Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-08-21
Winners of Land in
FIathead Draw
ing Thursday.
JOSEPH FuRAY. WARSAW. IND.

JOSEPH FURAY, WARSAW, IND.
That is the name of the lucky one
rho will have first choice of the s1,363
pplicants for lands on the Flathead
The other winners, in order, are:
Joseph Hodge, Deer Lodge, Mont.
patrick Quikley, Rosemont, MINI.
Ed M. Weber, Hillyard, Wash.
Sleanor Mcclellan, Missoula, Mont
Will Zuehlke, Appleton, Wis.
Seth Stone, Vagones, b. c.
Glen Llewllyn, Beatty, Mont.
Lou Frank, Butte, Mont.
c. T. Brownell, De Smet, S. d.
Ed II. Charette, Goldfeld, New.
Demetrius Rodamor, West Salisbury
Penn.
Adam ]. Ritz, Wenatchee, Wash.
JOS. X. Foster, Mt. Carmel, III.
]. Roekman, Cascade, Mont
Sarah b. Cooper, Portland, Ore.
Alfred Wallin, Prairie du Chen, Wis
S. E. Jacobs, Raymond, Kan.
Ralph R. Tower, Sissiton, S. D.
Jas. o. Pipher, Charleston, III.
A. B. Herrick, Welberville, Mich.
Alfred Cruzen, Morris, MINI.
+. S. Bull, Helena, Mont.
Isaac Hedrick Brushy Run, w. Va.
Ed S. Dorman, Missoula, Mont.
Harry II. Goble, Great Falls, Mont.
Andrew Solberg, Whitefsh, Mont.
j. R. Smock, Shenandoah, Iowa.
E. t. Ellis, Altoona, Iowa.
d. j. Miller, Grand Ronde, Ore.
Amandus Hintz, Spokane, Wash.
R. A. Cobban, Butte Mont.
Francis M. Cannack, Seattle, Wash.
G. II. Tabor, Prairie Du Sac, Wis.
John N. Towney, Butte, Mont.
A. II. Pane, Seattle, Wash. =
Donald Mcintyre, Eveleth, MINI.
Harry T. Gebhart, Missoula, Mont.
Thos. c. Caswell, Missoula, Mont.
Chas. E. Christopher, Chicago, i'll.
Patrick j. Gilroy, Butte, Mont.
Andrew Eek Helena, Mont
f. E. Carlson, 0131s Howard, Spokan
Elizabeth Pfeifer, Muscatine, Iowa.
John d. Powell, Kalispell, Mont.
Roger B. Aitken, Mahnowen, MINI.
Elzear Laundry Butte, Mont.
j. d. Van LEW, Weldon, Iowa
James Mckay, Battle Creek, Mich
John w. Durkin, Cleveland, Ohio.
With excitement kindled to few,
heat, the drawing for homesteds Q
the Flathead reservation, the large
and richest of the three reserves no
being opened up to settlement, begs
at Occur d'Alene City, Idaho, short
after $3.50 Thursday morning.
A crowd estimated at 5000 Peep
had gathered around the wire nett,
cage where the land drawings we
conducted at Occur d'Alene before
O'Clock, the time set for the drawn
of the first number.
The 10 cans containing 1868 nam
of applicants were brought to Il
platform and opened under the pc
sonal direction of Judge James Y
Witten, who has charge of the dra'
ing.
The envelopes were scattered by Ca
Vertress, principal of the Harris
(Idaho) schools. The first envelope W
selected by Christine A. Donlan
Butte, who handed it to Assistant
perintendent Seth, who in turn ga
it to Judge Witten, the name of t
winner then being announced.
Christine Donlan, daughter of Jud
Donlan of Butte, was assisted by Hell
Hamilton, who drew the first numb
in the Occur d 'Alene reservation dra
ing, and Miss Harriet Post of Spokal
who on Monday will select the fiji
number in the drawing for Spoka
reservation lands.
During Thursday 1900 names VIC
drawn. Friday an additional 25
names will be selected, and on SAT-
day the final 1000 names will be draw
1t is estimated there are $500 go
claims on the reservation, while 8
1913 anxious people are trying tn
luck in the drawing.
The Flathead reservation contai
some of the choicest farming lands
Montana, and as it is traversed by
great transcontinental railway, ma
of the farms will be valuable.