The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-04-19
BOLD BOOMERS.
Thousands Moving Toward
the Promised Land
rArAI xIaar on rHE soEDEx


/ 4 4A4 O&&8l
Scenes and Ineadents al the
Mevsnent.
AzxASsAa Cfrr, Ark, April IS.-A,
8 o'clock this morning the boomers
we're aiye. and heran getting ready tc
cross the Gaerokee strip. There are
nearly So0o0 boomers here. They
have been ordered 10 move ia az or,
dsrly manner along the established.
trails, and If any Gepreastsons are
committed the whole line win b
stopped and the guilty turnesi back.
The procession viii be ACCOMPANIED
! by from twenty 10 thirty reporters on
ponies. United States Commissioner
Bonsen has allowed two men to con
struet bridges at Salt creek and chil.
| .iccoe creek, and to charge the boom.
ers 25 cents each a. cross. The old
ferry hosf on Salt Fork, which has
been idle for years has been hroaghl
into service
1UR MEN ElLLEp.
FoRT SIXTH, Ark. April Is.- Four
msn were killed on the border OF Okla
homa TODAY. Word was received here
OF conflict between d parfv os
boomers, cattle men and Chickasas,
policemen at ford ut Chisholm s
trail. forsy miles west OF Oklahom .
City, ON the Canadian river. The
cattle men were taking several hun
drHd animals from Frank coihartss !
ranch II Ilickasaw to Kansas. hat
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THE BsioNkiss SHOUT.
A tremendous shout went up from
the boomers and they went forward
over the line. The shout was taken up
all along the line and the entire eavai
cade moved forward A Mr. Williams,
from Chattauqua county, KAN. with
his wife and i've children, were the
first settlers 70 follow the Kansas City
men. Soon 600 white-covered wagons
were in motion From an elevation
hve solid miles OF wagons coeid be
seen. and as the caravan went over
tne undtiaung prairie thsv presented
. s,gnt PIopaesy never 70 pe seen
lam IsIsneu on eIacSef-oox in
tue i'Is. = " ai,e tea WAGONS Iioni Dshg-
nam, nAh., hsn s,Ne hung .ne AMER
can nas - 'ne pfssze. As lar ~ =
coliu ~ sees, - ~ AaAarn sasu l'a.Il-
o'Ic Shouts. TOT .,fes .a @ soalu nonrs ,. the
WAGONS sIossen .ae saIlp nhr ana
moyra ssoMly soMaIa ,ns pfonassea
iahsi. oa the olssaue ~ aiInys1 eFtIs
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