Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-04-26
GUTHRIE IS GETTING SETTLED
And a Better Feeling Prevails There.
AN INTERVIEW WITH BOULANGER.
TREASURE RECOVERED FROM THE TRENTON
Terrific Oil Explosion in Chicago.
BETTER NEWS FROM GUTHRIE.
There is Less Suffering and the Out.
look Seems Encouraging.

CHICAGO, April 26.-A Nt7cs special from
Guthrie, ]. T., says: A marked Improvement
has come over the aspect of Guthrie in the last
twenty-four hours. Everything is moving
rapidly toward an intelligent and peaceful set
tlement Water of fair quality is obtainable
free. and the resumption of reasonably regular
traffic on the railroad has brought i'll supplies.
Twenty houses built i'll Chicago and shipped
here III sections are up. A thousand tents are
standing. A strong Samaritanism makes the
necessities of life common property. There Is
shelter for all who want, and the cautious thou
sands who prefer to sleep on the turf of their
town lots have their blankets. Town meetings
are IN perpetual session. A committee of fifty
one, comprising one from each state repre-
sented. has the community we'll in hand The
committeeman are all business men who never
saw each other before and they are working
well.
SOME CHICASERY.
There has been and there still is some deep
chicanery in practice, which the courts must
correct if peaceful commonwealth is wanted
in Oklahoma. The courts will be given the
opportunity to do their duty. as nearly every
gobbied claim has its claimant who did not
enter the territory until II o'clock. Many
honest settlers have driven stakes upon lots
and quarter sections taken by the deputies and
railroaders.
NEEDLES NOT TO BE FOUND.
The Daily Ne,cs' correspondent has made re-
peated efforts to find Needles, but that gentle
man seems to have been lost in the shuttle.
One of his henchmen said, however, that the
deputies had never been sworn in, but were
personal employees of the marshal. and not
federal officers. Such a ruse to beat the law
will hardly be permitted to pass.
STILL RUSHING TO THE CHEROKEE STRIP.
The occupation of the Cherokee strip con-
tinues actively. Camps are sprnging up rap
idly at all points. Almost every disappointed
settler schoonering northward declares that he
will stop on the strip. There are ten soldiers
at Camp Price. near Arkansas City. and they
are riding about giving the squatters friendly
warning to leave. The troopers have no au-
thority, however. until Capt. Hays reaches
them. Flowing and planting have begun on
the strip in number of places. and something
will happen when the troops arrive.
KILLED IN THE PRESENCE OF HIS FAMILY.
A Kansan named Stevens was shot and killed
in the presence of his wife and four children
by two men on claim near Alfred, Wednes-
dav. The murderers fed. and the unfortunate
widow walked to Alfred with the news. The
dead man was buried in few hours and SUBJ
scription was raised to send the family home.
DIED ALONE on HIS CLAIM.
s. D. Day, a Denton, Texas, man, was found
dead on his claim near Oklahoma City to-day.
Meningitis was again the cause of death.
Several sensational stories of escapes from
the quicksands of the rivers are told.
A Pottawatomie Indian, who had Just re-
ceived his annuity. murdered and robbed
by unknown persons Wednesday on the road
from Oklahoma City to the reservation.
ATTEMPTS TO SUPPRESS NEWS OF VIOLENCE.
The army officers, under instructions from
Gen Merritt are said To he making oreat Of
forts to suppress tidings of violence, and do not
hesitate upon repeated falsehoods to cover the
facts.
COMEDY ABOUT TO GIVE PLACE TO TRAGEDY.
OKLAHOMA Cry. April 26.-Sixty men en-
ployed as section hands on the Santa Fe de-
serted their posts Monday and took up claims
just outside Guthrie. They made no provision
for the future and are already sick of their
bargain. These men will either desert their
holdings or sell out for song within a week.
the town shows plainly that the comical side of
the movement is about to be succeeded by the
tragic.
OBTAINING LAND FROM INDIANS.
PURCELL, l. T., April 26.-Thousands of dis
appointed homeseekers returning from
Oklahoma are obtaining land from
the Indians in the Chickasaw Choctaw
and Creek nations. Many of the Indians well
come the white settlers and some are said TO
favor an allotment in severalty of their entire
reservation.