New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-20

Not far from the Doctors camp across another
boomer who had been officer in the Austrian army
and had been wounded at Sadowa. In camp near
Caldwell, was told, is man who had once been IN
exile in Siberia,
Native Americans predominant undoubtedly In the
different camps. While most nationalites repre-
sented inclined to think that next TO NATIVE Amer
cans Germans are In a na!ory, Few of the people
Irish. Here and there you strike Scandinavian
family. The absence of negroes Is q conspicuous feat
ure OF the camps and have yet TO hear Of c6Iored
boomer"
A FORMIDABLE ARRAY OF WEAPONS.
However poor every @boomer. outfit includes .
rife shot gui and possibly both The formidable
array Of weapons which in every direction In
camp suggests bloodshed and lively times down In
Oklahoma. There would be no danger OF either. Or
it would be materially reduced at rate, II prohof-
ton were extended the territory as 10 is over
Kansas AS 1t numbers Of Quordealers are already 10
camp, ready to with their supply OF bad whishey
into Oklahoma and set up there In their nefarious
trade. There comparatively little restraint on the
sale Of liquor IN Pursen the headquarters Of tho
| boomers on the southern line Of Oklahoma 10
has resulted In giving the settlement pretty hard
| name. In It's streets you see everywhere men with
revolvers and repeating rifles and shot-gurs and
cartridge belts. At night the air resounds with
and yelIs and the sounds Of exploding CART
ridges. At the Clifton House, the principal hostely,
rife hanging within the easiest possible reach, and
double barreled shotgun in the corner Just as handy
| as the Winchester
Time hangs rather heavily on the hands Of the
boomer stroll into Arkansas CITY IS only
trhle less dull than staying In camp. Most Of tho
boomers when not engaged In cooking, house
work. or looking after stock play cards checkers
Few camps are without checker board IA scamp
near here baseball nine was gotten UP to play an
opposition nine In q neghboring camp Gambling
| Is carried on only under cover I saw few
arlstocratss among the boomers shoot with rife
| at target, but most would regard this as an ex
travagaut waste of ammunition; and undoubtedly II
was. But then they were young fellows whose white
skins and soft hands didn't suggest their booming
| life to be matter of necessity. In all the camps
| tho children seem TO be happiest. Their voices
| heard at play in the underbrush or at the waters
edge, or the proceed from under the cover of wagon
In the straw of which they rompng to their hearts
| content
The boomer is not without humor either. Among
the recent arrivals here is man, instance who had
painted across the top of his wagon in Large black
| letters the following legend
| CHINoH. BUGGED IN ILLINOIS.
| BALD-NoBBED IN MHzoURI.
| PROHIBITED IN KAS-oKLHoMMY
| OR
| He was an old man who had Just lost a son By
| drowning in the attempt to ford stream, but he
! was not cast down BIT He expressed his deter
mination in forcible language to reach okiihomny
| or know the reason why
Yesterday an old Poncs chief strayed into camp.
Tho scantness of his attire would have satisfied the
| most rigorous requirements OF the manager Of q
ballet troupe. He did not even have . blanket
| But he had q young squaw with him, whom he had
traded for ten ponies. Ho didn't to have much
use for her, nor she for bim-but there they were
begging for what the "boomorss were willing TO
give. After furnishing them with some food, the
! boomers presented to the young squaw straw
bonnet which must have strayed West about ten
years ago. At any rate, II showed Its ago and the
marks of It's peregrinations in every fibre. Two
scarlet feathers proudly its crest tsttercd
ribbon hung nom its weather side. Holes here and
there suggested the possibility OF its having served
once target for the rifles Of the "boomers' 10
was not object OF beauty, certainly. Tho ssusw
eyed II with indiferenceyou see that what might b
called the bonnet instinct is not very strongly devel
oped in Ponca squaw-but the old chief cast longing