Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-04-12
ON TO OKLAHOMA !
Sharp Tactics Adopted by the
 Eager Boomers.
BECOMING VERY IMPATIENT
All Prepared for Instant Flight Into th'
 Promised Land.

MT. Hlaine's Assistant, MT. William
 Wharton. Qualities and Begins Work.
 The Funeral of tho Late Rear-Adn,irnl
 Pattorson-Anthony Colnstock Pays
 eral.
 WASHINGTON, D. C., April 12.-The latest advices received from the Oklahoma country, indicate that the boomers arc adopting all manner of sharp tactics, in their efforts to secure an entry in the prom ised land.
 4 despatch from Arkansas City, Kansas, says:
 ''The population of this city has increased one third during the past week. Two thouS- and eager boomers arc hero and at least an other thousand are along the line south of here. The half dozen hardware stores have sold out their entire stock and the demand is not half supplied. The boomers arc forming into small colonies of twenty-five to fifty persons and arc devising schemes to outwit their neghbors and get into the heart of Oklahoma by the appointed time.
 'There is feeling along the border that there will be a general forward movement into the territory on the night of April 20.
  ter have picked out their land, and they are suspicious and afraid of the newcomers They don't propose to have the land they fought and bled for jumped by recent arriv as. They have pickets Ill ding in the Oklahoma woods who are keeping them posted.
 'Word was received today that the boomers on the Texas border were becom- ing very inpatient and they were liable to in, hafo ba caoOp6 op6 seize their claims before daylight on that date. A panicky feeling prevails all around and threats of a very sanguinary character are being made by old boomer rs. They claim they developed the agitation that led to the opening of the territory, and now that land-sharks are trying to get posses. sion of their property.
 'Thc State line for hundreds of miles is dotted with "prairle sohooners." All re preparing for the flight into the promised land Many settlers whose geography is faulty are already from ten to fifteen miles in the Territory and still claim they are in | Kansas"
 William Wharton, of Massachusetts, the newly appointed Assistant Secretary oi | State, has qualified and has assumed the duties of the position.
 The funeral of Rear Admiral Patterson | took place rom hlS late residence here yes | terday afte rnoon. The pallbearers were | Rear Admirals Amy and Stevens; Gener als Hagner and Maxwell, Captains Wallace and Norton of the Navy and E. J. Hall an | G. W. P. White. A large number of army and navy officers and friends and acquaint | ances of the deceased attended the funeral | The remains were inte rred in the Congres sional cemetery.
 Anthony Comstocl1, of New York, was at the Postoffice Department yesterday and | lodged complaints against the publishers of large number of in decent circulars ant other matter that is put in t he mail; also against the green goods'' mall matter sen out from Jersey City, N. J.
 ostmaster-General Wanamaker prom isod to give the matter his early attention
 Commissioner of Pensions Tanner ha: | issued the following order which will favor ably affect large number of veterans now on the pension roll.
 hand or foot in a;degree entitling him to g per month under the Act of March 3, 1883 | such pensioner shall by reason of that fact be entitled to the rate of $50 per month un der the Act of August f, 1886. This orde is made to carry into effect the principa enunciated by the Department on October 15, 1887, in the case of Allen Cook, an6 again on June 13, 1888. in the case O Charles w. Harrington"