OKLAHOMA. A BTRIKING PICTURE OF ITS y SETTLEMENT. {The Phantom Hopes of Disheartened Boomors—-Not the Land of Promises They Imagined Scenes in tho Chief City, i » * The ctupendous expectations of the 60,000 pioneers who rushed pell-mell meross the Oklahoma border fiYls one with astonislinent similar to that which Cap- tain Lemuel! Gulliver felt when he landed in Brobdingnag and saw corn as high as oaks, thimbles as large as buckets and wrens of the bulk of turkeys. The whole movement and every component part of it was on a gigantic scale. gration, animated with American impetuosity, one is reminded that the history of popu- lar adventure furaishes no parallel to the | scene which was revealed by the light of | the | VVithin a few short | weeks the wild, vmeven and uncultivated | commete | that morning on the bordess of Oklahoma territory. country has change. undergone a FOOTING short IT. Vithin that time & population of 60,000 souls has crossed the line and rushed with thoughtless hast» in secrch of an obscure phantasmmgoria. Once in sight of the new El Dorado, the toils and hazards of former undertakings were for gotien; before them stood phantoms of ope and dreams of sudden affluence phanioms end dreams indeed. If history contains a parallel to this adveaturous exocus, it is aptly illosirated in the fa- miliar little nuzery rhyme wherein the King of France, with his 40,000 men, marched up the hill and then marched down again. Such a movement before the deluge might have been considered great sport by the families of Hilpa and Bhalum, but, unhappily, the iile of a man is ow only three score years and ten— quite too short a time to spend in thus wauadering about the terrestrial sphere in search of a modern Eden. Many of those who entered the en- chanted gardens in an inebristion of de light are quitting them already in the agoaies of bitter disappointment. The impenetrable lines of boomers who catered that asode with delight and hope, after a short term of delusive happiness find themselves doomed to expiate their folly by a sense of wretched disappointment and destitution. Viewed from the oule of their Northera and Southern homes, el by the domestic buiwarks of pee cod prosperity erected bj patient industry, Oklahoms struck them at first glance as a delightful spot where every phyrical enjorment Jwaited the happy ad- venturer. Every newcomer in his Utopian fantas; wa. to be received with eager hos pitality by the Goverment, and encou aged to “osperity aad greatness galore. The fickleness of the multitude was | never more cleverly illustrated than when the reaction cet in. At the commence- men: of the movenent there had bec a strong end indeed reasonable feeling in favor of Oklahoma emigration, [ft the close of the movement there was a eeling equally strong and equally uareascochle “agsinst it. Ope evidence of the caange Caan . result of the disapwin ment of those crowded out; but it is no ticeab e also that of those who succecded in establishins: claims thee are Lany dis affected sis grown tied of the whole busine After ind perhaps months of patier and labor’ oes delay tho eosmonoiitan army of p = fouxd i%- seli ctanding on the border, awaiting the order to enier. A world of care rolled from their shoulders as they seated then selves around their camp fires out gacirts of the ne lye des: tere were very many intelliges. and wel Jniavced minds in all that mn ley arr —xinds that had procured, vy dili- gens aquily cud careful estirastes, a fair > TOR ex Aa naa ar travel : on the rw land of plenty. | =o COCLE IN GUTSLI. Adee ol the that awsited them, but it is erually true that the predomi- mating element was made ©n of classes essly ignorant and painiully shift ‘fous. Many of tiem Laew nothing about | Ther povaecaye homes mor of the | methods by which they were {0 establish @ tenure, Day by day sold The vehicles Toadnd with Not | merely in bulk, but in specific gravity | also, it was the most extravagact affair in | the history of America’s westward emi- | Sweded to vast dimensions, | | had permitted him t ments known fo the American popu- Ince. A curious and reflective mind will not fall on many subjects more gttractive en masse than the compact bumanity stretoh- ing several deep for sixty