Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-04-03
OKLAHOMA OPENED

On and after IL O'Clock, noon. on Mon
day. April p, 1889, settlers may enter
Oklahoma and take claims under the
homestead law. The presidents proc
lamation was issued on Wednesday.
March 9th. After reciting the provis-
ions OF the act under which Oklahoma
is to be opened, the president describes
the boundaries Of the admitted lands
and proclaims as follows:
beginning at point where the de-
gree OF Longitude, ninety-eight west of
Greenwich, as surveyed in the years
1888 and 1871 intersects the Canadian
river; thence along and with the said
degree TO point where the same inter-
sects the Cimarron river, thence up said
river along the right bank thereof to a
point where the said river is intersected
by the south line of what is known as
the Cherokee lands lying west of the
Arkansas river, or as the Cherokee
outlet" said line being the north line
OF the lands coded by the Muscogee Tor
Creek nation of Indians to the United
States by the treaty of June IA, 1866;
thence east along said line to a point
where the same interSectS the west line
Of the lands set apart as a reservation
for the Pawnee Indians by act of con-
gress approved April 10, 1876, being the
range line between ranges four and five
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,
thence up said river along the middle
OF the high channel thereof to a point
where the same intersectS the range line
between range one east and range one
west (being the Indian meridian) which
line forms the western boundary of the
river lands set apart for the Iowa and
KlckapOo Indians by executive orders
dated respectively August 16, 1888.
Thence south along said range line or
meridian to a point where the same in
iersects the right bank of the north fork
Of the Canadian river; thence up said
river along the right bank thereof to
point where the same is intersected by
;he west line of the reservation occu-
pied 10y the citizen band of PottawOtO-
mics and the absentee or Shawnee In
dams set apart under the provisions of
the treaty of February q, 1867, between
the United States and the Pottawoto-
mics tribe of Indians and referred to in
the act of congress approved May %,
1872
Thence south along the said west line
of the aforesaid reservation to a point
where the same interSectS the middle
of the main channel of the Canadian
river;
Thence up the said river along the
middle of the main channel thereof to a
point opposite the place of beginning,
and thence north to place of begin
ming;
Saving and excepting one acre of land
in square form in the northwest corner
of section nine, in township sixteen,
north range two, west of the Indian me-
ridian III Indian Territory, and also one
acre of land in the northeast corner of
the northwest quarter of section fifteen,
township sixteen, north, range seven
west of the Indian meridian in the In
dian Territory; which last described
two acres are hereby reserved for gov
eminent use and control,
viii at and after the hour of IL O'Clock
noon of the 22d day OF April next and
not before, be open for settlement, I'M
der the terms of and subject to all con-
dltions, limitations and restrictions con-
tanned in said act of congress approved
March 2, 1899. and the laws of the Uni
ted States applicable thereto, and it is
hereby expressly declared and made
known that no other parts or portions
of the lands embraced within the Indian
Territory than those herein specifi-
cally described and declared to be open
to settlement at the time above named
and fixed, are to be considered as open
to settlement under this proclamation
or the act of March 2, 1889, aforesaid !;
and
WARNING is hereby again expressly
given that no person entering upon or
occupying said lands before said hour
of II o'clock, noon, on the I'D day of
April, A. D., 1889, hereinbefore fixed
will ever be permitted to enter any of
said lands or to acquire any rights; and
that the officers of the United States
will be required to strictly enforce the
provision of the act of congress to the
above fact"