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Flathead Indian Reservation Soon to Be Opened for Settlement
THE OMAIIA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 10, 1906.
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(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.
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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
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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,.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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." ,
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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.
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