Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1909 — INDIANA MAN LAND WINNER [ARTICLE]

INDIANA MAN LAND WINNER

Out of Thousands of Applicants Hs Draws Lucky Envelope. Couer d’Alene, Ida., Aug. 13.—Two thousand names were drawn for lands in the Flathead Indian reservation, and Joseph Furay of Warsaw, Ind., was the winner of lucky No. 1. The 81,363 applications, each In a buff envelope, had been dumped upon the platform and Judge Witten announced that 2,000 would be drawn. When the name of N. D. McPhee of Couer d’Alene was announced as winner of No. 134, a young lady in the crowd gave a hysterical shout and made a wild dash to “carry the news to father The first woman to win was Eleanor McLean of Missoula, Mont., who stated in her application that she was seventy years old