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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-05-23

It is great mistake to suppose that al
the boomers are in search of quarter
section. Many of them wouldn't take il
as gift. They have settled in the most
thriving localities and into $50 porta'
BILE house they have stocked $50 line o.
goods. Then after the goods are 500
for $3.50, the stock is replenished, anG
when trade becomes dull, these itineranl
shoplifters, in a literal sense, fold W
their houses and move on down the road
Finally they close the trip by selling tn,
house for 800, Immediately embarkins
on some new venture.
Thus one party informed me he had solo
picket-fences at Alfred, cakes and pie
at Guthrie, crocke7y at Edmond, horse
shoes at Oklahoma City, sheep at Yer
beck and bad whisky ION the quiet) a
Norman. This class of boomer has in
creased Guthrie from town of 300 in
habitants to one Of 5000, Kingfsher from
150 to 5000, and smaller places have in
creased proportionclly, while the numbe
of newly located town sites swell the lis
of Oklahoma settlements beyond that Of
their neighbors in the great Texas pan,
handle. The whole district is hourly ex-
hibiting how much can be done even in a
rugged country, under the dominion of
mild laws, where every man feels direct
interest in the prosperity of common
wealth of which he knows himself to
form part. '
Conceive the surprise of former resi-
dent of Oklahoma in coming suddenly
upon the new scenes and magic changes
that have altered his native landi Pict-
ure his astonishment at the well-arranged
municipalities, though as yet in embryo;
at the piercing shrek of locomotives
heading in different directions; at the
ringing of church bells and the hammer
of carpentersl The NEUROLOGICAL con-
queror of the East, whose entertainments
reduced wild beasts to tho tameness of
domestic cattle, and touch of whose
lance caused fourishing cities to spring
up out of the ground is but an imperfect
type Of the extraordinary forces that
would seem to have been at work among
these native hills and prairies.
The old Indian country where, but a
few months ago, scattered bands Of
Creeks and Seminoles roalned at will, has
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-05-23

There is a little mission chapel at
Guthrie, an ofshoot from the Old Sacred
Heart Mission in the Pottawatomie nation,
which, tradition says, was founded by a
band of priests about the time Daniel
Boone settled in Kentucky. As soon as
his little Guthrie Westinghouse was
secured party of drunken boomers and
uproarious cowboys broke down the
windows and doors and betrayed several
Dther little symptoms of irreligion by set
ting the house a-fre; but their sacre-
igious sport aroused the ichor of the
preacher, man of muscular divinity,
and he organized band of ecclesiastical
vigilants, who drove the offenders away
after shooting one of them through the
leg.
Notwithstanding the formidable COM
bination of bad elements which sought
the occupancy of the new country, ex-
perience entities one to believe that the
boomers have, as a class, preserved re-
markably good order. Upon reaching
the land of their hopes and ambitions
they found arbitrary measures in force
along the border. All the streams were
high, horses were lamed, food was hard
to find and absolute destitution abounded
in every camp. Difficulty and danger
had attended their long march and con-
fronted them on the threshold of their
new homes, but in spite of obstacles in
their way the Oklahoma country is al
ready under the rich cultivation that be.
speaks the honest energy of its new pro-
prietors. Retrospectively, one can but
see the significance of this great move
ment, and admire the fux and refux of
popular opinion steadily asserting itself
towards the solution of the Indian ques-
hon. The more one, reads the history of
Americas epochs, the more one observes
the signs Of the times, the more thor
oughly one becomes convinced of the ir-
resistible tendencies of westward course
Of empire. The history of this western
country is the history of progress. It is
the history of a constant movement of the
public mind, of constant change in the
institutions Of great society.-Ne~ York.
WnrI
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-05-23

