Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-20

Omaha High School day.
South Dakota Indian Land day.
From / to 6 in the afternoon high school
children viii he admitted for 10 cents
ESQ y. M.-Lecture on insects
4.3O =, M.-lllusuatsA Indian dances,
During the afternoon and evening Miss
Lora Autoinette Reitcr will entertain the
audience with coruet solos. appearing at :
o'clock in the afternoon and . O'Clock In
the evening.
Last night the newspaper men Of the
three cities Of Omaha. South Omaha and
Council Bluffs We're entertained at the
Land SHOW. Press night was without spc-
cial program. The opportunity was given
the newspaper employees to look over the
show and choose at will what they would
enjoy.
\ striking program by the Hawaiian
octctte was presented I'm the course Of the
evening. The regular series Of educational
lectures were delivered by the Land Show
speakers in the two halls devoted to the
purpose.
Arrivals for the show were numerous
yesterday. \ large number of persons
from the small towns In the eastern part
OF Nebraska and the western districts of
Iowa arrived many of them to remain
through the show.
Several hundred Of the employees of the
OF the management of the show last night
Alfred Patek, commissioner OF immigra-
ton and secretary of the Colorado state
Board Of immigration. arrived Thursday
morning Mr.. PatelS is an enthusiastic eX-
ponent Of the Land show idea.
I'VE never miss show said Mr.. PatelS
THE state makes an annual appropriation
for the purpose Of our office We spend
that In interesting people looking for new
homes. We have found that the land shows
give us the best opportunity to put the ad-
vantages OF Colorado before the people
THE Omaha show is particularly inn
portant to us in that it is a western chow
devoted entirely and exclusively TO the In
terests of the west.
at is interesting to note In connection
with the work OF the board that nearly 10
per cent of the inquiries received states
that the inquirers would come to Colorado
on certain date either to buy or to in
vestigate the land which especially APP
pealed to them. large majority OF the
homeseekers call at our office before they
determine upon a location.
The Colorado exhibit is one OF the larg-
est at the show The entire stage Of the
Auditorium is occupied by the displays
from that state. The irrigation exhibit and
the panorama in miniature forms the back
ground of the stage.
Mr.. Patek is representative of Governor
Shafroth at he show and will deliver an
address on Colorado day, January 26.
Chief Yellow Horse of the Ogalala Sioux,
at the Land show as a part of the showing
being made by the jackson brothers OF
Dallas, s. d., appears each afternoon and
evening He executes a real Indian dance
on the stage for the edification Of the WIS.,
itors Yellow Horse comes from the Rose
bud agency
At the exercises on the opening night the
chief was introduced by Fred A. Shank of
the Land show management to deliver an
address The chief was hardly prepared
for the occasion, but he proceeded to make
remarks in his native tongue.
While the speech was far from intel
ligible to those who did not study Sioux at
college it was so much Of hit that Yellow
Horse has agreed TO deliver a short talk
In Indian on Indians each day
The Minnesota road exhibit is attracting
large measure of interest at the show.
Strangely enough the women in attendance
are particularly interested in the roads
display. John II. Mullen, assistant engineer
to the state highway commission of Min
nesota is in charge of this display. His
share in the show Is practically a con-
tinuous lecture at the exhibit. A series OF
rapid fire questions from farmers inter
ested In the building of roads keeps him
occupied