The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-01-08 00:00:00

"ON TO OKLAHOMA!"

Just now a.remarkable spectacle is attracting atten-
tion in America, somewhere between Kansas and the
Indian territory (says the Daily Telegraph). This is
nothing less than the United States troops protecting
the noble savage in the possession of his happy
hunting-grounds from the inroad of an intending body
of immigrants. Lieutenant Mason and forty-eight
"blue-coats" of the cavalry are described as being
drawn up so as to prevent the would-be settlers from
getting to Oklahoma, which is their destination, and
which lies in country declared by the Government to
belong to the Indians. Notwithstanding this, the im-
migrants have notified Lieutenant Mason that they
intend to proceed to Oklahoma at all risks, and
have incribed on their wagon covers such spirited
devices as "No turning back ! " "On to Okla-
homa ! " "Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us
all a farm in Oklahoma " If, as they boast,
they are a thousand strong, they will probably
be able to fight their way through the Federal
troops, but even after that desperate beginning they
will have to settle with the Indians themselves, who
are determined to struggle to the death in defence of
their hearths and homes, or rather their wigwams.
The Poncas Indians are all ready to take the warpath
at a moment's notice, and threaten to massacre the
immigrants; but at present they hold their hand to
see the result of the probable conflict between the two
bodies of "pale-faces." This dispute is all the more
to be regretted, because these same Poncas Indians
had submitted their case to the United States Circuit
Court, claiming the lands which the settlers had taken
from them, and have been declared to be the legal
owners, and to have been forcibly despoiled of their
ancestral prairies. Thus the Federal Government is
in the strange position of having to defend its usual
enemies, the Red Indians, from the illegal violence of
a determined body of its Own subjects,

THE ANTI-JEWISH AGITATION IN
GERMANY.

The Berlin Correspondent of The Times states that
the tinter den Linden and other streets of Berlin
were on Friday evening, or rather New Year's
morning, made the scenes of most unseemly
violence in connection with the anti - Jewish
agitation. Large crowds of riotous merrymakers,
mainly students, gathered before the chief cafe
of the town, much frequented by the Hebrews,
and made a regular demonstration. They smashed
the windows and mobbed all the Jews whom they
met. The police were coxnparatively helpless. An-
other cafe was invaded and emptied of its Jewish
customers. Large and stormy public meetings con-
tinue to be held, and the anti-Semitic crusade seems
to be gaining in force, that of the fist, however, being
now substituted for that of the tongue.

The Railroad Gazette states that seven thousand
miles of railway have been completed in the United States
during the last year, being two thousand four hundred mole
than in 1879. Although wages have advanced all the lines
are prosperous, the freight and passenger traffic largely ex-
ceeding that of any preyieus year.