Within that short time a population
of go, 900 souls has crossed the line and
ushed with thoughtless haste in search
IF an obscure phantasmagoria. Once IN
light of the new Ell Dorado, the tolls and
hazards of former undertakings were for
gotten; before them stood phantoms OF
lope and dreams of sudden aff1uence-
phantoms and dreams indeed. If history
contains parallel to this adventurous
-sxodus, it is aptly illustrated in the IA
4iliar little nursery rhyme wherein the
King of France, with his 40, 900 men,
marched up the hill and then marched
DOWN again. Such movement before
The deluge might have been considered
great sport by the families of Hilpa and
shalum, but, unhappily, the life of man
IS now only three score years and ten
quite too short time to spend in thus
wandering about the terrestrial sphere in
Iearch of modern Eden.
Many of those who entered the en-
:hanted gardens in an inebriation of de-
light are quitting them already in the
"lgonies of bitter disappointment. The
mpenetrable lines of boomers who entered
that abode with delight and hope, after
abort term of delusive happiness find
themselves doomed to expiate their folly
by sense of wretched disappointment
and destitution. Viewed from the quiet
Of their Northern and Southern homes,
surrounded by the domestic bulwarks Of
peace and prosperity erected by patient
industry, Oklahoma struck them at first
glance as delightful spot where every
physical enjoyment awaited the happy ad-
-Venturer. Every newcomer in his Utopian
fantasy was to be received with eager hos
5pitality by the Government, and encour-
aged to expect prosperity and greatness
galore.
The ickleness of the multitude was
never more cleyerly illustrated than when
She reaction set in. At the commence
ement of the movement there had been a
strong and indeed reasonable feeling in
favor of Oklahoma emigration. At the
close of the movement there was feeling
equally strong and equally unreasonable
against it. One evidence of the change
came as natural result of the disappoint-
ment of those crowded OUT but it is no.
sticeable also that of those who succeeded
in establishing claims there are many dis
affected spirits grown tired of the whole
business
After days and perhaps months of
IL IL
cosmopolitan army of pioneers found it.
self standing on the border, awaiting the
order to enter. A world 'of care rolled
from their shoulders as they seated them
selves around their camp-fres on the out
kirts of the new land of plenty. Doubt
less there were very many intelligent and
,well-balanced minds in all that motley
slrray-minds that had procured, by dill
gent inquiry and careful c55:simates, fair
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-05-23
SOLDIERS DEPARTMENT.
The GEN. GRANT MEMORIAL
Bulletin from Headquarters-Har
per's Ferry and Knoxville.
HEADQUARTERS GRAND ARMY OF THE
REPUBLIC, KANSAS CRY, No.,
April IS, 1889.

HEADQUARTERS GRAND ARMY OF THE !
REPUBLIC, KANSAS CRY, No.,
April IS, 1889. }
Circular Letter, No. 4.
Comrades: The Chief
believes the time now Opportune to
specially invite the attention Of all COM
rades of the Grand Army Of the Repubs
lie TO the necessity and propriety of COM
pleting n work which has twice received
the unanimous ind0rsement of the Nas
tiona! Encampment; namely, the erec-
tion at Washington, ID. e., of q Grand
Army memorial in honor OF our late
Comrade, Ulysses S. Grant. 1t was then
recommended that each Post of tho Or
der set aside a sum equal TO Is cents for
each member in good Standing to be
turned over to the Grand Memorial Com
mittee, which is composed of one repre-
sentative from each Department. A large
number Of Posts early avsiled themselves
of the opportunity for joining in this
good work; but others, doubtless for
good reasons then, postponed action.
The fund as it now standsis not suf-
6cent 10 properly represent the Grand
Army of the Republic, nor would it bo
just to those who may be waiting for
final notice to now close the project by
accepting plans based upon the amount
of money now available.
The Committee, however, desires to
complete its work at the earliest prac-
ticable date, and the Commander. in.
Chief earnestly recommends that at the
first meeting of the Posts, after the re-
ceipt of this order, favorable action be
taken in this matter,
The insignificant sum required from
each comrade will secure the. erection at
the Capital of the Nation of Memorial
that will, long after We have passed
away, testify the tender love of the sur
Viving veteran soldiers and sailors of the
Union for one of their own number,
whose services in life conferred lasting
honor upon all who with him were
privileged to serve their country, either
on land or sea, in its days of trial; now
happily over.
All contributions for this purpose
should be paid through Department
Headquarters to Comrade John Taylor,
Quartermaster>Gene Philadelphia,
Pa, and it is fervently hoped that soon
after the next birthday of General
Grant, Apr. 81, the contribution OF
each Post of our Order will have been
received and the speedy completion of
the monument assured.
Official: WM. WARNER, Commander.
in Chief,
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-05-23
A Character.

