Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-19
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. From All Quarters. OPEN TO SETTLEMENT. Another Slice of Oklahoma
 Subject to Entry. HOSTILE BANDS INVADING MEXICO. NeIsonLoWers His Record at
 Grand Rapids. THE GREAT CROPS OF THE WEST. Burying the Victims of the
 Spanish Floods.
THE GREAT CROPS OF THE WEST.
HOMES FOR THE MILLIONS.

The Eastern Part of Oklahoma
 Thrown Open to Settlement-How
 Homestead Entry Certificates May
 be Secured-The Rights of Union
 Soldiers and Sailors.
 WASHINGTON, Sept. 1s.-The president to-day issued proclamation opening the eastern part of the territory of Oklahoma to public settlement at noon on Tuesday, September %. The paper is long docu ment and recites the different treaties with the Indians of the Indian territory, who ceded their lands to the United States. The agreement with the Sac and Fox In dians provides that the section of land now set apart near their agency for school and farm purposes shall not be subject either to allotment or homestead entry The agreement with the Iowa tribe of Indians on the Iowa reservation provides that each and every member of the tribe shall have an allotment of eighty acres of land upon the reservation and that tract of land not exceeding ten acres, including the church and school house and graveyard near the Iowa village, shall be- long to those Indians in common, and fur ther that the chief of the Powas may select ten acres additional for use for reserva- tion. The citizen band of Pottawattomie Indians ceded all it's lands to the govern ment provided that in all allotments to be made hereafter no person shall have the right to select land in any congressional township of sections 16 and 36, nor any land set apart for schools, school farms or for religious purposes. The agreement with the absented Shawnee Indians includes all their land excepting those in sections 16 and 36 in any congressional townships and reserves the land set apart for schools, school farm and religious purposes. The proclamation sets forth that each settler on lands shall before makinga final proof and receiving Q certificate of entry pay to the United States in addition to the fees and within five years from the date of original entry the sum of $1. 50 per acre, one-half of which shall te paid within two years; but the rights of honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors shall not be abridged, excepting as to the sum to be paid, and all the lands in Oklahoma, the proclamation cites, are declared to be agricultural lands, and proof of their non mineral character shall not be required as 8 condition precedent to final entry. Each entry shall be in square form as nearly as practicable.
 The proclamation gives notice that until the lands are opened to settlement no person shall be permitted to enter upon and occupy them, and no person violat- ing the law shall be permitted to enter any of the lands or acquire any rights.
 The proclamation then technically de- scribes the land opened to settlement which in extent aggregates 266,2 ,243 acres
 TROOPS DRIVING OUT BOOMERS.
 GUTHRIE, O. T., Sept. 1S.-The long de- layed news from Washington announcing the opening of ceded Indian lands for next Tuesday was received here this morn ing and caused intense excitement. Now will come rush of ome-seekers almost as great as that which followed the open ing of Oklahoma territory and many of the stirring scenes incident to that event will be repeated.
 Companies A and D of the Thirteenth infantry and troop of the Fifth United States cavalry are in the new territory driving out the boomers and assisting in maintaining order. The Oklahoma and Guthrie business houses will be sadly crip pied by the great exodus from these two cities that is now taking place.
 Many of the merchants are closing their stores and joining in the general rush. The receipt of the news from Washington was the signal for the exodus to commence. Thousands of people swarmed the streets. The news spread rapidly. The intelligence was the signal for big caravans of the home seekers to commence to move. Everybody is now making the best possible time in getting in the line to join the crowd that is already waiting for next Tuesday.
 The new country is we'll watered and well timbered. It was very desirable for homes. The Indian villages on the Cedar reservations are now almost deserted. The Indians do not object seriously to the oc- cupation of the land by the whites, but hate the negro.