The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1889-04-25
GUTHRIE ON A BIG BOOM
1t Leads All the Magic Cities of
the Universe

Additional Dispatches from the Territory
Of the Scenes ON the Opening Day
Indignation Of the Lawful Boomers
when they Saw the Squatters-A Warn
ing Issued.
GUTHaIE, Oklahoma, April 24.-Deal-
ors In real estate have begun business.
One enterprising dealer has broke ground
tor the safe transaction Of business.
The stock Of rifles which had been
placed there by the government troops
on dnty at the land office, near by, is in
N' tent of United States Marshal Need
less. The tent is surmounted by large
American flag.
When the second and third sections of
the train arrived yesterday, nearly ev-
erything In sight had been taken, and
the only recourse left to those disappoint-
ed in securing lots was to buy out such
holders ef lots as were willing to sell, or
run the risk of taking lots outside the
legal limit Both courses were adopted,
and goodly number of Guthrie city lots
changed hands.
Guthrie already has its Main street, it's
Harrison street, its Guthrie avenue, and
its Oklahoma avenue, and yesterday
morning it was a wilderness, where an
telope sported and the jack rabbit tapped
its ears in safety.
Yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock the
first municipal election occurred. The
election notice appeared in the Oklahoma
Herald, daily paper published at Guth-
RE on the first day of its existence.
H4M Of
time. Nearly ten thousand votes were
polled. There are about that many in
Guthrie with the intention of becoming
citizens.
The Bank of Oklahoma opened for
business yesterday with a capital stock
Of 1000. N. w. Levy, a Wichita bank
or, Is spresident The new city is flooded
with cards of all sorts, representing every
line OF trade, business profession, and
every occupation Imaginable. A mass Of
mail Is expected to reach Guthrie post
office at an early day.
ARKANSAS CITY, Kan, April PA
special from Guthrie says that three men
who took claims there yesterday were
foully murdered about o'clock by claim
jumpers. The name of their assailants
and the victims could not be learned.
A vigilance committee are now scour-
ing the country in search of the mis-
ereants, who, it Is said, will be summari-
ly dealt with If caught.
G GUTHRIE, l. T., April 24.-Precisely at
noon the train passed barbed wire fence,
running east, and which many supposed
to be the northern boundary Of Okla,
homa.
The boomers had also taken similar
view, for as the advance was made south,
camps and tents were seen in every di
rsction. Right Ia a pleasant hollow,
with miniature creek flowing through
it, wagon was standing with every evi-
dence of the owners idea that he had
reached the promised land. The horses
were tethered, the man was digging
little branch that might have been either
a dividing line or fire guard. The wife
was busy cooking. It was evident those
good people thought they had slipped
Into Oklahoma unseen, and were safe.
Close by, on high ground, two men were
holding down the quarter section in true
military style. The morning was bright,
and the snn was intensely hot. its rays
Sefecting on the well-polishsd barrels Of
The Winchesters held by each. Fifty
wagons or more were making good time.
a mile further along, and after a brief
interview, the train pulled up and took
on board Lieut.. Forster, who had been
on guard at this point with company H
of the G.. T. cavalry. He reported that
all was quiet, and that ne had held back
all on his ground, one hMndred yards
further on.
The Line Crossed.
At 1915 percisely there was a loud
whistle from the engine, answered by a
shout from the train, and we were in
Oklahoma at last.
Before the train had crossed the line
fifty yards man sprang Off regardless of
the danger. He fell pretty heavily, but
on his feet in few seconds, collect
eli his baggage, which lie had thrown
out ahead, and was turning sods before
the train was out of sight. For quite a
little distance, perhaps half a mile, no
other settlement was noted. Horsemen
were seen i'll the distance, and wagons
were also pressing OH tOWdTuS Tile DeGteI
land further south. On the summit of
the ridge, little to the east, two horse
men were seen racing and urging their
steeds to their utmost. A little further
south was man who had just alighted
from the mule which was standing by
him, and whose back he was about un-
loading. He had selected a pleasant
nook, skirted by trees. Further down
to the west colony of boomers had set
tied, and their wagons were SO close that
there could be scarcely half the coveted
100 acres for each.
Already Full of Squatters.
So far it was just possible that every
boomer seen had waited until ~ o'clock
before he crossed the line, but sqatters
pure and simple now came in view.
There could be no pretense that any of
these had obeyed the law, and the i'm
mense number who had eluded the vigi-
lance of the military, is scandal. The
officers have kept ON announcing all
along that there were no boomers In the
country, that all newspaper reports to
the contrary were false, and that the
guard was ample to keep out all persist
eut ones; vet a conservative estimate