Lady Hornby, wife of the British
Admiral, is character. Years ago
she was struck in the eye by shot
from catapult in the streets of LON
don, and lost its sight. She is, how
ever, as sharp as needle, and her one
remaining eye does duty for both. She
is one of the most courageous women
alive, and once saved the life of a
favorite cat by herself biting mad
dog at the tail. She delights in moth
ing so much as startling people, and
once set a hotel full of dowagers into
fits by telling them the secret of her
plentiful supply of exotics was her
habit of going round the cemetery
every morning and snatching them
from the tombs. There are endless
stories about the sayings and doings Of
her ladyship, and she does all she
knows to foster character for eccen-
tricity.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-05-23
A Joke Nearly Precipitates a War.

The late Count Schouvaloff did much
in 1878 to preserve peace between Eng
land and Russia, but on one occasion one
of his jokes nearly precipitated war. He
was at Lady Granville's, in London, at a
time when rumors were thick that the
Russians were advancing by forced
marches on Constantinople. Some one
asked him promptly if it were SO.
''Why," he replied, with q laugh, 1--WE
are already there!" The company scat
tered Two hours afterward kilograms
were flying to Aldershot, Portsmouth,
Besika Bay and elsewhere. Three days
later one inquired Of the Ambassador why
he had put off such serious joke. III
replied that no one had any business tc
question him on such subject in draw
ing-room. - GoodGlps Sun.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-05-23
Dresses for Girls.

1. Girls dress OF surah: Stt-,ai2il,
gathered skirt, with pinked-out rufiies
around tie bottom; full waist, gathered
into collar and into the belt; the sleeves
have puffs at the shoulders and are plair
to the wrists, where there are cuffs with
pinked rufies; the collar and bands dowr
the shoulder seams are cut out in small
points; a band of shirring finishes the
waist in front just below the belt; g
rosette bow is set on the front of the
waist at the belt. Seven and one-haH
yards of surah required. Hat of fine
braid; trimming of velvet ribbon loops
and roll of velvet around the crown.
2. Tiny girls dress of cashmere:
Skirt in side plaits; waist plated from
shoulders to waist-line and crossed in
surplice fashion; velvet collar has square
points extending down either side of a
vest made of embroidered material; fui.
sleeves, gathered into cuffs finished with
points of velvet; sash belt looped in e
knot at one side. Three yards of cash.
mere, one-half yard of embroidered ma.
terial for collar, and one-quarter of q
yard of velvet for collar and cuff trim
mings. ...
8. Girls dress of fine plaid made dr
bias: Skirt in side pliats; the hem finished
with feather stitching in pointed rows;
sailor waist, with feather stitched collar
fastened at one side by button; narrow
strips Of the goods having double rows
of buttons are set down each shoulder
seam; sleeves slightly full and gathered
into straight cuffs, finished with buttons.
Four yards Of plaid required. - Cincinnati
ENQUIRER
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-05-23

iidea of the prospects that awaited them;
but it is equally true that the predomi.
mating element was made up of classes
hopelessly ignorant and painfully shift.
less. Many of them knew nothing about
their prospective homes nor, of the
methods by which they were to establish
& tenure. ~ 5->--
Day by day the army Of boomers was
REINFORCED. The vehicles loaded with
household goods and implements of hus.
bandry, the few struggling sheep and
cattle that were herded in the rear, and
the rugged appearance and careless mien
of the sturdy men who loitered at the
sides Of the lingering teams, united to
announce new band of boomers, seek.
ing for the M Dorado Of the West. In
this chaotic mass of people from every
State in the Union, there were plentifully
distributed all the good and the bad ele.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-05-23
OKLAHOMA.
a STRIKING PICTURE OF IT'S
SETTLEMENT.
The Phantom Hopes OF Disheartened
Boomers-Not the Land OF
Promise They Imagined
Scenes in the Chief CITY.

