OKLAHOMA NPENED,
{ acusands of People Flock Into the
Coveted Country.
Fort Swati, April 22, —Oklahoma
was opened at noon to-day, and into
:he promised land rushed the boomers,
There were several fights by night
setween the troops and the different
quads of intending settlers, At the
rst signs of daybreak the vast army of
boomers began breaking camp prepara.
\ory to rushing across the border.
Several hours before the appointed
‘ime immense trains of white-topped
wagons, headed by fleet cavalcades of
horsemen, were far within the limits
fixed by the law. The small bands of
sentries and guards on the eastern and
southern borders were utterly unable
to check the mighty tide of men that
poured into the Fromised Land,
Although heavily reinforced during the
night by regular troops from Fort Reno
and by the Indian police from the
Creek Nation, the guards were beaten
‘ pack like straws before the wind.
So far as known only two col
lislons between the guards and boomers
were attended with fatalities, but In
these two men and one Woman
were killed Fully 500 boomers
were surprised in attempted night
marches and compelled to retreat.
Crooks, blacklegs, swindlers and ras-
cals of all kinds are in Oklaboma now,
and they are practicing among all
classes of boomers. The thieves are in
no hurry to move ahead, but content
to stay with the masses. Instead of
one man having been sandbagged and
robbed at Purcell, it is said a hundred
have been similarly treated all along
the border. Many are swindled in less
violent ways by pretended officers, who
secure money from claimants to leave
them alone on their land.
ST. Louis, April 25.—An Arkansas
City special to the Republic says: “A
number of claims have been deserted
in various parts of the Territory, and
wagons can be seen frequently on the
back trall, Many of the disgrunted
surrounding Oklahoma.
fall back on the Cherokee strip, others
will go down nto the Chickasaw
country and lease farms from the In-
dians.
by farmers, who pay an annual head
right or lease for the privilege of tilling
the soll there,
complaint among
poorest land in the Indians’ Territory
should have been the only land opened
to settlement.
Twenty clalms have been deserted in
one neighborhood, and last
homesteader offered to sell his claim
for $25.
town sites continue, and much trouble
is promised for the future,
CHICAGO, April 20. —The Daily News
special from Diamond Bar Ranch, L
T., says: The occupation of the Chero-
kee strip has begun along the whole
line. A much harder nut to crack than
was any of the Oklahoma booms 18 now
presented to the Government. The
Cherokee strip, which is now in pro-
gress of being gobbled up, comprises
nearly 8,000,000 acres, being thus four
times as large a3 Oklahoma, and it far
transcends the latter in beauly and
fertility.
A A 5S
AN INDIAN UPRISING.
THEY WONT ALLOW BOOMERS
TAKE THIER LANDS.
GUTHRIE IN A STATE OF CONFUSION,
CHicAGO, April 24.— A special from
Guthrie, Oklahoma, says: A nsing of
Indians 1s reported on the border on
account of boomers who failed to get
Oklahoma claims squatting on the
Indians’ lands. A party of troops are
on the way to the scene of the trouble,
Kansas City, Mo., April 4. —A
Journal special from Gutherie says: If
ever the Government opened the way
ever built
nor so
No town was
difficulties,
the time
under greater
time,
quarter sections will not be recorded,
as the farmers seem disposed to peace-
ably adjust all difficulties, and when
they find one quarter section occupied
move on until they find another,
But here in Guthrie all is canfusion,
and the feeling that an imposition has
stronger, and the bitterness is now io-
tense, as the full import of the action
of the Government officials becomes
better understood. Fublic meetings
are being constantly held by States and
unitedly, at all of which the question
is raised how best to overcome the
present situation.
The unsuthorized and unwarranted
settlement of the best portion of this
town by Government officials and
others has complicated the situation,
although no feasible plan has yet been
proposed by which they can be ousted
from their posession. As stated yester-
fay the choice portions of this town
were staked out Sunday night and by
10 o'clock Monday they were taken
possession of.
