Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-04-24
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TING RUSH Is ENDED.
The Land of the Indian Is Covered
with Pioneer Homes.
A DAY OF EXCITEMENT.
Incidents of the Scramble for Homes
Guthrie Already a Full-FIedged City,
in Running order-The First Daily
-No Bioodshed rs Yet.

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WINFIELD, Kan, April 23.-Obla-
homa is open. No one was killed. The
well known dinner call Of the cavalry
rang out over the camps, and Okla
sloma was free to all. 1t was dinner for
the guards and a dash for others. For a
ranks were lost. to sight in the dust that
rose. Once over the water course they
began to diverge, and while the covered
wagons dashed wildly over the prairie.
They We're driven by men who had
ON in alone, and with the same rash
ness that brought them 80 far they
drove. The mounted men were slow
to start, but faster to ride, and with 8
cheer they all rode out. A grey
horse at first took the lead, when a
man was seen to throw himself off
the one he rode in the rear, and mount
a dark horse he had been leading. In a
moment it was neck and neck, and in
another it was the dark horse q winner,
with Jim Payne, of Turkey Tract RANCH,
in the Sac reservation, owner of the
first farm in Oklahoma. The stakes
were driven about four hundred yards
from the boundary, and Payne was
standing erect waving his hat when the
watch Of the commandant showed just
1901. He was quickly followed by Ed
Lond and AL Clayton, his brothers-in-
law. who came from ChaItauqua coun-
ty, Kansas. Then the first rush of the
the traders and drivers was over and
the colonists and others, of more ma
tured years, filed out in s%quadrons.
The First Train.
The way OF the first excursion train
was bordered with the happy winners
in the race for hcmesteads, who stood
swinging their hats and emptying their
guns in honor of the first excursion
train in the district. The train was
crowded, and so was the roof, with
spectators and. others, who were bur-
dened with nothing more valuable than
bundles of claim stakes and entry
papers. Many of them risked their
lives In an attempt to steal q march n
their competitors by jumping from the
fast moving train; but when they did it
was to find some III else sitting COM
ptacently on the spots they had mem
tally selected. How the others got
there might have been explained by the
strengthening cattle that went over
- Sais - n's.o
previous pu1 no explanations were
as1sd' ahd none given.
A Game of Fresse-out.
1t lacked but a few minutes Of 1
o'clock when the train stopped in front
of Guthrie. Before the train came to @
stop in was seen that somebody was
already there; in fact, the town was
well populated. Ients We're numerous
on the eastern slope, and stakes were
sticking up out OF the ground like poles
IN 9 bean patch. Men could be seen
racing IN the direction OF valuable hold
ings, u the scene was as busy and AMI
mated q q 81 II Is possible to imagine.
Ing profanity among the spectators
wa 10Th loud n deep. II there q
been any prospect OF shooting at any
tilne, u was when these men found
themselves pafiled at the game OF freeze
J
low their wrath, Tor, according to all
GechnlCAlltleS III law, the men In DOS
session were the Tightful owners, and
the men who had been left out were the
oaes VINO naa peen nlosv persistent
,aa we M Gsi nn.. -. .ss iaw sntolce.
taia ,,hat wa va 1aft nnss pao nut ~
scramble for this that the most serious