The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-07-09
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III. N. MURDOCH. Editor.


reveal its exact meaning.
In the first place registration begins FL Reno and
at the Lawton land Offices July 10 continues until
July &C.
In the second place at Ell Reno and at FL Reno only.
there viii be drawing It will proceed rapidly and will
be completed in a very few days. Some to think
that only 125 names win be drawn day There Is no
such provision the proclamation The force at work
may draw 5000 names day. If they 10000 While
men register at Lawton and FL Reno. drawing will
take place at LAYTON occurs at Ell Reno alone The
public has nothing to do drawing except witness
it. 1t is officially conducted, and occurs July 29.
The morning after the drawing the FL Reno Office viii
give out long list Of in the numerical order in
which they have been drawn
Now on August 6 the first 125 men drawn win appear
ct Ell Reno and No will come forward and file the
claim he wants; No . will follow and select If No is
not on hand ne the and after the
rest Of the 125 have appeared may appear and must then
appear and take his choice Of available land But because
he was No he can not choose any land selected by
numbered higher than day the simple reason
that he forfeited his right prior selection when he did not
appear just previous to On August G. at the
time that this is occurring the FL Reno Office 125
will be selecting lands also the Lawton land Office IN
other words $50 men will select file claims the first
day.
That is the whole story. IS not difficult to under
stand and any mental in the matter be swept
away by another reading Of the proclamation and by
weighing every word in it When the government says
must" it means must"
To explain the rnodus operandi: Suppose John Jones
Of Oklahoma desires to enter trial claim He
goes to FL Reno or to Lawon July 10 any other date
July July 26 gives proof Of his qualifications
an enryman the Office his name taken his address
and Identification is asked he select his claim
f. the Iawton district the district this
registered. then given certificate. which certifes
that duly registered This certificate entities him
60 upon the reservation and ground
rot settle he cannot 1e anything
make choice Che viii make naturally severaD.
There is nothing else for John August
except to keep his eyes open the result the drawing
On July o. he win be alert He viii be watching eagerly
for the list Of names drawn
On jay 29 the drawing viii take place at Ell Reno
Lawton viii have nothing with it. John Jones viii
be in Ell Reno The next morning long list names
drawn win be announced, perhaps many hundreds of
names not exactly 1875 They VIII be announced under
two headings FL district list district
Jones having announced he got his certificate that
would take claim in the E Reno district gances eagerly
the FL list and with great gadness sees some
thing like this: NO 127 John Jones' Oklahoma City"
him that early August to be the
FL Reno land Office he his certificate Of reg
strauon along. The day previous 125 have filed
He goes to the land Office and there is just one man ahead
Of him No No IS satisfied and John Jones looms
tip at the counter and says he win take such and such
quarter section The clerk him has been taken the
day before then Jones tries again. that too was taken the
-
has taken and John Jones thereupon files pays
regulation makes the customary proofs and
goes claim He doesn't have to get horse
and dash madly away his farm as some seem to
think
The drawing feature seems to confuse great many.
The mere detail the of drawing is not yet set
tied Immaerial whether the envelopes are put in
box and shaken up or q tub.
Three men, not named yet viii have charge Of this
matter one place they viii put all envelopes contain
ing the names those registered as applicants for lands
the FL Reno districts in another all the envelopes for the
Iawton district The envelopes win be blank One win
be drawn the E Reno receptacle and marked No L.
viii be drawn the Lawton box and marked No /
Each envelope viii be opened and it viii be found to con
tain what has been previously placed therein the name Of
who is in possession OF registered certificate
That number viii be posted in each case
The drawing viii continue until as many names are
drawn there available claims IN the Ell Reno and
Lawton districts win then cease The envelopes left
the boxes and not drawn are not winners; they will not
be drawn; they viii be destroyed Before August every
man who has certificate Of registration win know whether
his has been drawn whether it has been eft in
the boxes He viii be also able tell by his number on
what day he is to be at the land Office If he is
day $50 the second DAY; if s75 the third day and SO on
The sixty day provision Of the proclamation is exciting
deal Of discussion. What the proclamation says
is that land shall be subject entry in the reservation
except through the drawing sixty days after August