Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-24
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TIE oLD SOLDIERS COLONY.
9 ARKANSAS Cry, April 19.-Last night the
Old Soldiers Union colony, of this city,
held it's last meeting before going into Okla.
homa. The colony consists OF $50 old
soldiers. Of.those 100 will leave Monday
to look up a homestead for each under the
soldier claim. The members will 60 by
train. They have started a wagon train
with supplies OF tents and provisions and
RATS sufficiently large to ferry ali accoutre.
ments across any stream between here and
Oklahoma,
The old soldiers colony of Wichita
started ten wagons yesterday. They will
enter at Caldwell. -4E .. -. :
Land Register Ollie returned last night
from Guthrie. He says the roof is on his
land Office, and 1T will be ready for occupa-
ton tonight. The and officers, both at
kingfisher and at Guthrie, held q con-
sultation last night. and gave out official
notice as to the manner in which a.a...
s,,s APPLICATIONS FOR CLAIMS ,-
should be fled. Two hundred land filings
Fer day will be the limit Of each office.
Word wal brought here. last night, from
Purcell by a ma who was there yesterday,
that q great deal of lawlessness exists
along the southern boundary of Oklahoma.
He says q man was held up in the streets
of Purcell in broad daylight and robbed
OF 500. The boomers defy law. They
have purchased, o. hired, every avail
able horse in the neighborhood and will
mount and wade through the Canadian
river, just before noon, Monday, and when
the signal flag drops at noon, sharp, there
will be a desperate land race on the op-
posite bank. .#% -
Gamblers and toughs declare they will
let no one pass a certain distance who is
not one of them. ..- rin.
The town is full OF special correspond
who are writing frem Imagination and
space. il"
A cowboy from Caldwell, who arrived
late last night, says the CImarron ia very
high, and that up to the time he left
eighteen persons q been dro wned irving
ford the streams. No definite informa.
ton can be lea rned of the drowned.
At. one time this morning there were
May n wagons on the streets OF
Caldwell.
,..-s BY RAIL.
a, rush of people will try to take the
Rock Island route between to-day and |
Monday. So great is the number that the |
Rock Island almost despairs of being able |
accommodate them. One colony OF
will leave Wichita tomorrow. Gen.
raj Passenger Agent Sebastian, as soon
as be heard of possible trouble at
eond Creek, te~legraphed to Wichita that |
me road would furnish free TRANSPORTATION |
10 teams and wagons if tickets were sold to
he owners, the travellers to provide their
'"h transportation from Poud Creek. |
asuuger Green OF the stage line, ("Cannon
5all Green" as he is known throughout
he southwest), is buying all the horses to
y had here and 10 %neighboring country,
shipped twenty-six to Pond Creek this
nornlng. Fourteen stages in addition TO
hose used by the old Fort Reno line, which
re at Pond Creek, were shipped from
to-day. --.
'ondl Greek this afternoon, say the reports
I high water have been greatly exsp.
grated, and that Capt. Woodson %reporfs
on the frontier that there will be mo-
with the streams.
WEAVER TAKES A CLAIM.
ARKANSAS CRY. April 1S.-The Arkansas
Walnut rivers are rising rapidly. The
'alnut has gone up ten feet since this I
corning. - ..1,.ts ~
Congressman Weaver, of Iowa, will ar.
We Go-nl=h It: He says he will take I'D a
This morning at Chillicoco station soO I
cattle were let loose on the nrair;e p.
Train II boomers passing at, the time
catt'e stdmpeded. Many cattle hitched Z
wagons were mixed with the Texas c,ttla
III .iobt TO their owners. A man named
'atson, from Sterling, Nebraska, in irving
preserve his outfit from the enraoeS ,
.ttie,, war tramPled under loot and badly
jured. sa 80 -. .'N ""u'y
April 10. -.Cattlemen orc
ak1ng no attempt to protect their fences >
fie STRIP ana 'he boomers are cutting 6
III = nunureos-e miles OF fences will be c
TROOPS TO AID The MARsHALs. r
WASHINGTON April 1s.-orders signed T :
: Assistant Adintapt General MeIton :
opposed to have resulted from a cah;nat !
eeClng' this afternoon, have just been .
NJ to the commanding general Of tbe
Vision OF the Missouri at Chicago. as Z
direction of the major-general tho 8
y communicated: The President r,
~ .naG General Merritt act in con- g,
with the marshals Of the United
'a'es courts having jurisdiction in tbe
'qntry opened. to settlement nnder the IL
resloent,s recent proclamation. to nra. d
peace. and will, upon the reouisition r
sucn marshals or their duly authorize5 !,
su.les, order the troops under His i
nmand to aid them in execut;ns ]
1rran.s. making arrests and uneII;,,s :
y riots or breaches Of peace that MAJ g