The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-27
IN OPEN AIR
On a High Platform Numbers
VIII Be Drawn.
All Can See the Lottery Wheels
60 Around.
REGISTRATION OVER.
Chance For I67 ,OO6 Persons Is
One in Thirteen.
Will Be About $4,000 Disap-
pointed Persons.
REGISTRATION OF

FL Reno, Okla. July z7.-When the
booths closed here Friday night at
o'clock the total registration for both
districts had reached 1s7,006. The reg
istration at FL Reno was $3.50. making
a total of 1885. The registration at
Lawton was 532, making a total for
that place Of 30,691
This was the last day Of registra-
ton, and all who came were able to
register. There are about 13.000 claims
and 1877. 006 applicants If the registra-
ton is about evenly divided by dis
tricts a person has about one chance
in thirteen of drawing a homestead.
The commissioners in charge Of the
drawing in connection with the open
ing OF the Kiowa, Comanche and
Apache lands to white settlement,
Governor A W. Richards. Judge Frank
Dale of Guthrie and Colonel D. r.
Dyer Of st. Louis, held their first con-
ference Friday afternoon The follow
ing formal announcer ut was given to
the public:
A platform will be erected in the
street upon the north side OF the irving
school ground, upon which the drawing
will be conducted, in plain view OF all
who desire to be present
Envelopes containing the names OF
all registered applicants Will be place1
in two boxes. one for each land dis
trict. These boxes viii be large enough
permit q thorough mixing OF the en-
velopes. On Monday morning. July p,
1901, the envelopes containing the
names OF all who have registered Will
be brought to this platform In pack
ages consecutively numbered. A cor
responding series OF numbered slips
win be placed in some receptacle. FROM
which they viii be drawn out at ran
DOM
This course will be pursued until 500
names have been drawn from each box,
when If the committee deem Il best TO
do so arrangezn ents Will be made Tor
drawing simultaneously from each
box.
After the names have been drawn
and announced they VIII be recorded
ana a notice prepared to be mailed
to the one whose name IS drawn. The
drawing will proceed in this manner
until every envelope IN both boxes has
been drawn out.
The drawing boxes win be two and
one half feet square and ten feet long.
They will be built of boards ana VIII
resemble coffin boxes They viii be
mounted on axles. and cranks win be
attached at each end to turn them
There will be dVe slip doors on each
The boxes win stand parallel on a high
platform and the other on the other
They win be about twelve feet apart.
The platform will be large enough to
hold the commissioners and the ten
men who do the drawing. Behind II VIII
be a tent where the clerical force will
do its work
Just what is the value of the 1900
farms to be given away is biscuit to
even estimate. The government bought
the land from the Indians, paying them
S1.25 an acre for II, which is the price
that is to be paid BY the fortunate ones
who draw farms.
farms adjoining town sites viii be
valued at $4,000 ana $4,000 each, and
that such sums might be secured for
them were it possible to pass a title.
TQ1If { will fnfTfaan
idence on the part of the bona hde set
tier to secure an absolute title to the
lands, and this time must elapse before
a sale can be made
The town site property VIII be sold
at auction commencing August 8, and
the department expects that the record
of highest prices for government town
site property viii be exceeded by sew
eral thousand dollars per lot. The inn
preston prevails that some of the lots
at AnadarlCo and I.aWtOn viii sell for
S., 600, which would be the highest price
ever before received for such property.
Acting under special instructions
from Secretary Hitchcock, Receiver
Reid and Register Sickies today passed
on the applications for a number OF
townsites for the new country. They
approved these:
Fort Caleb. on the Rock Island. west
A townsite on the Rock Island
branch between Anadarl<O and L.aWtOn
to be named Richards. probably.
Bridgeport, in the Caddo country. on
the ChOctaW.
Caddo, on the Choctaw.
A townsite west Of Hobart, on Elk
creek, not yet named.
A townsite on the western edge Of
the Wichita mountains. not yet named.
A townsite On RUgler creek. near the
old sub-Ipdian agency, in the CaddO
country, not yet named.
These are all railroad towns. Several
other applications were turned down.
The officers still have fifteen more ap-
proved today were forwarded to the In
terror department for approval
At the Fl Reno Office 10000 women
registered. and at the Fort Sill Office
$500. This makes enough women alone
to take up all the land.