Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-03-23
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FROM ALL QUARTERS.
THE BOOMERS MOVING
Forward ALI Along The
Line.
A BRITISH FORCE SURPRISED.
Germany Honors Her
Aged Ruler.
SCENES AT A HOTEL FIRE.
Heavy Snow Storms I'm
The South.
SCENES At A.. HOTEL FIRE.
RACE WITH THE BOOMERS.

that point on the lDtn lnSt., en- route TO
Oklahoma, and that the main body, consist
ing of about one hundred and fifty persons,
were from Coffeyviue, Kan. Major Devices,
with four companies of the Ninth cavalry,
is scouting in that portion of the territory,
and a courier has been dispatched to him to
intercept this colony if possible before it
reaches sOklahoma, and to turn it back.
Should the colonists reach Oklahoma it is
understood that their stock will not be de-
stroyed, but they will be compelled to leave
These men left the Kansas line before Presi-
dent Cleveland issued his proclamation, and
they know nothing about it, but General
Hatch believes Major Devices will be able to
get between them and the Oklahoma country
BY forced marches and thus compel them
to turn about without having had glimpse
of the land. Devices, however, on the 18th
inst, was 100 miles north of the Sac. and
Fox agency with his battalion, and it looks
as if the colonists might beat him in the race
to the Cimafron river, where it was intended
to enter Oklahoma.
The Couch Party Greatly Excited
Arkansas City Flooded With Boom
ers.
ARKANSAS CITY, Ark, March. 22-In the
camp of the Couch party there is great ex-
citement over the information that the
Coffeyville colony has so far escaped running
into the United States troops and finally
reached Oklahoma. The Couch boomers
feel that they had better try and join them
A n. Anderson, who arrived yesterday from
the Cimarron river, reports that many
cslonists have gone into that locality since
Lieutenant Day escorted the Couch party out
of the Territory in January last. They are
taking the precaution to live in tents and
dugouts instead of permanent houses, and
by thus doing they are on the same footing
as the cattle men. They say they are pre-
pared to remain until the question OF pro-
prietorship is settled. Gen. Hatch has received
word that two alleged stockmen had made
camp with permanent improvements on the
Deep Fork near Wells store from which the
Kiowa and Kickapoo Indians draw their am
munition and he says he will see to it that
they are not only driven off, but that their
improvements are destroyed-the same as he
would do were they boomers. Tt is becom-
ing more firmly established from day to day
that the Oklahoma country is being populat-
ed by would-be settlers and homesteaders in
spite of the fact that General
Hatch is holding the Couch col
and if the boomers continue to slip by and
escape the eyes of the troops it will soon be
necessary for the troops to again eject them
by force, they will never leave without it.
Captain Dewes' battalion of four companies
will be at the Cimarron river within week
and after looking out for the boomers who
have Just passed through the Sac and Fox
agency he can turn his attention to
the men who are living about in
small camps and convenient places. Late
Friday afternoon a small camp of colonists
were reported near the main highway just
north of the Chicoo Indian school and col
ored corporal in charge o. the patrol report
ed to Major Benton that when ordered to
leave the men became abusive and defed the
troop to bring the men to camp,
but when the soldiers reached
the point nothing but one
campers wagon was found and its only occcu-
pants were three children. The wagon was
on the Kansas side of the highway and even
if the men were boomers they had right to
be there and the soldiers could not touch
them The men at the Couch camp say the
allied colonists were never across the Kansas
line and there was no call for the military to
be ordered there.
Arkansas City is crowded with farmers,
stockmen and boomers and yesterday a
meeting was held at the boomers camp.
Between eight hundred and one thousand
persons were present. It was remarkable
gathering in the face, of all the disheartening
reports which have been spread abroad since
the Presidents proclamation and the interest
and enthusiasm of the colonists have not
abated one iota. They are as earnest in their
determination to some day go to Oklahoma
as before. General Hatch has assumed COM
mand of the troops -. If he finds it necessary
to go south with the troops now here they
will be replaced by the six companies of in
fantry from Fort Leavenworth.