Among those who took part in these
ings were United States Mar-
shal Jones and Needles, with at least
50 ties each, United States Attor-
aldron, United States Cowmis-
sioner Galloway, Register Dille, Judge
Guthrie of Topeka, District Judge
Hiram Dillen and others as prominent.
This is what causes the dissatisfaction
that now exists, as the Journal repre-
sentative saw the unlawful squatting
done. There is ne heresay about it.
Until a late hour last night meetings
Finally represent.
were killed there on Monday in dis.
putes over claims. That of 8, T.
Comps was Ropar in these despatches
yesterday. Of the other murder the
special despatch says the body has
been identified as that of J. C, Cyland,
late of Franklin county, Mo.
All information shows that it was a
most heartless and cold blooded mur-
der, perpetrated by three desperate
characters who desired to take posses-
sion of a claim that he was the lawful
owner of. One of the murderers of
young Oyland has been found and
executed, He was discovered in the
bushes near the river, A posse of 30
men was formed for the purpose of
capturing him,
When they arrived at his hiding
place they demanded his surrender.
His answer was to pull his revolver,
and Instantly a volley was fired, and he
fell mortally wounded and died in an
hour. His name is unknown, The
Vigilance Committee made no effort to
conceal the killing of the assassin, and
rely upon the community to sustain
them in thelr efforts to overawe the
turbulent and lawless element of the
camp.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
—Edward Tilden, President of the
Drovers’ National Bank at the Unlon
Stock Yards, at Chicago, has been ar-
rested on a churge by George Fleming,
an ex-school trustee, of attempted
bribery. Fleming declares that on
April 20th, 1886, Tilden offered Flem-
ing $ 000 tor hia vote and influence in
the charge and intimates that Flem-
ina’s action is for revenge, Tilden
having exerted himself at tbe recent
election to defeat a brother of Fleming,
Line, due iu Louisville from Uinelin-
by a freight train near Glencoe. A
had broken, and the train stopped till
it could be repaired,
repaired he was recalled. Just as the
passenger train started the freight
“Pontotoc,” which
and badly damaged.
gengers are Mrs,
Was
Ranand, of New
arm sprained; A. J. Dovel, Pinkney,
Onhlo, night arm and side bruised,
Wm. Kipper, fireman of the freight
train, had his right arm broken and
his scalp wounded, Wounded in jump-
ing from the train—Adolph Messer,
Walker, brakeman, badly bruised.
None of the wounded were dangerously
hart,
—Surgeon General Hamilton, of the
Marine Hospital Service, was on the
234 informed by the President of the
fever existed in
that city. Every precaulion bas been
taken to prevent a spread of the dis-
ease. The Health Commissioner of
Baltimore was on the 23d notified by
Surgeon General Hamilton, of the
Marine Hospital Service, that at Santos
and Rio, the ports from which
coffee importers of Baltimore receive
nearly all their coffee, the yellow fever
is raging more virulently than ever be-
fore. At the time of the last report
from Rio there had been 186 deaths
A case
the
Wisconsin, The victim 1s a
The character of the disease
—Patrick Carroll, 26 years of age,
Brooklyn bridge into the East river, at
half past 6 o'clock on the evening of
offi e of Hubbell & Co., in Elkhart,
ing to $5000,
colored man, was arrested on the 234
and confessed his guilt,
Jacob Reichard, In
absence of the family on the evening of
the 22d.
— At noon, on the 234, a man named
McCarthy entered Collins & Sons’
bank, in Ventura, California. where
Jack Morrison was alone, McCarthy
complained of his poverty aud desper-
ation, which had drawn him to think
of suicide. He laid a package on the
esounter, which he said was dynamite,
and drew a six-shooter and demanded
thirty thousand dollars, Morrison
dodged bebind the counter and ran out
The robber then
seized a tray containing aocout $4000
and walked into the street, Morrison
gave the alarm, and McCarthy was
arrested and all the monsv recovered,
J, J. Scheepers, an employe in the
auditor's office of the Burlington Rail
road, at Cedar Rapids, lowa, commit
ted suicide in Chicago, on the 234 by
drinking two ounces of carbolic acid.
