The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-08-25

hour when the Cherokee Strip shall
be open to settlement. The prOcla-
nation is very long, requiring about
8 columns of this paper. But we sum-
Marie the parts of it which relate to
the manner i'm which legal settle
ment NAV be made as follows:
strip of land 100 feet wide around and i'm
mediately within the boundaries of the lands
now opened is set apart and entrance upon said
strip is emitted prior to the day for the Open-
ing of the lands. Upon this strip booths are to
be located and clerks from the general land Of
fce detailed TO take charge ofthem. The booths
| will be conveniently located upon the regular
lines of travel. five on the northern and FIVE on
the southern boundary fthe outlet and will
be open for business at noon OF September 10
and be kept open each business dag from
m. to u O'clock, and from to p m until dis
continued by direction of the secretary Of the
| Interior.
Each party desiring to enter upon the land s
for the purpose of making a homestead entry.
| or soldiers declaratOry statement or settling
| upon town lot will be required to first appear
ton showing his or her qualifications to make
such entry or statement or to settle upon a town
lot If the declaration proves satisfactory to
the officers in charge of the booth. certificates
party who makes the declaration to 20 in upon
| the Outlet at the time fixed for the opening.
Parties making these declarations will be re-
quired to make oath before the district land Of
| fieers or other officer who may take their home
stead affidavits that all the statements contain
ed in their declarations are true In every par
| tcular.
The officers of the United States are expressly
| charged to permit no party without certificate
| to enter upon any part of the Outlet The land
offices will be open for business at ~ at noon
Contracts for four land Office buildings. one at
Enid, Woodward, Perry and Alva, have already
used for the nine booths. Wells have also been
ordered sunk at each of these places and other
accommodations for the public arranged for.
These few paragraphs will give suf-
ficient direction to any one who wants
to try his luck. In reply to many
questions we will add that the law
permits any citizen who has not al
ready taken homestead, to file on
100 acres of this land. 1t should be
remembered, however, that these
lands are not free. In addition to
"proving up" in the old way every
settler must pay, in addition to the
usual land office fees, $3.50 an acre for
all lands east of 81! degrees west Ion
gitude, 1.50 for lands between 974and
9SI degrees, and $1.OO for all lands
west of 9SI degrees, and shall also
pay interest upon the amount so to paid
be from the dateofsettlement untilpaid
at the rate of 4 per cent per annum.
So it is no great snap after all.
On Friday of last week five repre-
sentatives each from the Ladies' ten
mis- club and the Boys tennis club
went down to Humboldt and met the
players of the tennis club of that
place i'm the first tennis match played
between two Allen county towns.
The result of the match was a score
of 8 sets to i'm favor of the lola play
ers. After the game the visitors were
handsomely entertained by Mrs. DIR.
Wilson at her home. The Humboldt
players were anxious to try their luck
again and in response to an invitation
their club came up to lola to play q
return match. The members of the
Henrichs, Kimball, Rath and Messrs.
Mcknight and Will Barber. The
match was witnessed by a large num-
Der of spectators and resulted in
victory for lola, 10 sets to 2. After
the match was ended the two lola
clubs entertained their visitors, hav-
ing provided a picnic supper which
was served upon the lawn at H. l..
Henderson's residence.
The Kansas Editorial Association
expect to go to Chicago the second
week in September, and they desire
to carry with them some samples of
the "first fruits" of the land to help
advertise Kansas. In order that we
may be able to furnish our share we
would be pleased if any one who has
particularly fine specimens of farm
products would favor us with sam
Piles. We want vegetables of all
kinds, millctt, corn ION the stalk with
well-matured ear, only a few stalks
and none less than IA feet i'm height),
also corn in the ear, and fruit of all
kinds. OF course it is quality rather
than quantity that Is desired. We
caanot afford to pay for any of these
things, but they will be shown In
Chicago under the name of the grow
er. We hope Allen county will make
a good showing.
The vivid, breezy letter from Fred
Funston, fresh from the cc-Dergs and
avalancbes of Alaska, seemed to us to
be more interesting matter for the
dog days than anything we could
write, and so we surrender our editor
ial page to it. The letter is written
w
reading between the lines one can
easily see what logged persistence,
what heroic courage, what strength
of body, mind and will, were required
to make the perilOus Journey. Fred
Funston is doing work that will place
him i'm the same rank as such men as
Lieutenant Peary, Frederick Schwat-
ka and Lieutenant Long, and he has
&c &c f,,4 I. svH<v INIT t,fap "
accomplish it i'm safety.
The Allen County Horticultural So
ciety will hold their September meet
ing at the residence of J. Il. Tredway,
near Allen Center school house, FRI
day, Sept. 8, at IL o'clock a. m. Come
with your well filled baskets and en-
joy day of recreation and pleasure.
Bring specimens of fruits, flowers and
vegetables and compare with your
neighbors as to quality, productive
ness, etc. All friends of horticultural
are cordially invited to attend. The
subjects to be discussed at the meet
ing are "The growing of trees" by ].
L. Tredway, and "How to best care
for potatoes in winter" by f. 1. Crow
ell. Each paper to be followed by
discussion. BY order of Press Com
mittee.
The Brewster place north of town
has been traded to q Mr.. Brewer, OF
Montrose, Mo-, who will take possess
sion i'm a few weeks. By the trade
Mrs. Brewster came into possession of
a stock of merchandise, in MOntrose,
and w. A. COwan and Will Brewster
went over there last week and took
an inventory of the goods. Mr.. Cow
an returned last week, but Will Brew
ster will remain there this winter and
take charge of the business. 1t Is sad
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