MAD RUSH OF BOOMERS THOUSANDS SEEK HOMES IN THE CHEROKEE STRIP, At the Firing of a Pistol 200,000 Homesteaders Dart Across the Line and Kanter the Wild Race for the Cholce Locations-Many Casualties Mushroom Cities. A dispatch from Guthrie, Oklahoma, says: A rising sun looked down upon six million acres of virgin soil devold of a single inhab. ftant, Insetting it cast its rays over a hun- dred thousand established homes. Between the rising and setting a half score efties had been born, Texans, Kansans, Missourians, Arkansans, white men, black men and red men, all played a part, Two hundred thousand people camped upon the border of the od st night, and early morning trains brought many thoua- sands more, A large forde of clerks had registered everybody In line, and in the morning newcomers had no trouble in get- ting certificates, The greatest number of cortifioates issued at any one place on the southern line of the strip was 33,000 at Oriando. Hennessy came next with close to 30,000, and Stillwater with 7,000, The largest crowd was at Orlando, and four-fifths of the 20,000 people massed there were bound for 18 scene on the border during the night before the rush was one long to be remem bered. The housetops of prairie schooners. fires of camping boomers and tethered horses gave the scens a military aspect, There was considerable confusion ea in the evening, caused by many new arrivals, who were seeking a Ivantageous places for the race, Those who have border for days I interiopers, and woul fnch of their advantage, li-feeling as a consequence, stances serious trouble was ed. Just at the same moment, the thousands In r siliway wagons, on ponies, and or ¢ e mad, 11 been and narr rountry like a elo hoppers. They ran as though fo gullies and ridges, and the wonder was that ads were not killed. The sol place had any trouble with the rican gathering and n itself, ‘he signal for the start at eve ry place was in the rush of ten ing to get at carry but a fe Thousands of pes along the track all night, so as t the leaving point when the and thousands me pl trains made up, we erowded in ug trains ar hh seors o L them BS entered y WARYILR clit off upon the ground, women jostle r, and the oars cleared of all save a few favorites in the ring. The people in the first train were told that every. ody must go Up to the line to get in the trains, and hundreds walked thr ugh of strangling dust to the line, only to fi train from which they had been at train were loft standing ther train came slong, and dost all ¢ ting any property, When the trains pulled up to the lines the terrible struggle began, Women had their clothes torn off and wers trampi foot. All decency aside, and the pulled, shouted wild animals, and when Jured peo The dots taken by and by ti most - n He says bol which was lollowe most of the horsen and wagons, had several very ba and at one gulch twenty wel wrecked, The Rev, Joh H. Ang ball, was badly Injured, Lorenzo Holcomb of the same placs was fatally crushed by a horse falling upon him, One woman was injured in falling from moving train, A whoy from Texas fell from his horse, shot through the hody, but thers js ne fue as to who fired shot, The trail is lined with broken down wagons and buggies and a hundred dead horses are scattersd here and thers about Perry and the adjoining hills, The water in the Government wells was strong with salt, yet the people deank them dry in forty minutes At Stillwater the crowd numbered about 000, most of whom went into the Sawnee country and seattered, One man was killed there and several badly injured, At Hennessy about 12.000 prople were massed, throelourthe of them bound for the town site of Enid, and the same scones wore enacted as at Perr, One man is reported shot over a town-lot quarrel, and one Woman fnjured by throwie gz herself from a train. R. Ham, of Paul's Valley, beat the train on a bleyele and secured a fine claim adjoining the town site, and ten other bieyelists got Ll] the At Hunnewsll the vrage to register and on ter the Strip had affected many who never expected 10 perfect a title to a homestead elaim. and Eandreds, discouraged by the erowds shead of them, gave overthe attempt In dispair. What wero left, however, were enough to form an imposing army, whieh began to streteh self as If in battles array for miles on both sides of the registration booth as the dawn