St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-14
LO WILL BE PROTECTED.
Settlers to Be Elected From the
.Townsite Opposite Chamber. ain.

Special to the Globe.
CHAMBERLAIN, S. D.. Feb. 13.-H. C,
Gordon, an agent of the interior depart
ment, arrived here last night and is as
sisting Indian Agent Anderson to solve
the complications arising from the loca-
tion of townsite opposite here on what
is claimed to be Indian lands. The spe-
cial agent this morning received the fol-
lowing telegram from Land Commits
SiOner Croft, and considerable excite
ment and doubt has since been eX-
pressed by the boomers who located the
toWnSite:
Washington, Feb. ITO II. c. Gordon,
special agent land Office Chamberlain S. D.:
BY the act of congress of March 2, 1889,
Indians upon the ceded lands taken from
the Sioux reservation will be protected in
their possessorv rights to such legal subdi-
visions as are therein mentioned to the ex-
tent and effect that the register and receivers
of the land office in the districts including
such lands will permit no filings to be made
thereon. and possession and occupancy by
such Indians under This act will be sufficient
notice to the register and receiver that such
subdivisions are not open to entry. You will
give such publication to this order as will
lead TO the least number of mistakes and
least conflict of interests.
LEWIS a. CROFT. Commissioner
Copies of the above have been posted
throughout the new town, and q we'll
founded report is in circulation that the
boomers will be compelled to remove
bag and baggage within the next twen-
ty-four hours. Many of the boomers
buildings are erected in close proximity
to Indian cabins, and many have gone
so far as to locate their shackS in the
Indians backyards. The rush to the
newly-0pened lands does not abate in
fh,l hnf
the hotels are crowded tonight, and
one hOtelman has been compelled
to ship in several hundred
cots which he will utilize as temporary
beds for settlers on their way to the new
Eldorado west of the Missouri river.
Townsite companies from Sioux Falls
are expected tonight; it being their
intention to locate towns in the interior
of the reservation. The fact of the
opening to settlement of the reservation
is not yet generally known to those liv-
ing in the East who contemplate
settling there, as they rely on the
local papers from here to keep them
posted, thousands of the farming classes
not taking dailies. Had it been gener-
ally known that President Harrison in
tended issuing his proclamation to take
effect at once. instead Of giving thirty
or sixty days notice to settlers, the vol
ume of immigration would UP to this
time have been much greater even
tnan it has been. Although the rush
now is something never before expert
enced in the Northwest. it is nothing as
compared with what it will be two
weeks from now. when the
ACTUAL SETTLERS BEGIN TO ARRIVE
by thousands from the East. Renewed
excitement was caused here late this
evening by the arrival of a company of
soldiers from Fort Randall. They will
remain here tonight, and leave i'm the
morning for the new townsite opposite
here. and it is said they have received
orders to remove every white
person from the plat upon which
the new town is located.
A, number of the boomers
from there are IN the city this evening,
and they are decidedly discouraged.
Many residents of Chamberlain are in
terested In the new townsite, and they
are anXlously looking forward to the
morrow, when there promises to be
some lively times in the vicinity of the
neWly-eStabliShed town.