The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-12
LESS THAN THIRD
FILE FOR CLAIMS
FORT TOTEM LAND DRAWING
= go r PRONOUNCED A FIzzLE. @e -
Only Seven Out of Fifty Made Filings
on Saturday-Winners Assert that
the Indians Have Been Allotted All
the Good Land, and Have Gone Home
in Disgust. ~. 81. ~ ~

Special to The Journal. ~. :, - ~. ,
Grand Forks, N. D., Sept. 12.--Eighty-two' out
of the $50 uersons entitled by the terms VI IL e
recent ORA vng at Devils Lake to file on FoTs
Totten reservation lands during FIVE days last
week took advantage Of the es opPSrtnity Ing
filings on Tuesday Hac we're s.t ge
The Washington clerks sent to Devils Lake
to take care of the expected rush and the t9rce
at the land office there Is considered sutnclent
to care for the business. Fifty names q day will
be called until 1000 persons have been given
opportunity to file, and then filings will be &C.
cepted for SHY days, when any one will be al.
lowed to file by complying with the terms OF
the proclamation by making payment OF 90
an acre at the time of filing and the remaining
$3.50 an acre in three annual payments. ta9T
The Fort Totten drawing was grand hzzle.
Many Of those who drew numbers low enough to
insure their getting claim. visited the reser.
walton and returned home disgusted. Most of
them assert that the land was not worth the
price asked by the government. While they
found some good land, they also found that the
Indians had allotted practically all Of the claims
that were worth the money.
HAswoLD's STRENUOUS DAY.
P. B. Haswold, brakeman on the Northern
Pacific, Is in Jail here, charged with the forgery
Of Senator J. d. Bacons name to a check for
500, but will probably be turned over to Mime
sofa authorities, having stolen horse at Crooks
ton Saturday strenuous day for Has
void. In the night while Intoxicated, he made
en- attempt to break into the Northern Pacific
passenger station at Crookston. He was arrest
ed but was allowed to plead guilty to a charge
of drunkenness and released. While the agent
was at dinner he again gained entrance to the
station by breaking lock, and was In the act
of robbing the till when the cashier returned.
He escaped and stole trotting horse valued
at $500 of Dan McKinnon. Hitching the animal
to sulky he started for this city and arrived
here late in the afternoon. Later he visited the
Ontario store, produced bill for goods pur.
chased two years ago and not paid for, and
stated that he wanted to pay that bill and
buy some clothing and furnishings. He rendered
in payment check drawn the First National
bank sof Cavalier and signed with the name OF
! J. D. Bacon.
! The cashier at once questioned the genuinenest
of the signature, and while Haswold was being
4 shown some clothing the police We're notthed: ffe
| at once confessed that he had forged the, checl
and later admitted he had stolen the horse a
| Cfookston 1879
| DEATHS OF INDIANS TO BE PRoBED.
| The agent In charge Of the Indian colony nea
Dunseith has made report to federal authori
ties on the poisoning Of nine Indians, who die'
from the effects Of drinking Florida water ant
Assistant District Attorney Townsend and Dep
uty Marshal Haggert have gone to Rolla to In
vestigate further, The drug was sold by nor
chant at Laureat,
Gus johnson, % years of agt, living at llatll
had his left foot crushed in attempting to- boar
a westbound Great Northern freight at Niagara