miles along the border of this modern Canaan. It is striking to consider how widely they were estranged from their homes and their primitive landmarks, diversed, it may said, from all the nsssocia- tions with which they were familiar, and yet how readily little clans from opposite sections allied their interests and harmonized their ef- forts in endeavoring to «et a grip cad hold it. Incdividualities were swallowed up in the vortex which attended the tide of instant emigratioc, Instances abound in which men and farailies from totally cifierent partz of the country joined ands on the border ad fought their way across the line together, : A saloonkeeper be from LaCe Sunerior sclooner to practice law this enterprising combination letters of conspicuous black. It might propetty be said that before they suc- | ceeded ia establishing their own claim to an old log house found standing they en- | joyed the belligerent thrill of six separate | fistic encounters, Arkansas went | into partnership with the Captain of a together at Guthrie! and the day after | the porteullis was “nised to the boomers | had dis- | played a shingle with ‘‘smecicl atlention | given to claims,” emblazoned thereon in | “newness” in all that ths term implies. trail from Guthrie to Kingfisher is now punctusted here and there with trading posts and newly sucveyed farms, while big, cumbrous silage, drawn by four Kan sas horses, makes two trips a doy over ¢ well-benien roadway, already feeling the influence of railroad construction, In every direction the traveler mects with surveyor's corps, whose tipods, stakes and | measuring lines give to the somewhat | sombre landscape an appearance of new thrift, suggesting substantial and whole. some improvement of the right sort. A | largo corps of engineers cre also at work | bridging the many streams and clearing | the way for several new lines of railroad, | The "Frisco, Santa Fe, Rock Islard and Atlantic Pacific are each making strenu- | ous efforts to secure the necessary rights | of way and push their iron-bound paths | through the heart of the new El Dorado, The presence of these omens of civili- | gation reminds one that all the maxims of the Indian policy are changing. Physi- | eal boundaries are superceded by moral boundaries. Paradoxically, the Govern- ment is waging a peaceful war with the Indiana war with money for wimg While it may not be said that fortunes | | were made in a day, as in the times of forty-niners, still very re- ¢ instances of money-making at. of its more decidedly ipoint. An Southern ancient some markal tended the boom, and many i : : " ardent participants came « shead, from a lucrative x-Mavor of | Missouri, by na | recently defeated in an effort to re | himself, care to Oklahoma with $400 in ash. This he utter and eggs, which he shipped ix wt Own ne Snydaer, smal bx en elect invested in a carload of small quantities to the Santa Fe of RIO vanious points sjor Rail~oad, clearing a pn the siz Then be happened to learn of grea The over ind the scarcity of xe handles had SAre Axes and hardware speculators entirely looked ¢ JOINETs Ww VEY neces irticle, ho were build cab the most DeCcessary ted candidate anxious to ns found themselves handicapped at thi de fe utset for want of : : ately tool. So this for municipal honors telegraphed to Kar sas City ora carloasd of axes and ax handles, and whaén they arrivad o few days later he sold them in a jiffy at his own price. Thus was his $400 creased to £1400, About this time a young man chanced slong who owned a proprietary interest in a town site in the fertile Cana- dian Valle His father, he said, had lived on the before, and by virtue of his long claim the Government y hbid it. Mr. ex- the beautiful apital in- swell pi ML Years Mayor was fascinated by | pictures painted orally by the swell young man, and after satisfying himself that everything was straight he agreed to go into partnership with his $1400 and a half the delusive gta When his money was turned over to the “company,” Suyder found his town site to have swindle of dye, and he has returned y the of butter and eggs, preferring fee to in if interest in town been a the deepest business simble than absolute a bird hand rath ste, BARBER SH that all a quarter