Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1901 — Charley Murray’s Big Luck. [ARTICLE]

Charley Murray’s Big Luck.

At least one Jaeper oounty man has struok it rick in the Oklahoma land drawing. It is Charley Murray, of Barkley, who arrived from there Sunday: He received a telegram today advising him that his name was drawn on the first day, being 132. This will give him the right to make the 132nd choice of a quarter section of some of the finest land on earth. It will give him a chance to get near a good town and railroads, and other advantages. This draw is easily worth several thousand dollars, and possibly as much as SIO,OOO. He will Have to go back there by August 6th to make his selection.