The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-07
PRESIDENTS FORMAL PROCLAMA-
TION WILL BE MADE PUBLIC
TOMORROW MORNING
SETTLERS WAIT THE WORD
When KfOwa, COmanche and Wi
chita Reservations VIII He
Placed at Their Dis
pOsal
FOREST RESERVE HELD OUT

WASHINGTON, July 6.-The presi-
dents proclamation opening to settle
ment the newly ceded Indian lands in
Oklahoma Territory will be made public
in the newspapers of Monday morning.
There is a vast area of lands and
thousands of people have been waiting
upon the borders for months order to
be among the first to enter. The open
Ing up of the new coun, q, will neces-
state the creation of two new land dis
tricts and three new countless and they
have been established by proclamation
OF the president. The land office for the
first district is to be located at FL Reno,
in Oklahoma county, and the second at
the new town of Lawton, named for the
late Gen. Lawton, and located on the
site of Old Fort Sill. The lands en-
braced in Lawton district will be wholly
- in the newly ceded country, but addi-
tions will be made to the FL Reno dis
trict from both the Oklahoma City and
Kingisher districts.
The new counties created are named
respectively: Caddo. with Anadarko as
county seat; COmanche, with Lawton as
county seat and KioWa, with Hobart Is
county seat. A portion of the new lands
is added to counties already established.
The president will also issue a proc
lamatiOn designating the Wichita noun
tains in the heart of the old Kiowa res
ervation as a forest reserve. TIE lands
thus reserved cover an area of $500
acres and are covered with timber and
underground.
The proclamation and papers to be Is
sued with them are prepared by Judge
Nandeventer assistant attorney general
for the interior department. They pre-
sent a clear and succinct statement.
A force Of thirty clerks from the gen.
eral land office viii leave tonight for
Oklahoma to conduct the business per-
tanning to the opening of the KiOwa,
Comanche and Apache Indian lands in
that territory.
TO SUCCEED DAWES.
The only name mentioned here in con-
nection with the office OF comptroller Of
the currency to succeed Mr.. Dawes Is
that of George q. Roberts, of Iowa, the
present director of the mint
1t is well known that Mr.. Roberts has
the full confidence of the president and
the secretary of The treasury and that
they regard MIN as a man of conspicu-
Gus ability and of the highest integrity.
He has long been prominent in Iowa. as
an able and forceful writer on financial
subjects, and it was in recognition of his
ability on this line that he received the
unsolicited appointment as director of
the United States mint. AT present Mr..
Roberts is in san Francisco.
TRIBUTE TO CAPT. MYERS.
The navy department has received an
extract from the official report of the
German minister at PelIln in regard to
the campaign of the allied forces which
resulted in the rescue of the legationers
at Pekin in which high tribute is paid
to Capt. John Myers of the United
States marine corps, who had command
of the marine guard during the Siege
IF an exception could be made to the
rule that American subjects cannot re-
ceive foreign decorat.ons," said the Ger
man ambassador, then in my opinion,
of those not German who took part in
the siege of Pekin, the American cap
tain, Myers, should be the first to re-
ceive from us an order of distinction.
According to the universal opinion of all
participants, Capt. Myers, with the
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