The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-07-28
Major Scott VIII Drive Boomers
Into the New Lands---Can't Stay
Longer at Fort Sill.
LAYTON IS NOW FULL OF LIFE
Everybody Seems to Want Home in the New
Country---Some Peculiar incidents of the
Great Rush at FL RenO---Funny Sides
of the Great Drama.

FL Reno. o. T, July 1.-THE military
reservation is TO be cleared Of all home
seekers by tomorrow. Major Scott gave
out his orders Friday night and his men
were ordered TO start early Saturday
morning. There are thousands Of home
seekers camped on the reservation and
the orders of Major Scott viii send them
into the lands opening for settlement
Inc majority OF the homeseelIers are ia
iniliar with the country and it VIII be no
hardship TO break up camp and move.
The heat has not been so intense for the
rast Jew days as a heavy rain fell both
here and at Lswton, Thursday. The mois-
ture iasd the dust and driving through
the reservation is far more pleasanter
than it has been for months.
The townsite Of Lawton is now a lievly
place. People have been congregatng
there for some time. BY the time the lots
are placed on sale, there viii be humid
reds Of people ready to buy residences
or business lots. The town is composed
now of people from every place. All con-
ventionalities are thrown aside. A man
meets another and it does not make nay
difference whether they nave had an in
PRODUCTION, they know each other. It
IS not hard to get good things in the way
of eatabIes in the new town. There is
barbershop running and man with a
dislike for whiskers can be taken care OF.
The people who are landing at Lawton
now feel that the city is going to be the
principal one Of the new country. Many
of the people here have money and after
The opening these people will open up
business enterprises, with plenty Of
money behind the business.
Two Wichita young women, Misses
Bernice and Goldie Evans have registered
for claims in the new country. Both
applicants, If successful, intend to live
on their farms. The young women came
in on one Of the Rock Island trains, reg
istered and started back within an hour,
after arriving in the city.
Miss Angie Penny, stenographer in the
Office of Territorial Auditor L w. Bax-
ter. has registered for a farm in the res
ervation- Miss Penny is another Okla
bona young woman who VIII take charge
Of her farm if successful in the drawing.
o
the capital city, has registered for
farm. Mr.. Berkey, if he secures farm,
viii erect a house where he can receive
his Guthrie friends in the best of style
and viii arrange for a fishing place near
The Wichita mountains.
Rev. John II. Fazel. formerly OF Wich-
tia and now Of Guthrie has registered
for farm. II Rev. Fazel is successful
he viii take charge Of his farm and
preach the gospel, too.
f. p. McCabe, chief clerk in the terri
torial auditors Office. has registered in
Fl Reno for a farm. 1lr. NcCabe says
that the territorial officers all want
homes in the new country and are taking
chances in the great American drawing.
AIr. NIcCabe was accompanied by Lewis
Lawless. of Guthrie.
John II. Crother, of the Santa Fe at
Oklahoma City. formerly with the Frisco
at Wichita, has registered for farm in
the FL Reno district. Mr.. Grother has a
strong idea OF giving up railroad bust
ness If he secures one OF these good
farms in the FL Reno district.
Some peculiar things happen IN El
Reno r. /. Groesbeck of Des Moines,
Iowa lost his hat while on the train at
Kansas City He registered at the Ker-
foot after arriving here on coming
from the dining room he saw his hat. He
picked up the missing head covering and
sure enough. it had his name In it. He
didn't stop TO ind out who had it,