The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-08
The NEW LAND.
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win select their lands, and so on until
all the numbers drawn are exhausted.
Registration cannot be eHect ed
through the use of the mails or the
employment of an agent, excepting that
h0norably discharged soldiers and sail
ors may present their applications
through an agent, no agent being al
lowed to represent more than one sol
der. No person Will be allowed to reg
lister more than once. After being reg
istered applicants will be given certifi-
Gates, allowing them to go upon the
eeded lands and examine them in order
to aid them in making an intelligent
selection,
THREE NEW COUNTIES,
Tie former reservations are divided
into three counties and small portions
are attached to adjoining old counties.
The county seat of CaddO county IS
Anadarko, that of Kiowa county is
Hobart and that of Comanche county
is Lawton.
Some slight changes were made in the
boundaries of the Kingflsher and Okla
hona City land districts to accommo-
date them to the establishment Of the
two new districts.
"A forest reserve embracing IS, 900 acres
of land in the Wichita mountains IN the
center of the kiowa reservation is es-
tablished by a separate proclamatio
This was due to the strenuous efforts
of Governor Jenkins and Delegate
Flynn during their stay in Washing
ton.
Deducting the land allotted the In
dams, granted to Oklahoma for school
purposes and reserved for agency puf
poses. there will be practically 5000 l6U-
acre tracts in the Wichita reServa ton
Making like deductions there will be
practically $500 150-acre tracts in the
Kiowa reservation The two reserVa-
tions are so divided in the establish
ment of the new land districts as to
put an equal amount of land in each
district.
BY the act of March ?. 1895 an agree
n enf with the Wichita and CaddO IN
dams was ratified, whereby they coded
their reservation to the United States,
subject to certain allotments in sew
crafty taken by the Indians.
BY the act of June 6, 1900, an agree
ment with the Kiowa, Comanche and
Apache Indians was amended and rati-
fed whereby these tribes ceded their
reservation to the United States, SUB
ject to certain allotments to be there
after made and to the selection of $780,
900 acres of pasture lands to the Indians
by the act of January A. 1901
The Proclamation.
The presidents proclamation follows
in full;
BY the President of the United States
of America
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, By an agreement between
the Wichita and Affiliated bands OF IN
dams on the one part and certain COM
missioners Of the United States on the
other part, ratified by act Of congress-
approved March 2, 1895, Us Stat. S76s
SEQ the said Indians coded, conveyed,
transferred and relnquished forever
and absolutely without any reserVa-
ton whatever, unto the United States
of America all their claim. title and
interest of every kind and character
in and to the lands embraced in the fol-
lowing described tract of country now
in the territory of Oklahoma, to-wlt:
of n
of the main channel of the WaSh1ra
river, where the g8th meridian of west
longitude crosses the same. thence up
the middle of the main channel Of said
river to the line of 50 degrees 40 minutes
west longitude, thence on said line OF
50 degrees 40 minutes due north to the
middle of the channel of the main Ca
madam river. thence down the middle OF
said main Canadian river to where it
crosses the 98th meridian. thence due
south to the place Of beginning
And, whereas. in pursuance of said
act of congress ratifying said agree
ment. allotments of land in severalty
have been regularly made to each and
every member of said Wichita and afhli-
ated bands of Indians. native and
adopted. and the lands occupied by re-
Iigious societies or other organizations
for religious or educational work among
the Indians have been regularly allotted
and confined to such societies and or
Plantations, respectively.
THE LAND TO BE OPENED
And, whereas, by an agreement be-
tween the Comanche, Kiowa and Apache
tribes of Indians on the one part and
certain commissioners of the United
States on the other part, amended and
ratified by act of congress, approved
June g. 1900 81 Stat 672, 676), the said
lions which have been duly performed,
ceded, conveyed. transferred. re-
nnduished and surrendered. forever and
absolutely, without any reservation
frr ar 81 II
the United States of America, all their
claim, title and interest of every kind
and character in and to the lands en-
braced in the following described tract
of country now in the territory of Okla
h0ma to-Wit:
Commencing at a point where the
Washita river crosses the ninety eighth
meridian west from Greenwich; thence
up the Washita river, In the middle Of
the main channel thereof to point
thirty miles, by river, west Of Fort
Cobb, as now established; thence due
west to the north fork of Red river,
provided said line strikes said river
east OF the Tooth meridian of west lon
gitude; If not, then only to said merid-
ian line, and thence due south, on said
meridian line, to the said north fork OF
Red river: thence down said north fork,
in the middle of the main channel
thereof, from the point where it may
be frst intersected by the lines above
described, to the main Red river,
thence down said Red river in the mid
die of the main channel thereof, to its
intersection with the ninety-eighth
meridian of longitude west from Green
wich; thence north, on said meridian
line. to the place OF beginning"
And whereas. in pursuance of said
act of congress ratifying the agreement
last named, ailotments Of land in sew
crafty have been regularly made to
each membe of said Con anche, Kiowa
and Apache tribes of Indians; the lands
occupied by religious societies or other
organizati tons for religious or educa-
tional work among the Indians have
been regularly allotted and confirmed
to such societies and organiza lions, re-
spectively; and the secretary of the in
terror. out of the lands ceded by the
agreement last named. has regularly
selected and set aside for the use in