The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-23
THE RAINBOW LAND.
The Grand Entrance Into Okla
homa Territory Yesterday.
ALL WAS PEACEFUL AND SERENE.
Everything Taken Already-Land Rises FIVE
Hundred Per Cent.-The First
Municipal Elections.


of years are partially rewarded, but the
Z events of to-day made these days, weeks
and months, to follow which will prove
how far the supply is below the demand,
and necessitate further concessions to
avert disorder, bloodshed ana other condi-
lions little short Of anarchy. The his
tory Of
THE DAY WILL FOREVER BE MEMORABLE
,gn frontier annals and win leave behind a
Nheritage of litigation which will be fruit
full 70 land sharks and claim attorneys, but
destructive to the claims of poor and non
est settlers
The Santa E7e began running its sectional
trains out of Kansas city last night, and
picking up cars at almost every station
along the route. Hundreds Of people were
waiting at every depot: and the cars, all OF
which were filled before the border Inc was
reached. could they have been coupled
would have made the train over mlle IN
length.
The crowds were composed of specula-
TORS adventurous, Sight-SeerS, thieves etc.
The farming element was not largely rep
resented. as all of the hOmesteaders nave
gone on before. There were men III the
cars from every great city and important
point in the country, and there was not
state or territory in the country Whlch dlu
not have its representatives,.
The newspaper coach ives the first out OF
Kansas city. 1t contained representatives
OF all the leading newspapers IN the coun-
try. who were compelled to yield room and
cOmfort for the good of the cause. At
Arkansas city there were over seVentN-hEe
coaches tracked in the yards waiting the
rush. Allof these were lowered into the
wards some distance below the depot. The
crowd began gathering on the platform TWO
hours before daylight, and long before the
LEAST FAINT STREAK OF DAWN
of the fateful day. the city was awake and
6stirring The streets presented d I'VE,
Ep.cturesque appearance. Hundreus III Jhef
impatience to get aboard rushed down Ell
nasse to the yards and attempted TO force
an entrance into the cars, all OF which were
.acurely locked The excitement may be
indeed from in the fact that III large mum
her of coaches the windows we've broken
out by the people VINO were anxious to
secure seats. 1t was i'll vain for the oihclals
to saw the trains would run IN sections,
fifteen miHutes apart. Every man there
wanted to be fifteen minutes ahead OF
everybody, and not fifteen minutes behind
anybody Il
The first section made up consisted OF
nine coaches, the newspaper coach and one
capoose. 1t pulled out at SD, railroad
when the line which marks the state line
and the dividing line from the Cherokee
strip was reached.
1T WAS GREETED WITH CHEER
which rolled from the news car in front to
the rustlers' cabOose behind. 1t marked the
departure from state government toward
the country where government is yet to be
created and established. Still the Cherokee
country Law between them and the rainbow
land Along the Pawnee trail the train
also passed caravans OF boomers wagons,
hut 1spfl
ing towards Kansas. Between Willow
Springs and PCncha agency some
Hsiuy IN Une newspaper car discovered
a man riding on the trucks beneatn the
coach When the train stopped at POncha
the adventurous boomer on wheels was
taken up into the car and elected honorary
car member of the press association. He
gave his name as Harvey Sadler, and he said
ne was born in England, but had been III
this country for nine years, and had come
all the way from Seattle, w. T., TO get
foothold in Oklahoma. He was elected as
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE LONDON TIMES
and also as Mascot of the new city of
Guthrie. At the last station outside OF
Oklahoma territory there was great
crowd of boomers who had been forced to
take their teams through and hoped TO get
in quicker by rail. There Delng no room
inside, they climbed to the top OF the
coaches. and the entire train, from one
end to the other was lined with them.
In this way the line was reached about |
five minutes after y O'Clock. Before the
late dead line was reached and passed, |
however, the great transformation scene |
had begun and was plainly visible 10 the
watchers from the train.
First came in view the white-topped |
wagons gathered in groups on the level
prairie. or in the little valleys which |
diversified the face Of the entire
country. 1t was at once noticeable that |
teams were not TO be seen in any of these |
camps: it was plain they had been taken |
out OF the harness to be riuuen across the |
Nborder by the hard riders who were to 10 |
cate claims. A little further IN ana this |
conclusion proved to be correct one, Tor |
the entire face of the country as far as the |
hest field glass could carry the sight was |
over-run with hOrsemen galloping to the |
southwark. The Heetest horses had evi |
IDENTIFY been picked for the work, and they |
were CARRYING their riders rapidly to the |
ionged for goal. The fifteen or twenty |
miles were made in an incredibly short |
time by old boomers familiar with the
country, and who knew where the desir |
able lands were located.
THE DAY WAS CLoUDLEsS,
and far away in the horizon both |
10 the east and TO the west |
clouds could be seen ascending from |
ward their different destinations in most |
cases. but in some of them toward the
same one. Therace for the goal could be
easily distinguished. The riders were
eager. and theirintense looks and merciless
slashing of their horses We're sufficient
evidence of the prize they were running
after.
One saddled but riderless horse was
seen galloping along the trail, an ominious
sign Of some accident or fatality which
had befallen its rider. Some went in
charge Of the horses, and were evidently
riding races towars the goal. Out Of the
dust which arose toward the east they
could be seen after the train had reached
the summit of the high ridge. The wagon
caravan was fully two miles III length and
was being sped to tie utmost speed of its
horses.
These caravans were plainly out
distanced by the horse back riders |
and after several miles of territory had
been traversed, it was seen the best riders
were winning best prizes. One homesteader,
who had secured a magnificent quarter
section of rolling land, had dug hole two
or three fe5t deep at that corner of 1t where
the surveyors section was located az
where ne had driven his stakes. Not Look
ing upon the evidence of possession as
sufficient TO confirm his title, he
seized d Winchester IS the train ran by
and fired out all of It's contents and then
emptied his revolver,
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