New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-25

than y hat they will get IL they refuse now TO
sell The man who booms Southwestern civiliza-
ton in this country is Of the opinion that an
Indian should apologize for living. He talks
already, in case the Cherokee Council should
refuse to part with the outlet Of forcible seizure,
and smothers what little conscience is left
in him with the reflection that he is a public
bencfactor who makes two blades of grass grow
where only one grew before.
Meetings have been held in different places in
Southern Kansas, along the border, notably in
Arkansas City, in which violation of the law
was openly advocated by the declaration that the
boomers would settle III the strip this summer
whether it was formally opened or not This, at
least is the meaning of all the whcreases and TO-
solves adopted by the crowds attending the meet
ings. more formidable prospect cannot well be
imagined. kIotS disorder and bloodshed must be
the almost inevitable consequence. The boomers
cannot be driven back into Oklahoma to starve.
II they are turned loose in the southern border
counties of Kansas, they will work as much ruin
in winter as does swarm of grasshoppers in
summer.
The situation will be complicated by the fact
that the right Of the boomers of crossing and
recroSsing the outlet has practically been con.
ceded by the Government for it is not to be sup.
posed that the railroads would be designated as
the only highways upon which the
residents Of Oklahoma could hope to
reach the outside world. II the
boomers are to be kept off the strip it will take
hah the army to do the work. and it will be kept
pretty busy even then.
The most blood-curdlng tales Of murder and
outrage are sent by enterprising correspondents.
sitting in the security of their and comfort
able hotels to their respective papers In not sim
gle instance howe yer, has of these stories been
substantiated. 1t always comes at third hand, to
begin with then it is, somehow or other al
ways fifteen miles away. For some mysterious
reason the Marshal preserves silence when asked
about it, The name of the assassin, that of his
victim and the man who witnessed the deed. are
usually unknown If name is given, however,
it is to be different from the one you have
heard only five minutes be fore As rule these
triiing details are omitted altogether, but with
great crcumstantiality you are informed how the
quarrel originated exactly what one man said to
another, and occasionally the last words Of the
dying man. The report Of ona murder twenty
miles 10 the south of Guthrie was credited TO a
man who heard the crack of the pistol at dis
tance of two miles and half The absurdity of
such an assertion never struck the man who re-
tailed the story to a group Of correspondents at
Guthrie, but it food for the hopper, and served
to keep the wires hot for an hour Another mur-
der was said to have been committed by Chicka-
saw halfhreed, who, after the deed, escaped into
the Indian Territory where the jurisdiction Of the
United States in such cases. it was riously assert
ed, did not extend The most picturesque tale,
however, was that of deputy United States
Marshal who rode across country and came to
where boomer with rife IN his hand sat
on a small mound of earth recently dug. What's
that" he asked
That answered the boomer after few
moments of hesitation, and in the most tragcal
tones. that is n newly made grave, SIR
The boomer broke down, and told the Mar
shal how he killed the man and how he buried him
tft@rward. Thereupon the marshal took the
boomer by the ear, and led him to Guthrie,
where the murderer is said to be on exhibition
now in a two-acre lot admission free: so, at
least. runs the tale The correspondent of The
Tribune has YET to hear OF Deputy United States
Marshal finding time to ride across the country
anywhere in the Territory Of Oklahoma Just now,
town lots which he seized last Monday
The rumor of the mysterious disappearance
of Harry Hill, "OklahOma Harry" and of Cap
tain Couch, was freely in circulation all day yes
tPrday and to-day. The average boomer looks
upon these two eminent men as not altogether
belonging to the boomer class In fact they were
described by one OF the boomers in the most con.
temptuouS manner possible-quIto painful to those
who liStcncdas couple of spindle-egged dudes
1t is impossible to ascertain what has become of
the two men. According TO one statement they
have seiz"d good land in the interior of Okla.
homa. Another ha, it that they have been foully
dealt with, but by whom is not stated. Still
another is dSappointingly prOsaic, for it repro.
>cnts oklahoma Harry as running circus in
Caldwell Kan, and the gallant captain GIN
mill, in Texas: not one of the offensive kind, but
one which separates the cotton fibre from the
seed