Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28

,rms which 10 Notifications, however
"rong by nature or by art, can resist;
rms before which rivers part Ike the
Jordan and ramparts fall down like the
great walls Of Jericho. The Greeks and
Scminolcs, who sold Oklahoma for So
)0O, 600, are scoircd at by their neigh
oors, the Chcroiccs and Chociaws, but
llready the Government has commission
waiting To deal With them for the sale of
:hc Outlet, and there is every reason to
believe that the offers which excited the
mcicmt r;.lmciiy Of the Greeks will per
'orin Il similar Office for tie smooth
:onuucd Cherokee.
Among the towns in Oklahoma. Gutil-
tic, from its central location. has made
The best growth and the first two-story
house is just building. A sporadic
growth of brick chinrneys and the germs
Of an occasional small garden plat are in
;crinittcnt evidences of civilization that
greet the eye. A large and decidedly
ooistCr0us crowd constantly surrounds
Inc land office, for, before Il man begins
to make improvements on his estate lie
aust know its boundaries, which can
only be furnished by the rcd-mustached
commissioner, Cassius VI. Barnes. This
office is only opened about four hours
day, and, as there are some eight thou,
sand men waiting to register, the last
mans turn will probably come some time
next year. Major Barnes has Il large safe
in his office which he looks upon with
considerable pride. He says he had il
made with an interior combination lock
and invisible air-holcs, SO ihnt in the
event of IN outhurst of vindictivc WRATH
on the part of some disgruntcd boomer,
The nimhlc Mayor can hop inside the safe
and shut the door behind him.
Besides the land offices, both Guthrie
and Kin"ishcr nave banks, backed b,
substantial men, aud Oklahoma CITY
boasts Il newspaper. Among the othc
comforting evidences of und;smayec
civilization. there is SHAT mute emblem o
clicrvcSccrt chccr-thc Soda fountain
and, again, the ubiquitous but ever.
welcome travelling photographer, with
his umyi'ryin" oiora OF all the ;niIydrous
acids. There arc also evidences of drug
storcs--vcry essential these, serving to
inIusc the thirsty boomer with the pre-.
vailin@ skepticism regarding prohibition.
Onc of :hr features Of Guthrie is an en-
terprisin@ young woman from Michigan
named McGahcrty, who has settled upon
81 town lot near the land office. She
has opened Il millinery and dressnaking
establishment, using the rear end of =
lccrcpt wagon us Il show window, while
Ljic front end serves rs m&,lam's houdoir
Nhcn Nine. McGahcrty had her spring
opening the only article iur sale was her
expansive sun bonnet, which was soon
purchased by Il young woman from Missis
sippi, whose hat had been lost while cross
ing Walnut Creek. With truly ciTemi
nate notion of the eternal fitness of things
the cntcrprising mllincr then ripped {,
piece of canvas out of the top of he,
wagon and by deity working in some
green baize from the lining of her under
skirt she soon had Il tempting morscl o.
bonnet that arrested the attention anG
called out the admiration of the elite O.,
Guthric's suburbs. To-day the young
lady is plcthoric of purse and quite the
belle of the town. When last seen Nine
McGaherty was chopping wood, but be.
tween her muscular blows she stopped
long enough TO tell me of Il pcstilent
heresy in the shape Of rival drcss,nalicr,
that day arrived. Parcntheticallv Miss
McGaherty remarked that il the new.
corners house were burned down in the
night it wouldn't SURPRISE her at all.