The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-11-06


Tupp county South Dakota has
como and gone but us not finished.
There are sim hearts 10 bo won In
the wake Of the rt anti, luud draw.
ing
For men were not alone la the luud
winning The hand OF Fate reached
down into the mountain of envelopes
almost ll5Ooo ur them and de-.
creed that women young women.
shuud be- included among the settlers
uu that vast oNpausu Of ubrokcu pra.
iric now for the first time to be
Idowcd up by civilizations
a New Eta Tor Trpp,
Trpp county. home of The Rosebud
Sioux for many years, and hiding
place of many ana many Il vicious
rcl cgadc whose capture would have
meant the moose, has been rcliuQui5h-
cd by the red men who have owned
IT, When the little Drma Rose, the
lOur-yCar-Old daughter of Mayor &. NJ
Rose Of Dallas. reached down into
the h zap of lottery envelopes and
drew forth the application OF May l..
NrlsCr OF KcmohoC, :. D., n new era
dawurd upon that millionaire tract
Of land u new step was made into
the hitherto virgin frontier 10y the
vyCrCucrOaChiug Caucasian race
marching always aud always further
toward the setting SIM. Today Trip
county stretches out to the west of
Dallas for Il hundred miles and more,
u sea of waving grass in spots, and Il
tt,,t l,ttg ~ El Ina al
Ground In other parts. the remains of
the prairie fire which came SO nearly
wpiug out Dallas during the land
rush.
-Four years from now Tripp county
viii resemble an old settled region.
There will be Il railroad, there will be
towns at intervals of twelve miles or
sO and every quarter section will
have upon it rcsolutc. determined
homcstcadcr. Thus, with the wave
of hand, million acres of land
that has been troddCn only by the
wild St"cr and the COW pony, will be.
come an active. busy, settled up com
munity with banks and newspapers
aud churches.
WY SS'''J " ''''GN''J ''N''SN
Just west OF 1Ilpp county Hes M'N'r
county, a tract lullN as irrlil" as
Tripp county and comprising much
moro land. Into Meyer county the
old-timc ranChman, the last of his
tribe, has now been pushed by this
new land opening, and within the next
hNc years that county, too, according
to Judge Nitlcn, superintendent OF
the drawing, VIII be opened by an
other huge lottery.
Hollow Horn Bear welcomes WHITES
Hollow Horn Bear, chlrl OF the
Sioux Council, Ike others OF the IN
lclIiScnt reds, desires the Whltr man
INVASION because 1t gives the kos"Duu
natives opportunity to take on IN,
ways OF civilization. Hollow Horn
Hrar by the way, Is the only UNlnh
man whose picture appears ON Ohitct
States currency. because OF a great
speech made by MN brlor" congress
twenty years ago, and by virtue OF hl'
magnificent physique ana SItlkint
race, n" was engraved ON So ana S-'
blIIS' WIN money bearing ms pho
loSraph the KoSrDuu SlouN llulah|
VIII be PAID Tor the lands thai INC
government mas Just thrown open ah'
Which VIII be sold to the settlers Il
So per acre. 1t was llOlIo" horn b'a
Who' during the opening ran out
cash ana borrowed - from IudS'
written, incidentally receiving Il oi'
upon witch ms pW" picture was en-
GraNcd'
Cost OF the RuSh'
1t is estimated that $2'VVo'0oo wa
spent 10y the lI''oVo people VINO reels
tered Tor chances IN the lF'pp count
lottery. Judge Nitt'n placed the Nv
'IaS" amount spent 10y inc Ialu sec"
q" at So "h''I' brings The t"'"i sun
spout to more lNml wv" wl'i'"n' u
postage stamps alone I'uul'ru l.