The Peoples Voice
VOLUME 9.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1901.
NUMBER 51
1
PRESIDENT'S
PROCLAMATION.
The President's Proclamation Opening to
Settlement the Kiowa Comanche and
Wichita Indian Ke nervations.
I, William McKinley, president of
the United States of America, by
virtue of power vested in me by law,
do hereby declare and make known
that all of the lands so as aforesaid
ceded by the Wichita and affiliated
bands of Indians, and the Comanche,
Kiowa and Apache tribes of Indians,
respectively saving- and expecting
sections sixteen, thirty-six, thirteen
and thirty-three in each township,
and all lands located or selected by
the territory of Oklahoma as in-
demnity, school or educational lands
and saving an excepting all lands
allotted in severalty to individual
Indians, and saving and excepting all
lands allotted and confirmed to re-
ligious societies and other organiza-
tions, and saving and expecting the
lands selected and set asid« as graz-
ing lands for the use in common for
said Comanche, Kiowa and Apache
tribes of Indians, and saving and
excepting the lands set aside and re-
served at each of said county seats
for disposition as townsites, and sav-
ing and excepting the lands now
used, occupied, or set apart for mili-
tary, agency, school, school farm,
religious,. Indian cemetery, wood
reserve, forest reserve, or other pub-
lic uses, will, on the 6th day of
August, 1901, at 9 o'clock a. m., in
the manner herein prescribed and
not otherwise, be opened to entry
and settlement and to disposition
under the general provisions of the
homestead and townsite laws of the
United States.
WHEN REGISTRATION BEGINS.
the registering officer such appropri-
ate matters of description and identi-
ty as will protect the applicant and
government against any attempted
impersonation. Registration can-
not be effected through the use of
the mails or the employment of an
agent, excepting that honorably dis-
charged soldiers and sailors entitled
to the benefits of section 2304 of the
revised statutes of the United States
as amended by the act of congress
approved March 1, 1901. (31 stat 847)
may present their applications for
registration and due proofs of their
qualifications through an agent of
their own selection, but no person
will be permitted to act as agent for
more than one such soldier or sailor.
No person will be permitted to regis-
ter more than once or in any other
than his true name. Each applicant
who shows himself duly qualified will
be registered and given a nontrans-
ferable certificate to that effect
which will entitle him to go upon and
examine the lands to be open here-
under in the land district in which
he elects to make his entry: but the
only purpose for which he may go
upon and examine said lands is that
of enabling him later on as herein
provided, to understanding^ select
the lands for which he will make
entry. No one will be permitted to
make settlement upon any of said
lands in advance of the opening
herein provided for and during the
first sixty days following said open-
ing no one but registered applicants
will be permitted to make home-
stead settlement upon any of said
lands and then only in pursuance of
a homestead entry duly allowed by
th; local land officers, or of a soldier's
declaratory statement duly accepted
by such officers.
JULY 10 AT EL RENO AND AT LAWTON
LAND OFFICE.
"Cmmencing at 9 o'clock a. m.,
Wednesday, July 10, 1901 and ending
at 6 o'clock p. in., Friday July 20,
1901, a registration will be held at
the United States land offices at El-
Reno and Lawton, in the territor3r of
Oklahoma (the office at Lawton to
occupy provisional quarters in the
immediate vicinity of Fort Sill, Ok-
lahoma territory, until suitable
quarters can be provided at Lawton)
for the purpose of ascertaining what
persons desire to enter, settle upon
and acquire title to any of said lands
under the homestead law, and of
ascertaining their qualifications so
to do. The registration at each
office will be for both land districts,
but at the time of registration each
applicant will be required to elect
and state in which district he de-
sires to make entry. To obtain re-
gistration each applicant will be re-
quired to show himself duly qualified
to make homestead entry of these
lands under existing laws and to give
METHOD OF DRAWING.
three persons of integrity will
be employed.
The order in "which, during the first
sixty days following the opening, the
registered applicants will be per-
mitted to make homestead entry of
the lands, opened hereunder, will be
determined by drawing for both the
El Reno and Lawton districts, pub-
licity held at the United States land
office at El Reno Oklahoma, com-
mencing at 9 o'clock a. m, Monday,
July 29, 1901, and continuing for such
period as may be necessary to com-
plete the same.
