The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1889-04-26
NEW WORLD.
Oklahoma Opened.

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Sunday was Sunday only in name at Pur
cell, OH the border of the new land. The
gambling houses were run wide open and the
stores did a tremendous business. The streets
were thronged with horses and horsemen
and auction sales OF ponies were held at all
the corners. The animals sold for fabulous
figures. The stampede began Sunday night,
as the boomers could be held in check no
longer. Numbers who crossed the Canadian
were pursued and arrested by the Off
GERS, some of them being caught and brought
back three or four times. IL is reported that
| four or five boomers were wounded and one
killed in the fight with the officers. Monday
the 100000 acres OF Oklahoma was invaded
| by at least 10000 persons and the scramble
for the 1900 sections began. AS far as
| learned there were no serious collisions, and
no bloodshed to speak OF, although trouble
may result, when two-thirds of the boomers
find themselves shut out and disputes for
the possession begins. The large crowds
who filled all the trains. which were
Overfiowing before the border line was
reached, were made up of Spectators, adj
venturers, sight-seers. thieves. gamblers and
a sprnkling of the demi.monde. The farm
Ing element was not largely represented, as
all of the homesteaders have gone on before.
There was not a state or territory in the
country but that was represented among
them. Tue officers said that at the sound Of
buge at high noon, there had been q move.
ment among the boomers camped along the
border which had eXtened across the entire
frontier line, and that the din had been fast
and furious ever since, some of the pros
pectOrs running to Guthrie to file their en-. |
tries. When the train arrived at Guthrie the |
land about the station was found staked ont |
and about 900 people occupying it, with |
town map decided on and some streets laid |
out. How these people got there ia a mvs |
terry but 1t is sure many are there contrary IN |
law u, The nrst municipal election was held |
~ uu.nIie at O'Clock. The election notice
paper published at Guthrie on the trst a..
vi lts existence. The bank of Oklabom,
opened iof business at Guthrie Monday wiz
q capital stock OF $4,000. The new citv ia
n : WIN business cards of all descrip-
tons, representing every line of trade anpa
Dusinesa, every profession and every occnna-
ton Imaginable. The Guthrie post ONCE is !,
being run by postal clerk detailed for that
purpose, but Mr.. Flynn of Kiowa. Kan.
lately appointed postmaster, will take charge |
in day or two.
The Danmark Heard From
Ferty-two of the crew of the Danmark and |
about half the passengers have arrived at Lib. |
son. haviEv been left at the Azores by the Mis- |
souri,. The first officer. who is among them, |
reported that on April the Danmark's shaft |
was broken. The next day the Missouri was |
met and took the Danmark in tow for |
COUPE VI udNs, WHICH, tue dtter seemed about |
to sink and after having jettisoned consider
able of her cargo the Missouri was able to |
take all the passenger and crew of the hap.
less vessel. The Missouri then proceeded to |
the Azores and left there the first aud second
officers and $40 passengers. she then con-
tinued her journey to Philadelphia with $40
passengers and the remainder of the crew.
The captain and three engineers of the Dan
mark left the Azores on the l4th for London.
The Danmark was about 800 miles from
Newfoundland when the accident happened.
Engineer kass was found dead in the engine
room after the accident having been killed by
the bursting of an engine.
Light SHOWS and no heavy rains du ing the
past winter have resulted in the most remark
able drouth this spring that the lumber
woods of upper Michigan have ever expe-
renced. aud over l 900 600 900 of logs, banked
and ready TO be hoated to the mills below.
are hung up because there Is not enough
water in the streams TO float them. Heavy
and continued rains alone will be able to res
cue the winters cut, aud thus keep the mills
running the season through.
In Macon county, North Carolina, Monday
night was enacted the most horrible crime {
ever known in the state. W.. T.. Wood was !
thrifty and prosperous farmer. whose FAM J
" consisted of wife. three sons and two ]
daughters. Mr.. Wood kept his savings.
which amounted TO several hundred dollars,