The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 17, 1893, Page 2

1 ina tg i HOW 'rO0 TAKE ACLAIM. The Law elating to the Uhero | kee Strip. | section he can easily tell which quar- jter heis on. Before spending much | time in reading the corner stones, | howeyer, he had best take a trip over | can secure one orjmore lots by taking | County Court Proceedings. | possession of and improving them!| The following are the proceedings ‘and paying a small fee to the Pro-| of the regular term of the county! | bate Judge. Do not attempt to hire | court for August Who are Entitled to Secure Home-| the greater section to see if there! anbody to go in and hold aclaimfor| Bonds to the amount of $35,000 c f | steads—The Method of Marking Lines and Corners—Cau- tionary Advice to Settlers. Guthrie, Ok., Aug. 4—It is now| definitely settled that the great body of land extending across Northern Oklahoma and known as the Chero kee Strip will be opened to settle ment early in September and many thousands of people throughout the entire country have their faces turn ed toward the promised. land. Among the readers of The Republic are numbered a large portion of these people, and as many of them are unfamiliar with the workings ot the homestead Jaw and nearly all ignorant of the peculiar modifications of it in this country, some plain di- rections as to how to proceed in tak- ing a homestead in the Strip or other Indian lands will be both timely and interesting. WHO MAY TAKE A HOMESTEAD. Any person (man or woman,) the head of a family or 21 years old, may take a homestead of 160 acres, providing he or she has not already enjoyed the benefits of the home- stead act, and is either a citizen of the United States or has filed de- claratory statements. Ifone made a homestead entry previous to March 2, 1889, and failed to perfect title to same up to this time, or ob tained land under the straight pre- emption or timber culture act, he, is still eligible to take a homestead in the Strip, provided he does not own 160 acres of land. Any person ownirg 160 acres of land in any State or Territory cannot take a homestead in Oklahoma, and avy person who has relinquished on a homestead since March 2, 1889, is also barred out. All persons desiring to take home- steads should go upon the Jand as it is opened for settlement, then by the aid of a sectional map and the corner stones find out the number and the range of the quarter section. The following directions will enable anyone to read the marks on the corner stones. HOW TO READ THE MARKS. A stone with six marks on each of its edges marks the corner of a township. These corners are six miles apart each way, and the lines of five corner stones north and south and east and west between them are marked only on two sides. The north and south line is marked only on the north and south edges of the stone; one mark on the north for every mile the corner is from the township corner on the north, and as many marks on the south side as it is to the south township corver. In the same manner the east and west lines are marked on their edges, indicating distance east or west to the corner of the township. In the interior of each township there are twenty-five section corners and a large number of quarter sec- tion corners. The latter are all marked “4; the marks facing the west on the north and south lines, and on the east and west lines, the north. The section corners extend in five lines east and west and five lines north and south. Each stone has on its east side one mark for each mile it is west from the east line of the township, and on its south side one mark for each mile from the south line. Thus, if a corner stone has three marks on the east sideand two on the south, by referring to the plat below the homesteader will find that the section southeast of it is 27, the one northwest 21, etc.; or if there are four marks one the east and four on the south side of the stone, the section to the southeast is 16, the one to the northeast 9, and soon. By practicing picking out different sections on the plat in that |0™ the claim before he does. Get way one will soon be able to tell the|on ycur claim first, and then find number of any section. NORTH. 