Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12

August 6, the Date Fixed
tor the Opening OF the
Wichita and COmanche,
ki1wa and Apache Indian
Lands to Settlement.
= NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Observation-Disclosures

upon the payment of SIPS per acre. And
provided further. That the rights OF
honorably discharged Union soldiers and
| sailors of the late civil war, as defined
and described In sections 1904 and $50;
of the revised statutes shall not be
abridged. And. provided further. That
any person who, having attempted to-
but for any cause failed TO secure a
title in fee to a homestead under exist
Ing laws, or who made entry under what
is known as the committed provision OF
the homestead law, shall be qualified to
make homestead entry upon said lands
And, provided further. That any quail
fled entry man having lands adjoining
the lands herein coded. whose original
entry embraced less than lou acres In all
shall have the right to enter so much of
the lands by this agreement coded living
contiguous to his said entry as shall,
with the land already entered, make In
the aggregate 100 acres, said land to be
taken upon the same conditions as are
required of other entry men. And, pro-
vidcd further. That the settlers who
located on that part of said lands called
and known as the neutral strip shall
have preference right for thirty days on
tho lands upon which they have located
and improved.
THAT should any of said lands allotted
to said Indians, or opened to settlement
under this act contain valuable mineral
deposits, such mineral deposits shall be
open to location and entry, under the
existing mining laws of the United
States, upon the passage of this act,
and the mineral laws of the United
States are hereby extended over said
lands.
And. whereas. by the act Of Congress
approved January 4. 1901 81 Stat. 720.
the secretary of the interior was author
lied to extend, for a period not exceed
ing eight months from December 8. 1900.
the time for making allotments to the
Comanche, Kiowa and Apache Indians
and opening to settlement the lands so
coded by them;
And whereas, In pursuance OF the act
of Congress approved March 3, 1901 $50
Stat, 1899. the secretary of the interior
has regularly subdivided the lands so as
aforesaid respectively ceded to the Unit
ed States by the Wichita and affiliated
bands of Indians and the Comanche,
Kiowa and Apache tribes of Indians In
to counties, attaching portions thereof to
adjoining counties In the territory of
Oklahoma, has regularly designated the
place for the county seat of each new
county, has regularly set aside and re-
served at each county seat land for
townsite to be disposed of in the man
ner provided by the act of congress last
named and has regularly caused tt be
surveyed, subdivided and plated the
lands so set aside and reserved for dis
position as such townsites;
And whereas. by the act of Congress
last named 1t Is provided
1.-The lands to be opened to settlement
and entry under the acts of Congress
ratifying said agreements respectively
shall be 30 opened by proclamation of
The President, and to avoid the contests
and conflicting claims which have here
tofore resulted from opening similar pub
lie lands to settlement and entry, the
Presidents proclamation shall prescribe
the manner in which these lands may
be settled upon, occupied and entered by
persons entitled thereto under the acts
ratifying said agreements. respectively;
and no person shall be permitted to set
tie upon, occupy Or enter any of said
lands except as prescribed in such proc
until after the expiration of
sixty days from the time when the same
are opened to settlement and entry.
TO OPEN AUGUST G.
And. whereas. BY the act of Congress
last named the President was authorized
10 establish two additional United States
land districts and land offices in the
territory of Oklahoma to include the
lands so coded as aforesaid. which land
districts and land offices have been es-
tablished by an order of even date here
with:
"And. whereas All of the conditions
required by law to be performed prior
10 the opening of said tracts of land to
settlement and entry have been, as l
hereby declare, fully performed;
Now, therefore. j, William Mckinley,
President of the United States of Amer
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ne by law, do hereby declare and make
snbwn that all of the lands so as afore-
said ceded by the Wichita and amliated
1ands of Indians. and the Comanche.
<iowa and Apache tribes of Indians. re-
,pectively. saving and excepting Sec
ions 49, IS. 10 and SO in each township.
Ind all lands located or selected by the
.erritory of Oklahoma as indemnity
school or educational lands. and saving
and excepting all lands allotted in sew
.ralty to individual Indians. and saving
ind excepting all lands allotted and con-
Irmed to religious societies and other
and saving and excepting
he lands selected and set aside as graz
ng lands for the use in common for
said Comanche, Kiowa and Apache tribe
IF Indians. and saving and excepting
he lands set aside and reserved at each
If said county seats for disposition as
ands now used. occupied or set apart
or military. agency. school, school farm.
Indian cemetery wood re-
serve, forest reserve, or other public
Uses, will. on the 9Th day of August,
sol, at o'clock a. M, in the manner
herein prescribed and not otherwise, be
opened to entry and settlement ami to
disposition under the general provisions
If the homestead anC townsite laws of
he United States.
Commencing at 0 o'clock a. M,
Wednesday, July 10, 1901, and ending at
o'clock p. M. Friday, July 26, 1901.
will be had at the United
States land offices at Ell Reno and Law
ION, in the territory of Oklahoma Uhe
office at Lawton to occupy provisional
quarters in the immediate vicinity of
Fort SILL Oklahoma territory, until suit
able quarters can be provided at Law
toni, for the purpose of ascertaining
what persons desire to enter. settle upon,
and acquire title to any of said lands
under the homestead law and Of ascer-
tanning their qualifications so to do. The
registration at each Office will be for
both land districts, but at the tims of
each applicant will be re-
1uired to elect and state In which dis
.rict he desires to make entry. To OBJ
tain registration each applicant will be
to show himself duly qualified
10 make homestead entry Of these lands
under existing laws and to give the reg
STEERING officer such appropriate matters
If description and identity as will pro-
Iect the applicant and the government