Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-09-25
U. S, LAND DRAWING
COMMENCED TUESDAY
$4,000 LAND SEEKERS REGISTER
FOR 5000 AVAILABLE
HOMESTEADS.


at Glasgow, Havre, Great Falls and
Miles City for land on the Fort Peck
Indian reservation, the registration
booths at these four points closing at
midnight. After the drawing of the
numbers which will be held at Glas-
gov and which opens Tuesday, Sept.
%, the last great land lottery con-
| Quoted by the United States govern
ment will have passed into history.
For three weeks thousands of per-
sons have been pouring into the four
registration cities from every state
in the union, all intent upon winning
one of the fertile farms which the
government will raffie off on Tuesday,
sSept. 20. Every hotel and rooming
house in Glasgow is full and the
greatest air of subduedt excitement
prevails. The thought Of every per-
son is turned to the big event of Tues
day, and all are wondering whose:
name will be drawn as No. 1.
Beautiful weather greeted the close
of the registration period, and many
of the visitors have taken advantage
of the mild temperature to visit the
reservation land in automobiles.
The closing day was designated as:
School Ma'am's Day." several hun
dred registering from all corners of
Montana and North Dakota. The at
tendance for the day was much bet
ter than expected. There was no
disorder or turmoil of any kind and
the registration passed into history
withou any untoward event marring
it's success.
Drawing Begins Tuesday.
Ths drawing of the numbers will
begin at Glasgow on Tuesday, Sept.
23. Clay Tallman, commissioner of
the general land Office at Washing
ton, is in Glasgow, and at the request
of Judge James w. Witten, superin-,
tendent of the land opening, will an
nounce the first name drawn.
Weather permitting, the drawing
for the Fort Peck lands Will be con-
Quoted in the open air, all envelopes
containing registration slips being
heaped upon large platform enclos-
ed in wire netting, and after the en-
velopes are thoroughly mixed togeth-
er, they will be drawn and numbers
assigned consecutively as they are
drawn. No. l being the first envel-
ope drawn will entitle the registrant
to the first choice of land.
Girls to Draw Envelopes.
Two little girls, Zita Fridl, daugh-
ter of Glasgow's mayor, and Hazel
Hurd, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
ter Hurd, have been chosen by Judge
Witten to select the envelopes, Zita
Fridl drawing the first and Hazel
Hurd the second and alternating
thereafter.
The closing days brought special
trains from Kansas, Missouri and
Oklahoma, loaded with homeseekers
anxious to secure a farm from the
government. Professional men In
large numbers have taken their
chances with the farmers and have in
many instances signifed their inten-
tion Of remaining in the country
should they be successful in drawing
numbers.
Among those who registered for
homesteads were men nearly seven
feet tall, weighing 400, and there
we're men nearly as tall weighing no
more than 120 pounds. Many we'll
known persons and many not 80 we'll
known or talented added their quota
to the interest or the gaiety of the
occasion.
Smallest Man From Iowa.
The smallest man to register was
Harry A. Hahn, of Hinton. Iowa, 2S
years of age and four feet in height.
The tallest man was w. H. Kelsey of
Atchison, Kan, who has the distinc-
ton Of having been in charge of
special train to every Land opening
during the last ten years. A. M.
Blake of Great Falls was the largest
man, weighing 302 pounds; the larg-
est woman being Fannie Cumberland
of Minneapolis, Weighing $50 pounds.
The youngest man was Bud L. Smith
Of Clymer, Pa, who will be 21 on
Dec. 81, and the oldest was Joe Haze
gle Of Sioux Falls, S. D., who is 81
years, six months and three days.
Mr.: Haegel was born in Baden, Ger
many, came to this country In 1872,
and located in Mankato, Minn., where
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