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3 Flathead Indian Reservation Soon to Be Opened for Settlement THE OMAIIA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 10, 1906. T (Copyright, 1906, tr Frank O. Carpenter. ALISPELL. Mont., June 7. (Spe. clal Corin,rwjn!'nce of The Ree.) I have come to KallHpell to" tell you something nbout the Land of the Flatheads. Tliln great Indian rekervatlon, one of the mont valuable left In the United Ft a ted, haft Junt been surveyed by Undo Bam'i land offlcera and the plats are now In Washington to be passed upoa by the government. After they are ap proved the Indian commissioner will ar ranKC as to tle allotment of certain linds to the Indiana and a commission will be appointed to classify the balance, after hlch they will be thrown open to settlers. The work will be done rapidly, but It la aafe to aay that It will be a year from now before the great man to thla country beglna. When the land are opened applicants will register at the two chief land ofncet near the reservation. One of these la ut Missoula, on the Northern Paelllo railwa; . at the far south, and the other la here at Kallspell, on the Great Northern railroad, within a abort distance from Flathead lake and closs to the upper part of the reaerva tlon, which, I am told, contains by far the beat lauds. Ths Great Northern railroad al ready runs from hers to the head of Flat head lake, and It has secured ths right-of-way for aa extension of seventy miles skirting the eastern shores of that lake and running between It and ths Mission mountains, so as o connect . with the station of Dixon on the Northern Pacific on ths south. This road will open up the . Urn1" ?"t!Tn..,,,r,t. ?! th" ""f110" Ml was UMtKfi IVSUIDCII Un Ilt.l.UI Al ciiiriuicc lO it It will cuo most of the homeseekera to otai tot to register and the prospects ib iubi morv win w priwwa ou.wu ana 100,000 here at that time. The laws pro vide that would-be settlers must come to the nearest land office in person and file their claims. Registration way be made within sixty days from the date of opening and as soon as President Roosevelt announces the time the rush will begin. 3 Cncle gam's Jtlg Lottery. Tne names Will be set down In the order of their registration and each person will be given a number. At the end all the numbers will be put to a wheel and Uncle Sam's officials will run the lottery. Those whose numbers are flrsK drawn will have the first chance to pick o their land and the lottery will go on until all ths tracts ars disposed or. Everyone win navs an even chance at the drawing and the last man registered may get the first prise, This wyi be far 'better than the arrange- menu which prevailed at Oklahoma, where the man with the fast horse and the bully with the big gun were able to out- distance or force their ways into the best landu, There will be 6,000 big prlies in the lot- ter. The farm. iven to th .ettler. will .nrr,rvrt. .hnnt ooo oVin will be altogether about 6,000 quarter sec tions. For these the ' government will charge a nominal price, and It la safe to say as soon as the land Is allotted It will 'be worth (25 per acre above Uncle Sam's charges. This will give each farm a value of K0O0, or a total bf $20,000,000. Did you ever hear of such a lottery, with such prlxesT There ts nothing like It on record. In addition to this there will be other lands less valuable. The reservation alto gether contains 1,600,000 acres, but about 800,000 of these are to be given to the In dians, and there are In addition about 600,. 000 acres covered with timber. There are also mineral regions and hot springs, about whlnh wlU tfA . .. n . k n U K v... . A the Pend D Orellle river, which drains Flathead lake, has an enourmou. fall which will be available for the generation of power of all kinds. The lands are to be divided up Into five classes first and second class agricultural lands, graxlng lands, mineral lands and timber lands. The timber lands are of enormous value, and they will probably be sold at auction in forty-acre tracts to the highest bidders, ana the money held in trust for the Indians. The mineral lands will be subject to the same regula tions as In' other parts of the country, , and the agricultural lands will probably ap. praised at about $5 per acre, which was the appraisement as to the Rosebud reser vation, open to settlement a year or Jwo ago. Paradise of the Rockies. The Kallspell people call this region the paradise of the Rockies. According to them it Is the Garden of Eden, where the sun always shines, the crops never fair, and apples superior to that of which Eve ettllng here on. account of the -climate, gave Adam the core can be grown by The reservation haa eight hot springs, sticking a twig In the ground. They laugh which have(been used by the Indians for at the Idea of the Flathead lands being generations to cure various diseases. As it worth only $26 an acre, and say they will l now, hundreds of white people viBlt them bring $60 and upward, which la the