The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-24
LAND IS Governments BEST
Government Officials Declare That
Every Farm Offered for Entry is
Worth Going After-l6oOoo Acres
to be Opened

OCoi6o VI heHoSAd peuple wall hAS
applications and will be entered in the
drawing for sections in the Fort Bert
hold Indian reservation of 100000
acres. The opening which began today
will continue to September 2 inclusive.
The registration Offices will be kept
open twenty-four hours each day ex-
cept Sunday. The working force act
ing in relays of eight hours. This will
be Of especial Importance to people
who find it convenient to remain only
from one train to another.
While it is not expected that many
Kenosha people will visit Minot or
Bismark, n. d., the principal registra-
ton places, there will be many appli-
cations filed from this city. In some
cases men club together and send one
Of their number to Minot or Bismark
and he files the applications. In order
cases the applications are sent to at
torneys or notaries and on payment of
certain fees the applications are filed.
This plan is being adopted by veterans
of wars.
The land that is to be opened up for
settlement out Of the Fort Bethold
Indian reservation is fertile land. The
progress of civilization across the con
tinent may have taken from the Indian
many Of his lands, but it left to him
the richest. Wherever the government
has set aside a plat Of land-reserved
it to the Indian-it has always chosen
tracts well located and fertile.
no exception to the rule. It is rich
body Of land where no white man has
up to the present, set the foot of owner
ship. Out of this tract, however, the
government has now selected something
like 100000 acres to be opened up to
the white man to cultivate and domes-
ticate, to grow wheat, and oats, and
p0IICy5 anu SdAO LIS iC1uo.
Under advice from Judge Written in
charge of the registration and drawing
notaries have formed an association,
the members of which will act under
certain rules and regulations adopted
thereby, and at the close of the regis
tration share equally in the profits.
On similar occasions there have been
no Organizations, but aggressive COM
petition among the notaries.
A peculiar feature of the notary
ASSOCIATION is that up to the present
no lady has applied for membership
This is unprec edented, nearly one-half
of the notaries acting heretofore at
registrations being women school
ma Jams, clerks stenographers-who
qualified simply for that purpose. On
this occasion no notary will be allowed
to act who has not obtained his com
mission previous to July /, 1911.
The registration will take place in
one large building, instead Of in vseri-
Gus other places throughout the city.
The act of registering will not take
over two minutes, a saving of from six
to eight minutes over the time con-
sumed by the system under which they
have heretofore operated
The drawing will take place at Mil
not four days after the close of the
registration. The occasion will assume
something Of the spectacular. The
custom heretofore has been to put the
envelopes containing the applications
into a huge cylinder, thirty feet long
and six feet in diameter, being thor
oughly mixed by revolving before the
drawing.
The lands open for settlement have
been classified as agricultural lands
of the first and second class and graz
ing lands. Any piece drawn, according
to public expressions in the reserva-
ton locality, will be well worth while.
The character of the soil is dark brown