thers wouldn't take it in the most the bx section i 8 8 i. They have settled thriving localities and into a $30 porta. ble house they have stocked a 850 line of goods nen after the goods are sold for 8150, the stock is replenished, and when trade becomes dull, these itinerant shoplifters, in a literal sense, fold up their houses and move on down the road, Finally they close the trip by selling the house for #100, immediately embarking on some new venture. Thus one Harty informed me he had sold micket-fences at Alfred, cakes and pies t Guthrie, crociery at Edmond, horse. shoes at Ollahoma City, sheep at Ver- eck and bad whisky (on the quiet) at Norman, This class of boomer has in- crensed Guthrie from a town habitants to one of 6000, Kingfisier from 150 to 5000, and smaller places have in- creased proportionally, while the number f newly located town sites swell the list of Oklahoma retfiements beyond that of their neighbors in the great Texas pan- handle. The whole district is hourly ex- hibiting how much can be done even in » rugged country, under the dominion of mild laws, where every man feels a direct interest in the prosperity of a common. wealth of which he knows himself to form a part, Conceive the surprise of a former resi- | dent of Oklahoma in coming suddenly upon the new scenes and magic changes that have altered lis native land! Pict ure his astonishment at the well-arraoged rounicipalities, though as yet in embryo; i ot the piercing shriek of locomotives | beading in different directions; at the the army of boomers was | i of carpenters! of 200 in. | A BOOMER'S TEAM arms which no fortifications, strong by nature or by art, can re arms before which rivers part like the | Jordan and ramparts fall down like the great walls of Jericho. The Crecks and sold Oklahoma for $2,- 000,000, are scoffed at by their neigh. Seminoles, who pors, the Cherokees and Choctaws, but | already the Government has a commission waiting to deal with them for the sale of the Outlet, and there is every reason to believe that the ancient form a similar tongued Cherokee. Among the towns in Oklahoma, Guth has made of the office fi rapacity 4 thie rie, from its central location, the best house | just growt! of an occasional small garden plat are in civilization that growth, and the first building A sporadic termittent evidences of greet the eye wd surrounds for improveraents on boisterous the to m must know only be f cr constantly land y nk boundagies, which can urnished by ithe Cassius M. Barnes four some eight its red -mustached commissioner, I ed about open pen thers offi lL day MC, 6s are thou sand men waiting to register, the last man's turn will probably come some time | pext year M in his office which considerable price interior jor Barnes has a large safe looks mye be He madle with an rombination and invisible sir-holes, so that in the event of an outhurst of vindictive mrt of « ¥ disgrunt Mavor can ho the safe ut the door behand him, ides the land offices, both ghisher hav nen. ot Oklahoma Guthrie banks ms yod t56y here 18 3 : 4 embler « went choer—ashe sods untain yrain, the ubiquitous but ever ph ail the welcom aveling his usvarving odors of Ther very fo the thirsty vailing skepticism revarding prohibition One of the features of Gutarnie ia an on. from Michigan settled Uw 3s offiex are also evidences of drug tial these, boomer with the pre acids stare serving inf 1 terprising a named McGaherty a town lot near tu has opened = millinery and dressmaking establishment, using the rear end of » decrepit wagon as a show. window, while the front end serves as madam’s boudoir young = who has land When Mme. McGaherty had her spring | opening the only article for sale was het expansive sun-bounet, which was soo: purchased by a young woman from Missis. | sippi, whose hat had been lost while cross. ing Walnut Creek. the enterprising milliner then ripped a piece of canvas out of the top of her wagon and by deftly working in some | green baize from the lining of her under | skirt she soon had a tempting morsel of | 8 bonnet that arrested the attention and called out the admiration of the elite of | Guthrie's suburbs. To-day the young | lady is plethoric of jmrse and quite the | belle of the town. When last seen