The morning news., 1889-03-28
OPENING UP OKLAHOMA.
THE PRESIDENT NAMES APRIL az
AS THE DATE.

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Two Square Acres Reserved for Gov
ernment Use and Control - The
Official Delineation of the Territory
Embraced in the Proclamation-Two
Land Offices to be Established.
WASHINGTON, March 27.-The Presi-
dent to-day issued proclamation opening
Oklahoma lands to settlement at noon of
April o. next.
The proclamation recites the facts and
quotes the law upon which it is based and
then proceeds:
Now, therefore, l, Benjamin Harrison, Presi-
dent of the Unite d States by virtue of the power
in me vested by said act of congress- approved
March 2, 1885, aforesaid, do hereby declare and
make known that so much of the lands as afore-
said acquired from or conveyed by the
Msuscogee (or Creek nation OF Indians. and
lively, as is contained within the following de-
scribed boundaries, viz:
Beginning at a point where the degree Of
longitude ninety eight west from Greenwich,
as surveyed in 1853 and 1871, inter
sects the Canadian river thence
north along and with said degree to point
thence up said river, along the right bank
thereof, to a point where the same is inter
sected 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 ceted by the Muscogee
(or Cherokee) nation of Indians to the United
States by the treaty Of June IA, 1866; thence
east along said line to point where
Of the lands set apart as a reservation for the
Pawnee Indians by the act of congress approved
April 10, 1876, being the range line between
ranges and east of the Indian
meridian; thence south on said line
to point where the same
intersects the middle of the main channel of
atn
middle of the main channel thereof to point
where the same intersects the range line be-
tween range east and range west (being the
Indian meridian), which line forms the western
boundary of the reservation set apart respect
lively for the Iowa and Kickapoo Indians by ex
ecutive orders dated respectively Aug IL, 1883,
thence south along said range line or meridian
to point where tne same intersects the right
bank of the north fork of the Canad an
river: thence up said river along the right bank
thereof, to point where the same is inter
sected by the west line of the reservation occu-
pied by the citizen band Of Pottawattomles and
absentee Shawnee Indians, set apart under the
provisions of the treaty OF Feb. 27,
1867, between the United States and Pottawat-
omie tribe of Indians, and referred to in the act
of con reSS approved May %, 1872 thence
south along said west line of the aforesaid
reservation to a point where the same
intersects the middle of the main channel
Of Canadian river, thence ur said river along
the middle of the main channel thereof to a
point opposite to the place of beginning, and
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Saving and excepting one acre of land in
square form in the northwest corner of
section 3 in township 16 north, range west of
the Indian meridian in Indian territory; and
also one acre of land in the southeast corner Of
the northwest quarter of section Is, town
ship 16 north, range Z, west
of the Indian meri iian in the Indian territory
which last described two acres are hereby re-
served for government us9 and control, will at
and after the hour of IL O'Clock noon of the
22d of April next, and not before,
be open for settlement under the terms
and subject to all the conditions, litigations
and restrictions contained 10 said act Of CON
gress approved March 2, 1889, and the laws of
the United States applicable thereto, And it is
hereby expressly declared and made
portions of the lands embraced within
Indian territory than those he Elm specifically
described and dec ared to be open to Settlement
to be considered as open to
settlement under this proclamation
or act of March 2, 1889, aforesaid, and
warning is hereby again expressly given that
lands before said hour of II O'Clock m, Of April
% 1889, hereinbefore fixed, will ever be per-
mitted to enter any of said lands, or
acquire any rights thereto, and that the off,
GERS of the United States will be 4ured to
strictly enforce the provisions Of the act of con-
gress to the above effect. In witness whereof l
have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal
of the United States to be affixed, etc.
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
By the President:
JAMES G. BLAINE, Secretary of State.
TWO LAND OFFICES.
The commissions of the general land
office issued an order to-day tablishing
two land offices in Oklahoma territory,
opened to-day by the Presidents proclama-
ton. The land Office for the western DIS
trict is to be located at King Fishers stage
station; and for the eastern district at
Guthrie.