The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-07-21
TAKES AGENTS
TOALL BOOTHS
TO REGISTER
Gov Richards Arranges to
Facilitate Veterans Filings
1T REEVES THE CROWDS
At the Booth Set Aparl for the
Old Soldiers.

FL Reno. o. T, July 20.-Big train loads
of homeseekers left this city Thursday on
| their way east. These are the people
| who took advantage of the harvest excur-
/ sions to the territory and consequently
could not get away until Thursday as
! their return ,-cAets would not be honored
| for passage until the afternoon of the
| eighteenth. The city has ben crowded
with people, perhaps more Thursday and
Friday than any other time. not with
people who wanted TO register. but those
who had registered and were only wait
/ ing until they could return TO their homes
1t has been intimated that the great rush
is over and that from this time on. it viii
not be hard task TO register at any OF
the booths. The crowds that are on the
streets early in the morning Of Friday lin
ed up before the booths as usual. but be
fore II o'clock there weer no lines in
front Of any of the booths with the ex-
ception of the old soldiers booth The
work there is so very slow thai it is hard
for the clerks to take care Of all Of the
agents who desire to file declaratory
statements.
Governor Richards has. been taking long
lines OF the agents to other booths and
had their statements filed by the clerks
This was done TO relieve the regular
booths and it gave the other clerks some
thing to do while business is dun. It
takes about 1 900 an hour at the booths
to keep the work up to previous records.
and it has been impossible to bring peo-
pie into the city to keep the clerks busy.
The time easiest to register is between
II and Z o'clock in the morning, or be-
tween and o'clock ia the evening
1nere are very few people in line then,
and those desiring to register are sur
prised at the rapidity with which it is all
accomplished. A number of Kansas men
were in the city yesterday and had TO
difficulty in registering They had anti
cipated a lot Of red tape before tLey
could get through. but it did not take any
Of them more than five minutes to regis
ter. Governor Richards has organized
this registration business so syste.nati-
cally that people are more than pleased
with the result One man this morninE.
after he had registered said that he Old
not think that it was fair for him TO
stand in line thirty minutes and then
have his papers made out in such short
time. Most people imagine that it viii
take a lot of time after they reach the
inside of the booth. but in this they a-c
mistaken, for the clerks are rapid ard
accurate.
One of the busiest men in the CITY IS
J. T. Macy, private secretary 10 Cow
ernor Richards Macy has been with
Governor Richards for some time ard
fully understands such work IS Is bcins
carried on here. He is in the priv ate
office Of the governor all day lonS and
opens letters and answers questions 1T
the same time. His word is Jaw around
the Office and the man who appeals from
Macey's decision to Governor Richards IS
turned down in mighty short order. IL
is rema rkable the number Of people who
want to see Richards. These men come
at all hours of the day and II Governor
Richards would permit il. his Offices
would be overrun at night. A young man
is placed at the door and unless one has
official business he fails to get in the
room after six o'clock. This IS done in
order that the clerks and officials can get
some rest after their hard days work
The plans of the drawing are beginning
10 interest the homeseel1ers now. They
are anxious 10 know just what plan Gov
ernor Richards viii adopt and pending
that there are all kinds Of discussion on
the streets. Little groups of men gather
on and talk about the chances for secur-
ing a home. They are the anxious ones
who predict that they viii not succeed
and now want run. after they feel that
they viii not get a claim in the drawing /
The people who have been around in this /
country for months waiting for the coun- /
try TO open are the ones who are going 70 /
be disappointed IL they do not get claims. 4
These are the men who really want homes /
and yet they are the people. in most cases I
who have attended every other opening T.
in the Indian country in the hopes OF .
getting something for nothing. There Z
are people here IN wagons who have drlv- /
en- from Iowa. Nebraska, Kansas and 4
other places. They have camped right 4
on the spot and WIN stay until after the I
drawing. All the talk about the boom 4
ers" being hard up IS bosh. There are 4
a few men who are il need Of money. bat 4
the majority ~ the people living in w5e-
ons. have good horses cattle and all ~ 4
the equipment q the good farmer. The
wagons are coming in faster nov than
they have been Tor months. They are
centerng here for the drawing Fort
Sill and the Indian country s. being de-
serted By the boomer" and re VIII ha
ready % move back % The reservation
again II De gets his coveted farm. AZ a
usasi thing many of these people have
3een over i4le country and know just p hat
piece ~ land they would Ike % have
They have several rieces q land in Fiew
and II they cannot set Ehat they want
.he hrst tine. Jhey wall ask again grtf
they 90 Eer a piece a. lard that has u1r
been taken by some more f5rtaaate man
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