New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-15
q BOO1fERSD ON THE ALERT.
WAITING FOR THE DAY OF
OPENING.
READY TO SWARM INTO THE PROMISED LAND
oF OKLAHOMA FROM ALL SIDES.

OF OKLAHOMA FROM ALL SIDES
Arkansas City, Kan, April ii (SpeciaD.-Fully
. 600 Oklahoma settlers are now camped In ana
around this town. The Walnut River Is hned
with canvas covered wagons, and arrangements are
beinp completed for the forward movement across
the Cherokee outlet on April 10. About oOo OF
the boomers hail from Illinois, 500 from TINS SuaUe
and the rest from Missouri, Iowa and the North
west As the date of the opening OF the country
approaches the arrivals are increasing Every
hotel and boarding g-house here is full, and those
who arrive after today will have TO be conten'ed
with camp accommodations. The late arrivals arr
men n means who desire to go into business in the
new country fund has been started among tne
boomers 70 erect monument at Oklahoma CITY 10
Cantain d L, PAYNE, the original boomer
General Merritt, commanding the Department. OF
Tho Missouri has issued an order to tho troops
At Oklahoma regarding the methods TO be pursued
in allowing emigrants TO cross the cherokee st1P
The troops win lay out the line OF march, Dut the
boomers must camp IN certain places anu hio'e
nj regular hours No one will be allowed 10 Iarry
IN .h s,rin and after once passing across will not
be allowed TO return that way. NO one VIII oe
allowed 70 cross the strip after April %. and all
people found on the strip after that date VIII DC
driven back 20 Kansas or Oklahoma
From the Texas border comes the report that al
the desteradocs of the " Lone Star State are
boverinp ON the hne ready to make descent
on tho nromised lard. They are armed, and assert
they won't get left when it comes 10 q misunder-
standing about claim.
Purcell is already infested with gamber7, and
for six or seven months or "a year everything VIII
be wide open in Oklahoma.
pTOoDsuEp BY RIVAL CLAIMANTS
ST. Louis, April 14.-Among the latest items from
the Indian Territory is account Of fight in the
western part of Oklahoma. between two men from
Kioya, Kan, and two men from Texas Tor the
possession of a claim. Guns were used Freely
and one OF the Kiowa men Was killed ana a leNah
mortally wounded. The other two men called
truce, placed their wounded comrades in wagon
and started for a neighboring ranch. Before they
reached it the fight was renewed and the entire
marty was discovered later by some cowboys Inc
COWBOYS took the one dead and three wounded
men 10 the nearest stage station.
The Topeka and Santa Fe Runway Company
now has 4s7 freight cars on their side tracks
i'm the wards at Arkansas City, Kan, whlch are
heinp loaded with i'm mpements, household goods,
merchandise and houses framed and ready 70 pe
put up The agent at that point SAID to.dag NY
" / can now move 900 cars OF lrelBhe anu '''''
passengers in twelve hours
A dispatch from Fort Smith, Ark, says thnt
the entire Western Arkansas border Is a scene OF
bnstling activity. People are striving to get INTO
opens by far the best portion Of the new tern,
torv. Captain X. S. Scott prominent lawyer ol
this city. has organized a large colony, and pro-
poses TO lay out town near kckapoo ReserHa,
zion A party OF North Carolina negroes headcd
by a planter George Ingram, has Just arrived;
Government officials from the Pottawatomle ana
Iowa Reservations report that the neighborhood
is fairly alive with people. Old "Forty-ninersD
saw the scene rivals anything in the old California
davs IL the present rush continues until April
ood more than twice as many viii be on the
southern border Of Oklahoma as can obtain home
stcads. - ~
YOUNG WOMEN LOOKING OUT FOR CLAIMS
Wichita, Kan, April IA gentleman arriving
from Fort Worth says that the Texas contingent
of the boomers" is massed at Gainesville. and
that the excitement there is as intense as in South
ern Kon1s. Thousands he says, will leave there
April 81 for oklahoma. .---,
Among the arrivals yesterday were two women
Mics Holly Young Of Quincy, and Miss Mnnltta
Daisy. of Louisville, Ky.-who will take up claims
in Oklahoma. Besides these, there is 9 party OF
Young Kansas "mans' in charge Of Miss Bruce,
WHO were driven out by the soldiers and party
~ eight Young ladies from Purcell that will battle
for a auarter-sction each.