St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-25
INVADING THE STRIP.
Indian Land Jumped, and Trouble
Sure to EnSue.

CHICAGO, April PA special from
Diamond Bar Ranch. Indian Territory,
to the Daily News says: The occupa-
ton of the Cherokee strip has begun
along the whole line. A much harder
nut to crack than was any of the Okla
hOma boomS is now presented to the
government. The Cherokee strip,
which is now in process of being COB
bled, comprises nearly 100000 acres, be-
ing thus four times as large as Oklaho-
ma, and it far transcends the latter in
beauty and fertility. The excitement in
Arkansas City over the prospective full
seizure of the strip is intense. The
crowds of fugitives from the famine,
thirst, frost and heat of Guthrie are
swelling as each train on the all but par
alyZed railroad comes in. The fierceSt
resentment is breathed against the gov
ernment for the outrageously unfair
manner in which the country was
thrown open.
THE WHOLE FEDERAL MACHINERY
from the president down to the last
deputy is passiOnately denounced. Six
residents of Arkansas City went out on
the strip yesterday, and staked claims.
Some Invaded the Chillico Indian school
reservation, and were ordered off by
the superintendent. They moved their
stakes to a neighboring spot of the
school land, there to remain as the fore
vaders to-day. The Cherokees are
rroused to the situation. Patten,
the chairman of their land commission,
passed through Arkansas City this
morning on his way to Washington to
urgently protest against the invasion
that he regards as inevitable. Patten
said that the Cherokee nation was un-
conditionally opposed to parting with
the strip. The presidents. proposition
of one dollar and quarter is no induce
ment. The Indians, he said, had
too little land left, and the
Cherokees had pooled issues with the
Poncas, Kansas, Nez Perces and Chick
aSawS, who are also menaced, to resist
to the last the cessation of the outlet.
The correspondent at 10 o'clock this
morning left Arkansas City southwark,
accompanying forty mounted men. I'm
numbered others preceding and to fol-
low are determined to locate on the
strip. The cavalcade scattered by
degrees as the landscape to the
right and left allured the home
seekers. The correspondent pushed
south in the hope of meeting the van of
the boomer retreat north by wagons
from Oklahoma. Up to Diamond Bar
ranch this project failed, and had to be
abandoned to catch the train at Willow
Springs for glance at the days GER
tain tumble of events in Guthrie. This
message is dispatched by herder of
the Diamond ranch to Arkansas City,
the only point of telegraphic communi-
cation from Oklahoma to the outside
world. 1t may be believed that hun
dreds of the returning pilgrims are
bearing northward with plans laid for
LOCATION ON THE STRIP.
and that many tonight are camping this
side OF Salt Fork, upon what they will
claim for their homes. The soldiery as
signed to patrol the Cherokee outlet,
under Capt. Jack Hayes, have not yet
returned from the south border, where
they accompanied the main body of the
boomers bound for Oklahoma. Hayes
command, however, is expected in
Camp Price, near Arkansas City,
at any hour. 1t will be the duty