The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1905-09-28
MANY TONS OF COAL
TO Be SHIPPED IN
Plans Being Made BY Settlers
on Rosebud for Coming
Winter.
HAVE PLENTY OF MONEY
The Farmers on the New Reservatios
Land Have Made Good This Sum-
mer and Are Even Buying
Milk, Cream and Butter.

Roncstcel, =. ID. Sept. .5.-Nlth SOFT
coal selling at the rate OF xi3 per ton
ut inland points ON the reservation.
lucky ticket holders who drew quarter
sections OF government land In Uncle
Sans big lottery "A ear ago.. and who
have been moving on their claims dur
ing the last spTtry and summer are
just now preparing TO spend their FIRST
winter on the Rosebud. The excessive
cost OF coal at reservation towns " due
to the fact hat every pound OF any
commodity has Ia be- freighted by
wagon from Homestead TO the inland
towns and the %freighting costs Is cents
per 100 pounds. And TO keep up with
the traffic that IL going on, freight
wagons forming a line a quarter OF a
mile I'm length leave Homestead every
morning. bound for the several post
Offices on the prairie.
Have Plenty Of Money.
But despite the cost OF articles which
they are forced TO buy. Rosebud set
tiers are very highly satisfied with
their outlook n they have money
juggling In their pockets this fall. For
almost every foot OF sod on the whole
/ 5000 acres OF land which were given
away has this summCr produced won
derful crops In flax. corn. tomatoes.
potatoes. watermelons. muskmelons and
tNNAA ENAsN 80 49, 49,
planted right down Ia the thick. hard
sod and the crops couldn't be dis
tinguished from those grown on the
fertile fields OF long cultivated Me-
lbraBka to the south by the best agri-
cultural expert. This flax crop Is a
bumper N samples OF all crops which
are being lined up In Bonesteel for the
FIRST Gregory county lair show h won
derful productivcnvss OF the Rosebud
soil.
Signs Of Prosperity.
The Rosebud OF today presents
vastly different picture from the Rose
bud OF a year ago. The former prairie.
with limitlcss stretches of wild grass
and never the sign OF a house. " now
dotted from end TO end with little reg
uinrly stationed sod huts-the homes
OF the settlers. Every single quartet
section on the whole reservation with
the exception OF one f~orty-acre stretch
Is now taken by a claim holaer, either
a legitimate homesteudcr or a squat
ter. And for the past few weeks there
has been n continuous performance OF
field trials with bird dogs ON almost
every quarter sgClIcn. Every settler
even the old maid school teachers who
have settled down out there-owns a
bird dog and n shotgun, and they have
kept up a constant bombardment which
resembles the fall of Port Arthur as
shown at h csCap street carnival.
Milk 10 Shipped In.
One unique feature Of the Rosebud
today. when perhaps would be hard to
I'm ih another American settlement
OF 1900 farms. II the fact that the
reservation Ia practically cowless. De-
spite the recent whole page picture
OF n Chicago yellow Journal depicting
the Rosebud maidens as they millked
the bossy cows, there Is scarcely 4 mix
giving Animal on the whole tract. and
the milk and cream OF the Rosebud
settler H. bought In tin cans and
shipped In, by way OF Bonestccl, from
the condensed milk plants OF tho east.
Mike Gilden. travelling passenger
agent for the Chicago. Milwaukee and
81. Paul. who drew a claim. IN the
only man who lives I'm a brown stone
front. With a little gravel that he
found on his claim he mixed cement
that was shipped In and built a home
OF the new process OF building bloIss.
He resides ON the reservation.
Puff CT the Automobile.
Up TO date methods Of getting about
have permcated into the new country.
and the pun OF h automobile may be
heard rushing across the prairie COun-
try where the red man once lived and
fought Just as ON the crowded city
streets. Delighted with the sight OF
the human machine as II moves with
out pull or push. Ben Two Johns. a
well known chief among the Sioux, has
purchased two big autos with the
money which he received from the
government as his snare OF the pay
mcnt for the coded lands.