Mme. | McGaherty was chopping wood, but be. tween her muscular blows she stopped | long enough to tell me of a lent | heresy in the shape of a rival dressmaker, { that day arrived. Parenthetically Miss MeGaherty remarked that if the new. vomaer's house were burned down in the night it woulda'’t surnrise aer at all, § become the new territory—the land of The quiet nad at times gloomy forest however | sist; | offers which excited the | Creeks will per- | smooth. | two-story ff brick chimneys and the germs | A large and decidedly before s man begging | his estate he This | hours a ta} She | With a truly effemi. | nate notion of the eternal fitness of things, | and the technical nicety of daisy cutters and slides is lost sight of in the blood curdling vells which resound over the at practice, Each member of the nine comes from a sepuccto State, which en- titles one to suppots that ia the matters of buscball mankind is everywheoe the same, Again, the “Guikrie Howlers,” strengthens one's belief that 20 earthly revolutions will dampen the base hits and flies, SR r.4 ’ “or Sena el % $e $4 ” 7) y a, ' he Sit) ans Lo 4 5 . com LRN DEAD OX THE ROAD. Guthrie, an offshoot from the Old Sacred | Boone settled in Kentucky. As soon as | this little mecting-house wns | secured a party of drunken boomers and broke windows ard doors and betrayed Several Guthrie gproarious cowboys down the other little symptoms of irreligion by set. the a-fire; but their sacre- the ichor of the preacher, a man of muscular divinity, and he organized a band of ecclesiastical vigilants, who drove the offenders away fear a} tis pre 4 Wr sROOUng on ting house ligious sport sroused them tarough the ot withstar the birztion of bal element the ooccunancy of the perience entitles one formidable com- whic untry, ex- taat the served re. whing ambitions fore 4] soue..t new © to bi Lieve pre Lpon r boomers have, as & class, rcrkaoly good fonder. the land of their hopes and they found Srintrary measures In border. All high, horses were lane along the the streams wero {ood hard yd and shsolute destitution abounded Difficuily anded their long thre hold ’ se of was o fi every danger camp. and had st fronted them on the new homes, but in spit thelr way the Oklahoma country hg be) % wp the honest energy of its new pro. Letr wpectively, one can but significonoe of this great move , and admire Oe and reflux of popular opinion steadily csserlng itself towarcs the solution Indian ques. The ore om of Oolserves thor oughly one { the re sistible tendencies of a westward course of empire. The history of this western country is the history of progress, tis the history of a constant movement of the cf a constant change in the merch and ¢ obstacles in is al tant be. dy under the rich cultivation Ux rescs the history he more ous the more of the times, becomes convinced © ir. mind public upon with | ke had it | lock wrath | ed boomer, | backed by | City | other | : 1 tographer, with | anhydrous | Straignt ruffle surah with wittom : full pinked ont around the | waist, seathered joto a collar and into the x | have m fis at the shoulders and are plair it: the sleeve | the shoulder gmall | points; a band of | waist in front | rosette bow mw srt on waist at the belt { yards of surah required | braid; trimming of and a roll of velvet around the crown 2. Tiny girl's } Skirt in side plaits was p sited from shoulders to waistline and in | surplice fashion: a velvete ini has square i points extencing down either side of on vest made of embroidered material; ud sleeves, gathered into cuffs finished with points of velvet; sash belt looped in a knot at one side. Three yards of cash- mere, one-half sax! of embroidered ma. terial for collar, and ovecuarter of a yard of velvet for collar and cuff trim. mings. 