9 | 10 EAST. After one has the number of the jis anybody there ahead of bim. If 2 : | jhe finds somebody before him let |him move on to another claim, but | if the coast is clear he can begin im- | provements at once by cutting down \a few trees, plowing several furrows, starting a well or doing something jsimilar, thus showing a bona fide jintention of taking the land as a | homestead. all taking claims close together and acting as witnesses for each other, thus protecting ‘themselves against ers and black mailers. THE MATTER OF FILING. After the number of his quarter has provements made, the settler should has 90 days from the date of settle ment to do this in and six months after filling in which to get his fam- ily upon the claim and take up his permanent residence. When he files he must pay a fee of $14. Let him be sure his filing papers are made out properly, for a slight error iv them may put him to great expense and eventually be the cause of his losing his lands. He must be very careful, too, about what lawyer he employs, for the land office towns are full of rascally lawyers who will betray his interests for a dollar or two. Under the homestead laws the settler must live upon the land with his family and cultivate it for fiye years before he can secure a_ title, and at no time be absent longer than six months unless he has special per- mission from the land office. In this country settlers must also pay $2 50 per acre for laud east of 97} degrees west longitude; $1 56 per acre for land lying between 974 and 984 de grees west longitude, and $1 per acre for all iand west of 984 degrees and shall also pay interest upon the amount so to be paid for said land from the date of entry to the date of final payment therefore at the rate of 4 per cent per annum. A north| and south line passing five miles| east of Caldwell, Kas., marks the | It will be well for all settlers to go in parties of three, four or more, | day of opening, for if you do, ander | Me | 7 | | professional contestors, claim jump- been found and the preliminary im-| go to the land office and file. He} 974 degree boundary, and a_ similar |” | you, for this is Jemeanor pun-| Priarie City twp. also bonds to the} ishable by a fine « -000 and a/amount $170,000 of Mount Pleasant year’s imprisonment, or both, and] were burned. They had been paid in | the title of any land so tal | forfeited. | aken will be} some instances and others renewed. Keep off sections 16 and} The following bilis were allowed: 36, for they are reserved for school} A. D. Cunningham moving | purposes in all reservations and will| workhouse 13 00) be leased for three y to the high- | Mrs. Bud Campbell tempo | lest bidder by the Governor. | rary support, 10 00) Aud last, but not least, do not go| E A Hill ditto, 10 00} upon the land between this and the| Mary C Hall burying paupers 23 16} ary C Hall keeping paupers 65 25 the ruling of the Department, | E Cook temp. support 20 00) you forfeit your rights to a home-| A C Skimner trimming trees, 9 00) stead there | | F M Steele guarding pison- | ers while cleaning court \ yard. 9 00} J H Steele guarding prisoners 54 00} Bennett-Wheeler & Co. | taum Did It. As considerable howling has been |indulged in by the rampant republi- can press in connection with the sus- Z Z A 2 hardware. % 30] pension of the pension of a judge in GD Barnard & Co., blanks 120) Michigan, it may be as well that the} Weekly Union, blanks, 1 50 facts in the case should be generally| 4 1 pox. ice 3 10 j known. As stated they are simply Clerk Henry Co , criminal | ~ follows, as told from Washing- costa: 134 00 | ton. ere Cadogan Hatcher Co., paper, 1 00 Washington, July 22.