The San Francisco call., 1904-07-24
GAMBLING
FOR HOMES
ON PRAIRIE
Big Lottery With
Uncle Sam as
Sponsor.
One Hundred and Ten Thou
sand WOuld-B9 Settlers
Take a Chance.
Drawing for Rosebud Reservation
Claims Will Occur in South
DakOa City.
Special Dispatch to The CAN.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, July 2s.-Ths
greatest land lottery ever conducted
on the face Of the earth closed to-day.
and in round numbers 10000 men and
women took chances on drawing the
2412 quarter sections on the Rosebud
Indian reservation in Southern South
Dakota.
Uncle Sam, who frowns upon lotte-
ries conducted by anybody else, haS
stirred the whole country by this last
chance game of his. The Cherokee
strip which went to the lucky few was
competed for by only 1O2, 900 persons.
At Yankton, Bonesteel. Chamberlain
and Fairfax throngs OF landseekers
stood in line many hours in rain and
sun to enroll their names, that they
might get two and one-half chances in
100 to draw any sort Of a farm; one
chance in 1000 TO get a farm worth S25
an acre and one chance in 100 to get a
farm worth paying the required 81 per
acre to the Government and the In
dians.
The benehciaries of this unprece-
dented rush for land, this outburst OF
/
/ nothing, are the railroad companies
Their passengers have paid them on
an average SO each, which makes their
gross receipts from this lottery s1,10O,-
/ 600. The average person going to reg
| lister has paid fully s. for lodging and
/ meals, or $3.50, 900 for those items. The
/ total registration fees amount to s27,-
/ 500. or a total outlay for registering
alone of S1,677, 500.
| The 107,58S who will draw nothing
have therefore expended, besides their
/ time and effort, more than $1,64O.OOO-
/ This is more than the entire reserva-
ton Of 3S6,O00 acres will cost the sett-
| Iers upon final proof.
/ The thousands who have made the
pilgrimage to register have come from
/ as far east as New England and Balti-
more. south from Louisiana, Texas,
Kansas and Missouri, west as far as
/ Arizona, Colorado and Idaho, and
north from nearly all the border States.
The drawing for farms will occur at
/ Chamberlain, S. D., on July 70.
FIVE MEN ARE SHOT.
BoNESTEEL, 8. D., July %. Five
persons were shot at this place during
| the last dav Of registration for Rose
bud homesteads, one of whom Is dan
gerously wounded. The casualties:
Stanley F. Harrison. special polics-
man. Wichita, Kan, shot in the fore
head, dangerously.
Eli Scarborough, Oklahoma, special
policeman, shot in the leg, not serious
e. E. Moore, Columbus, Mo-, shot in
leg. accidentally.
Two thugs, names not learned,
1 neither seriously wounded.
! The two officers and the unnamed
men were shot IN a fight which the
police made in an attempt to clear the
/ town of Iawless characters. 1t occurred
i early to-day. The citizens and police
had formed a vigilance committee,
rounded up about thirty members Of
the undesirable element and run them
ont of town, some OF them returning in
the night. While Officers Harrison and
Stanbrough were making the rounds OF
the town they were attacked and shot
by a gang OF roughts. The officers
drew their revolvers and wounded two
of the attacking party, whom they ar
rested. The others escaped
Tonight a policeman attempted to
make an arrest and the man refused to
stop when commanded by the officer to
do so. The officer fired a shot, which
went wide Of it's mark and struck E. E.
Moore in the leg.
TROOPS WILL BE SENT.
During the roundup Of grafters, law
less characters and other undesirable
persons the police captured a wagon
!, containing a large quantity Of dyna-
mite and a complete kit Of burglars
tools. These were conhscated and three
, men were placed under arrest. They
refused to give their names and are In
J jail awaiting a hearing.
About forty Of those gathered in dur
ing the night were deported to-day.
} John McPhaul, Government agent in
charge of the registration office, re-
ceived a request from the Governor
Office as to whether McPhaul believed
} it advisable to send troops to Bonesteel-
McPhaul replied that it was his Opin-
ion that troops should be held in readi-
) ness for an emergency, and he was
later advised that the Governor had
l decided to act accordingly. Three COM
t panies will be ordered to hold them
, selves in readiness to be present when
the reservation is opened.
Another squad of police was sworn in
] tonight and the local authorities be-
lieve they will now be able to control
the roughA