The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-10-17
MONDAY WILL See
The GRAND rush
Thousands of People are Gathered in
Dallas and other South Dakota
Towns to Participate in the Scram-
BILE on Monday.
Hearst News Service.

Dallas, 5. d., October 17.-At 4:30
o'clock this afternoon the registration
of chances in Uncle Sans great lot
terry for lands in the Rosebud reser-
walton comes to close, and on Mon
day the wheel of fortune will begin to
revolve merrily, bringing joy to few
and disappointment to thousands.
Today was the final period for reg
istration, and the land hungry who de-
sire homes on Rosebud's rich acres
took full advantage of the fact. All
night and all day tomorrow the land
office officials from Washington will
work increasingly. preparing the stage
setting for Mondays great drama,
THE Land Lottery" Nor will the
drama lack an enthusiastic and excit-
ed audience. Thousands of people are
gathered here, and at the other regis
trations points, living in hastily i'm.
provised shacks, tents and prairie
schooners, awaiting with nervous and
feverish Impotence the whirring of
the wheel that may spell for them
tghe magic word, home. Nearly all of
them have braved discomfort and
even privation in their eager quest Cor
farms.
While a vast majority of the land
seekers are Legitimate settlers, ectu-
ated by the honest impulse to secure
home for themselves and families
and wrest living from the virgin soil.
there are not lacking Adventures,
gamblers and fakirs who have been at
tracted by the opportunity to take
"a chance" and possibly to pick up
a little "easy money" Dallas, only a
short time ago the merest speck on
the map of South Dakota, has become
a great sweltering mass of eager hun.
CRY humanity, representing every
strata of society.
The wheel to be used in MONDAYS
land lottery is very similar to those
once operated by the Louisiana Lot
terry Company, which came, under the
ban of the United States Govern.
ment.
The first number drawn out en-
titles the holder to his choice of any
one Of the 160-acre tracts in the
broad Trip reservation. The first
prize is a jim-dandy, and thousands
of others are just as good All ara
distributed according to the order
drawn.
The land is not distributed ahso-
lutely free. Each lucky man or
woman must pay Sc per acre for his
tract, and live upon it IA months as
required by the homestead laws.
"Yu bet tn government a bunch NV
money against 100 acres of land tibet
yu kin live on tn land for fourteen
months, an tn government bets you
We can't" is the way Mr.. Rooley's
friend. Nj. Hinnessy, expressed to
hlln the plan of homesteading lard, |
such as the one which will begin Mon
day in the opening of Tripp county,
5o'.th Dakota
Trip county is more than county
as one would be accustomed to regard
1t. 1t comprises nearly a million, or
1000 acres. 1t is the county direct
ly west of the land opened in 1904. the
darawing of which was generally
known as the Boonesteel drawing. The
development of the lands which were
opened before, shows the value OF the
lands included in the present opening.
The farms have been developed and
the occupants have prospered. The
quarter sections which were drawn,
and were purchased for "a an acre, are
worth upwards of $50 an acre, and
sonme of them as high as $50 an acre
Trip county has not had much iden-
tity until now has been only a part
of the great Rosebud reservation. the |
home of the Sioux Indians.
Uncle Sam concluded that intellf- |
gent farmers of the white race who |
would take the land and use it would |
be willing to bet that they would |
make good, and get their money back
besides. The Indians had their
chance, and most of them would have
lost their bets, had they been betting
even, but they were given back their