The Southwest World (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 17, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 22, 1901 Page: 1 of 8
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THE SOUTHWEST WORLD
Vol. II
GUTHRIE, OKLA., JUNK 22, 1901.
No. 17
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Four Prizes In the Kiowa
and Comanche Country
Worth Many Thousands
Claims Adjoining Fort Sill and
Anadarko Will Make Their
Holders Rich—YouMight
Be the Lucky Fellow.
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Four grand prizes, worth not
less than $40,000 each, will be
among the gifts which the United
States will distribute by lottery
at the drawing scheduled to oc-
cur in Oklahoma not later than
August 6. These prizes are the
quarter sections adjoining on the
south of the county seat, which
has been located live miles south
from Fort Sill. There will be
other great prizes, to be sure,
completing the largest govern-
ment lottery in history. The
great prizes will be the home-
steads adjoining the townsite of
the metropolis of the new coun-
try.
The speculation among the
wise ones regarding the exact lo-
cation ot the town not yet named
near Fort Sill, has temporarily
dwarfed all other features of the
drawing. Governor Jenkins and
Delegate Flynn went to Fort Sill
last Friday to inspect the pro-
posed townsite, accompanied by
ex-Governor W. A. Richards, as-
sistant land commissioner. They
drove over the proposed townsite.
The exact location of the site
had been kept a secret, but the
work being done by government
surveyors on the north one-half
of section 31, township 2 north,
range 11 west, had convinced
numerous interested pefsons that
this half section of land would be
the one chosen. All these doubts
were removed when the assistant
land commissioner of the terri-
tory and the governor and con-
gressman drove around the half
section and, leaving their teams,
closely examined various sites
which had been speculated upon
as desirable locations for the
court house, the land office and
school buildings. Under the
law opening the reservation to
settlement, the town lots will be
sold at auction and the proceeds
will go to building bridges, im-
proving roads and building a
$10,000 court house. For the
townsite only 320 acres can be
reserved under the provisions of
the law. This is an area one-
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half mile wide north and south,
and one mile long east and west.
Congressman Flynn is confi-
dent that the town yet unnamed
will be incorporated with more
than 10,000 population, and
every one else familiar with con-
ditions agree with him. A city
of 10,000 population cannot be
confined to one-half of a section
of land and the homesteads ad-
joining it will be platted and
chosen as additions as soon as
they are drawn up. It is the
possibility of drawing these for-
tunes in a government lottery
that has so excited the Oklaho-
ma wise ones. The section
chosen for a townsite is practi-
cally the only one available and
it is admirably adapted for the
needs of a business town. It is
on a high piece of ground with
perfect drainage by means of a
natural waterway which runs n
a southeastern direction through
the town. The eastern boundary
HE'S FUNNIIM'
a Bouquet At
house and the Rock Island depot.
Two sites for school buildings
have been chosen, one north anil!
east of the court house site and!
the other south and west. jOklahoina Attorney Casts
No names for the new county
and seat of government have
been chosen. Congressman Flynn j
suit crested that the new county
,,c™iic,iMoKi„icva„.iu.,t„wn ins Seeming Dignity.
Hitchcock, but the Interior de-j
dartment officials have an idea|
that the president would veto any J Here's One Fellow That Sees
.such suggestion. Suggestions
for names are therefore in order.,
Anadarko, the county seat of
the northern county, will retain;
its name. The site chosen is the j
present one and the Chicago,
Much Litigation and Sorrow
Through Lottery I'lan.
Rock Island & Pacific depot is
practically in the center ol town.
There will be several homesteads
worth thousands of dollars near
Anadarko, as well as near the
unnamed town where a site has
just been chosen. I he value of
the Anadarko homesteads will
LESS TALK. MOHE WORK-
While talking is a good tiling in its place, work
is much better and brings more lasting results.
