Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-03-28
GET READY FOR OK. AHoMA.
The Two Million Acres To BE Opened for
Settlement April 22.

| The Two Million Acres To BE Opened for
Settlement April :2.
WASHINGTON CITY, March 2S-The long
| expected proclamation opening the lands in
Oklahoma, which have been the cause of so
much booming for the past few years, was
issued by the president yesterday, but unless
Identification is impossible it will bring little
comfort to those who have camped on claims,
staked them out and taken other measures to
make sure of their farms; for the last para
graph of the proclamation-ina accordance
with the act of congress under which it was
issued-takes pains to call attention to the
clause of the act with reference to boomers,
in the following words:
And warning is hereby again expressly
given that no person entering upon and oc-
| cupying said lands before said hour of IL
| O'Clock noon on the 22l day of April, 1889,
hereinbefore fixed, VIII ever be permitted to
enter any OF said lands or acquire any rights
thereto, and that the officers of the United
States will be required 10 strictly enforce the
provision of the act of congress to the above
effect"
As seen by the above extract the date on
which the lands are declared open for settle
ment is April %, 1899, at IL o'clock noon.
The proclamation recites in full the act of
congress, the important points of which
have been given in these dispatches, and de-
scribes the boundaries as follows:
Beginning at point where the degree of
longitude q west OF Greenwich, as surveyed
In the years 1873 and ISL, intersects the Cana
dian river; thence north along and with the
said degree to point where the same inter-
scots the Cimarron river; thence up said river.
| along the right bank thereof, TO a point
where the same is intersected by the
south line of what IL known as the."Cherokee
outlet; thence east along said line to q
point where the same intersects the range line
between ran zes and east of the Indian
meridian; thence south on said line to a POINT
where the same intersects the middle of the
main channel of the Cimarron river; thenoe
" SAID river along the middle Of the main
channel thereof. TO point where the same in
tersects the range line between range | east
and range west (being the Indian meridian):
thence south along said range line or merid-
ian to point where the same in
tersects the right bank OF the north
fork of the Canadian river; thence
up said river, along the right bank thereof to
APPOINT where the same is intersected by the
west line OF the reservation occupiei by the
citizen band OF PottswatoInies and the Abb
sentee Shawnee Indians; thence south along
the said west line OF the aforesaid reservation
10 pelnt where the same intersects the mid
die Of the main channel of the Canadian river.
thence up the said river, along the middle of
the main channel thereof to point oppo-
site TO the place Of the beginning and thence
north 10 the place of beginning Saving and
excepting one acre OF land in square form in
the northwest corner of section 8, in town.
ship 10 north, range . west of the Indian me-
fidian in Indian territory, and also one acre of
land in the south asst corner Of the northwest
quarter Of section 10, township 10 north, range
west. of the Indian meridian in the Indian
territory; which last described two acres are
hereby reserved for government Use and con-
troD.