hogan to broaden into day, The line was a motley nasomblage of prairie schooners, buekboards, buggies #prinz wagons and nondescript vehicles, with a few bicysles at conspicuous plana, On some of the ranning gears strange and uncouth structares had been built of frame and eanvase, to be unloaded bodily as olaim shanties, or the beginning of more pre. tontious redidencss, Many women were in the line, bus few of them trusted themselves to anything more speedy than a ight buggy, The majority of the homessekers were un. aecompanisd by their families, Many of thy wagons, carrying food and water as woll as farming implements and mmping outfits, Fare Bevan by friends or relatives of mount. men, who proposed to get thelr claims hy hard riding and let their sommissary de. ‘partment follow along at leisure, The favorite equipment or the horsemen Wis a big tin canteen, a blanket, a haversnok with a day or two's rations, and a elaim flag upon a short staff, The usual mount was a small, but hardy, cow pony, selected more for staying qualities than speed, There was suffering on the da the Cherokeo Strip. Many casualties were reported trom exposure and prairie fires, Elizabeth Osborne, seventy-six years old, of Saginaw, Mo., was burned to death, She and her husband made the race for a claim in a Puggy. In the vwalloys of Duck Creek, where they intended to settle, the prairie fire came sweeping after them, Every one was racing with the fire to escapa, Some one collided with Osborne's wagon and broke it, Osborne jumped out, turned his team loose, and ran for the crook, Mrs, Osborne started to follow, but became entangled in the tall grass, and before she could get out was burned, The body was buried ciose to a tree on the bank of Dueck Cressi, Between the Chickasha River and the town Kirk, a distance of but few miles, there after on ol | has peen { guarded by armed soldiers, who have already | at Chieago wars a notice to all | trainmen that there is no water at ure six bodies, Two of thers have bullet holes in the head and four of the bodies are burned, The Government wells, of which so much sald, wore oarcfully locked and ade an unenviable reputation for shooting ple. They are for the use of Government only. ist of killed and Injured is being increased as news from the remote yme in. One man rode from Call ria to get a claim in the Strip and found his claim and his grave at the same place Yes con- prairies was greatly in- at from the fires that are ow Enld are selling for und at Old Enid for $150, MINT THIEF CAUGHT, Ile Was an Old » mploye of the Gov ernment, iry Departmem y 1 relation to n from the Of It was secret me secreted is WAY hint L Away BAL 00 ¢ the sa Ame way 4 tofore deseribs a \ of within t} fer 810.000 of Philadel; A HORRIBLE COLLISION, A Train Plows Through Bodies of Sleeping Passengers, 44 fenth an a several of then n 1 u "Big Four Express” leaving Ch m.,. erashed into the rear end section The first section of the train, Engineer Sampill and Conductor Tyner, pulled out of the Illinois Central passenger station at Twelfth street, having a train consisting two baggage oars, smoker. two thes, two Pullman sleepers, and a empty oomch in the rear train was imenediately fullowsd y its swond soction Engineer Char los Ames, Conductor "tom Fden. and was followed closely all the way down to the scene of the catastrophe. The train register RAs nger Lan kakon station, hence {t became necessary for Engine 935 to stop at the water tank Just south of Manteno to take a supply. To this stop attributable the calamity, As the first section hauled u AZO at B10 of the first or af the water | tank Conductor Tyner sent his rear brake. man back with a rod lght to flag the second section, but before the fagmun had got 5 hundred yards the second section could be i plathiy beard rapidly approsching, though idden behind a where a curve in the track, wlgnal could not be seen, An instant later it dashed rapidly into view, and seeing the frantle signals of the flagmoan from the first section, Engineer Ames reversed his engine and applied the aly brakes. Owing to the high rte of speed at which the second section was running this did not seem materially to cheek ita spoed, and an instant later, with a fearful crash, the rear oar was reduced to a mass of splin- tored timbers and twisted roa, The wreek of the rear oar was thrown high in the