—Touching an Hickman comin Lia 6 00 the suspension of the pension of Charles Dean Long, one of the su- preme court justices of Michigan, M L Embree, assessing Spruce townsbiy, half pre : state, 77 20 it is stated at the pension bureau J C Hayes services circuit that Judge Long has been in receipt lade este 40 50 of a pension at the rate of $72 per month for the loss of the left arm] above the elbow and a gunshot wound in the hip, resulting in total |belplessuess. The report being | made to the bureau that in spite of | his to'al helplessness he was per- forming the duties of judge at a sa'- ary of 37,000, the bureau came to the c: nclusion that an investigation was necessary and a suspension fol- lowed ‘ihe investigation showed he hal not been examined since Marcl:, 1884, when he was rated at $30 per month. In August, 1884, it was increased to $50 per month. In May, 1889, the pension was rated J C Hayes circuit clerk, J C Mar- tin, recorder and Jas. Drysdale coun- ty clerk present statement of fees and approved. The order setting apart $2 000 to grade road in Osage township here- tofore made is rescinded. Ordered that the road fund be distributed through county in accor- dance with the statute. Anna Ison ordered sent to deaf and dumb asylum at Fulton. J N Drysdale was allowed $250.30 as per contract for constructing bridge across Gilliam’s ereek. Thos. Whiten, two wolf scalps, and increased by Commissioner eee y .~,| Harper & Atkison, mdse sheriff 4 25 Tanrer and allowance made of $50 = 2: ° a J C Martin, sundries, 7 50 per month from June, 1874, the date es Lawton & Burnup, records, + 00 of the law establishing the >| 5 : 4 P oe =~ |Isane Conklin, services 3 00 and $72 per month from June, 1878, | 2 : oe elas | A F Hertchell, oil, 75 the date of the law establishing that Weebly U ‘nti 7 22 rate. In August, 1889, Tanner grant- Sod ay nee! : W F Rosser, printing, 6 A F Moniger, bridge work, 1 50 DW Drummond mdse, 1 ed another re-rating at the rate of 5 per month for June, 1886, and! 25 from June, 1892. No apph | line;passing two miles west of Kiowe, | Kas, is at 98} degrees. | Any person can initiate his home. | stead either by going upon the land| first and filling afterwards or by) going to the land office and filling | first and going upon the land after- wards, but the former way is the safest and best, as the first in point of time holds the land and when you| go to the land office and file upon a piece of land without baving been upon it, some other person may| have settledJupon it before the hour | of your filling and they would con- | sequently get theland. Only a few| can get a chance to successfully file | before all the land is settled upon on the day of the opening, so the surest and best way is to go upon the land first and make settlement, then go file. EX-SOLDIERS FAVORED. Ex-soldiers or sailors or their widows or minor children can enter | statement either in person or through an agent and have six months in which to make entry and commence | settlement, and every old soldier's time of service is deducted from the five years’ residence required. Numerous parties will offer to lo- to $10. The settler’s money is sim- ply thrown away when paid to them for even though they give an hon- est location the settler does not know but that a dozen men may get out your exact location. This is the safest way. In the lands where the Indians have taken allotments, how- ever, one should find out, if possi- ble, what numbers are taken and then seethat he does not get on them. This information will be given in the President's proclama- tion declaring the lands open. This proclamation will be issued 20 days before the opening and will also give the lines of the country is to be divided and designate the location of the county seats. | cured. 160 acres by filling a declaratory | | cate claims or town lots at from $1} Vantrees Bros, bridge work, 3 50 Annie Coates, temp support, 22 50 W F Fleming and wife temp cation for an increase or re rating was ever rade by Long subsequent to August, 1884, when his pension a time I could not see. I used Ely’s oe - Cream Balm and in a few days I was ae ES CS CANTON CUES BME It is wonderful how quick Frey Stationey Co., sundries, 16 25 ; 2 | was increased to $50, except a letter | Supply A say ki : a jew = . | Dovid Walker, stationery, 3 75 written Commissioner Tauner in JS Ev t = 20 00 June, 1889, in which he requested Gel Sue piace eROGS ‘ re rating from 1866 and 1872, which Se Peta eS ae ae oe moe request was duly complied with by J cast OK ate bear ee Tanner despite the fact that no legal |" ~~” a es ane 67 75 application was made. These acts J pe ee (Sek Be ne are wholly unwarranted by law and 4 Wo. ai S a oe pt pe resulted in the payment of Long the | ~~ Petree . total sum of $7,912 Ge> Haynes, wolf scalps 3 00 alias Hurley Lumber Co., lumber I suffered from acute inflammation | for bridge. 