Show SOME SIGHTS AND SCENES Life In the Sections Near the Promised Land ORLANDO I Oklahoma Sept 12J Special With the opening of the Cherokee strip outlet to settlement a vexatious question will have been settled and the coveted lands of that region before be-fore six months will be transformed into thousands of comfortable homes for American families and poor Los possessions abbreviated to that extent That poor Lo has not enjoyed these lands except to collect rentals from the cattle barons for pasturage is potent but that the titles of these lands were vested with the Indians was recognized by I their admitted right to collect these rentals Now these Indians under protest pro-test convey their vast lands to the government gov-ernment for a pittance but the Caucasian gains by the transaction gains thousands of homes so there is an end to it all Perhaps the Caucasian may reciprocate in part to his red brother in the reflection of advanced ideas and civilizing influences in-fluences but the red brother will be slow to appreciate such compensation The Cherokee strip is as a whole superior to the former territory onened to settlement and constituting the territory of Oklahoma in that the eastern two thirds is similiar to a continuation of south central Kansas the best portion of that stateme of the best agriculturally in the middle west The area of this new territory is almost equal to the present Oklahoma is better watered better timbered tim-bered has better soil as a whole and is nearer the markets I has already the vantage of two great system of railways the Santa Fe and the Rock Island crossing cross-ing it while the Missouri Pacific skirts its border for a hundred miles and standsready to reach out by branches to all the principal points and the Kansas Kan-sas City Fort Scott and Memphis reaches to tho northeastern corner and promises to extend its lines The topography of the Cherokee strip is greatly varied The west begins in the great plains and ends in the almost in accessable breaks or bad lands wateressexcep1 in flood time and treeless tree-less a vast waste not fit for pasturage asa as-a whole and certainly not fit for any other purpose The middle third begin with the breaks which however soon change to undulating praries covered cov-ered with buffalo grass black jack scrub oak and blue joint grass in turn as one goes eastward until when the eastern third is reached the streams forming at the heads of the breaks become considerable consider-able the valleys widen from canyons to a considerable width and heavy growths of timber elm cottonwood tmber sycamore alder and occasionally walnut and hickory hick-ory cover the river first bottoms and black jack oak the bills until the higher plains are reached swarthed with heavy blue stem grasses succulent rank and beautiful to behold a high as a mans head when sitting on a good sized horse Any people here Well some The woods are full of them and thousands are coming daily The great rush will bee be-e Ia |