The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-07-21
STARTS OFF
WITH A RUSH
Drawing of Indian Lands
Begins
100000 men WILL REGISTER
August 9, is Day For the
Drawing.
Many Homescelers Arc In line for
the 100000 acres Drawing and More
VIII Enter Before the Date For the
Closing.


tie Harriet Post. OF Spokane, Helen
Hamilton, of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
| and Christina M. Donlin, of Missoula,
Mont, formally appointed by James
w. Witten, superintendent in charge,
are led upon the platform at Coeur
dAlene the morning of August to
make drawings for 700,000 acres Of
| indian lands in eastern Washington,
northern Idaho and western Montana,
II IL expected that fully 100000 ap-
plications will have been registered in
| person or by proxy. the latter being
for war veterans.
Registration started off lively at
Occur d'Alene. Missoula. Kalispell
| and Spokane few moments after
| midnight on July Is, and so great has
,, been the rush since then that more
than 600 public notaries, assisted by
from 1000 to 1000 clerks, have
been kept literally on the jump. with
the result they are reaping a harvest
of silver in the shape of 25-cent fees.
The majority of the notaries are ex-
empting former soldiers and sailors,
but as 1t Is they stand to receive be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 for their
work during the 10 days.
Judge Witten estimates that 100. 900
persons will register In Spokane be-
| tween now and August 8, with 15O.-
600 at Occur d'Alene and $4,000 at
Missoula and Kalispell adding that
practically every state and territory in
the Union and most OF the provinces
In the Dominion of Canada will be
represented. The applicants coming
| from Canada of course are citizens of
the United States.
The government Is exercising It's
power to eliminate spectators and So
| called soldiers of fortune. and every
| applicant is compelled to declare un
der oath that he intends to make his
, ture home on the land. Violators
III be prosecuted for perjury in all
| cases where the department re-
ceives sufficient facts to warrant maxi
ing arrests. Judge Witten announced.
adding also that IL the experience at
| former openings may be taken as n
criterion not more than 40 per cent.
or the fortunate ones will take adj
vantage of Uncle Sans bounty. How
, ever, locators and others who have
gone over the three reservations say
that not per cent of those drawing
lands will let their chances to own 100
acres slip by this time, as practically
all OF the land is adapted to grain
fruit and hay crops.
Three thousand homesteads are
contained In the areas to be disposed
OF at the drawings. Because of the
heavy filing the chance of becoming
the possessor of quarter section OF
agricultural, timber or grazing land
Is reduced to about one in a hundred.
1t will be worth while for the luckv
ones, as best quarter sections I'm tho
white pine belt of northern Idaho
VIII cut 100000 feet of saw timber.
worth from $375 to "a a thousand
feet on the stump.
Senorita r. Fernau, of Calverde de,
Comino, Spain, where her father. C..
~. Fernau, of Belgium, is a million
aire mineowner, and ii. C. Hall, a bar
rister at Nelson, b. c., were married |
at All Saints Cathedral in Spokane |
The service was read by Dean Alfred
Lockwood, and the ceremony included
several of the ancient Spanish mar
riagc customs. The witnesses were
DIR. and Madam ID. La Beau, formerlv
of France, and Guy Graf. a former
resident of Baltimore, Childhood /
friends OF the bridegroom. The we'd
ding Is the result of a pretty ro.
nance begun in the province OF HueI-
va, where the Fernaus have q villa.
The couple met there several years
ago while Mr.. Hall was investigating
several mineral properties, in which |;
the Fernau family and French and
English capital are heavily Interest,"
ed. The bride made the journey OF
10000 miles across the Atlantic
ocean and the American continent nm.
acompanied and was married the sec
'nd day after her arrival. She came
)stensibly as n tourist and I'm the
course of long chat the day before
Wedding was announced she told an
interviewer that while American men
rave untold charms. they have the
me fault of being frightened in the !
presence of foreign women.
Wei drillers working on the Bowen
amp ranch between Troy and Kend.
lex. Idaho, southeast of Spokane. en-
ountered log at a depth of 225 feet. 4,
Vhen the heavy drill suddenly drop =
'ed three feet, probably its diam
Ter A half dozen pieces brought TO q