The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-08-13
JOSEPH FURAY
THE LUCKY MAN
Gets First Choice of Farm in
FIathead Indian Res
ervati0n.
Halls FROM WARSAW, IND.
DRAWING PERFUNcToRY AFTER
NAME WAS ANNOUNCED,

Occur d'Alene. Ida, Aug. 1.-Two
thousand names were drawn today for
the Flathead Indian reservation, ana
Joseph Furay Of Warsaw, Ind, was the
winner of the lucky number one. A
crowd of about 500 people assembled to
hear the names of the winners this
morning, and throughout the day there
was about the same number around the
drawing stand, many coming and going.
The weather was cool and the sky over
cast at the beginning, but it soon be-
came extremely hot.
Judge Witten, superintendent or the
opening, made a brief address at the
outset explanatory of the method TO be
pursued in the drawing Of names MS
speech being virtually the same as that
at the opening Of the Occur dAiene
drawing on Monday. The S1.36S apph-
cations, each in a buff envelope, mad
been dumped upon the platform, and
y. G. Witten announced that 1000 would
be drawn today, 1000 TO $500 tomorrow
and the rest of the 5000 on Saturday
Cheer for First Winner.
The first envelope was picked up by
little Miss DOMAIN at 1870 o'clock, and
the announcement of the name of the
winner was greeted with a cheer.
Thereafter the drawing became per
funCtOry. A striking oath was found IL
the application Of Miranda Dickey of
Pullman, Wash, who received an ex-
Cellent claim, and who swOre she was 50
years old, weighed just twenty pounds,
and put Goliath to shame by measuring
50 feet 125 inches in height Judge Wit
ten allowed ii.
When the name Of n. d. McPhee of
Occur d'Alene was announced as win
ner No. 134, a young lady in the crowd
gave a hysteTical shout and made a
wild dash 10 carry the news 70 father.
The first woman TO win was Eleanor
Mcclellan Of Missoula, Mont, who stat
ed in her application that she was 20
years old.
The First Fifty.
The first fifty names in the drawing
today are.
l, Joseph Furay Warsaw, Ind; 2, Jo-
seph Hodge, Deer Lodge, Mont; 8, Pat
rick Quigley, Rosemont, MINI; 4, Ed NJ.
Weber, Hillyard, Wash; 8, Eleanor
Mcclellan, Missoula, Mont; 6. VIII
Suchlke, Appleton, Mis-; Z, Seth Stone,
Vagones. B. c.; 8, Glen LIellwyn, Beat
ty Mont; g, Lon Frank, Butte, Mont.
10. c. T. BrOwnell, Desmet, 5. D.; Il.
Ed H. Charette, Goldheld, New; y,
Demetrius Rodamer, West Salisbury,
Pa; IS, Adam J. Ritz. Wenatchee,
Wash; a. Joseph K. Foster, Mount
Carmel, III: Is, J. Rockman, Cascade,
Mont; IS, Sarah B. Cooper, Portland,
Ore; II, Alfred Wa1lin, Prairie du
Chen, Wis; is, s. z. Jacobs, Raymond,
Kan: 70, Ralph r. Rover, SissitOns s
D; 20, James o. Pipher, Charleston,
III q, A. 3. HeTrick, Welberville,
Mich; %, Alfred Cruzen, Norris, Mimi;
%. F. S. Bull. Helena, Mont; a. Isaac
Hedrick, BTUshy Run, W. Va: 25, Ed
s. Dorman, Missoula, Mont. 26, Harry
H. Goble. Great Falls Mont; u. An
drew Solberg, White Fish, Mont; Is
f. T. Ellis Altoona, Ia; 80, D. J. Miller,
Grand Ronde Ore; 81, Amandus Hintz,
Spokane Wash; g. R. A. Cobban,
Butte Mont; SO. Francis NJ Cannaek,
Seattle, Wash. 81, G. T. Tabor, Prairie
du Sac Wis. 20, John n. Towney,
Butte, Mont. So, A. II. Pane, Seattle,
Wash: 81, Donald Mcintyre, Eveleth.
Mimi; So, Harry T. Gebhart, Missoula,
Mont; 80, Thomas c. Caswell Missou-
Ia, Mont. 40, Charles E. Christopher.
Chicago, H.; Il, Patrick J. Giiroy,
Butte. Mont; A.. Andrew Eek, Helena,
Mont; 4S. F.. f. Carlson, Spokane.
Wash: a. Elizabeth Pfeifer Muscatine.
Ia; A., John p. Powell, Kaiispeu.
Mont: IS. Roger B. Aitken, Mahnowen.
Mimi; a.. Flsear Laundry, Butte.
Mont; IS. J. D. Van Lew, Weldon, Ia.
40, James Mckay Battle Creek, Mich i;
30. John W. Durli7 Cleveland. Q.