Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-15
TO MANAGE BIG BALL
Colorado Man Head of Committee in
Charge Of Inaugural Function.
AUCTION SALE OF PUBLIC LAND
Fifty Thousand Acres in Gregory
County, south Dakota, to BE
Sold by Department of
Interior.

1
Interior.
| (From a staff Correspondent
! WASHINGTON, Feb 14.-CSpecial.) THE
| real man at the head OF the committee
| having charge of the inaugural ball Is
Thomas F. Walsh, now a resident of this
city, but for many years a miner in Colo
RADIO and the DalSotas. Thomas +. Walsh
is one of the examples of self-made men
for which this country is somewhat cele-
brated. He was born in ireland fifty-eight
years ago and had a good education before
he came to the United States, when 10
years OF age. He also had good trade,
that of a mlwright. He was man OF
ability who did not permit his lack of
funds to interfere with his desire to acquire
all the knowledge he could get Being de-
privcd of the opportunity for higher edu-
cation in a college or a university, Tom
Walsh started out TO secure that education
without the aid of professors He made
study of geology. mneralogy, metallurgy
and the location and development of ore
bodies. He was not satisfied to go out
with a pick and shovel as the ordinary
prospector was and take his chances of
striking a pay streak, but went at the de-
velopment of mining propositions with the
intelligence of a man OF brains and the
enthusiasm of man of desire The result
was, as 1t win be in nine cases out of ten
where such combinations exist, that Tom
Walsh made good, and when he had reached
the point where 1t was unnecessary for
him to worry about where the next sack
Of flour and side of bacon was to come
from. he drifted east and established him
Ia
by election by a number of scientific So
cieties and is today a member of the WASH
ngton Academy OF Science. the National
Geological society and the American Asso-
citation of Mining Engineers. He is mem-
Der OF a half dozen clubs, and wherever
he goes the glad hand of fellowship is
always put out to him. It was only natural
that he should be chosen to head one of
the most important committees connected
with the inaugural ceremonies. and it is
also natural to suppose that his connection
with the committee having charge Of the
inaugural ball will result in making that
one of the most brilliant affairs that WASH
ington has ever seen.
Man of Means and Brains.
Thomas F. Walsh is not only man of
means and man of brains, but he is one
of those rare birds who do not forget tho
men who stood by him in the days of his
trials and adversely. He has a handsome
office in building which he owns himself,
and the Colorado miner who happens to
drift into Washington finds just as cordial
welcome from his FORMER friend and
associate IL he Is dressed in the toggery of
the mines as he would IL he were clothed
in the best productions OF a Fifth avenue
tailor In other words, Mr.. Walsh never
forgets his old friends but he sometimes
embarrasses them by insisting upon the
acceptance of little courtesies, as was the
case Of a man who was once welding a
pick with him out In Colorado who subse-
ouently turned up as a hack driver In
Washington. Walsh found him and forced
him to go to his home. which is one of the
most beautiful in Washington, where he
entertained him as royalty as he would
have done the titled visitor from England
or Germany.
Tom Walsh's selection as the virtual
chairman of the inaugural ball committee
means that the affair will be one OF the
most enjoyable in the history of presi-
dental inaugurations, and 1t also means
that the man from the backwoods who
happens to drift into Washington on the
night of the 4th of March to take in the
just as we'll treated by the gentlemen who
Mr.. Walsh has selected to look after the
floor as will be the members of the diplo-
matte corps, who will be there in force.
Gregory County Land at Auction.
The secretary of the interior has approved
the regulations providing for the sale. at
public auction. for cash. at not less than
81 per acre, and in tracts not exceeding $40
acres to any one purchaser, of approxi- |
mately 5000 acres of land in Gregory
county, South Dakota. The sale will be |
held az the local land office at Gregory |
S. D., commencing March Is. and continue
from day to day until completed. The lands
to be sold are portion of the Rosebud In
dian reservation opened to settlement and
entry in 1904, remaining undisposed of after
having been subject to homestead entry for T!
the last four years at $3.50 per acre. They |
are suitable principally for grazing pur-
poses. James w. Witten, chief law clerk |
of the general land office, has been desig- |
mated 20 conduct the sale in connection !
with the register and receiver OF the local |
land office Printed regulations and circu- !
lar information can be obtained about |
March by addressing the commissioner OF |
the general land office, Washington. ID. c. |
Lana for TOwnsite.
sioner OF the general land office. the secre- |
tary of the interior has withdrawn the |
southwest quarter section 25. township 95 |
north, range IS west; the east half section |
9. township 81 north range 76 west; the |
north half section p, township 100 north, |
range rs west, and the northwest quarter |
section "a. township 1O2 north, range "A |
west, in Trip county, South Dakota, for |
townste purposes.
The lands will be surveyed into town lots |
and sold at public auction for cash, at as
early date as possible in the coming |
spring.
The above townsites will be known as |
the Government townsites in Tripp |
county. for which a registration and draw |
ing was held last fall, and in connection |
with which entries are 10 be made at the |
local land office at Gregory. 8. D.. COM
mencins April /, 1909
school Land for south Dakota.
There has recently been approved to the |
state OF South Dakota indemnity school |
land selections made by the state in Tripp |
county aggregating 1l.615H acres in tn, |
Chamberlain land district. The lands Sc |
lected by the state are in that portion Of |