The stupendous expectations or the
$50, 200 pioneers who rushed pell-mell
across the Oklahoma border fills one with
=astonishment similar to that which Cap
tain Lemuel Gulliver felt when he landed
In Brobdingnag and saw corn as high as
oaks, thimbles as large as buckets and
wrens Of the bulk of turkeys. The
whole movement and every component
part of it was on a gigantic scale. Not
merely in bulk, but in specific gravity
also, it was the most extavagant affair in
the history of Americas westward emf
grafton. Swelled to vast dimensions,
animated with American impetuosity,
one is reminded that the history of popu-
lar adventure furnishes no parallel to the
scene which was revealed by the light of
that morning on the borders of the
Oklahoma territory. Within few short
weeks the wild, uneven and 'uncultivated
country has undergone a complete
change.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-05-23

md the technical nicely Of daisy cutters
md -slides Is lost sight of in the blood
:urdling yells which resound over the
prairies in the evening when the club is
It practice, Each member of the nine
ZONES from a separate State, which en-
titles one to suppose that in the matters
h baseball mankind is everywhere the
nma Again, the ''Guthrie Howlers, {"
strengthens ones belief that no earthly
'evolutions will dampen the ardor Of
base hits and flies.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-05-23
BROKEN DOWN.

Not to be outdone in any of the metro ,
oolitan features, Guthrie has the omni-
,resent baseball club, yclept the s'Guthrie
Howlers." This euphonious title be-
Ipeaks the chief excellence of tie club.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-06-11
INTERESTING EVENTS.
A Young Lady Killed at
Catalina Island,
SICK AND STARVED TO DEATH.
The Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine
Entertain Their Lady Friends.
Other News.
SICK AND STARVED TO DEATH.

A telephone message was received at
midnight last night from San Pedro stat
ing that seventeen-year-old girl had
been accidentally killed at Santa Cata-
lima. The particulars obtainable at that
hour were meager, and there was an un.
certainty about the name. 1t appears
that Mr.. G. M. Book and his seventeen
year-old sister have been at Catalina
for a few days past, and that
last evening the young lady was
near the shooting gallery. The man in
charge of the shooting gallery was clean
ing or fixing his guns, when one of them
went off accidentally, the bullet hitting
Miss Book and killing her instantly. The
accident created considerable excitement
at the island, and word was imme.
diately sent to San Pedro for
the Coroner, who will visit the spot
to-day and hold the inquest.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-06-11
Only a slight Affair.

The 'taccident" on the Santa Monica
division of the Southern Pacific, as it
appeared in yesterdays Times, created a
good deal of indignation among the rail-
road officials. The calamity" simply
consisted of the fact that a brakeman, in
throwing the switch as the train pulled
out of the yards, moved the lever too
soon, and threw the hind trucks of the
rear passenger coach off the track. There
were only three or four people in the car
and all the delay that occurred was while
they walked into the car ahead, afte,
which the split coach was detached and
IL TIE train srs.ii; sped en- its wey te the ocean
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-06-11
DIED OF STARVATION.
A Sick Man Neglected by HIS Onl,
Relative.

A Sick Man Neglected by His only
Relative.
Yesterday morning case of starv-
alton was reported in the HERALD, and
it was then stated that it was not possible
for the man to live. The prediction was
true, for at 1 O'Clock yesterday morning
he expired. His name WAS Louis Bejas,
and he resided at No. 442 New High
street. At an early hour yes
terday morning Officer Gilbert,
whose beat is in that neighborhood,
hsard considerable noise in the house,
and on investigation found that Bejas
was dead, and that his sister was intoxi-
Gated and behaving herself very bolster
ously. Under the circumstances the
officer did not care to arrest the woman,
and, with the assistance of one of the oc.
cupants of the house, and considerable
cold water, she was quieted sufficiently to
be put to bed. 30 far as could be
learned the dead man has had nothing
fit TO eat for about two weeks. Confined
to his bed, he was dependent upon bis
sister for attention, and IL is stated that
abe was SO frequently under the influence
of LIQUOR that she would not give him
food. He gradually wasted away, and
when he died was nothing but skele
ton.
Coroner Meredith will probably inves
tigate the matter to-day before the body
IA iaterrad. =
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-06-11
The Ivy Leaf.o

w. II. Powers company begins an en-
gagement at the Grand Opera House on
Monday evening next, presenting the
picturesque Irish drama The Toy Leaf.
The play will be produced ON grand
scale of magnifcence, a carload of seem
cry being used to illustrate it. The COM
pany will be unusually strong and excel
lent singing, characteristic dancing and
bagpipe playing by a genuine Irish piper
will he introduced. Mr.. Owen Ferree,
the manager, is here making arrange
ments for the opening. Mr.. Ferree is
very pleasantly remembered here as the
manager Rhea, when she last visited Los
Angeles.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-06-11

