The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-07-07
UP AGAINST UNCLE SAM.
Mr.. Mecammon Was There Once and
Got Enouah Of It

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Guthrie, O.. r. July 6.-Writng about
The method OF opening the new country
to settlement, Frank McCammon. the
well known boomer. says:
My attention has been called q an
article in various newspapers under the
head of TO Make a Rush. stating thar
men win take lands when open. that
! lottery does not so. and that they have
hired a lawyer TO represent them. Now.
IL thete is any man in the southwest
who has had an experience in the set
Element of oklahoma proper. and the ter
itory added. IL is your humble servant.
My experience and training with Captain
I David Payne, the original Oklahoma
boomer. has taught me 10 consider befofe
/ buck up against Uncle sam and a re-
quest that my name should appear On an
article against the so-tcrmed lottery plan
by which the Kiowa ard Comanchc couu-
tries are 70 be opened to settlement. This
fact prompts this note Of warning 20
those seeking home In the aforesaid
lands In the first place. the settler wants
TO take a geographical survey Of Uncle
Sans anatomy. and in the second place
re should study carefully the manner ia
which the lands O thu uthwest haze
De IL sctJled NOR. especial. faos0 OF
Ctiaian8a. j YVES in the race when or
president said by proclamation YOU can
go on April p. 1899. Those going prior TO
the proclamation. ss relates TO this new
country. win buck up against q circum-
stance, and those so-called lawyers who
are seeking notoriety-and the settlers
money-wil have pitiable following OF
victims Of misplaced confidence. There
has been no official plan made public
but it is generally understood that it viii
De on the so-called lottery plan Now. as
your humble servant understands g. there
is no lottery nor anything pertaining 10
lottery. neither 20 rules governing lot
teries When permitted this great gov
eminent has never dealt with its people
through a lottery system. but on the con-
trary. had dealt ont with lavish hand the
fertile lands in it's domain and assisted
those settlers. when necessary. from It's
treasury, as was the case in settling ok
lahoma proper. and the distribution 81
nearly fifty thousand dollars TO the set
tlers Of this country.
"A lottery issues p certain number RI
tickets. so many prize tickets and so
man blank tickets; the blank tickets cost
the purchaser just as much as the tickets
drawing prizes. when the drawing is
completed with a lottery there Is ne re-
bate or money for those tickets that
failed TO draw "A prize. Upon the other
hand there is grand balance on the
other side OF the ledger
NOW. for the modus onerandi Of tho
government as % those lands. Each sp-
piicant viii pay for bis privilege % draw
ing and 20 those drawing a bank their
money viii Boz refunded and their rights
as q homesteader viii remaia q them ar
70 any other homestead lands under the
jurisdiction III this government This exc
PLANTATION should be- sufficient o. disahuse
tine minds Of those who are seeking "a
homestead through attorneys. SO such
homesteaos have ever ben acquired. aud
they never viii.
"The newspapers also state that COM /
pany of Texas. Indian Territory ard ok
lahoma men has been formed 70 make
rush for the KIowa and Comanehe lands
when they are opened for settlement ard
have employed Mr Richard Morra1 ~
Perry as their attorney Mr Morrsu has
denied anv connection with fhs company
and lt viii die away without an echo
Uncle sam wiil direct you who want q
home on homestead land and uo attorney
Zee and u.u d. it right, ana WiH % %
cheap. and thousands who are SPOKEN 81 /
by the press who are going 81 sfaeke ~
their lands win make = mistake THAT VIII /.
be hard 20 CORSET Those couien1pla tlas 4
a settlement bad better CONSIDER fhe qaes- Z
ZION az there O. "a confederation ~ pe 1
PAID FOR said lauds. separatlrr and aisld- +
va country from Homestead law proper. +
Ahide ~ tn- proclamation a-a sae trea- I
80 arI expense