The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-02-05


I'm down and out" heard him
groan; there's no use being good to
me, Let me die"
Nov, Mr.. Connors,' the womau's
voice answered, gently, that's no way
to talk at all. Not here In Dallas. Act
like winner even when YOU think
you're not"
A Great Piece Of Luck for Another
Old Boy.
No, It was not the only voice of mis-
cry. There was big old man with
eyes like Newfoundland dog and
close clipped hair He came up to me.
as everybody who knew the sight of
another mans face came up to every
body between train times.
Drawn yet, brothcr?" he asked OF
course | hadn't TOO bad" he said.
but | amt neither. Great game to
watch, though, amt it,"
His hand was shaking pitifully. His
lips were dry and cracked His voice
trcmbled, He was on the very edge
of going all to pieces, with almost no
chance of recovery, He saw that
saw and started away
you better come over to Nclscs
with me-" | said He grabbed my arm
I'm do that, son." he said, "and thank
you. But just one condition. used
to have picture of myself home, when
| had home. And it looked some
thing like you. 1t was took before |
knew what booze was. I'll go over
there with you if you'll drink sass
(sarsaparilla) yourself If you'll do
that and tell me you think | can get
over it, I'll go you"
One of the altogether delightful
memories of lifetime is the way the
old boy came piling down the street to
catch me just as | was leaving Dallas,
and Gree from shivers or the smell of
told me that he had drawn |
claim and that he was going to pick
farm twenty miles from any town and |
send for his wife and kids and start
over again.
Where Jealousy Played a Part.
Nor was it all good-natured; that
would have been fatuous and silly. |
New towns cannot grow in a new
without rivalry. And there
was all the bitterness of strife which |
is in the story of Bay City and Sagi- |
Jaw, st. Paul and Minneapolis, Tacoma |
and Seattle, San Francisco and Oak
land, Beatty, Rhyolite and Bullfrog |
Gregory was the town that we in |
Dallas heard most about, though |
ONeill was no friend of ours. We |
eackled spontaneously when we heard |
hat O'Neill had sent kick into Chi |
cago to the effect that Braden and |
Reynolds had been moving their trains |
IN and out of O'Neill so fast that the |
'egistrators hadn't any time to spend |
money in the town. 1t was signed |
Business men of O'Neill'-and there |
WAS humor in it, wasn't there?
Dallas also caused to be printed
circulars, to be distributed at Norfolk, |
eXtolling the economic advantages of !
Dallas. ONE <f.nLed circulars, de-
Ioted to O'Neill. Gregory sent bankers |
Town the line; they spoke almost ex-
elusively of Gregory. When the |
prairie fire rolled up on Dallas and |
nearly licked it off the face of the
earth, Gregory sent men and wagons !
Oaded with barrels of water over to
lelp Dallas make its fight for saliva
ion, and Dallas sent the band and |
Morphy down to the junction, 12O |
niles, to make noise and proclaim that
Dallas was all there and more ready |
han ever to receive guests.
The Winners and Their Excitement.
OF the drawing, of Judge Witten's
patience and tact, of the two tiny
girls, Dema Rose (the real Rose of |
he Rosebud) and Virginia Wagner,
Who kicked up the l14000 sealed appli-
cations with their feet and picked out
he first winners, and the two small |
boys, Wesley Teuth and David Haley,
who relieved them for the last two
lays, the daily newspapers have told
But some of us, who stayed over to
see what Dallas would be like when
he drawings were finished, saw the
pest things of ALL and the saddest.
We saw some of the winners come |
back. The names OF the winners were
- ilICu III ali llt uGW SDdDtIS |
within 800 miles of Dallas. So those
Who had gone home after registering
heir applications did not have to wait |
or the government notification. 1t |
vas one who had drawn along in the
SOS who appeared first. He came in
IN an almost empty train. He was big |
and red checked and he wore his |
rousers inside his boot legs. He had
brought his wife with him from away |
east in Iowa somewhere. She was
plump and red checked and broadly |
too Every ten PAGES or so
ne set her up against a doorway and |
'ushed at somebody on one or the |
other side of the broad street.
Hey" he shouted, my name is An
1erson. | won Number Eighty-blank |
You come up on the same train with
ne. | think YOU give me luck. | want |
20 shake hands" Then he charged |
back at his wife and led her ten steps |
more, until he had exchanged felicia
ions with the notary who had sworn