Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-23

sound OF the buglo at nlgn noon, Jnero
had been movement among the BOOM
ers camped along the border which had
extended rcross the entire frontier line
and that the riding had been fast ana
furious ever since, some of the prospect"
ors running to Guthrie to file their entries,
and others going to locate on land and
secure prior rights to possession by act
ual occupancy.
PICTURESQUE SCENE.
The scene was one of the most stirring
and picturesque ever witnessed. The
smoke of myriad camp fires lighted to
cook the first meal in Oklahoma began
to ascend in all directions, and before the
first train of land spectators rushed to
the future great city of Guthrie, the
farmer had already become the possessor
OF great deal of land, and more than
one furrow of virgin soil was turned over
to the sun which had made the day glo-
rious as well as memorable.
ARRIVAL AT GUTHRIE.
1t was twenty minutes after IL O'Clock
when the first section of the great Atchi-
son train reached the line, and its pro-
gress from that point on to Guthrie was
not rapid enough for the rapid men who
wanted to get there in hurry, before all
the cream was skinned off the milk.
Nevertheless it lacked but a few minutes
of l O'Clock when the train stopped in
front of the Guthrie depot. Before the
train came to a stop it was seen that
somebody was already there. In fact
the town was we'll populated. Tents
were numerous on the eastern slope, and
stakes were sticking up cut of the ground
like poles in bean patch. Men could
b.a in hn If vol In
able holdings, and the scene was as busy
and animated one as it is possible to
imagine.
"CURsoRY" OBSERVATIONS.
Profanity abounded among the Arkan-
sas City and Wichita men, as well as
those from other points. If there had
besn prospect of shooting at any time
to-day, it was when these men found
themselves baffied at the game of freeze
out, but they were compelled to swallow
their wrath, for, according to all techni-
calities in law, the men in possession
were the rightful owners, and the men
who had been left out were the ones who
had been the most persistent in their de-
mand for the laws enforcement. There
was nothing to do but to take what was
left, ana it was in the scramble to get
scene of the day was presented,
the men falling over each other in their
efforts to get out of the cars.
Every variety of man along the frontier
made up the army which charged the
land Office at the top of the knoll, OF in
a body but in detachments. The land
office was not the point of their destina-
tion, though it stands at the corner of a
section and is, therefore, the present
center OF the town. But it was
not to secure the lots nearest to
it that the rush was made. There was
little left near it, for stakes had already
been driven, almost to the limit of the
half section of 800 acres allowed for the
town site as the law now stands. There
was a small margin, and this was being
rapidly wiped out by the same men who
had already appropriated nearly every
thing in sight. 1t was but few minutes
until the lire was reached, and the back
action movement of taking up lots which
nobody had wanted before began.
DISAPPOINTMENT AND BLAsPHEMY.
When the second and third sections of
the train arrived and found everything
cornered, the air was blue for miles
around the metropolis. There was
nothing to do, however, as every lot was
protected by rifles and revolvers, aud If
shooting began, there was no telling
where it would stop. The only recourse
left to the disappointed men was to buy
out such holders of lots as were willing to
sell or run the risk of taking land out
side of the legal limit. Both courses
were adopted and q good number of
Guthrie City lots changed hands. The
first sale made was by man named
Rummels, of Malvan, Kansas, who sold
a twenty-fve-foot- front lot, near the
land Office for $5 to an old doc
tor, resident of one of the In
dian reservations adjoining Oklahoma.
The purchaser refused $50 for the lot five
minutes later. Several transfers we're
made to-day, and others, who were de-
termined to locate here, drove stakes
outside the town line. This is prepara-
tory to the purchase of homesteaders'
rights and the extension of the city
limits.
BOOM CITY STARTED.
No one who had never seen Western
town take form and shape, can compre-
hend how quickly full-rigged city, with
double-deck boom, can be put in mo-
tion. Guthrie already has its Main
street, its Harrison street, its Guthrie
avenue and its Oklahoma avenue, and
this morning it was wilderness where
the antelope sported and the jack rabbit
tapped its ears in the sun.
FIRST MUNICIPAL ELECTION.
In the afternoon at O'Clock, the first
municipal election occurred. The cleo
tion notice appeared to-day in the Okla.
homa Herald daily paper published at
Guthrie on the tIst day of its
existence. The Council will be
elected at the same time. Nearly
ten thousand votes were polled as
there are about that many men in Guth-
rie with the intention of becoming citi--
zens. The leading candidates for Mayor
are Adjutant- General Reice, OF Illinois,
William Constantine, of Springfield, o.,
and T. L. Sumner, of Arkansas City. A
strong dark horse is T. Volney Haggett,
of Huron, Oak.
THE BANK OF OKLAHOMA.
The Bank of Oklahoma opened for
business at Guthrie to-day with capital
stock of $50, 900. M. w. Levy, Wichita
banker. is president. The new city is
flooded with business, cards of all des-
criptions representing every line of trade
and business, imaginable.
POSTAL ARRANG EMENTS.
A mass of mail is expected to reach
the Guthrie postoffice every day. 1t is
now being run by postal clerk detailed
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