People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — MAY SOON LOCATE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MAY SOON LOCATE.

President Cleveland Issues m I reclamation Opening the Cherokee Strip to Settlement on September 16. Washington, Ang. 23. President Cleveland has issued a proclamation opening to settlement and homestead entry on Saturday, September 16, 1893, at 12 o’clock noon, central standard time, all the lands, except those especially reserved, recently acquired from the Cherokee Indian nation and the Tonkawa and Pawnee tribes in the Indian territory, known as the Cherokee outlet. The lands now open to settlement are divided into seven- counties. After reciting the law and the treaties with the Indians under which the land was ceded to the government, the proclamation describes the tract reserved for county seats of the several counties. In each of these county seats four acres are reserved for the site of a courthouse. A strip of land 100 feet wide around and immediately within the boundaries of the lands now opened is set apart,

and entrance upon said strip isjpermitted prior to the day for the opening of the lands. Upon this strip booths are to be located and clerks from the general land office detailed to take charge of them. The booths will be conveniently located upon the regular lines of travel —five on the northern and four on the southern boundary—and will be open for business at 12 o’clock noon September 10 and be kept open each business day

from 7 a. in. to 12 o’clock and from 1 to 6 p. m. until discontinued by direction of the secretary of the interior. Each party desiring to enter upon the lands for the purpose of making a homestead entry or soldier’s declaratory statement or settling upon a town lot will be required to first appear at one of the booths and there make a declaration showing his or her qualifications to make such entry or statement or to settle upon a town lot. If the declaration proves satisfactory to the officers in charge of the booth certificates will be issued by such officers permitting the party who makes the declaration to go upon the outlet at the time fixed for the opening. Parties making these declarations will be required to make oath before the district land officers or other officer who may take their homestead affidavits that all the statements contained in their declarations are true in every particular. The officers of the United States are expressly charged to permit no party without a certificate to occupy or enter upon any part of the outlet. The land offices will be open for business at 12 noon on the day ot the opening.

Arkansas City, Kan., Aug, 23.—The troops of United States cavalry which have been driving out intruders from the Cherokee strip preparatory to the opening of that country to settlement, have about completed their work. Everyone on the strip has been compelled to move out. □ Arkansas City, Kan., Aug. 23. News that the Cherokee strip would be opened September 16 caused the greatest excitement among the boomers. Tuesday night there was a mammoth demonstration with a parade 1 , bonfires and speeches. The people seem to have gone mad with delight Guthrie, O. T., Aug. 23.—A number of Cherokee strip boomers camped in the Arkansas valley flats were driven out by a sudden rise of the river, losing their wagons, teams, tents, etc., and it is feared that several of them were drowned. A family which attempted to ford the Salt Fork is reported to have been swept away. Th® Union Pacific Railroad company has closed a contract for a special train of Pullman cars to convey 400 prominent Mormons of Salt Lake to Chicago to celebrate Utah day at the fair.

MAP OF THE CHEROKEE STRIP.