~The Morgantown Female Semi-
nary, at Morgantown, West Virginia,
was burned on the 234, Loss, $25,000;
insurance, $6000. About 830 of the
pupils lost their clothing and effects.
McGrory’s bakery in Prescott, Ontario,
was burned on the evening of the 22d.
Miss Gainsford perished in the flames,
~While crossing the Philadelphia,
Wilmington snd Bsitimore Railroad
track io & wagon at Newport, Dela-
are, on the afternoon of the 24th, John
Wade, aged 62 years, his wife Ma.
tilda, aged 59, and James M. Linder-
aged 12, were struck by a train
lled. The horse was also killed,
and the wagon # in pleces.
Wade and his wife lived on a farm at
Appleton, in Cecil county, Maryland.
«Terrible land slides have occurred
in Peru from the perpendicular walls
through which the tunnels on the
Oroya route were cut in order to en-
able the Verrugas bridge to be thrown
the chasm from tunnel to tunnel.
mass of rooks
wn ju a
bridge, w
long and
the world
—An explosion of natural gas In
McKeesport, Pa., on the 24th, wrecked
the Hotel Lundmark and dangerously
injured the proprietor, John Lund-
mark, and a little girl, who were stand-
ing in the door and were blown across
the street. ‘The bullding took fire and
was entirely consumed, together with
the three frame dwellings adjoining.
During the progress of the fire Chief
McCallister, of the Fire Department,
was painfully but not fatally burned.
The Joss was $205,000, three-fourths
coveiled by insurance.
—A forest fire 18 raging on wood and
timber lots near Auburn, New Hamp-
shire, Already 450 scres have been
burned over, and 300 cords of wood
prepared for market and a large quan-
tity of timber have been destroyed.
Men are fighting the flames,
~During an election on the liquor
license question at Blckley’s Mills,
Russell county, Virginia, on the 24th,
a difficulty occurred, and pistols were
drawn, William Porter was killed,
and Irvin Howell, Joseph Bargent and
Martin Johnson it is feared are fatally
wounded, J. G. Cowell was slightly
wounded. On the evening of the 21st
a colored man, named Dempsey, was
shot and killed on the farm of Isaac
N. Eason, near Hickory Ground, Vir-
ginia, by another colored man named
Harding, while playing the White Cap
joke and forcing himself into Hard-
ing’s house at wmdnight, Harding
was arrested and tried, but released, as
it was a clearly proved case of killing
in self-defence,
—One of the heaviest rain and ball
storms ever known in Atlanta, Geor-
gia, began to fall at half-past four
o'clock on the afternoon of the 24th.
The storm burst suddenly. At the
time the gust came on firemen were
ing, burned on the 21st, flames having
One of the walls fell upon the men,
ell and injuring several others,
wind also blew down the Ivy Street
base ball dark and damaged bulldings
in different parts of the city.
filled with oil,
The oll caught fire and the engine and
cars were destroyed, John
engineer, and James Malone, brake-
man, both of Sunbury, were injured
internally. One
fishermen. A neighboring farmer sald
extinguish it, because he bad put out a
Two trains collided
on the
freight
Tennessee,
the engineer of one of them. Brakeman
Taylor and Conductor Hineline were
and Engineer Rusk fatally
njured,
jured.
— Andrew W. Bogert, 45 years of
age, & real estate dealer In New York,
committed suicide on the 25th by
shooting bimself in the head, He had
teen ill for some time and susiained
business losses.
