Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-07-12

land districtS and land Offices in the ter
ritory of Oklahoma to include the lands
SO coded as aforesaid, which land dis
trtcts and land Offices have been estab-
ished by an order of even date herewith:
And. whereas. all of the conditions re-
Quired by law to be performed prior to
the opening of said tracts of land to set
Element and entry have been, hereby
declare, duly performed;
The Lands Excepted.
Now, therefore. 1, William Mckinley.
president of the United States of Amer
lea, by virtue of the power vested in me
by law. do hereby declare and make
known that all of the lands so as afore-
said coded by the Wichita and affiliated
bands of Indians, and the Comanche,
KIowa and Apache tribes of Indians, re-
spectively, saving and excepting sections
16, SO, IL and SO in each township, and all
lands located selected by the territory
of Oklahoma as indemnity school or edu-
cational lands, and saving and excepting
all lands allotted in severalty to indi-
vidua1 Indians, and saving and excepting
all lands allotted and confirmed to re-
ligious societies and other organizations.
and saving and excepting the lands
lected and set aside grazing lands for
the use in common for said Comanche,
Kiowa and Apache tribes of Indians, and
saving and excepting the lands set aside
and reserved at each of said county seats
for disposition as townsites. and saving
and excepting the lands now used, occu-
pied or set apart for military. agency.
school, school farm, religious, Indian
cemetery, wood reserve, forest reserve or
other public uses, will, on the 9Th day
of August, 1901, at nine o'clock a.. m, i'll
otherwise. be opened to entry and settle
ment and to disposition under the gen.
eraI provisions of the homestead and
tcwnsite laws of the United States.
Concerning Registration.
Commencing at nine o'clock a. m.
Wednesday, II nd at
six o'clock p. m. Friday, July 26, 1901, a
registration will be had at the United
States land offices at Ell Reno and Law
ton, in the territory of Oklahoma (the
office at Lawton to occupy provisional
quarters in the immediate vicinity of
Fort SILL Oklahoma territory, until suit
able quarters can be provided at Lawton),
for the purpose or aScerta1n1ng what per-
sons desire to enter, settle upon and ac-
quire title to any of said lands under the
homestead law and of ascertaining their
qualifications to do. The registration
at each office will be for both land dis
| tricts, but at the time of registration each
applicant will be required to elect and
| state in which district he desires to
| make entry. To obtain registration each
| applicant will be required to show him
| self duly qualified to make homestead
entry of these lands under existing laws
| and to give the registering officer such
| appropriate matters of description and
| identity will protect the applicant and
the government against any attempted
| impersonation. Registration cannot be
| effected through the use of the mails or
| the employment of an agent, excepting
| that honorably discharged soldiers and
| sailors entitled to the benefits of section
2904 of the revised statutes of the United
| States, as amended by the act of con-
| gresS approved March 1, 1901 (31 Stat.
| $40, may present their applications foI
| registration and due proofs Of their quail
ffcatfonS through an agent of their own
selection. but no person will be permitted
| to act agent for more than one such
| soldier or sailor. No person will be per.
| mftted to register more than once or In
any other than his true name. Each
| applicant who shows himself duly quail
fled will be registered and given a non.
| transferable certificate to that effect
| which will entitle him to go upon and ex.
anime the lands to be opened hereunder
in the land district in which he elects tt
make his entry; but the only purpose fol
which he may go upon and examine
said lands is that of enabling him latel
on, herein provided, to understand
ingly select the lands for which he will
make entry.
No Settlement Before Opening.
No one will be permitted to make set
Element upon any of said lands in ad
vance of the opening herein provided for
and during the first 60 days following
said opening no one but registered appli
cants will be permitted to make home
| stead settlement upon any of said lands
and then only in pursuance of a home
stead entry duly allowed by the loca
land officers, or of soldiers declara
tory statement duly accepted by such of
| ficers.
The order in which, during the first
days following the opening, the regis
. | tered applicants will be permitted to max
homestead entry of the lands opene
hereunder will be determined by draw
! ings for both the Ell Reno and Lawto
districts publicly held at the Unite
| States land Office at Ell Reno, Ok, com
mencing at nine o'clock a.. m, Monday
July %. 1901. and continuing for sue
period as may be necessary to complet
2 the same The drawings will be had un
der the supervision and immediate oh
servance of committee of three persons
whose integrity is such as to make thei
control of the drawing a guaranty of 1t
: fairness. The members of this commit
tee will be appointed by the secretar
f of the interior, who will prescribe suit
. able compensation for their services.
Cards for Identification.
Preparatory to these drawings the reg
: istration officers will, at the time of reg
istering each applicant who shows him
| self duly qualified, make out care
| which must be signed by the applican
stating the land district in which he de
: sires to make homestead entry, and giN
. ing such a description of the appltcar
as will enable the local land officers
thereafter identify him. This card wi
!, | be at once sealed in a separate envelop
: | which will bear no other distinguishin
label or mark than such as may t
G necessary to show that it is to go Int
the drawing for the land district
. | which the applicant desires to make Ell
= | try. These envelopes will be separate
? according to land districts and will
| carefully preserved and remain scale
;, | until opened in the course of the draw
= ings as herein provided. When the regi
tration is completed all of these scale
envelopes will be brought together at tt
| place of drawing and turned over to tt
t committee in charge of the drawin
Il who, lin such manner in their judi
r ment will be attended with entire fai
s ness and equality of opportunity, sha
d proceed to draw out and open the sep;
8 rate envelopes and to give to each II
d | rd MIN her in