Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-10-06
WAS BEGUN THIS
MORNING IN SOUTH DAKOTA
TOWNS FOR NEW ROSEBUD IN
DIAN HOMESTEADs.
OATH TO LIVE ON
PLACE is REQUIRED
THIS MOVE is TAKEN TO PRE-
VENT SPECULATION - GAMB.
LING GAMES ARE RUNNING,
BUT THERE'S LITTLE DISORDER

Dallas, S. Dakota, Oct. 5.-This
morning the Trip county land rush
started, Judge Witten allowing the
notaries to begin the writing Of ap-
plications the minute Monday came.
Actual registration started in at Greg
ory and Dallas at 9 o'clock this morn
ing, applications at that hour COM
mencing to drop into the big metal
cans at these two points. Judge Wit
ten has issued notice that all appli-
cations must swear they honestly in
tend to make their homes on the land
and that persons registering for spec
ulation or intending to sell relinquish-
ment may be prosecuted by the gov
ernment for attempting fraud.
The registration is for Uncle Sans
great land lottery dividing $4,000
acres Of the Rosebud Indian reserva-
ton.
The registration will continue until
Oct IT, Then on Oct. 19 the slips
bearing names will be put into a
great wheel here, and the first one
drawn out will be entitled to choose
any quarter section in the entire dis
trict to be opened, the second drawn
will have second choice, and SO on.
Rich Prizes Are Recalled.
In the great drawing in Oklahoma
in 1901 the first choice fell to strug-
Cling clerk, who took rich quarter
section said then to be worth $4,000,
as it adjoined Lawton on the only
side the town could spread. The sec
ond choice went to telephone girl,
and her chance was eonsIdered worth
more than $25,0OO It is said that the
first 100 choices in the Rosebud will
carry with them rich prizes in land
ownership.
Real estate agents Of years of ex-
perience are expected to engage in
bitter rivalry in the establishment Of
town sites.
There are over $50 young lawyers in
this place Those not connected with
real estate firms will enter the rush
for farms
Lid" Is OFF on Gambling.
Officials here declare that the dis
orderly conditions which made Bone
steel famous will not be permitted in
Dallas. A few weeks ago 1t was quite
vigorously proclaimed that no gam
bling games of any kind would be per-
mitted to run during the opening. A
similar boast was made at Gregory.
Gambling games are running, how
ever, In both towns and will continue
to run, some assert, during the "open-
ing" period. The only restriction i'm
posed, it is said, is that the games
| In tal In
the time of the Bonesteel rush even
the streets were lined with the "sure
thing" men.
The railroads are hauling in can
didates for land by the thousands, but
the great rush is expected next We'd
nesday and Thursday, when monster
excursions will arrive
Auto Lines Are Running.
| A new feature of the land openings
has been the coming Of numerous auto
mobile parties, some Of them from
Mississippi river points. Automobile
| lines have been established by thrifty
owners to take visitors from the bor'
| der towns into the country to be
opened. In contrast to the automo
| bile invasion are seen few of the
old time prairie schooners or covered
wagons, In which families have come
4 to the edge of the promised land and
are making their homes while wait
| ing to see how fortune will serve them
! in the allotment.
While the registration points are
Dallas and Gregory, yet Chamberlain
/ and Presho in South Dakota on the
| north and O'Neill and Valentine, Neb.
on the south, have been designated as
1 affidavit points, where any one may
make affidavit to an application fol
registration and mail it to the registra
| tion Office at Dallas and Gregory
| These towns are expected to be trans
formed soon from villages of a few
hundred to thriving cities.
James w. Whitten of the general
land Office, Washington, D. c., is in
charge of the Rosebud opening.