Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-02-16
! BY TELEGRAPH.
T0vERRUN CHEROKEE STRIP.
ThOuuds Of Would-be Settlers Getting
Impatient.

Taxa, Kar., Feb l5-There 10 much
iufsa nce over the DELAY in opening the
netSzlds kaown IS the Cherokee Strip and
tat several reservations in which sliot-
mes are now being made. The plsn hiss
alAiy been formed to anticipate the sciion
cflhs government AID settle up the
% sired territory" trusting, If foics is
~ to dispossess the settlers. TO decisions
slhdy rendered 10 the e'urts.
adges Gfeene aud Sesy, the former
cAf ls.iee and the late, intn sn $50
lie Justice aud gnverucr Of Osl.horas,
nse b 9TH decided tn,s the Che:,ksss have
| ndi;le TO ,he strip, thar all the right Ihey
ew hal vas Al easement to pass vzr TIE
lats, aud ths' his light they ioag ago fur
fetd by toa.ussg4. A plsn OF campaign
re been agreed upon by large numbers OF
iainding settlers. They have esa bished
| hsc quu.ers NJ Arkansas City, ~Ith
htsehes II Caldwell, Wiehits, KiGsfsh p.
Gr,ris, sod smsller points thss sre mersly
! eaps, This orsaoiz .tion, for is has 8
| foff and head proposes to settle the strip
witnut ju 'Iher delsy. There may be no
auihrity, bat the rev com; RS clam they
srs OF :; llanog any !ss, su1 therefore
thfysre not liable to suv penalty.
| De Of the principal officers said: THE
| se;!irs are slresdy going III from the North,
| Souh, East ard West. Within ten days
mon there will be % COO settlers upon the
strp laucs, building houses and preparing
| ;hesround Tor spring planting. AS there
are 81 800 elsims If 100 acres each, you
can Sc That e are prety thoroughly coy
eriaatue grcund, aud are hesdiog eff til.
town site companies, with which we have
10 siiseiop. IL our removal by govern
mef troops is undertaken, we propose Il
| bring al sction in the UIi.sd Stsyes couf
for ,e territory of Oklahoma, to resral'
| the niliiary authorities from interfering
, with tuies. peseeabie settlers npon puoli,
lands and hereby sectte aaotiet decision
testing The title 10 the suip"
| II y ceftsin that the most gigantic Sc.
| ( efs Organization ever bro u ut abou, ia nov
q fac. The oigsn.z.lJn irc,u les man
tqwp companies SIS veil ss farmers, and if il
growth 10 the next twenty days is equal 4
| he growth OF the psst tvSN'y ;. vii nun
| Der 20 900 members. | i understood ths
| this organization ID manly coHfDi.g il
, doris TO the Cherokee Snip, tut incident
| silly viii cover the Indian lands in whicl
| sliotEents are now being made, az
Which include some Of the best lands in til
| nation
There sre 81 500 quarter sect ,ns in th
| Cherokee Strip. fully % 900 of which vii
prove TO be choice fa,mi1g lands and 500
more fsir. Taking town and farm fscili
lies, il could readily support a population
| IF 500, 900 within two ears, and from pres
ent Indications. unless the government ia
terferes, it will have ons third Of thst nun
| Der in less than yesr. As it is, one o
TIE leaders recently said
| 1t Congress will NOS act 10 the interes
the honest and need home-:eeser. the
w will act fer ourselveF, sid on 10 tn
| sffip' viii be our cry
The sum of $50, .66 yen was asked for t
oe used IN masking the national Japsnes
x.ioit st the Chicago Exposition. OF thu
amount 220 1856 yen is said to be necesssr,
| for grants ia aid of exhibitors, and th
remainder fer general expenses
In addition 10 tlese expenses, that o
ibout $500 coo yen appropriated for IN
'eiief OF tie sufferers by the recent eartL
quskeH mus be considered. Il is yer
probable tina! further assistance will De ne ,
esssfy for the Distressed people of tha
| region, and as private ha'p SEEMS sbIut "A
| nsusted, then it will dev3lve upJo The gov
| eminent to appropriate more money. Still
| fur her to adj to the dilemDs the harv 5
f the Past year hiss been uousuAny poor
sid 10 consequence the price Of rice al
| barley (the staple foods of Japan hs
esdly increased, the estimate decteas
from the crop last year is 80 100000 bush
sis.
o. the hole, when the disasters cause
by the -tcelt esrthq axes, the total des
truction of all crops in that region
| the general shor,sge of the staple prsins
the Increased expenditures conseq zen
upon tie additional military syster
planned, snd the popular dissatisfaction
caused by the dissolution Of Parliament
are considered. the outlook for the peac
snd prosperity OF Japan seems very ds,l
iGdeed; even more SO probably than whel
the country was rem. by the serious inferno
| struggles of 1868 and 1872. The presen
yeer sef ms the most unprUmising of an,
| slgca J.9en threw her do RS open IL foEeigi
| int! codis- sLd entered the race for moderl
| progress snd entigh'ment and its issue vii
| ne closely -stched ~ The psSly admirirI
ftieads OF this prJ.resslTs empire.