, 1891-09-22
READY FOR THE RUSH.
Signal to go" Will be Given
Precisely at Noon Today.
Fully Fifteen Thousand People
Waiting for the Signal.
Homesteads for Five Thousand
Only on the Coded Lands.
Waiting the Signal.

GUTHRIE, o. T., Sent. 2l,-The land
to be opened for settlement tomorrow
moo consists of the country Of the Says
and Foxes, Iowas aud Pottawattomies, in
all l,10l, $50 acres. The. Indians do not
lose all their lands. Each buck gets a
quarter section and not only that, but he
is a lawful sooner" and has already
picked out the prize spots. He cannot
sell his land for twenty five years, but
during that time does not have to pay
taxes. After the Indian land and land
held for school purposes have been de-
deducted from the I.lOl, $50 acres, about
800. 600 acres are opened tor actual set
Element.
This makes 5000 homesteads, and
about twenty men for every homestead
are on the ground. Some are lowering
along the line and some are already in
what is until noon tomorrow Forbidden
country.
1t is the old Oklahoma rush over again
with some notifications. There are not
as many boomers and a smaller number
are IN wagons. For the last week, how
ever, there has been an almost continuous
stream of wagons over the SAINTS Fe trial
across the Cherokee strip and there are
wagoners all around the border. The
nearest point of the new country is only a
little over nine miles from Guthrie aud
the greatest crowd will enter from near
this point, but the truth IS the greater
part of the crowd is not waiting to enter.
The country is already full OF ~"'sooners."
The plan Is for one man to go in and
jump a claim and then turn it over to his
nartnar Who otarfa IN N fa.tIn - -
Itus, between them. they get a good
claim. There will bea great rush for
town lots.
The government has selected sites for
county seats, although there is now not
even a shadow of a town in either county.
The one that Is to be the county seat OF
the northern county Is Chandler. named
Tor the assistant secretary OF the interior,
aud the southern town is Tccumsen.
Government surveyors are not through
with their work on the town sites and
Governor Steel has announced the sites
shall not be taken up until the survey is
finished. No attention will be paid to
this. however, and the force of soldiers on
the ground will not be large enough to
keep them off. A crowd of Guthrie men
has been organized to move on Chandler.
Everyone is going. Cooks have deserted
tiCl tONSo 6W1CI tuCh oluCCb u III
chants their stores. Many are bound to
be disappointed, whether they go for lots
or quarter sections, for there are at least
Is. 900 people waiting for the hat to drop
at noon tomorrow.
Couriers from Langston City, the
negro colony, came in this morning and
purchased twenty carbines and FASTENED
back to the front. They report that the
entire town is covered with tents OF
emigrants and that thew are determined
to protect themselves from any attempt
on the part of the whites to keep them
from the land IN the Cimarron valley. A
squad of negroes visited the cowboys
camp last night and declared their inten-
tons. They said they would make the
race for the lands and if they got there
first they would defend their rights with
their lives. If the cowboys do not imbibe
too much whisky that is being sent out by
the wagon load there will probably be no
trouble; but on the other hand it they
grow reckless under the influence Of
liquors bloodshed is certain.
WICHITA. Kan. Sept. 2l.-The first
victim to suffer at the hands of the boom
ers is AL GLACIER, a Santa Fe conductor
who was badly cut and other wise injured
BY an enraged mob on his train. Some O
the boomers had no tickets aud Glaziel
demanded the extra ten cents levied il
such cases. This caused trouble and
number of rioters we're arrested and ar
in iaiI