8. Girl's dress of fine plaid made up bias: Skirt in side plists; the hem finish with feather stitching in pointed rows; sailor waist, with feather stitched collar fastened at one side by a button ; narrow strips of the goods having double rows of tions are set down each shoulder seam; sleeves slightly full ond thane t cuffs, finished with butions. of plaid required, — Cincinnati SORE are cul oul In shirring firishes the Iw low ie the Seven and Hat of ribbon FLT L belt: a velvet dress of CREATE | crossed How the Signal Corps Is Paid, The 500 men in the Signal Services Corps are paid monthly their army pay , commutation of rations and com. The Pay- prairies ia the evening when the club is | ardor of | | of our language, like “Tippecanoe, | canoes” There is a little mission chapel at | | as Warner's Log Canin Barsaparills, Heart Mission in the Pottawatomie nation, | which, tradition says, was founded by a | band of priests about the time Daniel | of their | Nee York | to the wrists, where there are cuffs with | pinked ruffles: the collar sand bands down | Origin of “Uncle Sam.” Bpeculation has recently arisen rgeriing the origin of the term “oncle Hany we op plied to the United Htates Government. In the war of 1812. between this country and Great Britain, Elbert Anderson, of New York, purchased in Troy, N. Y., a large amount of pork for the American Army. It was inspected by Samuel Wilson, who was popularly known as “Uncle Sam." The barrels of pork were marked VE, A, U. B.)” the lettering being done a facetious em- ploye of Mr, Wilson, When asked by fellow-workmen the mean- ing of the mark (for the letters U, B,, for United Btates, were then slmost entirely new to them), sald “he did not know, vinless it meant Elbert Anderson and Uncle Sam,” alluding to Uncle Bam Wilson. The joke took mwmong the workmen, and passed currently, and “Uncle Bam” him- self being present, was occasionally rallied on the increasing extent of his possessions. joke gained favor rapidly, till it penetrated and was recognized in every part of the country, and, says John Frost, the Boston historian, will no doubt continue so while the | United States remains a nation imbedded in the Mosaic 4d “Log Cabin,” and gther short but expressive phrases, which refer to important events in the history of the Republic, Both “Tippe- and Log Cabin” have taken on renewed force and vitality since their adop- tion by Hop. H. H. Warner, of Bafe Cure fame, in the naming of two of his great standard remedies, the principal one known They are tased upon formule so successfully used by onir ancestors in the cure of the common allments to which their arduous labors ren- dered them liable in the good old Log Cabin days The name of Warner's Bafe Cure, like wise, will be held in high esteem, as familiar as a household word, while it continues to cure the worst forms of Kidney Disease, which the medical profession confesses itself unable to do It is now firmly Living for Centuries in a Solid Rock. The dislod toads fr of live bats and limestone or coal seems to have so often occurred asto need no more proof of the fact. The possibility of animation for great periods of time is certainly possible in the case of some Recently a live bat was dug out in Romney, W. Va, by men quarrying rock. The hole in the g jarge for the bats : A case occurred at B of gement m solid of a suspension creatures, 3 Stone was enough he superintendent ¢ snd 200 feet from Those who have been in caves and witnessed the enormous con- not wonder that imbedded at times; ald retain vitality for years and ages is the miracle. It now remains for man to find out if this power of the lower otally lost to y surface above gregation of bats will they should becom but that they she crestures is 1 those of a higher organic snd functional | ar Lovis Globe Democrat, “Bayeux Tapesiry.” spastry” is 214 preserved canvas ng by twenty in the public Upon this web is em- broidered, in woolen thread of various colors, a representation of the invasion and conquest of England by the Normans Tradition asserts it to be the work of Matilda, wife of William the Conquerer, and it is believed that if she did not actually stitch the whole of it with her own hands she at least took part in it and “Bayeux 1s 1 or linen clot} feet Kk wide, inches library at Bayeux | directed the execution of it by her maids, ' and afterward presented it to the Cathe dral of Bayeux as a token of her appre ciation of the effective assistance which the Bishop, Odo, rendered her husband at the battle of Hastings. The population of Kansas City, Mo., is | about 175,000, Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Fillmore (second time) married widows Toke Noods Savsaparila NORD OR