alr, falling back upon the ne, terrible impact foreed the forward sleeper into the rear end of the day conch Just ahead. This conch was filled worl pase sangers, The ear plowed its way literally through the bodies of sleeping men and women, The gore in the rear train ononpoad with nothing more than 8 severs shaking up, crash of the eollision was plainly heard fn Mantens, and in a few minotes the residents of the village were upon the scene in fore, ——— Poi Sonim it the lending spirit and promoter of the proposed ndorgrod allway system for New York City, H od gig involve the expenditure of shout #100,000,000, A CENTURY-OLD CAPITOL. CENTENNIAL OF THE LAY- ING OF ITS CORNERSTONE, The President Presides at the Im. posing Ceremonies — Washington Decked With Flags and Bunting «The Procession from the White House to the Capitol, by lightning Though the day ia sald to have been falr and beautiful one hundred years ago, when, according to contemporary accounts, ‘‘His Excellency, President Ceorge Washington crossed the Potomae into Maryland” (mean to elvie bodies, undar the marshalship of General Ordway, commanding the Distriet National Guard, It started shortly before 1 o'clock, In four | divisions, from in front of the White House, | It moved briskly slong the broad Pennsyl- | vania avenue to the Capitol, the civie organ~ | izations four abreast and the military in col- umn of companies, with a brave display of elvie Insignia, much music and the plaudits of a mighty concourse of & ect nt ors, Arrived at the Capitol o'clock, tha parade was coromonios ef commemoration wore cote menced from stands erected on the onst front and in the presence of an immense concourse of spectators, The oratorical part of the procesdings was commenced by Lawrenocs an address of welcome, He troducing to the audience, ns ceremonies, ‘the worthy Washington, the President SA ATURE AOE President Cleveland, who had boen grooted with warm applause all the WAY en routs to the Capitol, received a still more ent husiastio welcome now, Standing in attitude, with his dark tightly buttoned, using no gostures, but ar. ticulating loudly and distinetiy, he follows : "While T ascept with much satisfaction the part assigned to me on this occasion, | ean. not escapes the sober recollections which these COMIRONIIOS KLrent “Those who supposes that we are simply engaged in commemorating the beginning & magnifizent structure, devoted to important public uses, have overlooked the most use. shortly after 2 | dismissed nnd the | Gardner in | closed by in- sucoosssor of ’ of Arr ppb AE Aw ak The. Ing the ten miles square deeded by Marvias and Vieginia for the site of the National C sp! tal}, and, escorted by V ia and Maryiand troops and Masonle f moved in there lal Capit smiled on t that great The day vy centennial chim Following as o possibie the programme of the origi monies, the procession was chielly by the ringing of THE NATIONAL { ful and improving loss do indeed celebrate the THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Damo: Convention at Harrisburg vorn was nominated ¥. Th COEXTLEMAN NNSYLVANIA “rats r Bate Troasurer and upeon for Sug Judge Creo LA WOOD, BGM. obruary began a Rho was sh it the South and West, new oases of yellow fev 1 at Brunswick, Ga ine boller « Kerley's sawmill at ( in Bwain County, exploded and killed nen. The mill wes sompletely wrecked and not a pleas of the boiler way loft, miley a {ronk wix Pracricatey all the mora had any tha to do with the robbery of (he Mineral Rang» express train io Michigan of 870.000 are in jail or under mpionage, and 814.000 of their booty has been recovered. who A merony from Guthria, Oklahona, states that a terrible pracie fire has swept over the Pawneos reservation Many porons were sald to have perished in the ames, For assaulting a white woman citizens of Pineapple, Ala... took Riley Gulley (colored) out of jatl and sanged him in the Jatlyard, Driixa a violent storm in St. Paul, Minn " Frank Miller and William Kosslor worn killed Oxx death from yellow fever and one new ease of the disease wore reported fn Bruns wick, Ga. Tax remains of J, Knox Polk, trath Presi. dent of the United States, nnd those of his wife, Sarah Chillers Polk, were removed from the tomb at Polk Piage, Nashville, Tenn. , to a pleturesque spot tn the State Capitol grounds and there reinterred. Towa's day was brilliantly celebrated