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CATTLEMEN UNEASY.
View with Alarm the Opening Of
Indian Lands.
NAY PROVE A HEAVY LOSS TO THEM.
Men and Women Eager to become
4 Settlers Flock in Great
i Crowds to Eel Reno to
/. Register.

Denver, Col, July 10.-The action
of the president in proclaiming the
opening for settlement of the reser-
walton lands in Oklahoma on August
6 is causing great uneasiness to cat
t1emen.
1t is said that there are 100000 head
of cattle on the ranges that have been
leased by the Texas and Oklahoma
stockmen. These cattle are imma ture
and unfit for the market at the pres
ent time. If the order is carried out
these cattle will have to be shipped
Immediately and sold for canning in
the eastern markets for what they
will bring.
1t is said that delay of 90 or even
30 days would enable the owners to
put the cattle on the market in proper
condition. To secure such delay. If
possible, the following telegram was
sent to Secretary Hitchcock Saturday
night:
Live stock interests in west and south
west will be seriously affected unless
proclamation opening Kiowa and CO.
manche reservations can be delayed until
herds immature cattle can be shipped to
market. On behalf of live stock industry
respectfully petition for such delay
(signed) JOHN w. SPRINGER,
. President National Live Stock ASSN"
! Only One Place to Register.
Kansas City, Mo-, July 10.-A special
from st. El Reno, Okla, says: 1.-THE
failure of the presidents proclama-
tion to permit registration at all land
In, loh hoc n
zach complaint, and, acting upon the
request of Oklahoma City, Perry,
Guthrie and other land Office towns,
Delegate Dennis T. Flynn has ap-
pealed by telegraph to the interior de-
partment at Washington, asking that
all land Offices be given authority to
accept registration. His request will
be supplemented by kilograms from
citizens in the different towns. AS
the matter stands now, FL Reno will
hsS practically the only land Office
where home-seekers will assemble, as
Lawton, the other town named, is Is
miles from q RAILROAD. Ell Reno is
wholly lacking in facilities for caring
for such crowd as will come here
If other points are not designated as
places of registration. Five thousand
strangers would overtax its accom-
modations, and as many az 10000 peo-
pie are expected in the event that
other towns are not named. w. A.
Richards, assistant commissioner of
the United States general land office,
with a corps of about 35 experienced
clerks, have reached here and regis
tration will begin this morning. Six
registration booths have been pro-
vided to prevent the assembling Of
an immense crowd at one place.
Ell Reno Is Crowded.
FL Reno, Okla, July 10.-Every train
brings extra coaches crowded with
people coming here to register, and
roads leading into. the city are lined
with travellers TO this place for the
same purpose. The hotels and res
taurants are already taxed to their
utmost capacity, but there will be no
suffering here for lack of food and
accommodations. The Opera house
has already been turned into an eat
ing and sleeping house, and as rap
idly as needed churches and school
houses, and every available room will
be given up for the accommodation OF
the crowd. Many come with but blan.
kets, expecting to camp out, and hun.
dreds of tents now dot the side streets
to be used for that purpose. Gov
Richards, of the interior department,
and 30 clerks from Washington ar
xived Tuesday, and present places for
registration will be ready at nine a.
m. to-day. A Fine of men has formed
at each of these places. Gov. Richards
says the work of registering will pro-
coed rapidly, as many Of the booths
will be- opened as may be deemed nee
lessary as the work progresses.
Twelve thousand pounds of blanks
have arrived by mail from Washing
ton. The reports that the registering
would be enjoined by certain Indians
through their attorneys is ridiculed
here.
on to Register.
Oklahoma City. Okla, July TO-
Nearly 1000 people left this city Tues
day night to go to El Reno to regis
ter. Only one train left here Tuesday
afternoon for that place, and the
coaches were crowded to their ut
most capacity. Several hundred PEG.
pie waited at the station until the
train came in, when wild scramble
ensued for seats.
Women as well as men were boost
ed through the windows of the
coaches. which were filed almost MS
soon as the train had stopped. 9th.
ers stood on the platforms or climbed
to the top of the coaches. Nearly
everyone carried a blanket and pro-
visions. canteens and jugs were
taken along TO guard against water
famine. The hotels at Fl Reno being
already filed. hundreds of people will
be compelled TO sleep in the streets.
The Proclamation.
Washington, July lG.-In his recen,
proclamation opening to settlement
hands coded by Indians in Oklahoma
territory the president includes the
filia'ted bands of Indians in accordance
with the. act of March Q, 1896, and
those made i.y the Comanche, Kiowa
and Apache tribes in pursuance of the
act of June 6, 1900
The proclamation provides for tho
opening OF the ln1ds in those reserya-
tions which are not reserved at nine
o'clock a. m, on August next. the
lands to be open to settlement under
the homestead and town site laws of
the United States. Beginning on the
nth inot q nd aud in u ON the 9th thaca