The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-07-12
SIXTH OF AUGUST.
President Names Date for Opening
New Indian Lands.

Those Who wish 10 Enter Must Register
Order of Applications to Be Deter
mined by Drawing-No Transfer
once of Certificate Allowed.
Washington, July S.-The proclama-
ton of President Mckinley opening
TO settlement the lands coded by In
dams in the territory of Oklahoma
was given to the public yesterday.
1t is as follows:
By the President of the United States Of
America-A Proclamation:
Whereas. by an agreement between the
Wichita and affiliated bands Off Indians
on the one part, and certain commission
ers Of the United States on the other
part, ratified by act Of congress approved
March 2, 1885 (2S Stat. $40, S94), the said
Indians coded. conveyed, transferred and
relinquished forever and absolutely. with
out any reservation whatever, unto the
United States of America, all their claim,
title and interest of every kind and char
acter In and to the lands embraced In the
following described tract Of country now
In the territory of Oklahoma, to-wit:
Commencing at point in the middle
or the main channel of the Washita river,
where the nfnety-eighth meridian of west
longitude crosses the same, thence up
river to the line of SO degrees 40 minutes
west longitude, thence on said line Of SO
degrees 40 minutes due north to the mid
die. of the channel of the main Canadian
river, thence down the middle of said
main Canadian river to where it crosses
the ninety-eighth meridian, thence due
south to the place of beginning"
And, whereas, in pursuance Of said act
Of congress ratifying said agreement. al
lOtments of land in severalty have been
ToRulArlv made fO each and n.
Der Of said Wichita and affiliated bands
of Indians, native and adopted, and the
lands occupied by religious societies or
other organizations for religious or edu-
cattonal work among the Indians have
been regularly allotted and confirmed to
such societies and organizations, re-
spectively;
And. whereas, by an agreement be-
tween the Comanche, Kiowa and Apache
tribes Of Indians on the one part, and
certain commissioners Of the United
States on the other part. amended and
ratified by act of congress, approved
June g. 1900 (31 Stat, 672. 676), the said In
dian tribes. subject to certain conditions
which have been duly performed, coded,
conveyed, transferred, relAlquished and
surrendered, forever and absolutely, with
out any reservation whatever, expressed
or implied, unto the United States of
America, all their claim, title and interest
OF every kind and character and to the
lands embraced in the following de-
scribed tract Of country now in the ter
ritory of Oklahoma. to-wit:
commencing at a point where the
Washington river crosses the ninety
eighth meridian west from Greenwich;
thence up the Washita river, in the
middle Of the main channel thereof, to
point 30 miles, by river, west of Fort
Cobb as now established: thence due
west to the north fork Of the Red river,
provided said line strikes said river east
~ hn arnn-
longitude: If not, then only to said me-
ridian line. and thence due south, on said
meridian line, to the said north fork Of
Red river; thence down said north fork,
In the middle Of the main channel there
Of, from the point where it may be first
intersected by the line above described.
to the main Red river; thence down said
Red river in the middle of the main
channel thereof, to its intersection with
the ninety-eighth meridian Of longitude
said meridian line. to the place of be-
ginning.''
Set Aside for tho Indians.
And whereas, in pursuance Of said act
of congress ratifying the agreement last
named, allOtmentS of land in severalty
have been regularly made to each mem
Der of said Comanche, Kiowa and
Apache tribes of Indians; the lands oc-
cupied by religious societies or other or
ganizations for religious or educational
work among the Indians have been regll-
larly allotted and confirmed to such So
cieties and organizations, respectively;
and the secretary Of the interior, out of
the lands coded by the agreement last
named, has regularly selected and set
aside for the use in common for said
Comanche, Kiowa and Apache tribes of
Indian, $4,000 acres of grazing lands;
And. whereas, in the act of congress
ratifying the said Wichita agreement it
Is provided:
THAT whenever any of the lands ac-
quired by this agreement shall, by opera
ton CT law or proclamation of the presi-
dent of the United States, be open to
settlement, they shall be disposed Of un-
der the general provisions Of the home
stead and townsite laws Of the United
States; provided that In addition to the
such entries the entry man shall pay
the time Of submitting his final proof;
stead entries where the entry man has
resided upon and improved the land en-
tered in good faith for the period Of IA
months he may commute his entry to
cash upon the payment Of SIS per acre:
and provided further, that the rights Of
honorably discharged union soldiers and
sailors Of the late civil war. as defined
and described in sections 1904 and 2306 Of
the revised statutes shall not be
abridged; and provided further. that any
qualified entry man having lands adj
joining the lands herein coded, whose
original entry embraced less than 160
acres, may take sufficient land from
aoi6 yoServa finn m make hfs homestead