Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1909-08-12

roear d'AIene' I'''', ',I 5n1A aoa
| w. sosIj little Helen Hamilton, niece
s,s. ,,a,,nr '','' Boyd of Coeur dAlene,
q .hs3 as3P, into the middle of a pile Of
ae.L5o 7. n7o veil yellow envelopes containing
l02.o.o ,:,otjons for land in the Occur
/ ,2'..,s,.Id 1.,.ns Indian reservation, shortly
i...s a.s''C 1ooo o'clock this morning, the
'-5s' "a, land drawing on the three
| g.'. s.,..s Of Of government land-the
e.,.ss,J, .,.,S, the Occur d'AIene and the
/ s.1i.. s.sr.no Indian reservations-Was
~ s.,a,al hundred persons stood
around the platform on which Judge g
1,rp f,ne, Witten of Washington, d,
= 5-'IIo formally opened the drawing.
! Unlike the rush in "sauatter.
A., the modern method Of distrl
MI, ss,inr the land moved along with
II precision of clockwork. When
Mis- Hamilton plucked the first en-
ssone + from the mass and handed it
n .adge Wltten, and the name OF
II
LAHORE Selig of Myrtle Creek, Ore,
70, read aloud, the gathering crowd
. bsaan to evince increasing interest.
Nis Hamilton, aided by Miss Chris
M Donlan and Miss Harriet Post,
5rcRga iHt HE eettAhfef ether lucky lucky envelopes
/ from the pile, men and women now
ANXIOUS to hear the verdicts in the
fn % envelopes, crowded up to the
tatfOym, where newspaper men
ap government clerks grabbed at
| te bits Of news-bearing names anu
Started them throughout the land
! ii special wires run to the draw
stand.
For two hours in the heat Of a
| midday sun three little girls pranced
over the pile of yellow envelopes,
Iucking fortunes for some from
the pile of applications.
Long before the drawing began
Judge Witten and his corps Of Off
GERS and clerks moved from place tt
place, putting everything in readi-
ness for the drawing. National col
oE in the center Of which hoated q
huge American flag gave the sur
fonndings martial appearance
Vans, tightly sealed, were placed OF
The platform shortly before 10:0(
o'clock, and two men started at tht
Ak Of prying them open. .
The carriages carrying the spon
arS Of the drawing, Misses Hamil
Ion' Post and Donlan, arrived a few
minutes before 1000 o'clock, am
were hastily gathered around Judg
Hll'en for photographs, for whic1
dozen newspaper photographer
sFFe IN waiting. This preliminar
@ef, Judge Witten raised his han
aIla Motloned for silence. In a fey
words he outlined the modern meth
y o. drawing for government land
Aia pronounced it emphatically no
aand lottery.
alter giving anyone present
nance to come to the platform an
s.eA @ Ills envelope from the man,
ne could, with a forfeiture to an
o,,'5 9pseeSsful number after, Jude
''''en motioned to Harvey Han
e ga Of D. I. Ham, and George
s''laeiQ, both Of Spokane tn sta.
y, " work Of mixing the 105, 900 q,
Is S,pes :. with the pitchforks provi
% tor the occasion.
j from top to bottom and fro
@as ,'as 70 side the mass of envelop
I,,5 ls sslrfed and at the word fro
! saase Witten, Miss Hamilton wal
n.t,5 \ y 5ne ,s center of the platform al
picked the first winner - - ''' q
b.. sad9ss lore sslig of Myrtle Cree
NE drawing. 80 ''o' present
cba.,.n sas names \ of John Hedmark a
kama 'es !. =. Cromwell, both of 81
pansa then followed in the orc re
.-...ea. At this ianeture H. Il. R
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