History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . N [1889 Louisiana. In January, 1894, the LotteryCompany betook itself to exile on the is-land of Cuanaja, in the Bay of Honduras, aseat which the Honduras Government hadgranted it, together with a monopoly ofthe lottery business for fifty years. Matters in the West drew pressure of white population, rudeand resistless as a glacier, everywhere forc-ing the barriers of Indian reservations, nowconcentrated upon the part of Indian ter-ritory known as Oklahoma. This largetract the Seminole Indians
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . N [1889 Louisiana. In January, 1894, the LotteryCompany betook itself to exile on the is-land of Cuanaja, in the Bay of Honduras, aseat which the Honduras Government hadgranted it, together with a monopoly ofthe lottery business for fifty years. Matters in the West drew pressure of white population, rudeand resistless as a glacier, everywhere forc-ing the barriers of Indian reservations, nowconcentrated upon the part of Indian ter-ritory known as Oklahoma. This largetract the Seminole Indians had sold to theGovernment, to be exclusively colonized byIndians and freedmen. In 1888-89, ^s ithad become clearly impossible to shut outwhite settlers, Congress appropriated $4,000,-000 to extinguish the trust upon which theland was held. By December the newlyopened territory boasted 60,000 denizens,eleven schools, nine churches, and threedaily and five weekly newspapers. In afew years it was vying for statehood withArizona and New Mexico. In addition to the prospect of thus losing. A general view of the town on April 24, 1889, the second day after the opening.
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