Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-04-25

lowing: Resolved That all persons who, in good
faith and legally, have taken lots be allowed 10
take their relative positions under this survey.
A very warm discussion followed, but the
resolution was finally passed. The opponents
of this movement were the street jumpers" as
they are termed, because. when they found
they could not get such lots as they wanted,
they located in the streets.
DIsPossEssING STREET JUMPERS"
A committee started along the streets and as
each Jumper" was found they politely but
firmly told him to get out Of the street When
reet-jumper" gets in their way at all, they
give the alarm by yelling. .'Yahoo, Yahoo" sew
eral times and their comrades come in swarms.
The intruder is Immediately surrounded and
told to get of and stay of, or he would be
thrown off as the exigencies of the case may
require.
BURNED TO DEATH IN A PRAIRIE FIRE.
CHICAGO. April 25.-The Times special from
Guthrie. Oklahoma, says that the mother of
George Davy, who came from New York state
near Rochester. was burned TO death in a
prairie fire miles from Guthrie on Tuesday
night. MIR. Dayy is severely burned, and will
return to his old home.
AFFRAys AT OKLAHOMA CITY.
OKLAHOMA CITY, April 25.-Three brothers
named Williams had desperate fight on the
streets yesterday with party of Kansas town
site spectators. Knives and pistols were
freely used. All hands are under arrest A
young woman named Hotchkiss was arrested
for murderously attacking the street commit
tee Her lot lay in the route of a proposed
street. The woman made violent resistance
and smashed the tripod of the surveyor.
The Rush for the Cherokee Strip.
CHICAGO. April ga special to the Ners
from Diamond Barranch, /. T.. via Arkansas
City, says: The occupation of the Cherokee
strip has begun along the whole line, and a
much harder nut to crack than was the Okla
homa boom will be presented TO the govern
ment. The excitement in Arkansas City over
the prospective seizure of the strip is intense
The crowds of fugitives from the famine.
thirst, frost and heat of Guthrie are swelling
as each train on the almost wholly paralyzed
railroad comes in.
BITTER REsENTMENT AGAINST GOVERNMENT Of
FICIALs.
The fercest resentment is breathed against
the government for the outrageously unfair
manner in which the country was thrown open.
The whole federal machinery, from the Presi-
dent down to the last deputy marshal is pas
slonately denounced. Six residents of Arkan-
sas City went out Oh the strip Tuesday and
staked some claims. Some
INVADED THE CHILLocco INDIAN SCHOOL REsER-
WALTON
and were ordered off by the superintendent.
They moved their stakes to a neighboring spot
off the school land. 1t may be believed that
hundreds of the returning pilgrims are bear
ing northward with plans laid for location on
tne strip and that many are now camping this
side OF Salt Fork upon what they claim for their
homes.
The soldiers patrolling this region. under
CAPT. Jack Hayes. have not yet returned from
the southern border. but are expected in Camp
Price, near Arkansas City, any hour 1t will
De their duty, no doubt, 10 clear the strip. and
TURMOIL Is BOUND To ENsUE.
The people, however, who are back of this
present excitement are disposed to be law
abiding. but they will claim redress for the
wrongs they suffered in Oklahoma and de-
mand claims in the strip. 1t is not feared
that they viii offer armed resistance Ii
seems. however, that something must be done
10 relleye the pressure of homeless throngs
The Cherckees Alarmed.
ARKANSAS CITY, April 25-The Cherokee
council has held a meeting and selected a COM
missioner. in the person of John Pappin. to 60
to Washington and lay the Cherokees' claim be-
fore the President They fear that the BOOM
ers Will invade their territory Cherokee strip
PappIn told a reporter that he thought that in
structlons would be issued to the troops to 60
slow III the matter of driving the boomers OFF
the strip, This would be done. he thought. TO
compel the CherOkees TO accept the SIPS per
acre now offered them for the c, ,0OO 600 acres of
land in the strip. Gen. Merritt has given the
boomers three days to get off the Cherokee
strip and will undoubtedly drive them off.