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| 1901 Land Drawing at El Reno, Oklahoma. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, July 8, 1901.
INDIAN LAND OPENING.
President's Proclamation Sets Aug. 6 as the Date.
PREFERENCE WILL BE BY LOT.
Intending Settlers May Register From Now Until Opening Time, Examine the Land and Then Take Chances in the Drawing.
WASHINGTON, July 8.—The proclamation of President McKinley opening to settlement the lands ceded by Indians in the territory of Oklahoma was given to the public yesterday. The proclamation covers the cessions made by the Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians in accordance with the act of March 2, 1895, and those made by the Comanche, Kiowa and Apache tribes in pursuance of the act of June 8, 1900.
The proclamation provides for the opening of the lands in these reservations, which are not reserved, at 9 o'clock a. m on the 6th of August next, the lands to be open to settlement under the homestead and town site laws of the United States.
The proclamation says that beginning on the 10th inst., and ending on the 20th, those who wish to make entry of land under the homestead law shall be registered. The registration will take place at the land offices at Reno and Lawton. The registration at each office will be for each land district.
Registration cannot be affected through the use of the mails or employment of an agent excepting that honorably discharged soldiers and sailors may present their applications through an agent, no agent being allowed to represent more than one soldier. No person will be allowed to register more than once. After being registered applicants will be given certificates allowing them to go upon the ceded lands and examine them in order to aid them in making an intelligent selection.
It is explicitly stated that "no one will be permitted to make settlement upon any of the lands in advance of the opening provided for," and the statement is added that "during the first 60 days following said opening no one but registered applicants will be permitted to make homestead settlement upon any of said lands, and then only in pursuance of a homestead entry duly allowed by the local land officers or of a soldier's declaratory statement duly accepted by such officers."
The order in which during the first 60 days following the opening the registered applicants will be permitted to make homestead entry of the lands opened hereunder, will be determined by drawings for both the El Reno and Lawton districts publicly held at the United States land office at El Reno, Ok., commencing at 9 o'clock a. m. Monday, July 29, 1901, and continuing for such period as may be necessary to complete 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 this committee will be appointed by the secretary of the interior, who will prescribe suitable compensation for their service.
Preparatory to these drawings the registration officers will, at the time of registering each applicant who shows himself duly qualified, make out a card which might be signed by the applicant stating the land district in which he desires to make homestead, 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 separate envelope which will bear no other distinguishing label or mark than such as may 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 separated according to land districts and will be carefully preserved and remain sealed until opened in the course of the drawing as herein provided. When the registration is completed all of these sealed envelopes will be brought together at the place of drawing and turned over to the committee in charge of the drawing, who in such manner as in their judgment will be attended with entire fairness and equality of opportunity, shall proceed to draw out and open the separate envelopes and to give to each enclosed card a number in the order in which the envelope containing the same is drawn.
The result of the drawing for each district will be certified by the committee 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.
Applications for homestead entry of said lands during the first 60 days following the opening can be made only by registered applicants and in the order established by the drawing. At each land office, commencing Tuesday, Aug. 6, 1901, at 9 o'clock, inclusive for that district must be presented the applications of those drawing numbers 1 to 125 inclusive and will be considered in their numerical order during the first day and the applications 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 land subject to entry under the homestead law and desired thereunder must have been entered.
Lands in the "neutral strip" are to be reserved for location by settlers on those lands for 30 days.
Provision is made for locating town sites.
The future disposal of lands is provided for as follows:
"After the expiration of the said period of 60 days, but not before, any of said lands remaining indisposed of may be settled upon, occupied and entered under the general previsions of the homestead and town site laws of the United States in like manner as if the manner of effecting such settlement, occupancy and entry had not been prescribed herein in obedience to law."
INDIANS TO FIGHT OPENING.
Seek Restraining injunction, Claiming Lands Are Being Taken Illegally.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Ok., July 8.—An injunction suit will he brought before Judge Irwin at El Reno in a few days for an order restraining the register of the land office here, the receiver, the surveyors and all other persons from proceeding with the opening of the lauds of the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indians according to the proclamation of the president and the act of congress under which he proceeded.
The suit will be brought by C. Porter Johnson of [this city] who has been engaged by Judge Springer to act as attorney for the Indians who are affected. If there is a court with jurisdiction at Lawton the Kiowa country actions will begin there in a similar manner. The bill of particulars for the injunction will contend that the lands of the Indians are being illegally and unconstitutionally wrested from them against their wishes.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
The New York Bank Failure.
The financial community of New York was shocked a few days ago by the failure of the Seventh National bank, an old and supposedly safe and conservative institution. It turned out, however, when the crisis came, that the bank had been doing business in an almost criminally reckless fashion for some time, and the crash was just what might have been expected. The essential causes of the failure were overcertification to an extravagant extent and the loaning of money on insufficient collateral. This is not the first bank to certify that customers have money on deposit when they have not, though few have ever carried on the practice so recklessly. The Seventh National loaned to a single firm $1,600,000 on securities which the comptroller of the currency found to be of a "doubtful nature."
