Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1901 — To Avoid Homestead “Runs.” [ARTICLE]

To Avoid Homestead “Runs.”

A lottery scheme will probably -be adopted as the most satisfactory method of distributing the public lands upon the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache reservations in Oklahoma when opened to settlement next fall. Congress at the last session strongly disapproved of the old “run” for homesteads, and directed that a more suitable method be devised.