The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-15
BOOMERS ON THE MARCH.
TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE ALREADY
IN THE CHEROKEE STRIP.

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Cattle stampeded by the Unusual
Sight of the Prairie Schooners-
Cattlemen in a Quandary as to What
to Do-The Invaders Bound to Stay
if Possible.
KANSAS CITY, March 14-The Stars
Arkansas City, Kan, special says: "Snce
the news came last night that the Okla
homa bill had passed the House, declaring
the Cherokee strip public domain, this city
has been a scene of wild excitement, with
boomers in their excitement running to and
fro half-dressed, making preparations to
start at daybreak for the strip. Before the
sun was up the whole city was wild, and a
continuous stream of people Of every de-
scription, from the poorest to the specula-
tive real estate agent, men, women and
children of every nationality, has been
pouring into the strip. At noon the line of
white covered prairie schooners bearing the
joyous boomers is still crawling through
the town, and its endis not yet visible.
CATTLE sTAAfPEDED.
News comes from the strip that the cat
tie have been stampeded, frightened at the
unusual scene. and have become unmanage-
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know what to do with their stock, mas
much as the force of men at their command
is as nothing before the irresistible stream
of immigration. By sun-down tonight
10000 people will have entered the strip
with the intention of staying there at all
hazards, and nothing short of the regular
United States army can drive them from
the Mecca toward which they have been
struggling for so long"
NOT OPEN TO SETTLEMENT.
In the House this morning Mr..
Perkins of Kansas stated that
an erroneous impression had gone out
that according to the provisions of the
Oklahoma bill passed yesterday, the Cher
okee outlet had been declared open to settle
ment under the homestead laws. Under
the provisions of the bill the Cherokee out
let was not open to settlement. The state
ment should have been that the public land
strip, not the Cherokee outlet, had been
opened to settlement
The Cherokee outlet, he said, was en-
braced within the limits Of the new terri
tory, but was not open to settlement under
the homestead law.
ON TO THE STRIP.
ARKANSAS CITY, KAN, March 14.-"On
to the stripl" That was the signal for the
invasion of the Cherokee outlet by the
anxious boomers who have been gathered
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forty-eight hours. All day long lines of
canvas-covered prairie schooners. with
their many crews, drew their lengths into
the coveted land. Tonight it is estimated
that from different points of entrance fully
10000 people have passed the border, and
| half that number have staked their claims.
| The strips invaded.
THE START FROM KIowA.
KIowA, KAN, March 14-The Cherokee
| bered bout 500, and started for the strip at
noon, not having heard until that hour the
| passage through the House of the Oklahoma
| bill.
AN EXODUS FROM GUTHRIE.
GUTHRIE, 1. T., March 14-This point.
which year ago was an objective point of
| the noted rush into Oklahoma, was to-day
| the starting place for hundreds of boomers,
| bound for the Cherokee strip. The news
| of the passage of the Oklahoma bill.
wrongly construed into opening up to set
| tlement of the Cherokee outlet, reached here
| early last evening. This morning it
was supplemented by a report from
| Arkansas City that the invasion had begun.
That was enough to start the move here,
| and by noon the boomers had all departed,
about 800 in number.
LEAVING HUNNEwELL.
HUNNEwELL, KAN, March 14.-The
boomers are off for the strip. The opportu-
nifty to take up the march came this morn
ing, when it was announced that the inva-
sion had begun from Guthrie and Arkansas
CitV Their nunobnr was ahOut 200