The drawings will be held under
the supervision and immediate
observance of a committee of three
persons whose integrity is such as to
make their control of the drawing a
guaranty of its fairness. The
members of the committee will be
appointed by the secretary of the in-
terior, who will prescribe suitable
compensation for their services. Pre-
paratory to these drawings, the re-
gistration officers will, at the time of
registering each applicant who shows
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himself duly qualified, make out a
card, which must be signed by the
applicant, stating the land district
in which he desires the homestead
entry, and giving such a description
of the applicant as will enable the
local land officers to thereafter
identify him. This card will be at
once sealed in a seperate envelop,
which will bear no other distinguish-
ing label or mark than such as tnay
be necessary to show that it is to go
into the drawing for the land district
in which the applicant desires to
make entry. These envelopes will be
seperated according to land districts
and will be carefully preserved and
remain sealed until opened in the
course of the drawings as herein pro-
vided. When the registration is
completed all of these sealed en-
velopes will be brought together at
the place of drawing and turned
over to the committee in cnarge of
the drawing, who, in such manner,
as in their judgment, would be at-
tended with entire fairness and
equality of opportunity, should pro-
ceed to draw out and open the seper-
ate envelopes and give to each en-
closed card a number in the order in
which the envelope containing the
same is drawn. While the drawings
for the two districts will be seperately
concluded they will occur as nearly
with the same as practicable. The
result of the drawing for each dis-
trict will be certified by the com-
mittee to the officers of the district
and will determine the order in which
the applicants may make homestead
entry of said lands and settlement
thereon.
NOTICE OF DRAWING.
each party can take his own
measures in securing informa-
tion.
Notice of the drawings stating the
name of each applicant and number
assigned to him by the drawing will
be posted each day at the place of
drawing and each applicant will be
notified of his number by postal card
mailed to him at the address, if any,
given by him, at the time of registra
tion. Each applicant should, how-
ever, in his own behalf, employ such
measures as will insure his obtaining
prompt and accurate information of
the order in which his application
for homestead entry can be present-
ed, as fixed by the drawing. Appli-
cations for homestead entry of said
lands duri ig the first sixty days fol-
lowing the opening can be made
only by registered applicants, and in
the order established by the drawing.
At each lapd office, commencing
Tuesday, August, 6. 1901, at 9 o'clock
a. m., the applications of those draw-
ing numbers 1 to 125 inclusive, for
that district, must be presented, and
will be considered in their numeri-
cal order during the first day, and
the applicants of those drawing
numbers 125 to 250 inclusive, must be
presented and will be considered in
their numerical order during the
second day, and so on at that rate,
until all of said lands subject to entry
under the homestead law, and de-
sired there under, have been entered.
If any applicant fails to appear and
present his application for entry
when the number assigned to him by
the drawing is reached, his right to
enter will be passed until after the
other applications assigned for that
day have been disposed of, when he
will be given another opportunity to
make entry, failing in which he will
be deemed to have abandoned his
right to make entry under such draw-
ing. To obtain the allowance of a
homestead entry each applicant
must personally present the certifi-
cate of registration heretofore is-
sued to him, together with a regular
homestead application and the nec-
essary accompanying proofs, and
with the regular land offices fees, but
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plication will be rejected, notwith- I the pre raises. Such commissioner if
standing the prior registration. If he believes the public interests will
be subserved thereby, will, if
any applicant shall register more
than once hereunder, or in any other
than his true name, or shall transfer
his registration certificate, he will
thereby lose all the benefits of the
registration and drawing herin
provided for and will be precluded
from entering or settling upon any of
said lands during the first sixty days
following the said opening.
NEUTRAL STRIP LAND.
settlers shall have preference
in lands located upon.
Because of the provision of the
said act of congress approved June (i,
1900: That the settlers who locate
on that part of said lands called and
known as the 'Neutral Strip' shall
have perference right for thirty days
on the lands upon which they have
located and improved, the said lands
in the 'Neutral Strip' shall for the
period of thirty days after said
opening be subject to homestead
entry and townsite entry only by
those who have heretofore located
upon and improved the same and
who are accorded a preference right
of entry for thirty days as aforesaid.
