Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-04-25

Nothing ii Oklahoma to Interfere
with L;fo and Liberty.
HUNDREDS HEADED ROB HONE

The III Considered Report. Of Tenderfoot
Correspondents Have InJnred the Fair
Name and Fame ~ the Promised Land.
No Murders. No whisky, No Water ana
Little Food.
Guthrie, Oklahoma via Arkansas City,
Kan. April % Guthrie has made but
little material advancement since Mon
day. Thus far the land Office is the only
completed building in the town. The
Commercial National bank has fifty
carpenters at work putting up light
prairie structure opposite the railroad
depot, and the foundations for row Of
houses on the west side Of the railroad
track have been laid. This is the full ex-
tent OF one day improvement.
Crowds Headed FOR Home
The population is falling off materially.
Every train that leaves for the north or
south Is packed with men who, having
grown weary Of FIGHTING for i bare exis-
tence, are headed for their homes. No
body but man who has plenty of money
can live here. Food is scarce and water
is sCarcer.
For little while last night it looked
as If the new city would go down as fast
as it went up. Just after dark great
black clouds began 20 drive across the
sky from the southeast and in q short
time rain was pouring in torrents. Gusts
of wind swept through the tents on the
hillside and threatened to carry them all
away.
No Whisky and No Blo0dshed.
The good order that has been pre-
served thus far, considering that disputes
about lots are constantly arising, is sim
gnlarly marvellous. Not a man has been
shot. and in only two instances were re-
volvers drawn by men who intended to
use them. The cause that has contribu-
ted much to the maintenance Of good or
der is the absence Of whisky. Not a drop
of it has been put on sale, and so far as
can be learned but littge has been brought
into the territory by Individuals for their
own use.
The marshars forces are demoralized.
Two-thirds of the deputies who were
brought here to preserve order have done
little besides SQUAT ON town lots which
they staked off before the crowds began
to arrive Monday. Feeling runs high
among the settlers on account of their
behavior.
Correspondents Report Imaginary Crimes
Marshal Jones on Tuesday sent force
of men to investigate a story Of two men
having been shot On a claim. Newspa-
per correspondents who heard of this en-
terprise concluded that this report was
true, and without personal investigation.
sent it east as fact. The story had its
origin with a half witted fellow who
came in from claim and reported that
his two partners were missing. They
had simply disappeared from claim
and he imagined that they had been
killed. Capt. Macarthur, who made a
full investigation of the rumor, says the
men are all right.
No Municipal Government.
All efforts to organize municipal
government in Guthrie have failed.
Five meetings were held yesterday and
as many more to form temporary or
ganization, but even this could not be
done. The trouble is that every candi-
date for mayor has personal following
that is bound by oath to support him
through thick and thin.
The city of West Guthrie. which Is
springing up on the level plain back of
the military camp, has been organized
by band of Chicago colonists, who will
hold municipal election in q few days.
BOOMERS Disgusted with worthless Lands.
KANsAN CITY, April 25.-A train Of
fourteen coaches crowded to the plat
forms with returning boomers. pulled
into the Union station over the Santa Fel
road. Over 800 boomers were in the
train that left Arkansas City last night
and nearly 200 more wanted 70 no, but
were obliged to wait for the next train.
Edward Given. at the head Of thirty
five Illinois settlers. said to a reporter:
We were on the first train that arrived
in Guthrie on Monday afternoon. We
we're not looking for town sites, but farm
lands. We found pretty farm lands IN
the river bottoms, but not near as rich
as the farms we were leaving. The soil
Is red and looks like brick dust. In fact
the greater part pf the country looks like
an immense brick kiln" Most Of the
boomers returning this morning had
stnked out claims, but had refused fo
settle On them and bring on their fami-
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