The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-03-28
OKLAHOMA OPENED
Settlers Will Take Posses
sion Next Tuesday.
rHE NEW rER.1ro.r's LIMITS.
Premature Boomers viii He Re-
fused Right Of Entry-Two
f.and ossee~ Estahisshes.

WASsfESGE0S, Azcca z-.--Tae psessdeut,s :
proclamation opSniag ukiahems lands To
settseEnesaE On the 81 of Arsil next was is
sued to-day After setting fevsh TIE terms
OF the treaties Of cessscn Of these sarsss BY
the Indians ID ihe.soyernnsnf gna the aets
OF congress relaEtVe 10 opening them q,
homestead entry. the proclamation De
scrihes these lands minaseiy By mafes and
eounGs. reserves two acres sesr government
Use. and then formally declares thar nader
these conditions these lends shall ee oKsu
70 homestead entry al nooa Of Aprsl 2 next.
All persons are warned that ander the
terms of the act OF congress any xersou
who shall cceuDy any of SAID lands before
the tirae mentioned shall be forever dc.
barred from making entry Shereon, aud
tae officers Of the Eassed States are re-
qUtred 70 strictly enfurcs this aef
! Following In description Of the isonn.
dsries Of the Tertiary included in the
proclamation BsglEning at point where
the degree OF longitude. * west from
Greenwich. rs surveyed in the years 1865
and lszI insersec's the Canadian
river; thence north along aud
where the same inssFsecss the Csmsrron
river: thence up said river, along the riehf
bank thereof. 10 the possst where the same
Is intersected by the south line of what is
known ss the Cherokee lands lying west OF
the Arkansas river, or rs the Cherokee ont.
let, said line being the north line OF the
lands cesied by the MEskogee or Greek TIA.
ton of Indians 20 the United States by the
treaty of Jane lf. tSa6: thence east along
said line 10 tie point where the same In
tefsects the west ilue Of tue lands set apart
as q reservation for the pawnee Indians hy
The act OF congress approved April 10. is7s.
being the range tine between ranges aud
) east Of the Indian meridian. thence south
on said line 10 the point where the sane
luterseets the middle OF the main channel
OF the Cimsrren river thence Gp said
river. along the middle OF the higher chan
nel thereof. 10 the point where the same
i1tersects the range line between range
east and range west being the Indian
meridlanl. which line forms the western
boundary OF the reservations set apart re-
spectireay for the Iowa lklowa and kieka-
poo Indians by executive orders dated AJsg.
Is, iSs5: thence south slcng said range liae
ar meridian 70 the point whore the same
intersecss the right hank of the north fork
of the Canadian river; thence Hp said
river. along the right bank thereof. 10 the
point wnere the same i iniarsected BY the
west line OF the reservation oc-
cupied by the Citizen band OF
Pottawatornies aud shawnee Indians.
set apart under the provisions OF the treaty
OF February -, 1857, between the United
States and Ehe Pottawatoinie tribe of In
oAans ana TSISrEe1 tp III tue aci Oh toffsrte>
approved May -. ls72. thence south along
said west line of aforesaid reservation TO
the point where the same infersecss the
middle of the main channel of the Cana
dian river. thence up said river along the
middle OF the main channel thereof 10
point opposite TO the place of beginning
The Commissioner of the general land
Office has issued an order establishing two
Offices in Oklahoma territory. The land
Office for the western district will ba To-
Gated at Kingfisher's station. aud for the
eastern district at Guthrie.