The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-03-20

MUST vAoATE.
ehs President Issues Proolanation Conl.s
msnding tho Boomers to Lesve the
Cherokee strip-Some Settlers Defiant
Troops 70 Enforco the Order rs.
WASHINGTON, March 17.-The Preei-
lent Saturday afternoon issued the tel
lowing notice:
~ the Cherokee Strip are not open to settle.
mont. The bill pending in Congress-, and 81.
| tended to provide civil government for the
country known Is Oklahoma, does not
provide for opening the Cherokee strip, or ont.
let to settlement, and has not as yet received
the vote OF the two houses of Cnngress d ne
approval Of tho President. 81 The entrsnoe.
lul, and al persons arc hereby
| armed against entering thereon. When
these lands shall become open to settlement
! prompt public notice viii be given Of that fact,
but In tho meantime it y my duty to exclude
all persons therefrom, and those who enter an.
lawfully will only involve themselves s. un,s
profitable trouble as they viii be immediately,
| removed se BENJAMIN HARRISON.
" Executive Mansion, March Is, $780,
The President has appointed ex-Sena-
tor Angus Cameron, of Wisconsin,, .
member Of the commission to: negotiate
for the cession to the United States of
the Cherokee and other Indian lands
in the Indian Territory, vice
General Lucius Fairchild re-
signed. This appointment fills the
only vacancy in. the commission. The
membe of the commission will arrive
in Washington within few days to re-
ceive instructions from the Secretary
of the Interior, after which negotiations
with the Ceerokees will be Immediately
resumed. Z " - szF 2.
WASHINGTON, March 17.-Adiutant-
General Kelton has telegraphed Cen
eral Merritt at Fort Leavenworth. Kan,
to use troops il necessary. and with pru-
1ence as heretofore, to enforce the proc
lamation issued by the, President rela-
tive to intruders upon the Cherokee
strip lands. This order is sent by di-
rection of the Secretary of War.
GUTHRIE, Ind. r.. March 1.-THE Presi-
dents proclamati"n ordering all settlers
on the Cherokee strip to vacate is al
ready having the desired effect. This,
together with thu orders received by
General Merritt Ut Fort Leavenworth
to use troops if necessary to eject the
boomers, has already caused consider
able of an exodua from the forbidden
territory. All day long the trains
were loaded down with boomers leaving
the strip. A large number of them went
to Arkansay City, and about 100 came to
this point. May poor people who
hocked to the Cherokee strip under the
! impression that it was open to settle
ment have not the means to return and
remain there until the troops escort
them out.
General Merritt has ordered six troops
of cavalry to proceed to the Cherokee
strip and GUST the boomers there. 1t is
| learned that General Merritt has given
instructions for the troops to give the
settlers ample time to vacate before
resorting to forcible measures. Under
no circumstances will such measures
! be taken unless the boomers, after
being given full opportunity to vacate,
! refuse to leave. In any case the move
ment on the boomers will not be hasty.
A day or two will probably elapse after
the arrival of the troops at Gxthrie be-
! fore the march to the strip is taken up.
CALDWELL, Kan, March 1.-THE
news of the Presidents proclamation
! was received here late Saturday after
noon, but it did not stop the steady
i stream of south-bound white-topped
! wagons, which had been steadily going
through the city all day. They were
all prepared to stay, as one of them put
! it: 1--WE are going on. If we come out
we will be brought out"
ARKANSAS CITY, Kan, March IT,
! The cattlemen here did not receive the
news of the Presidents proclamation
ordering the invading settlers off the
, strip with much interest. To them
it was like locking the door
after tho horse was stolen The
settlers seemed to think that the easiest
way to gain possession of the strip
was to drive the cattlemen of, and the
easiest way to do that was to fire the
prairies, and fire the prairies they did.
From Ponca, Willow Springs, Nyceville
and other settlements in the outlet
comes the news of burning prairies.
1t seems to have been generally agreed
upon that the first thing for the settlers
to do was to start prairie fire,
and much of the strip has been burned
! over. These prairie fires served a
double purpose. They drove most OF
the cattle before them and also de.
stroyed the fodder which those remain
ing might have lived upon. Therefore
the cattlemen are naturally depressed
over the gloomy prospects. Said Mr.,
Howins, of the Cherokee Strip Cattle
Company:
what the oattlemen can do in their presen,
condition can not even be conjectured- Oul
fences have been cut, our cattle scattered t,
the four corners Of the strip, and every blade o
grass on the range destroyed by prairie fires
There are now, or rather there were before th,
invasion, about $1,000 head OF cattle on thu
strip. I do not believe that the most energetic
action on the part of the cattlemen and tn.
Government can save them from irreparabl,
loss. The damage is already done. The cattle
can not be marketed. They are not in mar
ketable condition. If left in the strip they viii
starve to DEATH for there is nothing for then
to eat there. and we can not ship provender t.
them. it would be losing investment So ther,
we are-So, 600 head Of cattle good for nothin,
but hides, glue and bone dust"
Tho French Cabinet:
PARIS, March II. - The new Cabine
has been officially announced, and il
composed as follows:
President of the Council and Minister o
War, M. de Freycinet; Minister Of Foreig1
Affairs, M. Ribot; Minister of the Interior, M
Constans; Minister Of Finance M. Rouvier; Min
lister Of Justice. M. Fallieres; Minister o
Commerce, M. Roche; Minister OF Public In
struction NJ. Bourgeois; Minister of Agricult
ure. NJ. Develle; Minister of Public Works, M
Guyot; Minister Of Marine, M. Barley