~The Emmons dynamite factory,
about a mile from Harrison, West.
chester county, New York, caught fire
in the engine room on the evening of
the 25th, and soon afterwards Lhe fac
tory blew up,
of the proprietor, and Aauaderson, the
fireman, were injured, the former seri-
ously, A storm on Lake Supetior on
the evening of the 23d brole up &
the tirabers ouf in the lake, causing a
loss to lumbermen estimated at $100, -
out stumps with the dynamite,
~The wife of the lev,
ham, editor of
and Pastor of the Christian Church,
on Indiana avenue, im Chicago, was
arrested on the 25th on a charge of
shoplifting. It is alleged that when
searched articles to the value of $15 to
The postoffice at New RHo-
New York, was robbed of
$2000 in cash on the evening of the
24th. John and Henry Hill have been
rearrested at Somerset, Kentucky, on
a charge of killing two peddiers about
They were arrested just
after the murder, but, as no evidence
GR:
wote discharged. A boy on the 204
discovered a coffee sack, which con-
talnad the skeletons of two men buried
at the root of a grapevine,
Conversation warms the mind, en-
livens the imagination, and is contin-
ually starting fresh game that is imme-
diately pursued and taken, and which
would never have occurred in the duller
intereotirse of epistolary correspond
ence,
4 certain strain of nobility of ¢harac-
ter is needed to enable one to see with-
out envy the better fortune of his neigh-
bor, even though that neighbor be also
his friend. It sounds absurd to declare
that success is not sinful in itself, but
it is a truth many never learn, or, if
they believed, never practice,
Courage is needed in daily life. A man
must have courage to follow the pole
star of principle in all things, Tt needs
a brave spirit sometimes to call things
by their right names, We are not to
condone covetousness by calling it fru.
lity, nor cowardice by calling it pru-
», nor wastefulness by calling it
goodheartedness,
A life that is lived wholly for self is a
disgusting deformity. It is not so seen
by every one, but all spiritual minds are
acquainted with it, and in the eye of
God it is a blemish that exists in injuri-
ous contrast to all His beautiful work,
He who makes the best of every thing
{a sure to have the best all the time, No
matter what happens to him that will
be to him practically the best. He will
look upon it as such, and such it will be
in fuct, Such a man will at all
ht side of life will be before kis eye
ees eaS—————————————e
Daffodil,
Have you forgotten where we met?
The primrose path, the ruined mil?
Our trysting place when sun had set,
And daylight done, my Daffodil!
No fate or time would dare coinbine
To rob our Bpringtime of its gold
If I were yours and you were mine,
And both were lovers as of old,
If yostereve could be to-day,
And Life once more a mora in May,
Al! then my heart would ill, and shrill
With love awakened, Daffodil!
1 eall you—and no voles repiles,
I wait you, love! and wait in vain,
The snowdrop fades, the prim: ose dies,
And, nothing buried, hives again,
A mist enfolds the silent stream,
The leaves fall sadly one by one,
We pass as shadows in a dream,
For we are parted-—who were onel
If yestereve could be to day,
And bring me back one morn in May,
But daylight died belind life's hill,
And closed love's petals! Daffodil]
HITT
A NOBLE HEART.
The battle was over. The enemy |
were vanquishing in scattered groups |
over the sands of the Soudan far from
the ghastly-looking spot which had |
been the scene of the thickest of the
fight, At dawn the ground round the |
wells had been green with the up-|
springing grass with which nature
covers our rugged mother Earth. At]
nightfall it was down-trodden with
the tread of men who there had met |
and struggled for supremacy, each one |
glorying In the death of some fellow. |
man, who but for war's fell chance |
might have been his friend had they
met th
in other lands among other sur-
The victors were now deing all that
wounded or to identify the
No matter now if we were a
who lay
of water from a
comrade or a foe upon the
drop
i
sand; the last
‘ ] fo 1
weary soldier’s canteen, or the last of
ne officer's
is superion ( his realization
of what had been his most cheerished
10S,
Allan Fairford the
{
goodly fortune, and Lis foster-brother,
Was heir to a
his father’s gamekeeper, whose wife
kad taken Allan to nurse soon after
his birth. She had cared for him as
the which
flowed through his veins had been of
her own, instead
cian purple, and Allan had ever kept
a warm corner of his heart for her,
Near Mrs, Oldacre’s cottage
another—the retreat of a retired army
officer and Lis motherless daughter.
