People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-08-18
POINTS FOR HOMESEEKERS.
INSTRUCTIONS IN REGARD TO TAX
ING LANDS IN THE STRIP.
Persons Eligible and Ineligible to Secure
Homesteads--R Reading the Corner
Something on Lands-AdyIce
In Regard to Various Matters.

A correspondent to the K. c. Star
says: 1t is now definitely settled
that the Cherokee strip will be
opened to settlement early in Sep.
TENDER; and in consequence there is
deep interest in all sections in the
laws governing the taking of land.
The law provides that any person
imam Or woman), the head Of a family
or q years old may take a home
stead of 100 acres providing they
have not already enjoyed the bene-
fits of the homestead act and are
either citizens of the United States
or have filed their declaratOry state
ments. If one has made home
stead entry previous to March 2,
1889, and failed to perfect title to
same up to this time, or has obtain
ed land under the straight preemp-
ton or timber culture act, he or she
is still eligible to take a homestead
in the strip, provided he or she does
not own $50 acres ofland. Any per-
son owning 100 acres of land in any
state or territory cannot take a
homestead in Oklahoma, and
any person who has relinquished
on a homestead since March 2, 1889,
is also barred out.
All persons desiring to tai a
homestead should 60 upon the land
as soon as it is opened for settlement,
then by the aid Of a sectional map
and the corner stones find out the
number and the range of the quarter
section.
TO READ THE CORNER STONES.
The following directions will en-
able one to read the marks on the
corner stones. A stone with six
marks on each of its edges marks
the corner of a township. These
corners are six miles apart each way,
and the line of five corner stones
north and south, and east and west
between them are marked only on
two sides. The north and south line
is marked only on the north and
south edges Of the stone; one mark
on the north for every mile the cor
ner is from the township corner on
the north, and as many marks on
the south side as it is to the south
township corner. In the same man.
ner the east and west lines are
marked on their edges, indicating
distance east Or west to the town
ship. In the interior of each town
ship there are twenty-five section
corners and large number of quar-
ter section corners.
The latter are all marked "a" the
marks facing the west On the north
and south lines and on the east and
west lines, the north. The section
corners extend in five lines east and
west, and in five lines north and
south. Each stone has on its east
side one mark for each mile it is west
from the east line of the township,
and on its south side one mark for
each mile from the south line. Thus
if a corner stone has three marks on
the east side and two on the south,
by referring to the township plate
below one will find that the section
southeast Of it is twenty-seven, the
one northwest of it twenty-one, etc;
or if there are four mark on the east
and four on the south side of the
stone, the section to the southeast is
sixteen, the one to the northeast nine
and so on. BY practicing picking
out different section on the plat in
that way one will soon be able to tell
the number of any section.