Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-04-25

paratory to the purchase of Homestead
rights and the extension of its limits.
One who has never seen western
lo"h take form and shape can not com
pfeheid how quickly full rugged city
WIN double deck boom can be put in
running motion. Guthrie has already its
Nam street, its Harrison street, its
guthrie avenue and its Oklahoma avenue.
Monday morning it vas wilderness. In
t%ehty-lour hours its population number
ca 10000 and was growing at the rate OF
! 100 per hour. A city election was held
at 4oclock on Monday and full munich
pal ticket elected. The leading candidates
i9r mayor were Adjt. Gen. Reice of Illinois,
william Constantine OF Springfield, Ohio,
ana L. l.. Sumner OF Arkansas CITY. A
strong dark horse was T. Volney Haggatt
OF huron, OAK The Guthrie Daily
Herald was issued in four hours after the
presidents proclamation went into effect.
SCENES ON TIE GROUND.
Kansas Citv Anil ga Guthrie dis
seekers are camped Vi. .s,,n'Hae-ld home
OF Guthrie, the pioneer city Of OkIanomu;
and their tents loom athwart the sky like
an army in bivouac. Guthrie, heretofore
an insignificant station in wild and un-
! inhabited country remote from civiliza-
ton, has Il population now OF more than
$1,000. al this was gained in an alter
noon. In no country but America, and
in no part OF that country save the great
west, could such thing be possible.
When the first train arrived at Guthrie
from Arkansas city the embryo streets
and lots OF the new city had already been
laid out by enterprising citizens who had
been early on the scene. Hardly had the
cars slowed down at the station when
eager men leaped from the windows,
slipped from the roofs OF the coaches and
minute the slope leading up from the
station was black with men rushing head
long, eager for the coveted town lots. In
two minutes not one OF the men who had
filled the train was left within speaking
distance OF the railway.
BY the time this crowd had reached the
top OF the slope near the land office the
men who had been running parallel lines
for streets and driving in stakes for town
lots, were well on their way along the
level strip of land east OF the land Office.
! The crowd then caught the moving line
Of street and lots and rushed eastward at
a tremendous rate.
! In the great rush iOr cars many OF the
car windows were smashed by the crowd
so anxious were they to get in. At the
last station outside of Oklohoma there
were great crowd Of boomers who had
forsaken their teams and hoped to get on
quicker by rail. There being no room in
side they climbed on top of the coaches,
and the entire train from end to end was
lined with them.
SEVERAL KILLINGS.
Arkansas City, Kas., April 25.-A
special from Guthrie says that three men
who took up claims yesterday were
foully murdered by claim jumpers. The
name Of the assaiants and victims were
not learned, Vigilance committees ale
securing the territory in search of the
miscreants, who will be summarily dealt
with if caught.
Rio Grande Valley Irrigation.
Ell PAso, April 23.-Major Anson Mills,
OF the 10th cavalry, has returned for duty
at Fort Bliss, Texas, in compliance with
n recent order from the war department.
In addition to his purely military duties
he will assist those officers of the interior
department who are in charge Of the geo.
logical survey Of the Rio Grande for some
six miles both north and south Of Ell Paso.
This survey is instituted for the purpose
of procuring data for the irrigation of the
Rio Grande valley lands and the storage
of its surplus waters in large reservoirs.
Major Mills, who was in Ell Paso country
thirty years ago, and who is thoroughly
acquainted with the country, formulated
a year ago a plan to form vast lake and
storage reservoir above Fort Bliss, where
an immense amount of water could be
stored for use in the dry months by the
inhabitants of both sides OF the river
Lockers On.
TOPEKA, April 25.-United States Dis
trict Judge Foster, District Attorney w
G. Perry, Assistant Attorney Eugene
Hagan, Marshal Jones aud Commissioner
Wilson, Judge Guthrie, an aspirant fol-
the chief justiceship OF Oklahoma, Presi
dent William B. Strong, of the Santa Fe
and score of officials and private citizens
have gone to Guthrie, Oklahoma.
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