The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-04-29
LANDS MAY BE OPENED


settlement under the homestead laws
of the United States 10000 acres OF
land in the Kiowa Comanche and
Wichita Indian reservation IN Okla
homa The land in question was set
apart by the government for the pur
= pose OF pasturing the stock belonging
to the Indians. but j. was soon found
to be impractical by the department TO
pasture the Indian cattle of these pas
lures located of al inconvenient points
on the reservation. Accordingly, they
have been leased to the cattle men Tor
f the past year.
Ii begins to look as il congress will
authorize the opening OF these lands
to public settlement As alreadv tele-
Qraphed to the State Capital the house
has favorablv reported Representative
"a Stephens bill and the indications arc
that it will pass the house at an early
date. The bill provides as follows;
That all of that part OF article third
OF section six OF the act OF congress
of date June sixth. nineteen hundred,
entitled. can act to ratify and con-
hrm an agreement with the Indians
of the Fort Hall Indian reservation
in Idaho" and making appropriations
to carry the same into effect. which
reads as follows. to wit. That IN
addition 20 the allotment OF lands TO
said Indians as provided for in this
agreement the secretary OF the interior
o shall set aside for the use IN common
for said Inuian tribes our hundred
and eighty thousand acres OF grazing
a lands, to be selected by the secretary
of the interior. either in one ~ more
tracts. as will best subserve the inter
ests of said Indians" be and the same
is hereby repealed.
section 3 That the four hundred and
eighty thousand acres OF land set
apart in the Kiowa, Comanche, and
Apache Inuan reservations in Oklaho-
ma Territory by the secretary OF the
interior. referred to and mentioned in
section one OF this act, shall be open
ed to settlement by proclamation OF
the president OF the United States with
IN three months from the passage OF
this act and be disposed of under the
general provisions OF the homestead
Tvs of the United States and under
the rules and regulations ADOPTED by
1.-THE secretary OF the interior Tor the
oneninC to settlement OF the said lands
of the Comanche, Kiowa. and Apache
reservations heretofore oDened under
said act OF June sixth. nineteen hum
dred. Provided That in addition to
the land office fees prescribed by stat
ute for such entries the entryman shall
+ nav one dollar and twenty-five cents
per acre H.. the land entered at the
time of submittr his final proof: And
further provided, That in all home
stead entries where the entryman has
resided unon and improved the land
entered in good faith for the period OF
fourteen months he may commute his
entry to cash upon the pay .ent OF one
dollar and twenty-five cents per acre:
And further provided That the rights
OF honorably discharged Union soldiers
and sailors OF the late civil war, as
defined and described in sections TWEEN
ty-three hundred and four and twenty
three hundred and FIVE Of the revised
statutes shall not be abridged: And
further provided That the money aris-
inc from the sale OF said lands shall be
paid TO said Indians in the same man
ner as was provided in the said act
OF June sixth nineteen hundred And
further provided, That should an Of
the said lands allotted TO said In
dians or opened TO settlement under
this act. contain valuable mineral de-
posits. such mineral deposits shall be
open 10 location and entry. under the
existing mining laws of the United
States, unon the passage OF this act,
and the mineral laws OF the United
Fl States are hereby extened over said
lands
Mr.. Stephens, who submitted the
unanimous report OF the committee
says
"a bill for the same purpose as this
bill passed this house IN the Fit
fifth congress after having received h
unanimous report from this committee
and after the fullest hearings before
the committee from delegations OF the
Indian tribes affected thereby and
from all parties interested therein. The
saate bill was again approved this
committee and passed this house in the
Fifty-sixth CONGRESS. During the same
Congress and senate passed a bill
known as senate hill No. 2ss To rati-
fy an agreement with the Indians OF the
ort Hall Indian reservation in Ida
no and making an APPROPRIATION to car
ry the same into effect. This bill
came to this house and was referred
to this committee, and this committee
reported it back to the house with It's
bill above referred to, opening the Kio-
wa. Comanche and Apuache reserya-
tions in Oklahoma, attached as a rid
er.
"This bill 6. 2ss) passed the house
in that shape and went in the confer
ence committee of the two houses. This
committee reported 10000 acres o.
said reservations from settlement foi
the purpose of permitting the Indian.
to use said lands for pastural purpos
es, said pasture lands to be deslpnat
ed and set apart by the secretary o
the interior. This bill opens this pas
ture reservation for settlement on th'
same terms and conditions as was pro
vided for in said bill aforesaid, which
bill became a law June O. 1000.
The senate has passed the bill in
troduced by Senator Quarles, author
izing cities and towns in Indian Terri