Persons entitled to make entry
under this preference right will be
permitted to do so at any time dur-
ing said period of thirty days follow-
ing the opening without previous
registration, and without regard to
the drawing herein provided for, and
and at the expiration of that period,
the lands in said 'Neutral Strip' for
which no entry shall have been made
will come under the general provis-
ions of this proclamation.
The intended beneficiaries of the
provision in the said acts of congress,
approved respectively, March 2, 1895.
and June 6, 1900, which authorizes a
qualified entryman having lands ad-
joining the ceded lands whose origin-
al entry embraced less than lfiO
acres, to enter so much of the ceded
lands as will make his homestead
entry contain in the aggregate not
exceeding 160 acres, may obtain such
an extension of his existing entry,
without previous registration, and
without regard to the drawing herein
provided for, only by making appro- { r
priate application, accompanied by
the
secretary of fhe interior approve
thereof, issue and order with drawing
the lands discribed in such petition,
or any portion thereof from home-
stead entry and settlement, and di-
recting that the same be held for the
time being for townsite settlement,
entry, and disposition. In such events
the lands so withheld from homestead
entry and settlement will, at the
time of said opening, and not before,
become subject to settlement, entry
and disposition under the general
townsite laws of the United States.
None of said ceded lands will tie sub-
ject to settlement, entry or disposi-
tion under such general townsite laws
• except in the maimer herein prescrib
ed until after ihe expiration of sixty
days from the time of said opening.
Attention is hereby especially
called to the fact that the special
provisions of the said act of congress
approved March 3, 1901. the townsites
selected and designated as the coun-
ty seats of the new counties into
which said lands have been formed
cannot be disposed of under the gen-
eral townsite laws of the United
States and can only be disposed of in
the special manner provided in said
act of congress, which declares:
"The lands so set apart and des-
ignated shall, in advance of the
opening, be surveyed, subdivided and
platted under the direction of the
secretary of the interior, into ap-
propriate blocks, lots, streets, al-
leys and sites for parks, or public
building, so as to make a townsite
thereof.
Provided, That no persons shall
purchase more than one residence
and one business lot. Such town lots
shall be offered and sold to the highest
bidder, under the direction of the
ecretary of the interior, at sales to
be held at the opening and subse-
quent thereto "
NO ONE CAN SETTLE.
on the ceded lands for sixty days
after opening
provisions made and 10x1
that effect
an honorably discharged soldier or j any time before the opening herein
sailor may file his declaratory state-
ment through the agent represent-
ing him at the registration. The
production of the certificate of reg-
istration will be dispensed with only
upon satisfactory proof of its loss or
destruction. If, at the time of con-
sidering his regular application for
All persons are especially admon-
j ished that under the said act of con-
approved March 3, 1901. it is
.. , . , , provided that no person shall be per-
the necessary proofs, with the proper ■
, , \ ' nntted to settle upon, occupy or en-
new land office at some time prior to'. , ■ , . , ,
, J i ter any of said ceded lands except in
the opening herein provided for. L,
I the manner prescribed in this pro-
| clatnation until after the expiration
M I'Ol NI) IOW NSIT ES ' ()f sixty days from the time the same
inkd to '' rire °l,enei1 to settlement and entry.
After the expiration of the sixty
Any person, or persons de-iring to j days, but not before, any of said lands
found or to suggest establishing a remaining undisposed of may be
townsite upon any of the ceded lands siettleci upon, occupied and entered
at any point not in the near vicinity I upon under the general provisions of
of either of the county seats selected the homestead and townsite laws of
and disignated as aforesaid, may, at j the United States in like manner as
if the manner of effecting such set-
provided for, file in the proper local tlement, occupancy and entry had
land office a written application to '< n"t been prescrided herein in obedi-
that effect describing by legal sub-1 ence to law.
divisions the land intended to be I It appearing that there are fences
affected, and stating fully and under | around the pastures into which, for
oath the necessity or propriety of j convenience, portions of the ceded
founding or establishing a town at iaiidn have heretofore been divided,
that place. The local officers willj a,ul that the fences are of consider-
entry, it appears that any applicant forthwith transmit such petitions to able value and are still the property
is disqualified from making home- the commissioner of the general land ! the Indian tribes ceding said lands
stead entry of these lands, his ap- office with their recommendation in' continued on l'a<.hs7\"