The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-07-26
BIGGEST
DAY . YET
Sixteen Thousand People
Register
Almost 100000 Have Now
Registered With Two
Days yet to get in
TRAINS COULDN'T CARRY ALL
Can't Sell Your Numbers to
anyone else
Secretary Hitchcock Says
that there is Absolutely
no use Trying
TRAINS COULDN'T CARRY ALL
Can't Sell Your Numbers to
anyone else

Registration at Fl Reno yesterday 167Os.
At III Reno. up to date, 100. 63,
At Fort Sill yesterday, $40.
At Fort sill. upto date 29.2sS
Total both districts up to date, l4g 92j.
III Reno. O. T., July "a. Another |
record in registration was broken at !
FL Reno today, when 49, 70S home /.
seekers received their certificates for !
the drawing. While registration is
increasing here, it is decreasing at
Fort Sill, today's being the lowest
there since the work began.
FL Reno is filed to the brim tonight
1t is estimated that there are 3d. 900
strangers in town. People are sleep
ing in haymows, buggy sheds and on
lawns.
Governor Richards has abandoned
the idea of holding the drawing in an
open field. He will hold it in the gov
eminent headquarters.
TRAINS COULDN'T CARRY THEM.
Kansas City, July 24.-The rear
guard of the second big rush to the
country passed
through the Union depot gates this
morning. While number are sche
duled To 90 on the trains tonight the
crush is really over. Fully $500 peo-
pie left the Union depot night between
. o'clock and II O'Clock The trains
on the Atchson, Topeka " Santa Fe
railroad the Chicago, Rock Island q
Pacific, ana the Kansas City, Fort
x Memphis railroads. were crowded to
the platforms. The Santa Fe and
Rock Island trains carried the ma
iority of the passengers. The reduced
rate went on Yesterday morning and
all day the depot and the uptown
ticket Offices were crowded with pur-
chasers
In few seconds after the trains
backed into the depot last night and
this morning the cars were crowded to
suilocation. Even the sleepers were
invaded by men who had no sleeper
tickets. They refused to get out. One
man who could not find even standing
room, tore up his ticket andithen tried
to borrow money of policeman to get
back home.
NO CHANCE TO SELL NUMBERS.
Washington, July "a. Secretary
ports coming from Oklahomalthat the
men who are registering at Reno and
Fort Sill are doing so with The inten-
ton of transferring their rights to
others. The report" he says, lis
to the effect that theyIcan and will dis
pose of their numbers at enormous
profits. That is absurd, because it is
impossible under the regulations for
them to transfer their rights. For any
of them to attempt to do so would be Il
clear violation of the law. They take
an oath not to do such IL thing and to
use their rights for their own exclusive
benefit. There can be no speculation
in these numbers"
The Secretary said also that reports
are coming to the department of
schemes for disposing of numerous
townsites, the promoters Offering
chances to the public. 1.-The only
townsites which have been authorized,
the Secretary said, "are those of the
three county seats No others have
been sanctioned, :and no one knows
where others will be. Hence all ex-
cept those three are bogus and reports
of their establishment should be de-
nounced as intended to deceive the
pub lie"
Referring to the suggestion that the
new lands should be sold at auction
and the proceeds of the sale turned
over to the Indians, the Secretary
said
"These lands are as much govern
ment property as are any other part
of the public domain. They have been
purchased from the Indians and title
is no longer in them. Hence the plan
is not feasible. Moreover, it would
not be wise If practicable, for if the
lands were put up at auction they
would all fall into the hands of men
with money and the poor man would
have no chance whatever. Under the
present pl an all have equal rights re-
gardless of conditions of wealth, and
and that this fact is recognized is made
evident by the large number taking
advantage of the opportunity for reg
istration."
Secretary Hitchcock said, with ref
erence to the effort to prevent The