price for their health. They camp out In tents, of good farm lands around here. drinking the water and bathing In It. Some And. Indeed. Flathead county is rich. I of the springe are too hot for this pur have driven for miles up and down the pose, others are heavily impregnated wlt valley through the farms all the way. aulphur-and other minerals, and some are There are big barna and ' comfortable springs of boiling mud, which are said to homes. The land Is well fenced and some be good for skin diseases. It is not known of the fields contain a hundred acres or Just how these springs will be treated In more. The soil Is a black loam from one the allotment. They will probably be re to eight feet deep, resting on a subsoil of served by the government, and may be Two More Army Officers from Nebraska V T,,..Huv .t Went Point Mill. I tary academy another clnss will 1 K. rrn.TtmtOft T&'n nf It mem bers are Nebraskans, one from Omaha and une from Heatrlce. Theae young men both secure honoroblej positions in their class. Of them the Howltier, the annual publication by the graduating class of the academy, says: BCHl'Lrz. Huko D.. "Schllts.'' "Goat," Beatrice, Neb.; sergeant. "The horn, the horn, the lusty horn k not a thlm; to luuh to scorn." After a few years' scrapping In the Phil ippines, this warrior bold was thrown off the train at JilKMaml Falls. Here he specked enough to take the only exam, be ever passed, and has been retlnr on his laurels ever since. "Goaf' entered in 01, but was such a good fellow that the academic board kept him buck a year by ROT T. TTJUOTCO. clay. I am told it la as rich aa guano, and ths board of trade here Bays that It Is " limn lllliliuii uuaiictB ui nncBi evci; j cui . One of the queer features of this locality Is the climate. It Is a land of warm wln7 tera and comparatively cool summers. On ths eastern side of the Rockies ths ther- mometer goes down to 20. 30 and 40 degrees below sero. Her th average in from 1R trt AA 4grra si Krva that nnlnl a rA th ,umroer nlfntll are alway, coo,. -- Oa the Reservation. The Flathead lands are said to be espe cially fine. They are well watered, and "" are Prt of them "here Irrigation Possible. Flathead lake, ono-nau or which lies In the reservation, is about thirty miles long and from eight to sixteen miles wide. It now has a steamer upon It, and ons can go by the Oreat Northern railroad to Somera and thence by boat the full length of the lake to Poison, where a tag line will take him down through the reservation to Ravalli, on the North Pacific. The lake is noted for its pure, ley nold water. It Is full of fish, and so "oar " speuiueu umu " awimmlng scores of feet below the " drains the lake, pours out. over a succea "on of raplda and falls, four miles In length, furnishing an Immense water power. The valley of the river Is about hlrty miles long and ten miles In width, 11 vel prairie. Intercepted by four clenr treams, fed by the Mission moun- tain range. The land Is treeless, although the mountains are covered with timber. Below the river. In the southern part of the reservation, some ' the country Is seml-arld, but it can be used for grazing. The slope of the country Is such that the waters of the Flathead river could be con ducted over It, making it one of the most valuable' parts of the reservation. Indian Allotments. The Indians are to have the first pick at the lands, and they will have some of ths best. Many of them, however, already have farms which are fenced and Improved; and It Is hardly possible that they will give these up to take other tracts. The Indians likewise jrefer la,pds ,', with , .some timber upon them, and they will pass much of the black prairie by and. choose .farms near the foot hills. After the reservation has been Penea hav th6 t0 thtlr Und to the whites, wHl pwbrtUr rent them out on twenty-one-year con tacts. After that time they can sell; and eventually all the lands will belong to the whites. One advantage that the settlers here will have over those of other new regions will be-the markets of Montana. This state la largely devoted to mining and there le a strong demand for all kinds of food crops at high prices. Timothy hay, for Instance, Is now selling here at $15 or $18 a ton, and cats bring a cent a pound. Wheat sells at extraordinary prices to the local mills, and the most of that raised Is made Into flour to home consumption. The re aialnder goes to the Pacific coast, where It is especially prised for making orackers and pastry. Hot Springs Region. Thla flathead country Is already a health resort. It Is visited by tourists during the summer s.nd there are farmers who are way of example to the youngsters. His motto has ever been, "Never bone what you can bugle," and he has consistently lived up to It. He prepared at lieutenant Braden's and the University of Nebrabka. WARING. Hoy F.. "Nuts." "B. J.." Omaha, Neb.; corporal, acting sergeant; A. H.: outdoor meet i3). "'Our armies in Flanders swore terribly,' cried my Uncle Toby, 'but never aught like this.' " Rnent