Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1902 — ANOTHER LAND LOTTERY. [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER LAND LOTTERY.

Three Hundred Thousand Acres in Soijth Dakota to Be Disposed Of. There will soon be another wholesale lottery conducted under the management of the federal government with valuable homesteads as the prize. There will be no blanks in the drawings, although some of the prizes will be more desirable than others. About 309,009 acre? of land of the Rosebud Indians in South Dakota were recently purchased by act of Congress, the law providing that the territory should be prepared for settlement by the Department of the Interior. Secretary Hitchcock, in making arrangements to open up this land, has decided to follow the plan that was followed so successfully a year ago in connection with the Kiowa and Comanche lauds in Indian Territory. As soon as the land lias been surveyed and divided into homesteads, annouDcement will be made of the conditions governing the awarding of lots.