The Southern California Polo Club is
becoming one of the leading institutions
of Santa Monica, and there was large
attendance on Saturday afternoon, when
the return match between married and
single men took place. The bachelors
were represented by Messrs. Bolton,
Curtis, Machell and Parker, and the
benedicts by Messrs. Proctor, Edmonds
and Allen. The unmarried men won by
a score of four goals to two.
A business meeting was subsequently
held, and it was decided that
the ponies should not exceed
fourteen hands one inch in
height. DIR. Edmonds and Captain Boil
ton were appointed committee to make
arrangements for steeplechases and Other
races next fall, and Messrs. Machell
Allen, Winslow, Proctor and Tompkin'
son were selected as committee for the
improvements of the grounds.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-06-11
It was rumored yesterday that an East
Los Angeles man and his wife had been
lost at Johnstown.
THE MASAC MINES.
The Deal with she Chinese Com.
panies Closed Yesterday.

pantes Closed Yesterday.
Colonel Theophilus Masac, of this city,
and Mr.. Richard Garvey, of San Diego,
are in San Francisco making the final
arrangements for the introduction of the
Chinese laborers to the Real del Castillo
mining property. In conversation with
HERALD man on Kearney street the
other day, Messrs. Masac and Garvey
mentioned that in all probability
they would transfer their main
offices to San Francisco, as their
rrin oipai business interests viii be in
connection with their Chinese partners.
The deal is an assured thing now, and
the delay has been caused by the fact
that the papers have to be all translated
into Chinese, and then have to pass
through great deal of Mongolian red.
tapeism, for the Celestials are very care.
full when they make big business trans
action involving the transfer of much
money. The final details were, how
ever, closed yesterday. The principals
in the Chinese quarter are Kin
Lun, Woo Woo Ling, Yuen Too, Sun
| Chong Yueng and Yes Chong Long.
three of the best known merchants in
the Oriental quarter, and they have en-
gagged Messrs. Charles G. Nagle and T.
D. Riordan, Of San Francisco, as their
attorneys. Woo Woo Sing has, during
the past ten days, been looking over the
property, and says: "The ore looks
we'll, and we believe the Real mine to be
good property. We will put a good
many men to work, and they will earn
from 50 to $3 day in Mexican
money. If it be true that Spreckels in.
tends to run his Oceanic line of steamers
to San Diego, don't see why he would
not put on steamers from China to En-
senada when business would warrant it
By that means our people would no
have to stop in the United States anG
Chinese laborers would be free tt
come and go in Lower Californis
as they pleased. The Peninsular ant
Oriental steamers which will come
to San Diego will aid us materially, ant
will bring all our food supplies from
China, with the exception of what WI
raise in Lower California"
large tract of land between the mine
and Ensenada is to be laid out as marke
gardens, and the syndicate has also OBJ
tanned a concession from Senior Salont
for pearl fisheries along the west
ern coast of the peninsula. Th
territory embraces distance O
nearly 1900 miles, between Cap
San Lucas and Punta Bunda, AMI
the contract has been mad
for six years. Altogether the Chimes
companies intend to invest 81 900, 900 o.
the peninsula, and the money will be Sc
to earning its interest at once.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-06-11
ssThe CreatiOn.0

The box Office at the Grand Opera
House will be open this morning for the
sale of reserved seats for the great
oratorio of The Creation, to be given on
Friday night. The ministers OF the city
generally announced the concert to their
congregations on Sunday, explaining the
great work and its merits as lofty COM
position of religious music. The Phil
harmonic Society, with its big and WE'LL
trained chorus and orchestra. and the
well-known soloists, Miss Katherine
Kim ball, Signor Modini and Prof. Borne
mann will give the oratorio in the
manner and spirit usual to Eastern COM
munities. This concert will be the only
attraction at the Grand this week.