his early life trying to outyell all the Indians west of the Missouri river, and we are inclined to believe lie succeeiljd. Almost any day he mny be seen executing his quaint antics across the area, with some one in hot pursuit. "Nuts" has defied all efforts at taming, and, though he lavs his P. C. 8. is a railroad magnate, we have our doubts as to whether hi administra tive experience ever saw him lrrher than an offKe boy. While preparing at Denna's academy he was known as the vlllaae bad men. and waa under bonds to knap the peace. He was voted the noisiest, man In the class by unanimous ballgt. ITCGO D. BCHUX.TZ. t - - . (1 5 f ; MAIN STREET IN KALJ87EX sold at auction or disposed of other way. in some , Flathead Indiana, But let me tell you something about th Indiana who own theae lands. They are called Flatheads, but their cranlums are of the same shape as those of other Indian tribes, and there is no evidence that they Coburn the OR more than fifty yeara Kansas has regularly come Into the lime- light on the stage of American politics. The strenuoalty that marked the erection of the terri- tory, and then the state, haa not diminished the farm In Its every avenue, and espe wtth the passage of time, but the enthuslas- daily with regard to accurate reports of tlo seal of the people down there seems to. have Increased. Each year a new and pic- turpjimiA flmire la riven to the national Ra,a3ty of Btatesmen and ,awmakers, and for 1900 the offering Is Foster Dwlght Co- burn, who has been appointed United States senator by Governor Hoch to flu the unexolred nortlon of the ,Urm of j08eph aiph Burton, who has resigned to escape expulsion from that august body. Coburn Is hardly known to politics, but he is known wherever agrl- Quaint Happenings of Every Day Life Art 1st le Temperament Gone Wrung. ARON'FSfl Marie De Galowlcs of y I New York did not seriously ob JJ I Ject when her. husband, in fits of an u 4(.i4 U ii t In K v rumF rsJ - - I J . . 1 strings, because she considered him a man of strong, artistic temperament. But when the baron took her across his knee and spanked her she con cluded his artistic temperament went too far. So she had the baron pulled into court, where she told her troubles. Thirty-eight and attractive, the baroness said she la the daughter of a South Amer ican Indian chief and bore the lltU of piln cesa there. The baron, she said, is her third husband. A year ago, finding herself In great financial embarrassment, she opened a boarding house, took a room. He told her that he was s singer with the Metropolitan opera forces and an Austrian nobleman, who had been a Judge at Buda-Festh. The ex-princess fell In love with him and they were married on April 17 last. The baron, she said, soon began to show morbid symptoms of Jealousy when she looked at any of the other boarders and at length she had to give up the boarding bouse. They moved, but the baron's Jeal ousy continued. Whenever the baroness would go shopping the baron always In slated on going along. To keep her In he used to tie Gordlan knots, not alone la aer corsets, but In her shoe stiings. Hi ruined ever so buldj sorsotg aad m - -4i5. if J': -"' iV' V 11 W - ' - I. " " . I- -,5, ,' 4 :V Si ha il i it ii f rn in I have ever flattened their heads by having them tied to boards when they were babies, as did some of the Indians of the lowor Columbia river. They are really good- looking people and are especially friendly with the whites. They were well-spoken of by Lewis and Clark when they made their expedition across the continent, and It Is one of their boasts today that they Latest of Kansas Senators. culture Is respected. His years of service in the cause of the farmers of Kansas in particular and the world in general have been busy and fruitful. He has become an authority on all maters pertaining to yields of different grains, the value of farm stock and other factors. His personal rep utation In this line axceeds that of any man In this country, and be Is held In all but reverence by the farmers of the w est for his ability and achievements. Foster Dwltsht Coburn was born In Jef- ferson county. Wisconsin, May 6, 1846. His education was obtained In the common schools ana he servea in tne civil war, en- HsUng in the One Hundred and Thirty- filth and later in the Sixty-second Illinois FOSUER DWIGHT COBURN. shoe laces." she said. "It was really very trying. But I did not mind that so much aa to be spanked. When he would see me silting at the W-indow he would come up and putting me over his knee give me such a spanking as I never got before. Now I want him to stop It." The magistrate said he would hold the baron under $500 bond to behave himself for six months. As he was about to be taken back to a cell. In default of bail, the baroness became remorseful. "If he'll be a good boy I'll take 10m back," she said. The baron stopped and with a fine ges ture exclaimed rapturously: "My dear bar oness, I'll never do It again," "Discharged!" said the Judge. 