Show HOMESEEKERS DESTITUTE HUNDREDS AT El RENO AND LAWTON IN NEED People Who Needed the Land Were Unlucky in the Lottery Merchants and Professional Men Winning Out El Reno OT Aug Hundreds of homeseekers failed to draw a claim in the > new KiowaComanche country are selling their tents horses and wagons at a sacrifice in order to reach their homes Many others who have camped on the borders of the land for months expecting that it would be ppcned o > runJ are destitute and suffering Is already apparent H Hundreds arc drifting south toward the new three I I projected towns of Anadarko Hobart J and Lawton hoping that something may turn up Many merchants and professional men drew claims while hundreds of needy have found themselves them-selves without either the hopedfor land or money sufficient to purchase necessities neces-sities A petition has been telegraphed to Randlct Indian agent Anadarko signed by 500 persons asking him to suppress gambling of all kinds that prevails at Lawton It is asserted however that he has no authority to interfere in-terfere so long as the Indians are left alone Hundreds of holdup games are piled on every hand and the innocent inno-cent arc robbed right and left The Oklahoma Ok-lahoma law prohibiting the sale of cigarettes or cigarette paper is enforced en-forced but there is no law that can touch the gamblers Liquor dealers are flocking to Lawton Law-ton and declare they will open saloons In the new country on August 6th when the auction sale of town lots opens notwithstanding they cannot bylaw by-law begin business before giving sixty I days published notice The Territory I officIals are preparing to make wholesale whole-sale arrests In the meantime whisky and beer are being shipped into the country on every train Lawton continues to crow at a rapid rate Much suffering has already resulted re-sulted There Is little water to be had and It sells at 50 cents a barrel Ice which has to be brought twent five miles overland is scarce and sells at 3y cents a pound |