Show OKLAHOMA PLANNING PLAN NINfi NEW HOMESTEAD tulsa okcha Oka oklahoma homa may witness another run tor for home being ate ads for governor william 11 II murray haa bas signed a bill providing for or the home homesteading of 0 lands landa taken over by counties for or taxes and on which the he redemption period has bus expired Go governor vornor murray said ho he was unable to estimate how much land would be available but that there were thousands of acres A checkup Is being made by the state school land department which will administer the run the procedure tor for the run la Is still undecided as yet but there are several precedents in the history ot of tile tho state tho most moat dramatic one was the opening of territory to settlement april 22 1889 at which time many of the states loading leading citizens of today raced tor for a on that date thousands ot of per sons gath gathered eTed on the borders bordera ot of the land ready to make a race for a quarter section or for or a town lot in n lone kyrie ot of the cities to be built A signal fired by united states soldiers at noon started the race people raced on horseback in carts and in almost every conceivable way and it was waa estimated that people entered the territory the first day drawing held to decide filing order later runs were held in 1891 tor for the iowa sac and fox and pot shawnee reservations cheyenne and arapahoe country in III 1892 cherokee Chero keo strip in 1893 and Klaka poo country in 1895 when the government was waa ready in 1901 to open to akloya coman che lands it devised a different method as the opening to settlement by raco ace had not been satisfactory all persons who desired lands were required to file their names and on a stated day the namoa names were wera placed in a 0 box and churned up and drawn the drawing was waa not a lottery it was simply to decide the tha order of tiling filing tor for homesteads utter after selections had been made other parts parta of the state were mott settled I 1 od in various I 1 ways some by buying of land from indians with the approval of the government and in one ona instance through sealed bids to the highest bidder the present law la Is designed to place back on the tax rolls thou sandhof sand acres especially in south bast oklahoma to which the state has title |