NANA The Chief Reason for the marvellous sue sess of Hood's Sarsaparilla ts found in the fact that this medicine actually sccemplishes ail that is claimed for it. Its real merit has won for Hood's Sarsaparilla Merit Wins a popularity and sale greater than that of any other blood purifier, It cures Serofula, all Hummers, Dyspepsia, ete, Prepared only by C. L Hood & Co. Lowell, Mam. Pooks on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free, Swiry Spwcire Co, Atlanta, Ga, male of i & white compartment with Boon the incident appeared in print, and the | How They Yote In Greeoa, “Any man in Greece can be a candidate for any office,” says Dr, Constantines “and when a man announces himself as 8 candidate, the government must provide % ballot box for him. If ten men an- nounce themselves ss candidates for Mayor, a separate box is set up for each candidate and every voter must vote in cach of the ten boxes.” ““Then each candidate would get the same number of votes, 1 should think.” “That is possible, but I never knew it to happen. Let me explain a little further. “We vote with black and white balls. Each ballot is divided into a black and & funnel in Every voter is given white balls acd black balls, and putting his hand down in the funnel, drops them as he chooses A white ball is for and a black ball sgninst a man, If the citizen to vote for Mr. A, snd for him only, he Aros the middle, wishes a white ball into his box and black balls into the other pine (there are ten he can vote for two of the candidates—or for the whole ten if he chooses, his vote being really of no account in that of The man who has most white balls in his box is elected. When two representatives are to be clected, the man having the next highest alls gets the candidates), or Chase, COUrse, num Her place, and Ferced to Leave Home, Over 0 people A leave thelr 0 call for a free trial pack. age of Lanes ¥ ¥ Medicine, If your blood is bad, you v d kidney order, if 1 and have } be and an y OO n, don't fall to call on any ruggist t ay for a free sample of this grand remedy. TH adies prafse it. Everyone likes 53 onuts, were forced to homes yesterda out af yOu are cada i t. large-size package Tre Maine is the benviest vessel of the new at pre t contracted for. Lavy ent Children Starvisg te Death Om account of their inability to digest food, will find a most marvelous food and remedy in Foomr's Exvision of Pure Cod Liver Of] with Hypophosphites. Very palatable and easily digested. Dr. 5. W, Conpx, of Waon, Texas, SSE ‘I have used your Emulsion in infantile wasiing with waned creases Lhe reliable articie A Radics! Cure for Epileptic Fire. To the Editor Please inform your readers that] have a positive remedy for the above named disease which ] warrant to cure the worsi caset, No strong is wy faith in its vir. tues that | will send on a sample bottle and valuable treatise to any sufferer who will give see bis PO. and Express address. Resp'y, H.G. ROOT, M. C18 Pearl 51... New Fork, No oritn in Piso's Cure for Consumption Cures where other rem edies fall, 28c. "JACOBS QJ, For NRheumatism. The Latest, Current Cures. On Crutches, Forney, Tex, June 23.71008 Was on crutches Dem rhenmation for three months, one betile BL Jacek BU onred me. Ne returs is tee years 28. WHR, 20 Sines the War. Warssville, 0 June 36, ‘88 Had bad rheumation secs the war in Kaen a your sge twee wpplioations BL Jeowks B10 onred me, Ye returs dines E XBox. No Keep, Greenville, 0. June 29, 1588, Walked the Seer at might suffering with rhes. marion we relief tried SL Jeoeks B11 half a bot. Us cured me. He returs in years. J.C WEAVER. 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ADWAY PILLS THE Great Liver & Stomach Remedy For the cure of all disorders of the STOMACH, LIVER, BOWELS, Kib- NEYS, BLADDER, NERVOUS DISEAS- ES, LOSS of APPETITE, HEADACHE, CONSTIPATION, COSTIVENKESS, INDi- GESTION, BILIOUSNESS, FEVER, INFLAMMATION of the BOWELS FILES and all derangements of the Internal Viscera, Purely Vegetable, containing no mercury, minerais, or DELETER- TOUS PRUGS, PERFECT DIGESTION will be aoe complished hy taking RADWAY'S PILLS, By wo doing DYSPEPSIA, SICK HEADACHE, FOUL STOMACH, a 1 VILA IN J a Ah a sR EN
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