The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-04
THE CHEROKEE STRIP.
The Latest Scheme to Raise the Wind at
the Expense of the Ignorant.
special Disnatch 10 dc Daily Eagle.

Special Dispatch to the Daily Eagle.
PoNCA,L T Nov. 4-For several months
past numerous attempts have been made
to effect settlement of the Cherokee
strip by parties who had certain pet
schemes of their own to execute, as to the
matter of locating townsite, settlement
of colonies, etc. The troops operating in
the strip have prevented the accomplish
ment of such designs SO far.
But certain of these parties have sue
ceeded in entrapping the unwary into the
investment of money in wildcat schemes
for acquiring town lots, homesteade, etc.
The latest development in this line is the
Cherokee Colony and Townsite COM
parry" which has flooded the country
with its circulars, urging people who con-
template entering the country to be open
ed to settlement to buy lots in Cherokee
City at g per lot, and using the most
glowing descriptions of the benefits to ac-
crue to the purchaser of such lots should
be be sufficiently verdant to invest his
money in such a scheme.
Many thousands of these circulars have
been sent out through the mails. and the
number of innocent people who have been
counted by the thousands. On the End
instant. at the Ponca Indian agency, q
most important arrest was made by Cap
tain a. e. Woodson, of the Fifth cavalry,
commanding United States troops now
guarding the Cherokee strip against inVa-
sion by intruding settlers.
r. E. Dowell president, and L. H. Os-
borne, secretary, of the Cherokee Land and
Townsite company, visited places In the
Cherokee strip for the purpose of soliciting
a townsite for the future great city of
Cherokee, and among the places visited by
them was Bedrock and Ponca. At the
latter place they ran into the lions jaws;
for there they encountered the cOuntry's
guardians in the shape of the troops of the
Fifth United States cavalry.
Captain WoodsOn, commanding, had re-
ceived information OF these parties aud
early the next morning after their arrival
President Dowdell and Secretary Osborne
were in dUrance vile and are now lament
ing the sudden outcome of their attempt
to view the site of the future capital of
Cherokee and the too sad ending
of all their schemes to rob the
innocent public A deaf ear was given to
all their entreaties to be permitted to take
the next train north, and the pleading of
important business in Chicago demanding
the presence of the president, who halls
from La Sale street, and the secretary,
Osborne, who claims to he II respected res
idenJ of Garnett, Kan, were of no avail
Acting well within his authority Capt
Woodson proposes to hold these speculativ
gentlemen until the arrival of the United
States Marshal, to whom they will be de-
lvered, to be dealt with as the law may
direct. Below Is given a true copy of
the certificate Of ownership of one town
lot.
The arrest of these men should be a
warning to all persons who, in violation of
the law and the presidents proclamation,
undertake to enter this country illegally
until it shall be duly declared open TO
settlement This is furnished by Captain
A. Il. Woodson, Fifth cavalry, camped at
P0nca agency, l. Z.
LOT CERTIFICATE NO. $50.
GARNET, Kan, Nov. 8, 1891.
This is to certify that r. l., HALEY has
paid s. 90 in full for one lot in the pro-
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