1 95 in my nose and head—for a week at J M McManas, support, 30 00 i it helped me.—Mrs. Georgia S. Jor-| Roy Wilcox, wolf scalps, 3 00 don, Hartford, Conn. S Dent, assessing Summit, : ected : Pie Terma half state, 24 83 arrh, and having derived great ben- z pe = ‘efit from the ae of Ely's Cream es printing, 16 75 Balm, I can highly recommend it.|© A Bird, day cook, 2 00 | Its sales are far in excess of all oth. | Standard Co., records, 32 00 er catarrh remedies.—B Franken, | A F Moniger, bridge work, 1 50 druggist, Sigourney, Iowa. | Treasurer takes credit in- quest fees, 14 97 P Randall, hauling lumber, 3 00 Deacon Bros & Co., mdse, 24 40 Passaic Lumber Co. lumber 12 25 J Hartsock, cleaning court Bad Dronth in [ilinois. Bloomington, Ill, Aug. 10.—The drouth in McLean county is unprec- | edented and the situation is critical. The corn fields are burning up, the leaves and the stalks of the corn be- PORTER Sec ye ites: Wha creme) fa Gian OO Bo Ce EEE SRE pase : 8 across Deer Creek, 278 50 of deep. wide cracks, and the the atmosphere of dust. The pastures | Hn Treg WO a ay Coa ship collectors were approved. which permits its use asa beverage} W R Wilson was ordered to give or intoxicant, it is recognized as the | new school loan bond and insure. best and purest medicine for all aili-| Bridge Commissioner March was nents Stomach, Liver or Kidneys.— ‘ordered to examine bridges across It will cure Sick Headache, Indiges-| Mill Sap branch between Deer Creek tion, Consumption, and drive Ma-!and Mound townships and across laria from the system. Satisfaction | Mormon Fork on Butler and Harris- I are burned brown, the farmers are/|y, Deffenbaugh, Summit feeding their cattle and hauling wa-| W A Crawford, Homer ter long distances. All eyes are nies pena, pa h c : +) W rrick, awnee | upon the two rain makers who wen Holland Mills East Boone < Chena yesterday and promise to J E Bartlett Te Oak | produce plenty of rain within five! 4 9 Welton Mt. Pleasant days. E H Carter Rockville |S L Star Pleasant Gap A Leader- A B Owen Grand River Since its introduction, Electric! W H Warford Spruce Bitters has gained rapidly in popu-|G W Newberry Deep Water lar favor, until now it is clearly in| J Swarens New Home the leadamong pure medicinal tonics | J B Walkup Walnut and alteratives—containing nothing | Geo Church Mound guaranteed with each bottle or the | onville road. FINAL PRECAUTIONS. At these county seats any person money will refunded. Price only; Recorder Martin ordered to let 50c. per bottle. Sold by H. L.| contracts to make various plats there- Tucker. in recited for $50.00 A 7 a NK Saubqure r,, St Lous, A. O. Welton Staple:Fancy Groceres, Feed and Provisions of all Kinds. NUEENSWARF AND GLASSWARE CICARS AND TOBACCO, Always pay the highest market price for Countv Produces East Side Square. Butler, Mo- THE BOSS ‘SADDLE, Give Satisfaction IN EVERY RESPECT. Fink’s Leather Tree Saddlo Better than any other Saddle For the money. Made ona | Solid Sole Leather Tree No danger of Tree breaking. Also a full linefof STEEL FORK “COW BOY” SADDLES All styles and prices. Double Wagon harness from $10 to $29. Buggy harness $7 to $25. Second hand harness from $3.00 to $15. Full line of Turf Goods for fast horses. Come and see us, MeFarland Bros, BUTLER, MO. “DIRT DEFIES THE KING.” THEN SAPOLIO IS GREATER THAN ROYALTY ITSELF. It is a wonderful remedy, which is alike benefi- cial to you and your children. of Pure Norv Cod Liver Oil and Hypophos- phites cf Lime and Soda. It checks wasting in the children and produces sound, healthy flesh. It keeps them from taking cold and it will do the same for you all Azaemic and Wasting Diseases. 9 Prevents westingin children. Al- co § mest as palatable as milk. Get onty the geauine. Prepared by Scott & Bowne, Chemists, New York. Sold by on all Dargzists. Such is Scott's Emulsion Seott’s Ens Colds, Ccasumptio., Scrofula and