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Show j i H Secretary tin Intetlor Illtchrock 88J has refluent. I H. niirj ut War Hoot H to send Inin i In- Klow omancho anil Hj Apache reserved inn In III Indian 1 Territory a I'" lr of I'nllM Btnte B troop to near then reservations, fH wliU h arc on t be Ibrown open (or Hl settlement of squatter, or "eooners," Hl a they arc known on tho frontier Hj Mora than I oon of these "sooners" H have entered I hi Wlihlta mountains Hj and taken up mineral Inline The dls- H trlct which la lo b divided Into H homesteads of 164 aim each, l In tho B Oklahoma country and la regarded aa H the meat desirable farming land In (ho H southwest H Tho department li determined that 1 there iball bo no Injustice dono to tha B settlers of ttila new reeervatlon and It H does not propose that the arenra enact- ed when Oklahoma was Ihruwn opm to aittlement ahall be repeated A plan haa been devised when by ea li claimant will havo on equal rhanra with every other rlalmant although only a amall percentage of tboso filing claims will secure homesteads Already tha replications on file exceed by many thousands the number of Iracta of ICO acre each which are to bo ills-poaeil ills-poaeil of to clalmanta The town of Duncan Okla fins madef n protest against the loritlon of 20,-000 20,-000 acre of grating land direct! opposite op-posite and adjoining the military forest for-est reserve beeauso It raise a wall against the ton In communicating with the new reservation when settled It la claimed that the land la too volu-nblo volu-nblo for pasturage and could bo easily aettted with n prosperous population. whli h Mould do business at DuncH-On DuncH-On tho other hand a proti st haa coa from T x.is beratlso the location of U main pasture of tuOOOO acre on tw Terns boundary Intcrferea with fr Intercourse of Trias people with ( new settlement and likewise rear I wall against the people of that state. Secretary Hoot haa directed that troop of cavalry from I'ort Bill, I. f, be sent Into the reservation to clef them of the I iwlets element that h entered Tho soldiers will probably H kept there until the day tho landa afl thrown open to settlement In the meantime the Kiowa lndls have, sent a representative to Watt-Ington Watt-Ington risking that the upenlng day U postponed until Congress can eiamlM the treaty under which the act w passed |
