The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-04-17
ON THE BORDER
Thousands of People En- Route to
Oklahoma,
While Another Multitude Looks Over
the Boundary Of the Prom
ised Land,

Waiting for tho Hour when Thoy Can
tion From the Troops.
KANSAS CRY, April 16.-In this city Okla
homd is the one topic on every tongue, the
one end Of every enterprise. The local job
bing trade is holding of its regular custom
10 supply the one source OF demand. Hardly
sufficient for the current needs Of the city
Is left in the hardware, implement and gen.
eral merchandise stores. In the Santa Fe
freight yards, crowded on the tracks and
under moving orders, are about thirty huge
trains freighted with the anticipated neces-
sities of the coming community. There
are houses In sections rea ~ TO be bolted
together and entered for habitation within
sixty minutes after their delivery There
arecompleted stOcks OF every conceivable
sort Of merchandise and with each car load
Of stock Is packed away the building re-
quired TO harbor 1t. In this manner drug
stores, dry goods stores, boot and shoe
stores, saloons aud groceries are drawn up
IN readiness TO be launched forward upon
the favored center.
II Is said In the railway ofiioss here that
/ 600 car loads Of supplies for Oklahoma
have already been, sent forward and are
awaiting the on set at Arkansas City on.the
border. Meanwhile there isa steady gath
eriug ofpigrims by the railroads, but tho
passenger business Ia the direction OF the
new cOpatry Is not yet comm nsurate with
the fr light movement The rush, however,
Is perospt bly b3ginning, AMI will gather in
volume and energy through the week.
II Is estimated tnat there are 80, 900 per-
sons standing IN the brush upon the out
skirts OF the tract, r ady 10 dash in sfoot
and by nor ie and team the moment the pro-
scription Is raised. and IL Is thought hat the
/ railrosders will carry IN an equal number
before May |.
SpRINoFIELD, ILL.,, Aprl -l6.-Mr. David 7.
Littler, ex.member of the Republican Ma
tional convention and OF the Pacific Rail-
road Commission. ard ex-State Treasurer
John Tanner win lead party OF ten from
| Springfield TO Oklahoma this evening. They
have shipped a complete portable o'el and
outfit 10 DO pitched at G1thrie, or the near
est available site where they can lay out q
town and open banJ. The whole combi-
nation is composed Of prominent Illinois
Republican politicians, and II is assumed
here that they will hayNe much 10 do In shap
ing the politics Of the new country.
Topeka, Kan, April i6.-According 70 the
time cards p epared by the railroads there
will be very little business done at the land
| oficss in Oklahoma on April % The first
regular southbound.train on tne Santa Fe
railroad will not rsgch Guthrie before 4.So
o. M, too laie for land office business, while
the train from the south, leaving Purcell
about noon, viii not arrive at Guthrie until
four o'clock, half en- hour before the ofiice
closes. The stages ran In connection with
the Rock Island road expect 70 reach King
Fisher at three O'Clock unlessthe streams
are swollen or the roads unusually bad.
Under the most favorable circumstances
the prospects arc ttrt very few claims can
be fled before the day following the open
ing of the Territory.
WICHITA, Kan, April 16-It has become
necessary 10 increase tho patrol along the
Santa Fe railway, and troops Il and II, Fifth
Cavalry, under Captain +, Michler, have
besp ordered from Fort Elliott for the duty
The selection Of these troops Is particularly
fortunate as they have been doing duty In
that country for several years and are
familiar with II.
Boston, April lb.--The Oklanoma excite
ment Is attracting the attention not only Of
weuld-be settlers in that land OF promise,
but OF capitalists ss well. one Of tho larg-
cst parties Of capitalists that ever left Bos-
ton will leave here thi, afternoon. They
viii fll a special train OF Wagner cars, five
sleepers, dining and bagg Ige car. Their
destination Is Denison, Tex, where the party,
l25 IN number, propose to invest largely In
real estate upon the assumption that DenL
son, owing 10 its location In connection wi
Texas and the Indian Territory, will become
the Kansas City OF the Southwest.