The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-08-06
AFTERMATH
OF FL. RENO'S
GREAT BOOM
Receiver Reid Estimates Num-
Der Who Will Not File.
CITY is CLEANING UP
Miss BeaI Causes a Stir
Among the Clerks.
CITY is CLEANING UP

FL Reno, o. T, Aug. 5.-From al in
dications on October s. the men who
hoped for an oId-fashioned horse race
in connection with the opening of the
Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indian
lands win have an opportunity Of par
ticipating in one. It is estimated that
nearly twenty per cent of the people who
have secured numbers emitting them to
farms in the new country, viii not file
when the time comes. Every man who
drops out viii give that much more of
a chance to the man who did not get
number to make homestead entry on the
land remaining unsettled. The people
who haved riven here and waited for
months for the opening and yet did not
get a number win have a. chance to
make a homestead entry on this land.
Many of them viii be successful in do
ing so.
Receiver Tom Reid, Of the FL Reno
land Office, stated yesterday to the cor
respondent for the Eagle that in his es-
timation fully LOCO number holders in
each district would not file on their
land and that would mean a much bet
ter chance for those desiring to file, for
the man who wants to make a homestead
entry at the end of sixty days" said
Mr.. Reid, there viii be an old-fashioned
horse race. People viii make every ef-
fort 10 get the best land remaining The
people who failed to secure numbers and
kicked on the drawing plan of opening
4l,.-f- III,
it viii again be the survival Of the fit
test. From estimates which / have made
], 200 persons in each district will not file,
and some OF this land is bound to be in
good localities. We are being besieged
with questions right now about making
entry on this land and it is my hope
that many of the men who have waited
around the country for months, will get
homes
Governor Richards, who has estimated
that twenty per cent Of the people Sc
curing numbers viii not file, said: Il be
Ieve that twenty per cent is a fair esti-
mate It may reach more than that and
it may not. This VIII give the man who
waited around here for many weeks in
WAGONS, for the opening. chance to
make homestead entry on the lands re-
manning unsettled There is one feature
that I did not like about the drawing
plan. The people who wanted homes
had to take equal chances with the men
who registered for the fun of the thing
I hope that the man who really wants
farm in the new country viii get it after
the sixty days are up. I do not know
whether it viii be a horse race or not,
but do believe that there wiz be
spirited contest for the balance of the
land not filed on at the end of the period
for persons holding numbers to file"
Il now wish that we could have had
onl ten days Of registration.
This would have cut off six days and
it might have stopped the people from
the east who came in to see the country
and take chance for farm, because
it did not cost anything and really did
not care whether they secured a farm
or not. Had this been done, it would
have given the man who waited so long
for the opening. a better chance for a
home"
The filing VIII be watched with interest
by the people who want homes and these
people viii know just exactly what land
has been filed upon by the lucky home
finders.