Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-08
HUNDREDS OF HOMES
Soon to Be Founded in Two Newly
Opened Indian Reservations.
SISSET0N TO BE FIRST SETTLED.
Boomers on the Oklahoma Border Have
Their Hopes Deferred.
THE SCENES ON THE BOUNDARY LINE

ST. PAUL, April 7.-Governor Mellette,
of South Dakota, to-day directed the Sherifs
Of Codington, Grant, Day, Marshall and
Roberts counties, which adjoin the Sisseton
reservation lands to be opened next week,
to summon 100 each for posse and take
charge of the Sisseton reservation when the
Government lets 60 at noon of the 18th.
They will be backed by the entire State
militia, and there are already on hand at
near Bowmansville, Minn., 200 or 300 regu-
lar soldiers to keep order in that neighbor-
hood, should the boomers seem likely to
come to blows over any Of the large number
of choice claims.
The crowds continue to gather around the
boundary of the reservation in anticipation
of the rush for lands, and all have now
about learned that the first settlers Of the
lands will take precedence of the flers. By
this addition of force from South Dakota,
with the further help of the regulars and
the large force Of Indian police, it does not
seem that there Will be any trouble of a
serious nature.
Settlers Camping Out in Wagons.
Settlers are arriving at Browns Valley
by train loads and the number is increasing
daily. Hundreds are driving their stock,
and the weather is SO mild that they occupy
their covered wagons at night with no dis
comfort
The reported crooked dealings of the land
agents causes indignation among those who
desire to see the reservation occupied by
actual settlers. 1t is generally understood
that Government agents have been at
Rr0wn'o dou OF in
specting the business methods of various
Locating firms, and are now at Watertown.
Interesting developments are expected
there and general order defeating the aims
OF the sharpers may be expected soon.
A dispatch from Kingfsher, o. T., says:
Since Judge Sackett left yesterday for
Washington with duplicate reports of the
Indian allotments the report of delay in the
opening of the reservations has been con-
frmed. 1t is not probable that the lands
will be opened for settlement before the
18th, and perhaps not before the 22d of
April. The delay was caused by the fail
ure Of the mail to get the reports to WASH
ington soon enough to satisfy the Interior
report in person with the allotments.
Tho Indians Get the Choice Acres.
The town sites are all surveyed, but the
surveyors from the western counties have
long and difficult road to travel before their
reports can be officially delivered Maps
showing the Indian allotments have been
published and placed 6h sale here, and they
show that the Indians will control nearly
all the wood and water in the reservation
and the choicest land. Much dissatisfaction
is expressed BY all who have examined the
maps, and the "policy that gives the worth
less blanket Indians the best of the terri
tory after paying them for the land more
than it is worth" is loudly denounced, but
the mad rush still continues.
The number of wagons coming in is
multiplied every day. The Rock Island
had it not extraordinary facilities,
would be blocked with the passenger and
freight traffic. Thousands of settlers, patent
medicine fakirs, gamblers thieves, conf
dence men and every conceivable class of
people are constantly arriving in considera-
bic numbers 1t is reported that the
thieves have been warned against danger
ahead, and their industry has been piled |
With less damage to the public for the last |
"a hours.
Prices of provisions, though slightly ad-
Eanced, are not unreasonably high, and the |
7ast crowds are mostly good-natured and |
making the best of the unexpected delay In |
he opening of the reservation.