4 Train Passes Over a Child. "Lie down, lie down," screamed Fireman Harry Hoover, from the pilot of his fast flying locomotive at Lock Haven, Pa., to a little trt standing on the rails In front of the t .n. and the little one fell like a small log and laid still while the entire Beech Creek accommodation swept over her and came to a stop three train lengths beyond. It was ons of ths meet remark able escapes from death ever known In the vicinity. Hoover was off the locomotive before tt had passed clear' over the child, and he waa on the tracks as the last ear swept by. tearing the little child from' betweea th ties. Thar the (Xseenger and engi - -1 '.'..:'-afi-i.:i-7j. K st.''.-..riWfc.A&.-Jr ...... , J- : rLATHSAD INDIAN FAMILY. nver shed the blood of a white man. The Flatheads are not muny In number, They have never exceeded 2,000, and there are perhaps Just about that many today, In the allotment they are to have eighty acres each, which will give every family 00 or 300 acres. N Most of these Indians are engaged In farming. . Nearly all own more or less ; infantry. He removed to Kansas In 1867 and engaged In farming and stock raising. In 1SS2 he was appointed secretary of the State Board of Agriculture. He resigned this position to become editor of the Live Stock Indicator, published at Kansas City, was again appointed secretary to the Board of Agriculture In ISM. Since that time he haa held thla position by common consent. lie has also been a member of the board of regents of the State Agri cultural college, and has published several standard books on live stock and agrl- cultural topics. In 1904 he was loaned by the state of Kansas to the World s ein.iuu i 1. he planned and organised the greatest live stock show ever held. . .'1 j) '7 neer found him sitting on the track by the $-year-eld, almost beside himself with Joy, Livery Church goelul. A waist measure social threatens to dis rupt the Wesleyan church of Wilmerdlng, Pa., and all local society. The social waa held last ivl; by the Wilmerdlng Wes leyan society to raise funds for church, work. Admission was 1 cent for every Inch of girth showed by the tape measure. Re freshments were furnished free. The social was a great success among the younger people, but elder members of the Wesleyan community are raising a hue and cry. They declare that it has made the church ridiculous; that It savors of flippancy, and that the sise of one's waist has nothing to do with the size of one's soul. A church trial for those who orig inated the social Is threatened by some of the more radical of the conservative church members. Nothing else has been talked of since the social. All the fat girls. It la alleged, pulled their corset strings a trifle tighter, to save money, and there are charges that a number of thin ones '.et theirs out and consumed dried apples and water Imme diately before leaving home. The young man who handled the tape measure Is ac cused of unnecessary slowness as hs passed It around certain of the more beautiful forms. All the young peopls have taken up arms m defease of the social. The war threat ana to ha something fierce. stock, and there' are several who are now raving buffaloes and cross-breeding them, There In an inland In Flathead lake known as the Wild Horse Inland. Thin Is a great grazing ground for the, buffalo herds. The animals are taken to It on steamers. They are loaded by moans of a windlass, which gradually drags them up the gangway and onto the deck. This Is no easy matter, for buffaloes are wonderfully strong, as Is shown by a bull which recently thrust Its horn through a tx6 inch guard rail while loading. One of the largest herds of buffaloes here Is owned by a man named Pablo and the heirs of a half-breed Indian named Allard. U contains SCO buffaloes and It Is aald to be the largeat in the United States. It was atarted with six calves, which were brought across the Rockies, and added to from tlme t0 tlme- Raising; Buffaloes for Profit. The men who have this herd have gone Into a regular business of breeding buffa loes for profit, and I am told that It pays very well. The animals are wanted for thi various soologlcai gardens and also for city parks. and good sixed ones will bring from $250 to 1300 apiece. The animals are brought to Kallspell for shipment ana sent out by express In crates. Just aa prise sheep are crated for tne same .purpose, ine eonraa estate haa about sixty buffaloes, which it keeps Inside fences, handling them like do- mestlo cattle. The animals are quiet and safe enough If .one does not venture near them on foot. FTom these two herds Kallspell now and then gets a feast of buffalo meat. This Is usualy the case at Christmas, when the lo- cat butchers will buy a buffalo to kill, re tailing the meat at 60 cents a pound. The meat has all the tenderness and Juiciness of a well bred Shorthorn, and at the same time the flavor of the wild deer of the Rockies. In addition, the hide brings In at least $100. and the buffalo head sells for $00 or $75, so that a single animal thus killed after me