The bank officials were warned by the federal banking authorities that they must at once convert the securities into cash. This they were unable to do, and the doors of the institution were quickly closed.
While the failure is not likely to have any considerable effect upon the finances of the country at large or the city in which it occurred, it furnishes a timely warning to other banks against loaning their credit to insecure and doubtful enterprises and the somewhat too frequent practice of overcertification, which is distinctly in violation of the national banking laws.
DOG CATCHER IN DESPAIR.
Every Dog and Cur in Cortland is Either Shut up or Tagged.
Dog Catcher Goldsmith is completely in despair. At 3:30 o'clock this afternoon he had not landed a single dog. He got up early this morning and has been scouring the streets all day, but there seems to be a great absence of dogs today where dogs fairly swarmed on Saturday, With tempting bits he has inveigled some few dogs up to him, but to his utter disgust every one of them has worn a collar with a tag conspicuously attached.
What is the use of having a dog catcher if there are no dogs to catch? The dog pound is ready. The dog catcher's transportation automobile is ready. The dog catcher is ready. But the dogs, where are they? Have they all gone to take their summer vacation, or are they shut up in some barn or back kitchen? Are they never going to flock in crowds of one or of a dozen again as formerly? Where are they anyway? "Oh for dogs," sighs the dog catcher, "My kingdom for a dog," but not one solitary cur appears. If the dog catcher can get no business it is greatly to be feared that he will resign.
But, wait a little; see what tomorrow will bring forth. Maybe some poor doggy may appear from some quarter to encourage the catcher and to grace the brand new pound. Don't give it up, Mr. Dog Catcher. Have a little faith and some patience.
Town of Scott.
SCOTT, July 8.—The Ladies' Aid society will hold an ice cream social at the M. E. church Saturday evening, July 13. A musical and literary program will be rendered. All are cordially invited to be present.
A. B. Willis of West Homer spent Sunday with W. J. Parry.
The sick in our town are all convalescent at this writing.
Mrs. Henry Booth and daughter of Cortland are visiting Frank Booth and family.
A petition is being circulated with the view of uniting school districts No. 2 and 5 into one school with two teachers. Under the present arrangement each teacher has to hear about twenty classes each day and the work is necessarily too hurried for the good of the pupils. If consolidated, each teacher will have about ten classes and better work can be done.
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| American Baseball Lithograph. |
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| A. D. Wallace, proprietor of Brunswick Hotel, Cortland, N. Y. |
TRANSFERRED TO WAVERLY, N. Y.
Cortland Team Goes After Four Years In State League.
The Cortland baseball franchise has been transferred to Waverly and the team will soon be in charge of Waverly people. President A. D. Wallace of the Cortland baseball team substantiates the report, but does not know just when the team will go into the care and keeping of its future managers. It may be that the two games scheduled to be played here with Schenectady Wednesday and Thursday will be played on Athletic field, as a telegram to Mr. Wallace from President John H. Farrell stated that he desired them to play here.
It is thought that only a few of the players will go to Waverly. McCormick had already left the team to take up a position offered him in the New England league. Gannon has a position in the Eastern league at Rochester, and Hill will go to Toledo. Where the others will locate is not known, but the most of the men have signified their objections to playing in Waverly.
The reasons for transferring the team to Waverly are that the prospects for securing funds for its maintenance here are not bright. Only a little could be realized on the $500 of stock that has not already been collected on account of the poor quality of ball that the team has been playing. The Fourth of July was a disappointment, as only 400 paid admissions were secured. These considerations, with certain ill feeling that exists in the team, have influenced Mr. Wallace to take the final step.
Cortland played her first game in the State league, June 2, 1897, and has been in the league ever since. The other five cities and towns which were in the league at that time, Auburn, Lyons, Palmyra, Canandaigua and Batavia had all dropped out, leaving Cortland for a long time as the only original place in the league. In the four years and more that Cortland has been playing professional baseball, some fast players have been graduated into other leagues, and Cortland's reputation for sending out good players is far-reaching. Perhaps the most exciting period of all the four years was the last half of last season, when Cortland, Utica and Rome struggled in a three cornered contest for first place. During this time Cortland was at the head of the column the most of the time.
It was seen early in the present season that ill feeling existed among the players on the Cortland team. Instead of righting this, the team continually grew more at swords points, and it is this one thing that has driven the team out of Cortland and killed baseball here for years to come.
Won and Then Forfeited.
