Show THE INDIAN reservation dispatches from dakota in relation to the indian lands disclose the fact that a veritable land mania prevails among our eastern fellow countrymen president harrison Harr issued a proclamation on the alth dinst opening to settlement on the at 12 noon the sisseton and wahpeton reservation in dakota the tract open for settlement contains about acres hundreds of prospective land owners including unprotected women are already in line on the border awaiting the strike of the clock at noon tomorrow there Is also a similar excitement in oklahoma Th the lands elands formerly mccu pied by the Cheyenne a and in the western part of that territory are to be opened for settlement these lands contain abou acres in eluding allotments of acres each to persons in both the indian tribes one year aga ago an agreement was wag entered into between the government and indians by which the latter adopted the seve severally raffy plan acres to each member one half to be grazing land the government will hold in trust the titles for the allot tees or their heirs free from all incumbrances for a period of years and then titles in fee simple will be given in addition the sum ot of sl will be paid eald to the indiana indian according to apt specified caned arrangements the total population of the choy chey anum on the reservation is is 2132 2182 of whom are males malee and 1142 females the Arapah oes number 1137 of whom are males malee and females malee fe I 1 making a total of about these lands are J said aid to be adapted for farming and the Indi indians ains who have already begun to farm in severalty severally manifest a dispost tion to raise wheat in preference to other cereals the proclamation for the opening of these lands has not yet been issued but bat along jhb whole border of the terri tory there Is said to be an unbroken encampment of prospective settlers awaiting the hour of opening |