The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-08-22
OKLAHOMA PAYNE.
The Bombastie Intruder Comes to Grief

CALDWELL, rs, Aug. 7.-Y Yesterday Gen.
Hatch, In company with Adjutant General
FINLEY and Inspector Greene, OF the Interior
Department, visited Payne's camp, at Rock
Fall, Indian country, and after reading the
PRESIDENTS proclamation to him and his
assembled followers, directed thera to leave
the Territory before this morning or they
would be elected. This took place In
small board shanty, occupied by the Okla
homa Chief newspaper, the forms OF which
were being made up at the time. Payne at
first attempted to discuss the legal aspects Of
the case, but soon became angry and abusive
In language, calling all the officers of the
Government, from the highest to the lowest,
. pack of thieves. Cooper, the editor,
chimed In with vltuperation, and threats
falling TO provoke the officers into quarrel,
Payne said he had a valise full of money,
and he would give $1,000 to be tried by A
United States Court, and In order to assure
the officers Of case against him, he would
then and there sell them liquor or cigars
without license or permit. He urged the
officers TO dine with him and offered them
plenty Of liquor If they would do so. By
this time large crowd had assembled from
the tents and shanties along the river, and
the officers again admonished them TO leave
and not return. The only reply was tor
rent OF abusive epithets that cannot be pub
lished. The officers then returned to camp,
ten miles distant. Early this morning two
sauadrons Of the Ninth U. s. Cavalry, com.
manded BY Capt. Moore, appeared In the In
truders' camp, and under the direction of
Indian Agent Rogers arrested the whole
community, took charge of the printing
office, and oil the women and children, and
the men who were new offenders, and as.
corted them to the Kansas line, together
with their personal property. Six old Offend
ers, named ID. l.. Payne, J. b. Cooper, d. q.
Greenhouse, T. W. Eckeberger, John Nc.
Grew and s. L. Moseley were loaded into
six mule wagons and started under an escort
OF Lieut.. Jackson aud fifteen men for For
Smith, Arkansas, 800 miles distant. The
paper was ready to 90 to press, and upon in
quiry q number Of printers were found In
the command, who soon printed an edition
Of 100 copies. The press was then carefully
packed and loaded into wagon and started
under an escort for Muskioge, 1t being conns-
Gated property and under the law unreplev-
inable. The printing Office and other build.
ings, including two boarding houses, : drug
store, cigar store and restaurant, and some
cheap dwellings, were then burned TO the
ground, and the last vestige OF Rock Falls
had disappeared. Payne threatened to cut
the throat Of the first man who attempted to
arrest him, but one OF the colored soldiers
marched him about the camp for an hour.
Payne has lost whatever prestige he may
have had heretofore with the thinking class
Of the community. He had been on de-
bauch for week, and was unable last night
. attend conference OF the squatters after
Gen. Hatch left Rock Falls. The poor de-
Iuded squatters now realize that they have
paid him many thousands Of dollars without
any equivalent. The number elected nom
his camp Is about $50 people. A large
'rowd Of citizens were present, and heartily
approve the course adopted 10 rid the Terri.
DRY Of the intruders. II is believed this
will cure the intruders of trying to force q
settlement on the Indian lands. Other de-
achments Of troops have been sent to the
settlements, who will In like
manner arrest the ringleaders and take them
o Fort Scott.