of the World's Fair. Two mon wore fatally scalded by the ex. plosion of a steampipe on the United States erulssr Montgomery while on her tial trip off Thomas Point, Ma, Taree men held up an Tliinols Central train just outsdds of Centralia, 11, but ob. tained no booty | one of the robbers aiid thres fralnmen were shot ; the three bandiie and a confederate are in custody, Washington, Tae Prosident has nominated James J. Van Alen, of Rhode Island, to be Atibasss. dor Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Italy, Mr, Yan Alen fs a man of wealth ‘who Hives at Newport and is prominent in New York soctety, By direction of the President, Privale fee. rotary Tharber bas written President eck, of the World's Fair Boars of Man , that i view of the pressure of ofMolal business, RN will be practioally impossible for Me Cleveland to visit the World's Fair on Obleago day, October 8, ‘ | and a Wir Senade kee ouiiemed Henry. M. The Reeret ary tain Higgins Inys in gered FOR THE CONSCIENCE FUND. A Man Who Stole 810.000 Back Twice Over. secretary Carlisle Pays It ting received two ) mach postmarked New York od inf the Yelope sontained «¢ i which was piaced some white paper, and the other contained saven $100 bills wrapped in a etter. This letter, written on a page of fanlsosp paper withou! signature, says This money is the balanee of which 1 have refunded to the Government in the last thirty years, During the war I de franded the Government of $10,000, and now I have returned doubly the amount, During Mr. Wanamaker's boing in offfes | sent him money twice. once $2500, but never heard whether 12 went info the proper hands or not. | ose mssare jon that this refunding has cost me wore than pen ean tell, and 1 pity the thief because i have experionosd what he must feel, oither here or hereafter Would to God that he would now pardon my sin and Jet me go free, Don't you think double refunding suMolont 7 A FAMILY BUTCHERED. City, an dprews One same handwriting ght #100 bills, abou 220.000 Six People Killed by Robbers, Who Ransacked the House, In Harrison township, Indiana, the entire Inmily of Denson Wralton were butchered a fow nights ago. A neighbor next morning went to their residence to inquire after the health of Mr, Wralton, who had been {ll for several weeks, The front door being looked, he went to the beok door. Upon the floor, in a pool of blood, lay Mrs, Walton, wife of Danson Wralton. In a room adjoin that in which Mrs. Wralton Iny they joni he father and husband dead, In tha sams worm wore the thea ahildeen, two of them. dead and the other fatally to ured. The children killed wera a little boy Jured old and his sister, eleven yours old. In a front room Mr, Wralton's mother, agnd sixty-thres, was on the floor dead, Het loft hand was cot off and the t broken, The old in wald to have onasider able money In the house, The house had rapsackal. There ts not the slightest i semble | guurd the sentiment and traditions | gerstulations than ehalrman of | { thers was 8 great outburst of of the 1 nited i I aelient | Banner,’ { Btevenson, spoke ns 1 { iand, i sentatives, masion, or in behalf of sectional and selfish nterests, the time when the cornerstone of {our Capitol was laid and the clrevmstances surrounding it will not be worth memornting, “I belleve our fellow citizens have no greater nor better esuse for rejoleing on this centennial than is found in the assur. ance that their publie servants, who ase fz these halls, will wateh and that gather around this celebration, and that in the days to come those who shall again commemorate the laying of the cor ovine. | nerstone of thelr Nation's Capitol, will find in the recital of our performance of public duty no lens reason for enthusissm and con. woe find in recalling the wisdom and virtue of hose who have pre. { soded us,” nad taken his seat applause, and then the grand chorus Ldlowed with an ex rendering of “The Star Bpangied After the President When the Inst notes had flecated away i President Cleveland introduced the orator of Lis familiar | Prince Albert cont ; the day, William Wirt Henry, The next speaker was Yieo-President who was introduced in a brief but appropriate speech by President The Vieo.