Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-07-11
HOMESEEKERS
GET REGISTERED
Thousands After Farms in the
Kiowa Country
10 PICTURESQUE OPENING.
r,s Lottery scheme spoiled the Great
Run-Crowd Before Each hooh
Elected u Captain.

nj Reno. okla. July 10.-Followina
-, the proclamation OF President Nc
Knley. opening UP to settlement 10y the
whites the 1900 farms in the klo"a
and Comanche country, the first regis
cation Of homeseekers was made here
and at Lawton at 3 o'clock this morn
irg Hundreds were lined before the
yarlous registration booths when dark
ness came on tonight, and tomorrow
and next day the registration viii con-
tlnue until all who come have been
given an opportunity to file their
names. The drawing by lottery VIII
begin on July 18th, and until then none
Of the 5000 applicants Will know
whether or not he has been lucky
enough TO receive a homestead.
Tbe lottery scheme robbed the open
,ne" NJ the picturesque run and the eN-
cling times incident to the great open
ing Of the Cherokee strip ten years aso,
Compared with that event the analr
is tame in the extreme Although there
are perhaps 10000 people In town no
disorder prevails. As a rule, the home-
seekers we're well provided with money
and provisions, and, aside from the
long wait in the sun before the regis
tration booths, no serious inconVen-
,ence has been experienced.
last night hundreds Of people slept
,r tbe streets. and all were anxious TO
maintain their places In the line. when
hogan forming yesterday at the six
registration booths In III Reno. Many
bad waited on the border OF the new
country for two years or more, and the
last night Of their long vigil was the
most trying they had experienced the
line was made up OF the halt the lame
and the brawny frontiersman, sprawl
ed out in the dust.
The crowd before each booth elected
q captain. and each man and woman IN
line was given a number, which they
pinned conspicuously TO their clothes.
4 company member was permitted oc-
caslonally to absent himself from the
line for a short breathing spell, and In
yaHably his Mace was "rotected by his
felow-watchers.
AS the hour Of 9 o'clock neared inter-
lopers tried to rush In anG break the
numerical order in the line organiza-
ton. This instantly raised bad blood,
and when word was passed down the
line little later that the booth officials
would not recognize the line organiza-
ton, but would register the first per-
sons to present themselves. there were
threats OF violence. and ri0tlng seemed
likely Trouble was prevented by the
carly announcement that the line or
ganlzation would be respected by the
government officials Cheers and way
Ing Of hats greeted the word, and from
that time forth there was no sign OF
trouble Applicants We're admitted to
the booths four at time. and the filing
proceeded rauidlT all day long.
During the day the heat became In
tense but no serious suffering was re-
ported The numerous women In line
were treated CALAMITY by the men, who
shaded them from the sun with UNI
brellas and furnished drinks from the
lemonade vendors.
The second place Of registration
named In the proclamation was at
where similar scenes TO those enacted
IN FL Reno were witnessed. The people
IN the vicinity of Mountain View and
other points along the border contigu-
Gus 70 that point left Yesterday for the
interior and presented themselves early
today at che Lawton booths.
LANDS MUST BE OPENED.
Washington. July lO.-The complaints
from land offices In oklahoma, other
than III Reno and Iawton, that they
should be allowed TO make registrations
for the opening OF the reservations on
the 6th pr0Ximo, are regarded officially
as not well founded The matter was
taken up some weeks ago, and Dele |
gate Flynn az the time unsuccessfully |
sndeayored TO have the other Oklahoma
Dfiices Included
II Is claimed here that the report OF |
me number OF cattle on the lands TO |
De opened has been exaggerated. and |
mat there are, In fact. on the Wichita |
.eservation only 1900 head The open
ng OF certain lands on August 9Th, |
which stockmen are seeking 90 have |
postponed Is mandatory. A large part |
u me 1900 head on the Wichita lands, |
! Is claimed can he shipped to the
market by the allotted time. and the |
est moved down TO the Kiowa grazing |
ands which win not be thrown open
% settlement
In response 20 a telegram from John
~ Springer, president Of the National |
ave stock association, Secretary |
hitchcock has wired the following:
The law left the department no dis
telon but 10 open the reservations
% ihe 9Th Of August, I'm conformity
,lih the Presidents proclamation dated
be I'm instnnin