Talking about new railroads looks well on paper,
but the real article, bounded on the earth by good,
steel rails and above the earth with la>t 1 tillman
sleepers is what knocks Johnny off the Chiistmas
tree. That Shawnee road will lie built ii the bonus
promised by (iuthrie is raised, and the \\ <n 1*1 lias
sufficient faith in the public spiritedness of our peo-
ple to believe that the money will be forthcoming at |
the proper time. Hide not yourself under a pei K
measure, but come forth with beaming countenance
and a wide-open pocketbook. "You will eujo\ the
"sport" for a time, at least, and be ot great sei\ice
to the capital city.
The Kansas City Journal
quotes the following conversa-
tion from an Oklahoma lawyer:
Jesse J. Dunn, county attorney
of Woods county, is authority
for the story that if the govern-
mentopens up the Kiowa-Coman-
che lands by lottery its actions in
doing so will be tested in the
1 courts.
"The government suppresses
private lotteries," said Mr. Dunn
last night just after his arrival
in Kansas City fresh from Okla-
homa, "and now the people in
the new lands will endeavor to
see if it can run a lottery on its
own hook. They are of the
opinion that it has no more right
to do so. than a private citizen
and will test the matter. The
border of the new country to be
opened soon is tilling up with
bona fide homeseekers. These
people are anxioti* to make their
homes in the new country. They
; are willing to stand all the hard-
ships if they can only get hold oj
; a quarter section or an ever
chance to get it. But they d.rn't
j believe that they will stand a
I fair show if the lottery plan is
, ,, , , . 1 adopted, which now seems likely,
of the town will be the land re- probably not be so great as those ^ prcparing to take
served for the Indian school, the L ,ir ",t 1 ' 1 L steps to protect what they believe
i • a. c 4.\ that there are 2,500 homesteads 1
northern boundary is part ot the c,-,, i \ 1 i ar° their rijrhts.
„ ... ,• near Fort Sill and Anadarko 111 - llJt-
Fort Sill military reservation, * * t t bn inttortr w\^4nm k ikpJ
... . . i _ ; which will be worth an average
and the western boundary is a
section reserved for Oklahoma
for school purposes. The blocks "rN thrown
in the new town will be 320 by "" IU'
>f $2,500 each the day the terri-
open
to settle-
"If the lottery system is used
they will go in and try and draw
out a winning number. But
their ctions will not stop there.
_ . . . If the plan which has been They will also go into the new
400 feet. I he business streets d Jud Vandeventer countr-v U,c (,a-v ll °Pened and
running- east and west will he r,'"> J «•. .••i-nm mi rVi#
100 feet wide, those running
north and south eight feet wide,
and the alleys will be twenty feet
wide. The resident lots will be
fifty feet wide and the business
lots will be twenty-five feet wide.
The site for the court house is
is followed and the people are
squat on a claim. Of course, the
Continued on l'age 4.
permitted to select their home-
steads according to the numbers,
the great government lottery
will have about 13,000 home-
steads to distribute, worth from
$1 to $5,000 each. This, after
practically in the center of the !"ur grand capital prizes f 1 : lowerst first-class fare plus $2.00;
town and the ground reserved ,ureso atl a ,JLfOUn, tickets on sale August 24th and
for it is one citv block. The ts seals' °'u 1 VM'r1' an 25tta, limited to return Septem-
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific tui gram l>nzis • 1 |,er 2, except by depositing tick-
railroad will pass on the east la,ul ncar .the eta with Joint Agent not later
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Triennial Conclave, Knights
Templar, Louisville, Ky.,August
27-31, 1901. For the above occa-
sion we will sell tickets to Louis-
ville and return at rate of one
a
:<eats, each worth $25,000 and
side of the city limits within a Voo^Vand"prixes of loO a"cres Tf than August 20th and payment
few feet of the eastern boundary ]an(f near coimty seats worth j of lee of o0 cents limit will be
of the townsite, and the land of- from 85,000 to $10,000 each, had extended to leave Louisville up to
fi.ee site will be between the court been given to the luckier ones. , and including Sept. loth, 1 "' 1 •
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Booth, H. A. The Southwest World (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 17, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 22, 1901, newspaper, June 22, 1901; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc88910/m1/1/: accessed March 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.