The Junior Y. M. C. A. baseball team forfeited a game of ball to the George Junior Republic team Saturday afternoon after the local players had won by a score of 16 and 11. The game was remarkable for the number of stolen bases that each team secured. The Y. M. C. A. boys had nineteen of these placed to their credit, while the George Junior lads stole ten times. The strong batting of Farrell and the fielding of J. Hinman were features.
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| Cortland Park on Salisbury Hill. |
BIG CROWD AT PARK.
Extra Cars Needed to Get Them All Home In Season.
The park was thronged again Saturday night. Three cars, each with a trailer, kept carrying people up there all the evening. They watched the moving pictures and the stereopticon views, rode on the merry-go-round, watched the bear and monkeys, danced, swung, listened to the music, patronized the ice cream counter, and enjoyed the cool breezes. Every car going up was packed. When it got to be 10 o'clock and no one showed any particular inclination to come home it began to be a matter of wonder to the management how the people were to be brought home in any reasonable time. The result was that at 10:30 J. G. Jervis and his assistants closed the business office and went to the car barns and got out another car and trailer all on their own account and went up to the park to see if any one really wanted to ride down with them. By the time they got there they found plenty willing and by the rapid use of all four trains everybody was safely landed in the city by midnight.
Yesterday there was a good crowd there all day and the people thoroughly enjoyed themselves in a quiet restful fashion. They strung hammocks, put down rugs and secured easy chairs, and sat there with their books and conversation having a good time.
Thursday night of this week there is to be a special trolley ride from McGraw, accompanied by the McGraw band. The party will go directly to the park and then after watching the moving pictures and enjoying the attractions for a time will take the ride over the rest of the road to Homer and Cortland.
New moving pictures have been engaged and these will be renewed from time to time all summer.
Mr. James Walsh, who is in charge of the pavilion, finds the crowds so numerous at the park and his time so occupied that he can hardly find time to come home to eat or to sleep. As a result he has decided that he will do neither but has fitted up some of the private rooms in the pavilion and has taken Mrs. Walsh and his two little girls up there and all are planning to camp out there for the summer. The pavilion has never been kept up in better shape than it is this summer and the wants of the public have never been attended to more promptly or more satisfactorily. That this is appreciated is shown by the constantly increasing patronage.
THE PLAGUE OF FROGS
Has Descended Upon Ithaca and Impedes All Kinds of Traffic.
All Ithaca is suffering from a frog pest after the recent heavy rains. The frogs have appeared in great numbers. The ground in the vicinity of Renwick park is covered with them.
A Lehigh Valley freight train on the Geneva division was stalled Saturday by diminutive green bullfrogs which covered the tracks by thousands on the steep grade a mile north of the city.
A train which left for Auburn late Saturday night had difficulty in working its way through the myriads which appeared on the track, which became so slippery from the ones killed that the wheels would not take hold of the rails. Traffic on a branch of the Ithaca-st. railway running on Stewart-ave. has been impeded and thousands of the frogs appeared in the vacant lots south of the Fiske-McGraw mansion.
The little animals have invaded houses and destroyed many of the gardens of the residents in the lower part of the city. It is difficult to proceed on the walks in that vicinity.
It is thought that the frogs came down during the heavy rains of Saturday. Another explanation is that they have come from the swamps south of Renwick. As a result of the wet season many pools are left in that vicinity, affording opportunities for the breeding of tadpoles.
Myriads of tadpoles have recently been seen in this city near the swamps on Pomeroy-st. The residents of that section may wake up some morning to find their premises covered with full grown frogs.
BREVITIES.
—The present change in the temperature is most acceptable and most agreeable.
—The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Cortland Lodge of Perfection will be held at the lodgerooms this evening at 8 o'clock.
—Quarterly meeting will be held at the Elm Stump church on Saturday evening and Sunday, July 13 and 14. Rev. Mr. Wellington of Tracy Creek will be present.
—Work was begun this morning upon the construction of the [bicycle] sidepath from the Gillet Grove to the county line on the McLean road. The distance is about two miles.
—The regular monthly meeting of the board of directors of the Y. M. C. A. will be held this evening at the association parlor at 8 o'clock. It is desired that every member be present.
—New display advertisements today are—M. W. Giles, Special sale, page 7; A. S. Burgess, Clothing sale, page 7; Palmer & Co., Bicycles, page 2; Bingham & Miller, Clothing, page 8; J. W. Cudworth, Optical goods, page 5.
—The regular meeting of the W. C. T. U. will be held at the home of Mrs. E. P. Jepson, 87 Elm-st., on Tuesday, July 9, at 2:45 P. M. Consecration service will be led by Miss Mary Oday. The program will be given by Miss Estella Walker. Subject, "Mercy Department."
—The local board of the Normal school has caused the fountain upon the school grounds to be repainted and arranged to have it in operation during the hot days and evenings. Several settees have been placed upon the circle about the fountain for the accommodation of those who may desire to enjoy the coolness of the water.
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