The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-04

BOOMERS ENTHUSE.
The Oklahoma Proclamation Received
With Great JOY.
COMING our OF THE WOODS.
A Contest Case Settled by Killing
One of the Claimants.
RIGHTS SOLD FOR $500.
Soldiers Securing tbs Country-Cat-
COMING our OF THE WOODS.
RIGHTS SOLD FOR $500
Soldiers Securing the Country-Cat-
tlemsn's Fears.

VI ~ h4d1clLAC1 W CaC ACCClNC0 hO4C
with demonstrations of great joy.
Flags are flying from buildings. cannon
were fired and bonfres built. The
same enthusiasm welcomed the news
all over the south of Kansas. EXten-
siYe preparations are being made to en-
ter the country, and some of the towns
of Southern Kansas will almost be de-
populated. The boomers who have
been camped along the line are making
ready TO move. The cattlemen are
hurrying on to Oklahoma to get their
cattle. as they fear violence to stock
mics, the boomers. The soldiers have
left Oklahoma City. The boomers
made bold to come out of their conceal
ment in the woods to hear the words.
The crowd kept on swelling in size and
it was estimated that there were 500
persons that rejoiced over the news.
Colonel Summers received from Colo
mel Wade at Fort Reno the new order
from Washington and posted them up
in the Oklahoma district. They were
that every person must Immediately
leave the country and that the names
of those found would be taken and
kept for defeat of further filing. Sol
diers had left Fort Reno the night be-
fore and advancing to Oklahoma City,
securing the country as they advance.
AS soon as the order was posted many
commenced leaving, but by the time
the train reached Guthrie the news of
the issuing of the proclamation was re-
ceived by them and they alighted to
join the boomers here in the celebra-
ton and to be near to their claims.
At Purcell there was the same wild
enthusiasm, only by greater numbers.
GuaT hof NnI 4
there is hardly good selection Of land
that has not one or more claimants.
Fights are daily occurring. Tuesday
night Swede from Cold Harbor, Kan
sas, while conteSting a claim twenty
four miles west of Oklahoma station,
was fatally shot by his opponent. The
poor fellows eye was blown out and his
face filed with buckshot. He was
brought to Arkansas City to a surgeon
but died after being taken from the
cars. His friends, fearing the effect of
having their names made public, gave
out that it was an accident. Men have
already sold their rights to claims fol-
$500 and $500. A boomer ARRIVING from
Oklahoma says the country is full OF
people and that the number is constant
~ increasing and that he believes it is
impossible to keep them out.
COLORADO BOOMERS.
DENVER, Colo, March 2S.-Great in.
teresU in Colorado on the opening OF
Oklahoma lands is evidenced by the
throng which crowded the Office of the
company from the time it was opened.
All day the Office was besieged by
anxious people waiting their turn tC
enroll themselves upon the comDany's
book and learn every possible detail OF
tho nnrTE1ur he dnu tho
vate colony railway employees number
ing over fifty appeared at the office
and expressed their desire to join them
which if granted it is thought 250 peO
pie will leave with the first band on
next Saturday night and more will
follow as fast as they can make ar.
rangements to leave.
THE USUAL COMPLICATIONS AVOIDED
WICHITA, March 29.-COlonel Dyer
who has for years been an official Of
regarding the Oklahoma settlement
that the question of entry is not sc
complicated as is usually the case il
regard to public lands. 1t is a plain
case and there is but one course tC
pursue in regard to the matter. The
seeker of homestead must simply &c
on TO his claim under the homestead
act and stick to it to get title. The
former customs will have but little tt
do in this case as the law is plain and
will be enforced on its merits as to the
question of priority. One of the
greatest difficulties that will arise in
connection with the lands will be the
adjusting of matters with those who
now are upon the lands, or may take
possession contrary to the law. The
parties who are in organized bodies OF
colonies will not likely be disturbed in
their possessions at present but in the
course of time as their combines which
have been formed to protect their so
called rights have become extinct, trou
BILE will begin in regard to the Solidity
of those titles and the lawyers will
reap Il rich harvest from the contest!
that will follow.
TOWNSHIP AND IMPROVEMENT co.
TOPEKA, Kans., March 29.-Simul
taneous with the proclamation deciar
ing Oklahoma open to settlement was
the formation in this city of an Okla
homa TOWNSHIP and Improvement com
pany, composed of prominent capital
lists. The charter sets forth the pur
poses of the corporation to be to ''ieas'
anu pldI. lmpfON0 anu SCH IoHWSlG0'
and lots thereon and additions in the
public domain and elsewhere; also tt
open. build and operate roads. tram
ways, ferries and bridges in Oklahoma
and promote by lawful methods tn,
rapid settlement and peaceful govern
ment of the Indian Territory and ad'
jacent public land strip.
THE CHEROKEE COMMISSION.
WASHINGTON, March 29.-The pres
ident appointed S. Otis Humphre!
of Illinois, Alfred NJ. Wilson of Ar
kansas and Ex-Governor George d
Robinson of Massachusetts a commits
sion to treat with the Cherokee ant
! other Indians with relation to the open
ing of the Oklahoma country. Thi
commission was appointed under tn
terms of the Indian appropriation bill
Badly Treated AdYentists.
CHICAGO, ILL.,. March 29.-The Rev
George B. Starr, superintendent of tn
Central Bible school home and foreigl