Little was krown of them, save that
the father, Captain Rathbone, was a
cross-grained recluse, and that Nellie,
blood
of the purest patri-
stood
growing into a beautiful young woman,
The fine home of the Fairfords shel-
ter. d upon the outskirts of the exten-
sive grounds, surrounding it a number
of cottages, the rents from which
formed an item in the income of Al |
lan’s father. In one of these Mrs, Old- |
acre lived after her husband’s death, |
and in another dwelt Nellie Rathbone,
so that even after his return to his |
own home the old nurse's foster-child |
could pay her daily visits; and no mat- |
ter how unpleasant the day might |
prove, it rarely passed without giving
her a sight of Allan's rosy face,
From the first, Nellie was the objeet
of the two boy's affections, For a
while each was content with worship-
ing the pretty child, and with receiving
her impartial smiles and thanks for the
various gifts they lavished upon her,
But, though of the inferior rank,
Richard was the more domineering of
the two, and soon became foremost in
Nellie’s regard. There was a curious
resemblance between the foster-broth-
ers. Both had fine, clear-cut features,
fair skins, and curly, yellow hair; but
Richard's blue eyes had a deeper shade
in the azure, and his lips bad a firm.
ness in their lines which was foreign to
Allan’s ever gay, tnsouciant, smiling
face,
Eventually Richard had won the day
in Nellie’s affections, All thought of
worldly advantages faded before the
glances of the dominant, dark blue
eyes of the pleasant lad,
Bo Richard was really an obstacle in
the path of the young officer who now
searched for him, his face as pale and
i
anxious as though his life's havolness
depended on finding bim alive, and if
wounded, with a chance of recovery,
For an Instant, at the roli-call, when
no response came to the young soldier's
name, that great enemy of souls, who
ever stands ready to whisper some evil
thought into the ear, bad suggested:
“Dick dead on the battlefield, what
stands between you and Nellie?”
But Allan's cheek had taken on a
pallor which had been strange to it
even on the enzapguined day through
which he had just passed, aud with a
horror of himself for once harboring
such a thought, he bad started with
feverish haste to find him,
At last, partially hidden by the body
of a dead camel which had fallen
across him, Allan had decried him,
insensible, but alive,
Lifting him in his strong young
arms, he bore him to the nearest am-
bulance, anxiously superintending what
rough arrangements could he made for
his removal, and watching eagerly for
some sign of life.
After some time Dick opened his
Allan standing before
He was couscions,
“God be pra sed!” ejaculated the
“] feared you
Dick, but I
FAW
your last,
it now, Here, drink this,”’
into insensibility.
and the
nounced them to be [not
but added that
and nursing could save him.
se} will
lan’s reply, and he kept
f ly that before
Oldacre
surgeon
see that he bas it," was Al-
1
INCU
out of
aithful any days
ard ounced
d
was pio
anger,
Une morning
awake for
thoughts busy in his bra
Allan was usin
writing desk, 1k
swift moving pen
est
Allan glanced up and
charge was awake,
Then his closed
drified off into a refreshing sin
Two i
eyes again,
are later i Lirotiorlit ory
years ialer haa oroughns gi
chard Oldacre’s
his time Is
and had rece his dischs
his hung
Cross, placed there by tne (Queen's own
changes into R
He had served
ived
broad breast
band for an act of special
His wedding
bravery.
day was set, and
made
America immediately alter the festivi-
that happy event,
prepare.
ations had been to emigrate fo
ties connected with
the bride of
and with
to his
foster-mother’s son, the sum
Dick bad busbanded from
handsome dower
which
a capital to set him up in business,
Nelile's father had objected strongly at
and really glad to have her off his
hands, so he yielded with much osten-
tatious reluctance to which he consid.
ered a mesalliance and let her go.
Mrs, Oidacre had seemed quite un-
for departure progressed, and at last
her nervous uneasiness culminated In a
“Dick.” she sald mysteriously, after
she had called him out into a room and
shut the door upon any possible in-
truder, “I can keep silent no longer, 1
have done wrong not to speak before,
but I was weak, I dared not face alone
the anger and surprise of the proud
family. Dick, my own boy, Richard
Oldacre was not your father.”
