Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1889-04-26
Lot Jumping at Guthrie.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April PA Journal
special from Oklahoma City says: Okla
homa City. like Guthrie, was built in a
day. or properly speaking, was claimed in
an hour, except the portion which was
captured before time by those appointed to
go down to execute the laws. Deputy
United States marshals laid out the town
Sunday night, and Monday morning they
covered the supposed choice sites With
tents. When the train from the south AZ
| rived about l o'clock, consisting of twenty
three cars and containing about 1000 peo
| pie, about seven hundred had been at
| work. The later comers were simply
struck with amaZement. They did not re-
! peat the wild rush at Guthrie, as they
were too much astounded to run. They
mechanically walked over to the townsite
took what the government officials
had kindly left not wanting. and
went OH out two miles stalking town lots.
| The new comers at Guthrie are peaceably
inclined. but they may yet show their in
dignation over the action OF the govern
ment officials There is now an organized
crowd which tomorrow will put squattel
\
| II O'clock noon on the 22d. They have
been at work securing the names OF these
people. and have now the exact locations
| In the forenoon 100 lots. all choice ones
| will be jumped at one time, while the
jumpers will be backed by 200 armed men
overpoWered by numbers, there will be no
trouble. Should resistance be made. then
force will be used to eject these men and
their property from their lots, even though
in doing this it is cast upon some other
persons lot. Be it understood, Guthrie is
acity OF 5000 people, with no streets. Out.
lying claimants have been crossing near
the center of the town and have been stalk
ing out and improving their claims in So
called streets and alleys. The result of all
this is that the spectators have black
4 eye. The lots sold the first day were the
only ones upon which any money was
made, and but few Of them. Now that
cities is going on rapidly. Building
i in this town will be much slower
owing to long freightage by wagon
but this viii. prove an advantage rather
4 than otherwise, as it will be the means OF
4 livelihood for. hundreds who are here
| the settler Will derive his revenue the first
1 year. Work has already commenced al
breaking the sod. and the condition at this
time being favorable, there will be enough
! vegetables raised for home consumption
while the horses will have their corn fod
der to carry them through the winter
I There will be no famine, although there
| will be much suffering, and there cannot
help being isolated cases of such dire ne.
cessity that the liberal people of Missouri
and Kansas will be called upon to render
aid. The present population will not be
kept up, for disappointment will lead
many to return north. The Panhandle
people. knowing this country, have agents
at >both Oklahoma and Guthrie. where
they are scattering Texas literature broad
cast and they nave something to offer AS
| yet Missouri and Kansas have done moth
ing to catch the overflow.
Charles Fl. Bath, of Yankton, has received
a contract for a subdivisional survey in
the Mouse River country