with a stick sometimes, pays very welL ' I have been told that these people arc "Here! here!" cried the Rev. Mr. Good crossing the buffalo with domestic cattle. ly. happening upon a gang of bad boys I have not seen the results and give the playing craps, "what are you playing the$ atorv aa told to me. The favorite breeds for Bame on the Sabbath fort" crossing are the Aberdeen-Angus and Gal loway, and the results are animals much like the buffaloes, with a rich, velvety black or brown fur. The skins are said to make beautiful coats, but the heads are not as valuable as those of the pure buf faloes. EIlc Farms In the Rockies. ' This whole country is a land of big game. There are moose, elk, mountain sheep. mountain goats, grizzlies and other kinds of bear, several deer, together with moun tain Hons and all sorts of small gamo. About fifteen miles east of this town there are now two elk farms, the owners of which make a business of selling elks to geological gardens and furnishing their heads, "horns and teeth to the members of the Elk lodges throughout the United States. They get from $75 to $200 etch for elk heads, and the teeth, when set as cuff buttons or charms, will often bring $50 a pair. Each elk has two teeth of the kind desired and the teeth have a regular value In the markets. I am told the elk are easily domesticated and that they have In some instances been trained to draw wagons and carriages.. They are speedy and would make good carriage animals were It not that they frighten the horses more than the noisiest of automobiles. Not Wild Nor Woolly. The eastern tenderfeet who expect to make a rush for the Flathead lands can Death of Another lURING the week John Wesley D Lytle. one of Omaha's oldest citizens, answered the final sum- mons. .He wss butted on Tues- day by the Masonic order, of S2a come to this place without revolvers of bowle knives and they will be as safe aa In any New England town, where the curfew Is cried every night This valley is largely settled with eastern people, and Kallsnall Is aa quiet and orderly as any place of its slie in Ohio, Indiana or Illinois. It Is a thriving town of 8,000 souls, with good stores, fine homes and paved streets. It has a publlo library, a theater, churohes and schools. It has electrle lights and water works, aa well as an enterprising board of trade and a lot of real estate agents who regret that the dictionary has not bigger words Jo express the real glories of their country and Its resources. Indeed, times have changed here sine the rush which took place fifteen years whn th Great Northern came In. At that period the chief town was at ths head of the lake. It was known as Dem- ersville, and it boasted about 1,000 popula tion and seventy-three saloons. Gambling was common and there were all sorts of sharpers. Among the latter was a Justice of the peace, whom I shall call Smith. Judge Smith was fond of the bottle and the dollar and he made no bones of taking .. n..inn .n4 nn .n ,... xt onB tlm. . -tranter was shot b mi.tak while walklna- the streets and Jus- tce smith was called In. The body was ,tlI1 warm feut Smith at once beeran to ra through the pockets. In one of them he f0un(1 a knife, a bunch of keys and a $20 golA plecei and m another a pistol. As he raiM1 the latter he straightened up and exclaimed: "Why, what Is this? Carrying concealed weapona! That ts contrary to law. As Justice of the peace ' I fine this man $20, " And he thereupon put the coin In big pocket. FRANK O. CARPENTER. Prattle of the Youngsters Visitor Well, my little man, I suppose you take after yovr father, do you notT Little Msn (aged 6) No, sir; but lie takes) "Why, fur keeps," replied one of them. "W'at'd yer 'sposer' Little Elmer My mamma can tell things by lookln' at people's hands. - Visitor Indeed) Is she a palmist? Little Elmer I dunno; every time she looks at my hands she tells me to go and wash 'em. "Tommy," said Mr. Tucker, laying hint across his knee and vigorously applying a large and muscular paternal hand, "It al- most breaks my heart to do this.'' "Then why don't you let maw do ltT" yelled Tommy. "Now," said Winters"" mother, "I hope you'll profit by that spanking and not be such a little savage hereafter." "Boo! Boo!" sobbed Willie. "I wlsht I was a little savage." "You dor "Yes'm. Little savages' mammas don't wear slippers." , $ On a recent Monday morning the pastor of a church In Virginia, according to Har per's Weekly, was the recipient of a basket of strawberries brought to him by a little girl of the parish. "Thank you very much, my dear." said the minister. "These berries are as fine aa any I've ever seen. I hope, however, that you did not gather them yesterday the) Sabbath." "No. sir," replied the child, "I nulled 'em early this morntn", but they was a-growln' all day yesterday, Omaha Pioneer which he had been a member foe m.n. years. Judge Lytle had lived In Omaha for more than forty years, and had been ao- tlve In many ways In cotfr-'lon with th growth of the city. I ' 1 JOUH WXnajCXLTTL-O,
