Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1909 — Government Will Hold Another Land Drawing August 9th. [ARTICLE]

Government Will Hold Another Land Drawing August 9th.

The government land drawing by which more than a million and a half acres of land in Washington, Idaho and Montana will be disposed of, will be held at Couer d’Alene, Idaho, beginning on the morning of August 9. The drawing, which may last a whole week, includes the Spokane reservation, 153,000 acres; the Flathead reservation, 1,200,000 acres, and the Couer d’Alene reservation, 310,000 acres. The Spokane reservation is about thirty-five miles from Spokane: the Flathead reservation is between Missoula and Kalispell, Mont., and the Couer d’Alene reservation is in northwest Idaho, on the boundary line between that state and Washington, = The methods used at the drawing at Bonesteel, S. D., will be adopted at the drawing. An enormous tent will be erected, and the tons of certificates, each sealed in an envelope, will be dumped in the center of an arena. Then little boys and girls will dig into the mass and draw the certificates. The size of the tracts vary from 40 to 160 acres. A young lad seventeen years of age who has been working for George Maines was arrested last Sunday. His home is in Tennessee and he had grown homesick. Saturday evening he entered Maines’ house during the absence of the family and appropriated about $lB in money, a gold watch belonging to Mrs. Maines, and a pair of shoes and a coat. He was arrested that night at the depot by officers Parks and Thomas as he was waiting to take the train for the south. He had already spent $4 of the money for a new pair of shoes. When arrested he seemed repentent and as Mr. Maines offered to drop the matter and take the boy back to his farm, the lad was released, and is now working at his old Job. The Bloomington Pickle Co. has leased two lots of S. R. Nichols near the Standard Oil station. The company will erect its salting station thereon. Ninety acres of pickles has been contracted and the station is expected to be a success from the start. John Resh will move here from Gifford and have charge of the station.