Connecticut western news., 1889-05-01
OKLAHOMA NEWS.
. Secret Organization in Existence.

News from Oklahoma City says that that city, like Guthrie, was built in a day, or more properly speaking, was claimed in an hour, except that portion which was captured before time by those appointed to go down and execute the law. The deputy United States marshals have laid out the town They covered the supposed choice sites with tents. When the train from the south ar rived consisting of twenty-thrce cars, con taining about 2,OOO people, about TOO had been at work. The later corners were struck with amazement. They walked over to the town site. took what the Government officials had kindly left, and went on two miles fur ther, stalking town lots.
 Water at Oklahoma City is plentiful. There IS not the same suffering as at Guthrie. and, in fact, there is Il lack of dirt and dust. As at Guthrie, the days are hot, the nights cold, ana food hard to obtain. The newcomers at Guthrie are pcaceaby inclined, but they ma Y yet show their ndignation over the action of the Government officials. There is now an organized crowd which will shortly put a ssquattcr upon the lot of every man>who ante dated 12 o'clock noon on the 22d of April. They have been at work securing the names of these people, and have now the exact To- cation. One hundred lots, all choice ones. will be jumped at one time, while the jumpers will be backed by 200 armed men. If peace able possession be given, there will be no trouble. Should resistance be made, then
 
 the property.
 Guthrie is a city of 6OOO people, with no streets. The outlying claimants have been crossing near the centre of the town, and nave been stalking out and improving their claims i'll the called streets and alleys. The result of all this is that tho spcculators have | a black eyo The lots sold the first day were the only ones upon which any money was made, and but n few of them.
 Now that freight can be obtained building | in both cities is going on rapidly. Building | in Lisbon will be much slower owing to the | long iroightagc by wagon, but this will prove | au advantage rather than otherwise, as it will be a meaus of livelihood for hundreds | who arc here almost moneyless, but have | their teams.
 Work has already commenced at breaking | the sod and the condition at this time being l favorable there will be enough vegetables raised for home consumption, while the | horses will have their corn fodder to carry | them through the winter
 l There will be no famine, although there l will be much suffering, and there cannot help l being isolated cases of such dire necessity | that the liberal people of Missouri and Kan l s;ts will be called upon to render aid. The present population will not be kept up, foI | disappointment will lead many to return North.
 The detailed reports of he killing of q | young man at Guthrie is the blood thirst y fortahly housed in Arkansas City, have de- pictcd the horrors as well as the romantic in cidents of Oklahoma Territory.
 | s'Timcs' special from Arkansas City says that 150 men left quietly for the Cheroket strip with the avowcd purpose of suuatting there. A secret organization is in exstenct | which numbers many prominent men, anC | which is i'll favor of colonizing i'll the stril l with vIew to hastcning the opening of thu l Cherokee lands to sett dement,