The morning news., 1889-04-25

BUILDING GOING ON.
Now that freight can be obtained, build
ing in both cities is going on rapidly. Build
| ing in Lisbon will be much slower owing
to the long freightage by wagon, but this
will prove an advantage rather than other
wise, as it will be the means of liveli-
hood for hundreds who are here almost
moneyless, but have their teams. A settler
will derive his revenue the first year. Work
has already commenced at breaking sod,
aud the condition at this time being favor
able, there will be enough vegetables raised
! for home consumption, while horses will
have their corn and fodder to carry them
through the winter. There will be no
famine, although there will be much
suffering, and there cannot help being
| isolated cases of such dire necessity that the
liberal people OF Missouri aud Kansas will
be called upon to render aid The present
population will not be kept up, for disap-
pointment will lead many to return north.
The Panhandle people, knowing this coun-
try, have agents at both Oklahoma and
Guthrie where they are scattering Texas
literture broadcast and they have some
| thing to offer. AS yet Missouri and Kansas
have done nothing to catch the overflow.
| The stories of violence and murder have
no foundation in fact
STARTED FOR THE STRIP.
The Times special from Arkansas City.
Kan. says that $50 men left quietly this
morning for the Cherokee strip with the
avowed purpose of squatting there. There
is no doubt that a secret organiza-
tion is in existence, which numbers
IN its membership many prominent and
influential men, which is heartily in favor
of colonizing in the strip with a view to
Fastening the opening Of the Cherokee lands
to settlement. The members say that if
people were allowed to live in Oklahoma
until the Presidents proclamation was
issued they have a right to do the same
thing in the strip and they propose to do
SO.
AN INDIAN RISING REPORTED.
CHICAGO, April ga special froy=
Guthrie, Oklahoma says: "a rising of the
Indians is reported on the border y account
of boomers who failed to geU Jaahoma
claims squatting on the Indian lands. A
A party of troops is on the way to the scene
Of the trouble"
THREE REPORTED KILLED.
A special dispatch from Fort Reno, 1. T.,
says: "A settler named Goodwin arrived at
Reno yesterday from Oklahoma, and made
a sworn statement to the post commander
that his posse of four had been fred upon
by party of twelve Texans, who claimed
a location made by Goodwin and
his party. The Texans claimed
the land, having located there with
Capt. Payne several years previous. Good
win made his escape and hid in the thick
brush along the river until after dark
when be made his way toward Reno. The
rest of his party were killed. A detach-
ment of Company G, Thirteenth infantry,
were quickly sent to the scene to recover
the bodies and make full investigation
and arrest all suspicious persons in the
vicinity"
OCCUPYING THE STRIP.
A special to the Daily Nelcs from Dia-
mond Bar Ranch, l. T., says: THE occu-
patton of the Cherokee strip has begun
along the whole line. a much harder nut
to crack than was any of the Oklahoma
booms is now presented to the government.
The Cherokee strip, which is now being
gobbled, comprises nearly 5000, 900 acres,
being thus four times as large as Oklahoma,
and it far surpasses the latter in beauty
and fertility. The excitement in Arkansas
City over the prospective full seizure Of the
strip is intense. Crowds of fugitives from
the famine, thirst, frost and heat of
Guthrie are swelling as each train on
all but the Oklahoma railroads
come in. The fiercest resentment is
breathed against the government for the
outrageously unfair manner in which the
country was thrown open. The whole fed
eral machinery, from the President down to
the last deputy is passIonately denounced.
Six residents of Arkansas City went out in
the strip yesterday and staked claims
Some invaded the Chlllicco Indian school
reservation and were ordered Off by the su-
perintendent. They moved their stakes to
a neighborinR spot of the school land, there
to remain as forerunnerS of a horde of in
Vaders to-day
EVERY QUARTER SECTION TAKEN.
ST. LOUIS, April PA special to the
Republic from Purcell, /. T., says: "Ad-
vices from every part of Oklahoma indicate
that every available quarter section of land
is already taken along the lines OF the Santa
Fe railroad, and on the stage trails which
run from Guthrie TO King Fisher, and from
Oklahoma to Fort Reno. The occupants of
the soil have taken possession of their claims
by pitching tents and, in many cases,
erecting rude log cabins or frame struct-
ures The King Fisher land office was
opened yesterday and entries are reported
to have been more numerous than at
Guthrie. The country is beginning to wear
a settled look, and although appearance Of
things is rude it is evidence Of the fact that
the crisis is practically over, and that out
of the rush and strife aud bitterness of
years the country has been settled with
less sacrifice than has always been feared
and predicted.
A VICIOUS ELEMENT
"As indicated in these dispatches there
was vicious element in the great popula-
tion with which Guthrie began its munich
pal life. Thugs and plug-uglies, and that
species of flash sport who make new
and rapidly growing communities their
field of operations, were with the
first crowd which entered tde city,
and they have grown rapidly
in numbers with each incoming train.
They come from all parts Of the west aud
south awe est Among them all there has been
noue to equal the Dodge City crowd, which
made itself famous In the dance house and
gambling line when Dodge City was at the
end of the Little Trail, and was consid-
cred the worst town on earth. Since the
trail left Dodge City some Of them have
been following it and Others have been
drifting. The crowd which is IN Guthrie
now was 10 Purcell before the territory was
opened and went up TO Guthrie for the pur-
pose of running dance house and gambling
den and making what they could out OF the
boom.
STRUCK THE WRONG MAN.
"They did no succeed in getting lots in the
heart Of tho city, location necessary TO
their business, and yesterday they began
efforts 10 drive somebody off their holding
They were unfortunate in the selection OF
their victim. They made a claim to lot
ov,yuad 81 md occupied bV Wash Rogers, who