The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1901-07-12
DATE OF OPENING.
Indian Lands Will Be Chosen by
Lottery On August 6.
President Mckinley Gives Rules to
Govern Those Desiring Homes in
the New COuntry-ThQse Who
Are Disqualified.


nations opening the KiOwa, COmanche
and Apache and Wichita and CaddO In
dian reservations in Oklahoma to set
Element provide for the formal open
ing of the reservations on August 6.
The new Pla2 of opening embraces
three distinct features. (D A regis
tration to determine the qualifications
of those who desire to make entry
of these lands. ~ A drawing to de-
termine the order in which the reg
istered applicants will be permitted
to present their applications, and to
make homestead entry at the local
land Offices. 81 According to each
registered applicant of the privilege
of going upon the reservation for the
purpose of acquainting himself with
the character and locality Of the lands
there, so that at the time of making
entry at the local land Office he may
act understandings in selecting the
land for which he viii make entry.
The three features of the opening
occur in regular order. The registra-
ton will commence at nine a. m,
Wednesday, July 10, and continue I'M
til six D. IN Friday, July %. The draw
ings viii commence at nine a. m. Mon
day, July %, and continue until Mon
day, August 5. The actual making of
homestead entries at the local land
Office viii begin at nine a. m. August 6,
and continue from day to day there
after for so days, if necessary. Regis
tratiOn may be made at each land
Office, FL Reno and Lawton, for either
district. The drawing for both dis
tricts will occur at FL Reno. The pre-
sentation and allowance of homestead
entries from the FL Reno district viii
be at FL Reno, and for the LawtOn dis
trict at LawtOn.
The feature of the opening which
has attracted most attention and dis
cusSaDn is that providing for a system
of drawing to determine the order in
which the applications for hOmesteads
will be considered. It's details are Civ
en- fully in the proclamation of the
president. The drawings will be con-
Quoted by a committee of three per-
sons who will be named by the secre-
tary of the interior. Applicants viii
indicate in which of the two land dis
tricts they wish to locate. While the
drawing for the two districts will be
conducted separately, they will be car
ried on at the same place and as near
8 possible at the same time.
The county seat of Caddo county is
AnadarkO; KiOwa county, Hobart, and
of COmanche county, Lawton. A for
est reservation Of $4,000 acres of land
in the Wichita mountains in the cen
ter of the Kiowa reservation is estab-
lished
Deducting the lands allotted the In
dams, granted to Oklahoma for school
purposes. and reserved for agency
purposes, there viii be practically s.
OOO.16O acre tracts in the Wichita res
ervatiOn
Making like deductions. there will
be practically $500 16O-acre tracts in
the KiOwa. Comanche and Apache res
ervatiOnS. The two reservations have
been so divided in the establishment
of the new land districts as to put an
equal amount of land in each district.
Winners of hOmesteads will be mott
fed by postal card of their success.
'SOOners" are effectuaIly barred Re
peaters will be deprived of their priv
ilege- Settlers are cautioned to re-
SPect the fences found i'm the new
country. Lands in the neutral strip
are to be reserved for location by set
tiers upon these lands for 80 DAYS.
None of the lands can be obtained as
free homes. When final proof of entry
Is submitted the homesteader must
pay $1.25 per acre to perfect the title.
Those Disqualified from Making Entry.
Washington. July 9.-Commissioner
Hermann, of the general land office.
has issued a general circular specify
ing the persons who are disqualified
from making homestead entry in the
Wichita and KiOwa, Comanche and
Apache coded lands. Those disuuaIi-
fed are as follows:
ANY person who has an existing
homestead entry or, after June 6,
I 800. abandoned or relinquished such
entry; a married woman. unless de-
serted or abandoned by her husband:
those not citizens or who have not
declared such intention; anyone IN
der 81 years of age. not the head of
family, unless he served in the army
or navy If or more days in actual war;
proprietOrs of over 100 acres of land
anywhere; anyone who has perfected
title to homestead of 16O acres by
proof of residence and cultivation for
five years or under section ?. act of
June Is, 1850; anyone whose title ac-
quired and now being acquired by him
under the public land laws. in pursu-
ance of entries made since August 80
1890, with the tract now sought to be
entered, win make an aggregate OF
over 100 acres of nOn-mineral land.
Gave His Life for Another.
st. Paul. Mimi, July Mrs. Annie