The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-07-05
OPENING
WILL BE BY
LOTTERY
Presidents Proclamation Sat-
urday or Monday.
PLAN TO BE ADOPTED
Home8eekerS viii be Allowed
Certain Privileges.


there viii be period of registration.
lasting thirty or forty days prior TO the
opening. during which each applicant for
the lands viii be required to show by writ
ten proofs that he is entitled to make
homestead entry. and actually desires to
90 SO as a means Of procuring a home. If
his proof is satisfactory, he VIII be regis
tered as a qualified applicant and be given
certificate TO that effect, and he viii
draw a number which viii determine the
orderin which he viii be permitted, at
the opening, to make a selection Of land.
The work of registration viii continue
until the qualifications of all applicants
and the order in which they viii be per-
mitted to select land have been deter
mined The registration certificates viii
not be transferable, and to make the
identification of the applicants complete,
so there may be no transfers. the appl-
cants viii be photographed by rapid
process, which can now be used at slight
cost to the government.
The registration viii be under the su-
pervision Of the register and receiver,
and corps OF experienced clerks familiar
with public land transactions and fully
qualified to conduct the Registration in
an orderly manner. Every applicant VIII
be required to register in person, except
that honorably discharged soldiers may
be permitted by an agent subject TO the
restriction that no person shall act as the
agent OF more than one soldier, and no
soldier VIII be permitted TO register
through an agent except upon clear proof
that he actually desires to obtain O home
homestead law.
The drawing win be under the supervi-
sion Of q non-partisan commission com
posed Of two or three men whose charac-
ter is so widely known throughout the
country as to make their control of the
drawing an absolute guaranteeshrdluta
drawing guarantee Of the absolute fair
ness Of il. The numbers placed in the box
before the drawing viii more than cover
the number Of people who viii apply to
register. No advantage viii be obtained
ts being first to register, and all win
have an equal chance of drawing the
/ first number. When completed, the reg
istration win show the numbers which
are not drawn and at the opening they
/ viii be disregarded. II Nos. l. and
are drawn and Nos. and remain in
the box, the order Of selection at the
I opening VIII be /, and 8, as If there were
no Nos. , and +.
The period of registration viii be long
enough to admit OF the easy registration
of all applicants. The man who registers
on the last day viii have the same oppor-
tunity Of drawing one of the earlier upm-
bers as does the man who registers on
the first day. Those who draw the first
! 1000 numbers at the Kiowa registration
VIII know that there viii be lands on
which their right of selection can be ex-
/ ercised and those who draw the first 5000
numbers at the Wichita registration Will
have the same assurance. Those who
draw numbers much IN excess Of these
figures viii know that at the opening all
the lands win be exhausted before their
numbers are reached, and that it is use
less for them TO remain. Instead of be-
ing defeated after a vexatious contest of
/ several years, their fate viii be deter
mined before the opening.
The applicants viii be permitted TO
freely travel over and become familiar
with the lands to be opened so as to quail
ify them to intelligently and advisedly
make q selection at the opening. The
proclamation VIII prescribe what persons
may make a selection on each cay after
the opening. as for instance: On the first
day. those who hold numbers from ! to
( SEQ. inclusive; on the second day, those
who hold the numbers from S01 10 coo. in
elusive and so oa until all the lands have
/ been selected. The one who draws No
3,0oo win know that his right Of selection
must be exercised on the tenth day, and
that 1t is not necessary for him to be pres
ent at the opening until then. This plan
F VIII remove every Incentive for crowding
F or bartering for places in line at both the
/ registration and the opening.
When The opening beEins the person
hoIdirs INC smallest number drawn viii
have the lands included ia the opening
+ from which to make his selection; and the
/ person holding number 5000 VII have all
the lands 20 select from which have not
+ been selected by those not holding prior
numbers. Each day Of the opening those
/ holding tho numbers assigned 20 that day
VIII make selections in the order Of their
numbers and If when any number is
reached the claimant does not appear
I that number wilNbe passed, and the next
number VIII be called, ard so or Until the
names which have been passed during the
f daE wl be caued again On their order
ana tae claimants permitted 70 make Sc
leetion. Those not appearing then lose
their rsht
30 one VIII De permitted 70 erect a
settlement until he has selected bis land
end MADE entry II van not De possible 20
have more than one claimant foT the
same tracg and every claimant. after hav-
ius made selection and entry. viu have
the fun assurance tnat Il he honestly aad
sincerely complies with The Homestead iav7
be wIi reeslve fun title 10 the land. He
VIII rot have g. cope With au adverse
+ claimant 1r meet vexatloas contest.
There VIII b. 10 opportunity fer tne cou-
mission q suy n2ud upon the s1yern-
Ireat ano tae rights of applicants s.1 u1
fsgua-zed - eeery stage o. the urlceea-
ioes
i throash dsata neglect attempted
t-ansfer % otherwise q registered arrli-
cants rlsl.t 81 seiect IS i2sr & ulu nst
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