ]. b.
KYLE. Memphis. Tenn: e. G. Pierson.
Houston. Tex; G. Rurghart. Hot Springs.
Ark; G. Scheih. Quincy. ILL.,; James Vonek.
Denver Col: y. a Shaw. Louisville XIV :
f. NJ Fitch. Fort Wayne, Ind; II. II j.
Dacres. Fort Worth. Tex; T. Harden Ra-
satte H.: Ruburn Thomas. Estill county.
Kentucky; @. a. Simler Canton. o.; S b.
Wamsley. Parsons. W. Va; c. Morse, Bir-
mingham, Ia: NJ. \. Stinson Boone county.
Iowa; Charles Krump. by G. r. Toner
agent, Chicago: r w Hall. Falls City.
Neh.; Richard T. Towne. Springfield. Mo
Archibald T. Fitzgerald. Chicago; j. $
Cooper, Jennings. Ia; John Il. French
Pigeon. Ia; John Devine, Des Moines. Ia :
II. G. Carter Humboldt. Neb.; J. Il. Jen-
nings Cedar Falls. Ia.