Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-20
started ten wagons yesterday. They
will enter at Caldwell.

THE LAND OFFICES GETTING READY.
Land Register Dillie returned last
tight from Guthrie. He says the roof
9 on his land Office and it will be ready
or occupancy tonight. The land Off
.ers, both at Kingfsher and Guthrie,
leld consultation last night and gave
mt an official notice as to the mar oar
n which applications for claims mould
'e fled. Two hundred land f .dprs per
Law will be the limit Of eac a Office.
THE fRUsTLERs" AT T-,,r1p TRADE.
Word was brought acre last night from
Purcell, by man, who was there yester-
lay, that great deal of lawlessness.
sxists aio-dg the southern border ef,
Oklaho4na. He said q man was "held
up" IN the streets of Purcell in broad day
.Ieht and robbed of 5000 The boomers
DEFY the law. They have purchased or
hired every available horse in the neigh
borhood and will mount and wade
through the Canadian river just before
noon Monday. When the signal flag
drops at noon sharp, there will be q
desperate land race on the opposite
bank. The gamblers and toughs declare
they will let no one pass certain dis
tance who is not one Of them.
THE RAILWAY IN CUANDARY.
CALDWELL, April l9.-The rush of
people who will try to take the Rock
Island route between to-day and Monday
will be 30 great that the Rock Island
almost despairs of being able to acco M
modate them. One colony of 600 will
leave Wichita tomorrow. General Pas
senger Agent Sebastian, as soon as be
heard OF the possible trouble at Pond
Greek, telegraphed to Wichita that the
road would furnish free transport alton to
teams and wagons, il tickets were sold
to the owners, the travellers to provide
their own transportation from Pond
Greek.
Manager Green, of the stage line
("Cannon Ball Green," as he is
known throughout tbs Southwest)
is buying all the horses to be
had here and in the neighborine
country. He shipped twenty-six to POND
Creek this morning. Fourteen stages,
in addition to those used by the old Forl
Reno line, which are at Pond Greek.
were shipped from Wellington to-day.
The Rock Island officials, who returned
from Pond Creek this afternoon, say
the reports of the high water have been
greatly exaggerated, and that Captain
Woodson reports from the frontier that
there will be no trouble with the
streams.
RIVERS REPORTED RISING.
ARKANsAs CRY, April 19.-The Arkan
sas and Walnut rivers are rising rapidly
The Walnut has gone up ten feet alone
since morning. Congressman Weaver
of Iowa, will arrive tonight. He sayi
he will take up claim near Guthrie.
This morning., at Chillicoco station
500 Texas cattle were let loose on the
prairie. The cattle OF the train OF boom
ers passing at the time we're stampeded
The cattle hitched to the wagons were
mixed with the Texas cattle and lost te
the owners. A man named Watson
from Sterling, Neb., in trying to preserve
his outfit from the enraged cattle, was
trampled under foot and badly Injured
THE FENCES BEING DEMOLISHED.
CALDWELL, April l9.-The cattle men
are making no attempt 10 protect then
fences M ~ .ne Sui s.rip, and the boomers are re
cutting them. Hundreds OIL uiiiee VI
fences will be broken to pieces.
CALDWELL. Kan, April 19.-The stream
of wagons continued unabated all through
to-day. One man, who lives close TO the
bridge line, kept count Of the teams
passing, and, up to 4 O'Clock this after
noon. l, ,153 had gone to Oklahoma. -Four
hundred teams forded salt Fork river, a
few miles south of the terminus of the
Rock Island road in Indian Territory.
KNIGHTS OF THE FABER ON HAND.
The town is full of special correspond.
ents, who are writing from imagination
and against space.
A cowboy from Caldwell, who arrived
late last night, says the Cimarron is very
high, and that up to the time he left
eighteen persons had been drowned try
ing to ford the stream. No definite in.
formation can be learned OF the drown
ing.
At one time this morning there were
over hundred wagons on the streets.
HUNTING DOWN TREsPAssERs.
WICHITA, April 19.-The Daily Eagl
special from Purcell, L. T., says that the
Chief Deputy Marshal at that place, with
a posse, have, all afternoon, been en-
gagged in hunting the boomers in the
Oklahoma land opposite the city. They
returned this afternoon with one party
and have now corralled iu the woods and
ravines party of 800.
CHICAGO, April ia special dis.
patch to the Times from Purcell, l. T..
says: There has been battle betw cen
the United States Marshals and the
boomers. Several of the latter were
taken prisoners. Seven of them were
severely wounded and one deputy mar
shal was slightly hurt. A raid
vas made by the United States
Deputy Marshals this afternoon
on the boomers who had disregarded the
law and taken up claims in Oklahoma
For several days men on horseback and
in wagons had been seen fording the
South Canadian river, North Of Purcell,
and disappearing in the tim.
ber to the eastward. Men
who came in from hunting trips
reported having seen large bodies of the
boomers moving in northeasterly direc-
tion, and a hunter, who arrived last
night, declared that he had found man
blowing in secluded valley, about
twenty miles from Purcell.
This morning at sunrise thirteen prai-
rie schooners, well manned, crossed the
Santa Fe tracks below the city, forded
the river and were soon out of sight.
They were seen, however, and a
meeting of citizens was called. The
feeling against the trespasseis ran high,
and, inside of thirty minutes, half a
dozen fiery speeches had been made. 1t
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