Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-05-23
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g. A curious and reflective mind will moi
fall on many Subjects more attractive en-
masse than the compact humanity stretch.
ing several deep for sixty miles along the
border Of this modern Canaan. Il i,
striking to consider how widely they
were estraAged from their homes and
their primitive landmarks. diversed. Il
may be said, from all the asssocia-
lions with which they were familiar,
and yet how readily little clans
from opposite sections allied Their
Interests and harmonized their ef.
forts in endeavoring to get a grip and
bold it. Individualities were swallowed
up in the vortex which attended the tide
Of instant emigration. Instances abound
In which men and families from totally
different parts of the country joined hands
On the border and fought their way across
the line together.
A saloonkeeper from Arkansas went
into partnership with the Captain of a
Lade Superior schooner to practice law
together at Guthrie! and the day after
the porteullis was raised to the boomers
his enterprising combination had dis
played a shingle with Especial attention
given to claims, emblazoned thereon in
etters of conspicuous black. It might
properly be said that before they sue
:eeded in establishing their own claim to
IN old log house found standing they en-
Ioyed the belligerent thrill of six separate
istic encounters.
While it may not be said that fortunes
we're made in day, as in the times Of
.ncient forty-niners, still some very re-
narkable instances of money-making at
ended the boom, and many of its more
rdent participants came out decidedly
head, from lucrative standpoint. An
x-Mayor of a small town in Southern
dissouri, by name Snyder, who had been
ecently defeated in an effort to re-elect
himself, came to Oklahoma with $400 in
ash. This he invested in a carload of
'utter and eggs, which he shipped in
mall quantities to various points along
he Santa Fe Railroad, clearing a profit
If $500 on the single car.
Then he happened to learn of a great
carcity of axes and axe handles. The
hardware spectators had entirely over
ooked this very necessary article, and the
boomers who were anxious to build cab
ms found themselves handicapped at the
'utset for want of the most necessary
DOL. So this lately defeated candidate
or municipal honors telegraphed to Kan
as City for carload of axes and ak
landles, and when they arrived few days
ater he sold them in iiffy at his own
,rice. Thus was his $400 capital in.
Teased to S1400.
About this time swell young man
:hanced along who owned proprietary
interest in town site in the fertile Cana.
iian Valley. His father, he said, had
lived on the place years before, and by
virtue of his long claim the Government
lad permitted him to hold it. Mr.. ex.
Mayor was fascinated by the beautiful
pictures painted orally by the swell young
nan, and after satisfying himself that
everything was straight he agreed to &C
into partnership with his S14O0 and {
half interest in the delusive town site
When his money was turned over to thu
company" Snyder found his town sit'
70 have been a swindle of the deepes
lye, and he has returned to the business
If butter and eggs, preferring fee simple
20 bird in the hand rather than absolute
title 20 a bogus town site.