The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-26
Registration Ceases For Home
seekers at 6 This Evening.
Over 161, 900 Had Signed on
Thursday Evening.
A TREMENDOUS RUSH.
Nearly All the Crowd Pour Into
Ell Reno.
How the Drawing Will Prob
ably be Conducted.

FL Reno, Ok, July 26.-This evening
at 6 O'Clock the booths in this city and
LawtOn will be closed and the registra-
ton of seekers for homes in the XII
owa-Comanche and Apache reserva-
tons viii be at an end. Thursday night
at the close Of registration 1892 per-
sons had registered in the two dis
tricts. Registration, Ell Reno, 11,196;
Lawton, 81. Total, FL Reno, 131, 1888;
LawtOn. 80, 159.
A special dispatch to the Daily Amer
lean from Fort Sill says:
Saturday morning at o'clock Major
Scott viii send out troops to clear the
Fort Sill military reservation Of all
persons. This reservation is not coded
land and has no connection with the
land to be opened to settlement The
registration was held at Fort Sill sim
ply as a matter of expediency.
The Lone Wolf suit to enjoin the OPP
ening Of the new country by agree
ment will be argued today instead Of
Saturday. There is only one way to
defeat the lottery plan of opening the
KioWa- Comanche country in case the
Lone Wolf injunction is knocked out
and that will be for some rowdies to
make a raid and destroy the lottery
lamation the lands must be thrown
open to settlement August 6.
Judge Dale and Patrick Dyer, two of
the lottery commissioners, arrived last
night. IT don't think we viii use a
wheel" said Judge Dale. Il am in IA
vor of using a big box or hogshead-
We will have to build the contriyance
right away. Did you ever stop to think
what a huge box it will take? There
will be about $1,000 envelopes in each of
the two boxes. They will all have to
be loose. 1t takes a box six inches
wide, four deep and fifteen long to
hold 400 of the envelopes pressed tight
" together.
Coming down on a train last night a
party of Kansans organized themselves
into p. H." club. The grand pre-
varicator. Major G. w. Bennett, says
the initials stand for played He'll"
and that will strike about all of them
when the lottery comes off. Among the
Kansans who are members are the fol-
lowing: w. D. Bishop, Topeka: A. p
Wilmoth, Concordia; Hiram c. Root
Topeka; William Grimes c. b Win
gett, Topeka; Henry Heller, Holton; B.
III. Davis, Topeka: w. H. Kelsey, To-
pelza; W. w. c. Dixon. Topeka; F. A.
Belt, Kiowa; J. G. Roberts, Kinghsher,
Ok; j. c. Robb. Coldwater: DR.. G. e.
Hammond, Topeka; George F. Smith,
Marysville; z. P. Jordan, Topeka; J. N.
CAriA nASC14s 4OpCfAd5 ~ ~ JORDAN, Lyons
r. G. Porterfield, Holton; H l. Stude-
want, Topeka; Judge W. D. Gilbert,
Atchison; Judge George w. Clarke, To-
peka; A l. Davis. Topeka; F. B. Gift
ford, Clay Center: G. w Bennett Chi
cago. Ill; D. f. Cobb. Topeka; Major
G. Woodward, Topeka; Brigadier Cen
eral C c. Shaler. Lawrence: D. H
Clement, Holton: w. a. McNeeley,
Omaha, Neb.: Lieut. F. E. Weddleton,
Topuka Ferdinand Borland Gillette, To-
peka; John Alvin, Topeka.
The commissioners are not able to
tell how long It will take to complete
the drawing we will try to pull the
winners out of the box in two or three
days" said Judge Dale, but It may
take longer. I am in favor of giving
the claims to the first 1900 names out.