“Not my father!” The young man
uttered the words like one in a dream.
“No. hj J
“Who then?’ There was a fierce
ring in his voice, and his mother cow-
ered before him.
“Richard Fairford, the Squire's elder
brother, who was drowned. 1 was his
wife, Dick; 1 have my marriage lines,
You are the rightful head of the house,
Dick--the heir of the old name,”
Dick stood like one dazed, trylong to
realize the import of his mother’s
words,
“I had been married but a few
,' she went on, “when your
was summoned away on urgent
business; but he left ye sufficient to
make me comfortable in circumstances,
although pledged to keep the fact of
our union a secret until he should re
turn. 1 have never beard one word
from him since that maging when he
held me in his ary wy pressed hie
farewell kiss u js. You re.
member how long the pMesent holder of
the property remained in uncertainty,
thinking his brother’s absence to be a
temporary one. But at last all hopes of
his being alive vanquished, they bad
proof that he was drowned, and then,
Dick, you see how unhappy I must
have been, But I was weak, also, 1
dared not present my claim, Dut you
are strong and determined, You can
fight for your rights, if you like, and
win the day, too. What will you do,
my son?”
“I cannot tell,” her son said slowly.
“I must have time to think, I shall
know my mind to. morrow.”
A struggle had already commenced in
his greatful heart. He had already
won the love of Nellie, while Allan
had been the loser of his heart's dear-
est wish, Now, should he, the peas-
ant-educated, whom his friend had
nursed back to life so tenderly-—should
he also take from him his position?
The tempter whispered:
then be a grand lady.
“Nellie will
You can deck
| her with silks and gems.”
That was a bewitching prospect in-
| deed, Bat gratitude won,
“Mother,’’ he said, *‘1 shall not claim
my rights, Bring me the marriage
certificate and I will burn it. Allan
has been educated to his high position,
and it would hurt
{ from it.
him to displace him
I am used to mine, and Nel-
lie loves me just as well as though I
were in a the world,
{ We will there
| every is a noble, I will
will be
loftier place
go to America, and
honest man
' win fortune, and happy.
“But, Dick, annot obey
one thing; in
for you
you in
all else it shall be as you
are sensiuie
But
I shou
$
Bay, , and are old
enough to judge,
the
certificate,
nothing to prove
marriage 0 my
dream. Oh, nol
but no one #
Dick the
tale
W hich gave to
1 :
gift. Which man
he deemed
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
TATE
TAI.
4 x
' fit
LLTARY
ted into the harbor
which many are piloted
of BUROOOSS,
He that pleases himself neither higher
nor lower than he ought to do, exercises
the truest humility.
There is no right which is enjoyed by
man, without ibvoiving, on his part, a
corresponding obligation.
Nothing can poisou the contentment
of a man who cheerfully lives by his
| fabor, but to make him rich,
{ True independence is to be found
{where a person contracts his desires
! within the limits of his fortune,
| A man is already of consequence in
| the world when it is known that we can
| implicitly depend upon him.
{| If you apply to little-minded people
| in the season of distress, their self-im-
| portance instantly peeps forth.
Riches without charity are nothing
worth; they are blessings to him only
who makes them a blessing to others,
Submission-—courage—exertion when
| practicable—these seem to be the weap
ons with which we must Gght life's long
battle,
Every man feels himself! stronger in
his relations with others if hes sur-
rounded with consideration, esteem,
respect,
A great man is happiest when he can
sit down and write his memoirs and for-
get all the mean things he knows about
himself,
As the obtaining the love of valuable
men is the , end of this life, so
the next felicity is to get rid of fools
and scoundrels.
A State, to prosper, must be built on
foundationsof a moral character; and
this character is the principal element
of its strength aad the only guaranty
of its permanence and prosperity,
Truth is naturally so acceptable to
man, so charming in herself, that to
make falsehood be received we are com-
polled to dreds it ug in the Siow white
robes th--as, n passing
it must have the impress of the good
are it will pass current, Deception, hy-
pocrisy and dissimulation are, when
practiced, direct compliments to the
power of truth,