Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-06-28
How Ind yVlII b Dra,Hn.


How Lands VIII be Drawn.
From a reliable source has been Sc
cured the following outline of the
general plan of opening the new coun-
try as decided on by the Secretary of
the Interior and President Mckinley.
OF course this must not be understood
as official, for there may be some mod
ifieation in some of the less important
features but in the main this is near
/ " certain to be the plan for opening
the new reservations.
The coming proclamation will notf-
fly all persons who are entitled to
homestead rights that they will be
enrolled at any land Office in Oklahoma
at which they may apply. These APP
plications, each designating the par
tIcular county in which the applicant
desires to locate, will be forwarded by
the land officers to the department at
! Washington. There a notice to the
applicant will be made out informing
him of the receipt and proper fling of
his application.
At Washington the names of all
these applications will be arranged
for d drawing, similar to the drawing
of jurieS in some states. A separate
drawing will be had for each of the
three counties. The names of the
lucky applicants and the numbers
they have drawn will be properly re-
corded and notice to the applicant
who may happen to be thus favored
will be sent to him. No other notices
will be sent to anyone. With this no
tice viii be sent full instructions as to
how to go into the county where the
applicant proposes to locate his claim
and just how to secure the number of
quarter sections in order that the APP
plicant may make a list of the quar-
tiers he most desires to select from
when he comes to make his filing. A
visit to the country is made and the
applicant can make his list of choices.
He is now ready to report at the land
office in his particular county.
According to due notice given from
Washington the lucky applicant will
report at the land Office in his partic-
ular county on the day specified in
said notice. When his number and
name are called he will announce to
the land office register his first choice
If some previously called applicant
has chosen that same quarter section
he will be so informed and must an
nOunce his other selections until one
is found which has not been filed on.
If for any reason he is not there to
answer to his name in it's numerical
order his name will again be called
after six O'Clock, when he can take
his choice from such lands as may yet
be unclaimed. If he does not answer
during the second day his name will
be dropped to the foot of the entire
roll for that county and he can have
choice of what is left after every other
applicant shall have been served.
This plan will permit applicants to
file their application at the nearest of
the many Oklahoma land offices with
the minimum trouble and expense.
There Will be no necessary and expen-
sive waiting. Every applicant can
make his application and go about his
affairs, resting sure that if he should
be so fortunate as to secure a filing
number he will be duly notified and
fully instructed just how to proceed
along every step in his efforts to secure
a quarter section of land. And when
he has once completed his filing at the
land office there is no chance of his be-
ing required to fight a contest.