The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-06-13
fLIhh TAlh5 ABOUT TIL 0ptH|hd
GIVES VALUABLE IMPORTATION
ANENT THE RESERVATION.
Tells Iwho sre Eligible TO Participate
In the Drawing Gives Plans For Sell
Iins Townsites 80 Mandatory he
says to open August sIsth.

OklhUOmd wy ElNtp hh ih'SitSN
ing interview with Dennis Flynn,
regarding the opening of the In
dian reservations, which we re.
produce:
Delegate Flynn has just return
ed from a weeks visit with Coy
ernor jenkins. out in the Kiowa
and Comanche country. He is
now enroute to Washington where
he will watch the developments in
the Kiowa and Comanche affairs
with a view to settlement on sched
ule time, and incidentally to cap
ture as much patronage as possible
for Oklahomans.
"Of course | know nothing def
nitely, concerning Secretary Hitch
cocks plans in the kiowa and
Comanche country" said Mr..
Flynn, but my belief is that there
will be three counties in the kiowa
aud Comanche country, making
four new counties to be provided
for. the Wichita lands making the
fourth. One of the county seats
will be at Anadarko, one at or near
Kiowa and the other near Fit Sill,
and, say, adjoining the FIT. Sill
townsite is a school reserve section
which will eventually bring hand
some treaty to the Territory"
Mr.. Flynn, a dispatch says that
the governor favors taking up the
valuable claims around the towns
as indemnity school lands. You
were with him, so you ought to
know something about it.
Il do" was Mr.. Flynn's reply
to the question, "and it's a grand
scheme, too. The governor pro-
poses to do that very thing, and
why shouldn't hei Is there any
injustice in allowing a $40, 900
claim to 90 to some individual,
when it can be reserved for the use
and benefit of all of the children Of
the Territory and future statei IL
Gov. jenkins should do no other
worthy act during his administra'
ton, that one should endear him
to the people of Oklahoma. The
governor says that by virtue Of his
Office he is the trustee of the school
endowments for Oklahoma. and
that he proposes to make it a
princely one if it lies in his power
10 do so.
Yet, the allotments are about
al made, and the whole matter
will be closed up by the 10th. The
plan to be adopted for the dis
tribution of these lands' Why a
drawing, of course. do not know
the details but | know the depart
ment of the interior has favorably
considered a plan something like
this; Let every eligible home
steader file his application in due
form, enclosing Herewith fourteen
dollars; have this work done at
every land Office in the territory in
order not to produce coujestion
of land seeker5. Give thirty days
for this registration work, then
collect all of these papers at one
point where the drawing is to take
place. No, gets first choice of
all lands in the reservation, No. ,
the next and so on. In case No. |
fails to appear on the first day for
fling he goes to the bottom of the
list for selection, etc
Mr.. Flynn, who can take a
homestead in the new countryf"
Il am glad that you have asked
that question, for have received
no end of correspondence on that
point. OF course any head OF Fam
lily or person over twenty one years
old who has never used his home
stead right. is eligible then any
person who has filed on claim
and for any reason failed to perfect
title is eligible; and ! think that
anyone who commuted after four
teen months residence. believe
that the bill / got through in 1898
should let in everybody, but the
department has ruled otherwise,