The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-29
NEW SIGHTS ID BE
 SEEN AT ROSEBUD Striking Changes Are Noted on
 the Reservation SETTLERS WITHOUT COWS Automobiles Are Popular and Sioux Chief Has Invested in Two Ma
 chines-Everybody Has
 Shotgun and Dog.
SETTLERS WITHOUT COWS
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 Bonesteel, S. D-with soft coal selling at the rate of s13 per ton at inland points on the reservation, lucky ticket holders who drew quarter sections of government land in Uncle Sam's big lottery a year ago. and who have been moving on their claims during the past spring ana sum mer, are just now preparing to spend their first winter on the Rosebud
 The excessive cost of coal at reserva- tio, towns is due to the fact that every pound of any commodity has to pc freighted by wagon from Bonesteei to the inland towns and the freightng costs 70 cents per 100 pounds. And to Keep up with the traffic that is going on ireish. wagons forming a line quarter Of mile in length leave Bonesteel every morning, hound for the several postoffices on the prairie.
 But despite the cost of articles whicn tbev are forced to buy, Rosebud settlers arc very highly satisfied with their out look and they have money Jingllng Ill tneir pockets this fall For almost every 100, of sod on the whole 416,0O0 acres or iahu which were given away has this summer produced wonderful crops in flax, corh' tomatoes, potatoes, aeeiiiSio9' melons and even strawberries.
 Flax Crop a. Bumper. 1 The seeds were planted, right doWh III the thick hard sod and the crops couio not he distinguished from those grown on the fertile fields of long cultivated Ne braska to the south by the best agricul- l t,,ral expert The fla xcrop Is a bumper i and samples of all crops which are being | lined m in Bonesteel for the first Gregory county fair to show the wonderful pro- ductiveness of the Rosebud soil
 | The Rosebud of today presents vastly different picture from the Rosebud of a year ago The former prairie with limit l less stretches of wild grass and never the | sign of house, is now dotted from end To end with little regularly stationed sod | huts-the homes of the settlers. Every single quarter section on the whole reser- vation with the exception of one forty l acre stretch Is now taken by claim nol- der. either a legitimate homesteader or a squatter
 l And for the past few weeks there has been a continuous performance of field | trials with bird dogs on almost every l olarter section. Every settler-even the old maid school teachers who have settled down out there-owns bird dog and shot gun. and they have kept up con stant bombardment which resembles the
 
 | street carnival
 Practically Without Cows.
 One unique feature of the Rosebud to- day, which perhaps would be hard to find l in another American settlement of 26O0 farms, is the fact that the reservation Is practically cowless. Despite the recent | whole-page picture of a Chicago yellow journal depicting the Rosebud maidens as they milked the bossy cows. there Is | scarcely mlk-giving animal on the
 whole tract, and the milk and cream of | the Rosebud settler Is bought in tin cans | and shipped in by way of Bonesteel from l the condensed milk plants of the east | Mige Golden, travelling passenger agent 1 for the Chicago. Milwaukee and St Paul. who drew a claim. Is the only man who | lives in brownstone front Mixing the | little gravel that he found on his claim | with cement that was shiped In, he built home of the new process of building blocks He resides on the plantation. l Jp-to-date methods of getting about l have permeated into the new country and the huff of the automobile may be heard | rushing across the prairie country where | the red man once lived and fought, just as on the crowded city streets. Delighted with the sight of the human machine as | it moves without pull or push. Ben Two Johns, well-known chief among the Sioux, has purchased two big autos with | the money which he received from the government as his share of the payment for the ceded lands.