-Prosident's voloe rose shove the crowd, and he was heard perhaps better than uny of the speakers who had preceded him, His brief speech was punctuated fre quently by the appiause of the erowd. Vice-President Stevenson was followed by the prasiding ofMeer of the House of Repro Speaker Crisp, whose remarks ware brevity itself, Cloves | action th H ¢ Rule on n LERA spreading rag Fre: Channel burg. Russia, in th ing on the Es Spain, specially Bilbao nos and in » is ol! wim Parts Attack is to be made a part of Baden, and Lorraine is to be annexed to Prussia, with a view of crushing all French hb "ever got ting the two provinees back More than 10.000 foes tons of salmon wer moked by the canneries on the Fraser River, British Columbia, this season it took nearly 30.000.000 000 cans Jomy Raporx has discovered a mine on his land st Echo Grove, the Saugus River, near Lynn, Mass, [It seems rich anough to pay well for working it Fue fire loss in the Canada for August was $18,222 700. nearly fifty per cont, greater than in the corre sponding month of 1581 and thirty per cont, greater than in Angast, 1802, Tre outlook for the frait Californian this year bas couraging. their labor to the lowest limit, men who have been engaged in the apricot buying and drying business gre ase of their outfits by drying peaches for the growers on shares, New Youx dealers do not think the foreign demand for hay will be sufficient to affect the price of hay in this country, A few weeks ®inoe it was thought that large quantities of hay would be shipped abroad, but the dx mand has already fallen off, and the pries of Amerioan bay in Eaglish ports has dropped several dollars per ton, On boon very dis L WILL CLOSE OCTOBER 31. The World's Falr Not To Remain Open Beyond That Date. The Fxeoutive Committee of the World's Tair Directors, at a meeting in Oblonga, de cided to sloss the Pair on Octobe 81. Ane other twenty por cont. was ordered paid on the bonded Indebtedness, making a total of seventy par cont, of the $4,650,000 now or Red , “ommittee limates ry vo $500.7; sarpioe on November the ye Routing L Tivos elue to the munievery, wad on thy $11,000, sity of Uhivago. cinnibar | United States and | industry in Frajt-growers hava confined | Reveral | making | DIED AT AN OPEN SWITCH. A FATAL COLLISION CAUSED BY A BRAKEMAN'S ERROR, The Second Section of a Wabush Train Dashes Ioto au Freight on a Siding at Kingsbury, Ind. Half a Score of Passengers Killed and Many Severely Iniured, Eleven persons were killed and fnjured, four of them fatally, isior Nisgara Falls the Wabash Rallroad within sight few bd ore 6 ident was | Herbert T} a fast frejght bury Station, Ind., a mbites locke, m. The a caused by CArelessneds « ompson, head brakeman of train, whe open the switch of the approaching p Bon uo mde nis lf Che frejght train L press train pass it a brakeman threw the of the express tral: of 8 si flReog weet] igh rate sil had the seaftering © in ali directic cident had o were (ransy GUNBOAT SINKS. A Haytian Vessel Lost Board With Al He ing with a pair ant man and sould account of how the & said that it was in the Runbost began to go d all those on board san) few jumped and ke Pt up until they wore t exhausted to struggle longer The survivor found the plank and tw near the v He floated abou and a half, when he was proeke smal salling vessel, RE A FISHERIES CONGRESS. To Be Held in « hicago Under the Aunspices of the World's Fair, A fisheries congress will be held at the Art Institute, Chicago, during the week begine ning October 16, under the auspioes of the World's Columbian Exposition. The Gen. eral Committee, of which the United Ntatos Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries is Chair man, has issued an address, which has been forwarded to persons Interested in fisheries and fish culture, Matters relating to fie and fisheries will bo discussed, A con wonton of State Fish Commigsioners will be associ atod with the fsherios congress during ths week of the moeting, LYNCHED BY SOLDIERS, Revenging a Companion®s Murder by Hanging the Murderer, A Hennessy (Oklahoma) dispatoh sayethat the body of a young man was found hanging 10 & tree on Sekiotoo River. A placard on his breast read © “Death to the man who oui this body down.” Inquiry made among the settlers in the vicinity showed that the young man had a fight with an aged soldier. in which the inther was killed and the soldiers iyneies him, was i BA ont Brily morming win bow flr with the Nemriy venue) A aa |
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