The Red Cloud chief., 1892-10-28
THREE MILLION ACRES.

!rhe Amount of Now Laud to Re Thrown
Open Through the Comanches, Ki owss
aud Apnches Taking Aiiotments.
ANApARKo, Ok, Oct 22.-After four
weeks Of council the Cherokee commits
sion yesterday finished It's negotia-
ton with the Comanche, Kiowa and
Apache tribes and effected an agree
mcnt. The negotiation began at Fort
Sill the Goth of last month, ut which
time q proposition on the part Of
the government was submitted to the
Indians. The proposition provided that
these Indians should take allotments OF
100 acres each and relinquish the resi-
due of the reservation 10 the govern
ment TO be attached TO Oklahoma and
opened TO white settlement. For this
surrender and REIMBURSEMENT the In
dams shall receive e. 900, 900.
OF this sum taoo, 900 will be paid in
cash within 10 days after the ratifica-
tion of the agreement. ss0O. 900 within
one year and tioO, 900 within two years.
The remaining $1,000, 900 will be left
In the treasury and bear interest nj the
rate OF 8. per cent payable annually.
Minor paragraphs Of the agreement
rovide that existing treaties aro
not 10 be disturbed, legally executed
leases shall not be intcrfered with un-
I'll limit expires, customary school Sec
tions and land occupied and used for
religious purposes IN bc reserved, and
adopted members of the tribe are to re.
ccive lands. Tho proposition was no.
copied on the nth and since that timo
the commission has been engaged In
securing sufficient signatures to make
IL effective.
The treaty of 1868 entered into ON
Medicine Lodge creek provides that no
agreement for the ACCOMPLISHMENTS Of
lands shall be valid unless signed by
thrcc-quartcrs Of the male adults liv.
ing upon the reservation. The three
tribes number about $500 people and
about $40 bucks over 81 years of age.
Yesterday the requisite three-quarters
were secured. Tho agreement will be-
come effective when ratified by con
gross. OF these three tribes the Co.
manches are the most advanced In CIV
~ilization and were the first to accept
the proposition. These were followed
by the Apaches. A large number OF
Kiowas banded together to oppose Its
acceptance and underworld to intimi-
date those inclined to sign. The three
head chiefs, however, attached their
names.
Tho reservation lies between the
Washita and Red rivers In the SOUTH
western corner Of the Indian territory
and embraces nearly 5000. 900 acres. II
Is by far the best land yet negotiated
for In the Indian territory. II Is we'll
watered and fertile and will develop
J into magnificent corn and cot
ton land. This is the tenth
agreement entered into by the
Cherokee commission since May, 1890,
from which n total Of almost 20, 900, 900
acres Of land have been reclaimed from
Indian occupation. Ten thousand Ave
hundred Indians will have been placed
upon allotments and will cease to draw
r~ations from the government. Five OF
these agreements have been ratified by
congress- and the reservations have been
opened to settlement. These arc
the Iowa, Sac and Fox, Pottawatomie,
shawnee, aud Cheyenne md Arap-
ahoc reservations. -Four have been 70.
ported 70 congress for Legislative NC
tion-the Kickapoo. Wichita, Tonkawa
and Cherokee outlet. OF the first three
there is no time limit, but for that Of
the Cherokee outlet II Is provided there.
In that unless ratified by congress by
March 4, 1898, the agreement shall be-
void. Those interested In the opening
Of this domain would do well TO note
this feature Of II. The commission will
proceed 10 the Pawnce agency on the
outlet TO negotiate with that tribe.