The Detroit times., 1910-11-08
AOUslNDs FLOCK
10 RESERVATION
Ieity School Teachers, Clerks, Me-
<hanics, Preachers, All Throwing
Up Sod Houses for Winter
BY rHos. =. kIsAR.

BuLLflEAD, Boreman county. S. ID.
nov. 7.--Haye you ever home-steaded
Mo-
Then come along mp here and see
|ne foIks--thousands OF them-hus'
Hing 10 get roof over their heads be
/0fe the hard winter settles down over
What q week ago was the Standing
Rock and Cheyenne river Indian res
IffatIons.
Prairie schooners, automobiles, plain
horse-and-buggies. bicycles and
thanks ponies" have brought them
ktreaming over this county of two and
Il half million acres since Nov. l, when
he reservations were thrown open TO
NE winners In the great land-drawlng
bl a year ago.
lIow's this, you eastern school teach
4rg How'd you like TO settle down
mere on farm with one large, full
bIooded Indian as your nearest neigh
Nora Sioux who 20 years ago was
nkhfing Gen. Miles, or 35 years ago
was shooting Clusters force full OF ar
Rows and lead? Makes you SILVER.
hut iust the same there's a lot OF
'kthOolteachers here going through
that very experience. Every Indian
Ion the reservation was given first pick
IN claims and thousands have their
i6O acres apiece.
Preachers There, Too.
Then there's the farmer from the
hniddle west who is telling the clerk
|ff the mechanic on the next 160-acre
1tiafm how to work his farm In the
sprlng. There are preachers who have
found the pulpit too scant pay ana
knloenkeepers who have tired or their
hard, cursed business.
The first thing you will notice Is
|the general neighborliness upon the
mart OF one settler toward another.
Everybody is willing, even anxious TO
hnlp everybody else There isn't an
|nnnce of selfshness displayed here,
where city-bred men and lonesome
women and experienced farmers are
kefting into shape for their nrst crop
that OF next year.
The. hrst thought on everyone's mind
IN home, a house. and no one Is ng-
|nrfng on any pretentious AFFAIR. There
||sn't time for that. Already the brisk
Northwestern winds are sweeping over
'the plains, and snow is in the air
|xVarm sod houses are excellent abodes
|In these wintry days. They are just
|&s COW as a steam-heated fat, and
|IntR more healthy, homesteaders say.
The indians are very kind and help
|ItiI. Old Chief Iron Lightning, VINO
Iifted several scalps IN the Custer mas
6ncre. Is watching the advent or the
white men and women upon the old
sine hunting ground with great de-
|lieht. He has forgotten his enmity
Tor the paleface.
Scattered here and there are Chas-
M Eagle. Spotted Rabbit and Horse
Y .ooking. all ex-chiefs OF the Sioux, and
an now good American citizenfarmers.
la the ever long for the olu camp tres
anil war dances there is nothing 10
|nhow IL In the way they are taking up
the white mans burdens.
The great melodramic event was
che aIine- of the claims at Lennon
and aberdeen. on Nov. l. For hours
holders of winning numbers stood IN
Ilno. each anxious TO be first so that he
or she might get first pick of the land
'There were about 100000 acres 10
Ne dfvided up among $4,000 persons.
The first TO get a section OF land
AZ the Lennon land office was Mrs.
f,earF Hanson, of Salem. n. d., and
hardly. had she filed her application
kefore she was on her way TO her
future homestead farm.
AS. fast as applications were filed
men and women rushed across the
BOUNDARY lines, each intent upon get
ting to the particular spot OF land
picked out. Then new problem ap-
land pirates. These pir
8fes ha. gone on the reservations sew
&ral days before and Just squatted
When some OF the men and women
Who had filed on a particular claim
came along Nov. !. they found the
fuuatter" camped on the ground