The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-04-19
THE NEW COUNTRY.

King1lshor and Scenes Amopl
tho Boomers, Graphically
Described BY . Seda-
liam.
KINeFIsHER, OKLA, April 49,
"A black mark burned by their fire.
into the ground. thus they branded
tho earth through many countries
until some hour when the spirit oil
wandering sgsin fell on them. and
they forsook their hearths With as lit.
tie conjunction - the bird leaves it,
nest" Such are the words of the
young Scotch novelist, Barrie, and
had be written the words at this point
be could not have more accurately
described the scene.
One wonders ~ one watches these
coming wagons, these white ships Of
the prarie. and these tents everywhere,
the dugouts aud the many camp6res
branding the earth, what could have
prompted these people to leave their
homes - ''birds leave their nests.
Perhaps they bad no homes to leave
in many cases. perhaps they were
pervaded with that restless spirit
which ever longs for . change.
Those Who we're here two yesrs ego
and saw that strange race for
quarter-.ec,ions and town lots, doubt.
less believed it would appease the sp-
petite for that sort of thing.
Some of those people are here again
to-day and they tell Us that the expec-
tation now 10 - pregnant ss then, and
that the crush and run for land will be
q great when the barriers are removed
next Tuesday, % in 1890. From the
moment one leaves Guthrie till one
reaches King6sher, there is one long
ioe Of wagons, and now and then a
sulky, each being pulled At the utmost
speed to some accessible point from
which to hasten into the promised
land Ut the earliest moment.
A stage coach now and then gets
into the procession, and the yellow
deg tro's merrily along where Re will
be the most in the road.
1t 10 the same old crowd which long
ago journeyed toward the setting:
Men whose forms are bent and whose
faces tell Of times passage and the care
which came when they missed
fortunes knock; men who never
have amour ed to much." and
who never viii, are all here and all
are pursuing the vague Hope which
is 90 beautiful in the distance, but
which is 80 elusive when near.
Now and then there is q break in
the procession but the hiatus is filled
with . gray wolf or prairie dog who
stands on It's own housetop and yowls
at the passer-by.
When Hennessy Is reache I, it will
be discovered that some of the travel.
ers have tarried, for there are tents
and wagons intermingled-a halt on
the line which divides the real from
the hoped for.
The wearied waiting ones have
thrown themselves upon the ground
and eeem to be asleep, unconscious Of
the rumble Of the passing trains. the
curious strangers. or the click Of the
telegraph wires overhead,
From Hennessy on 10 King6sher
the old iue Of wagons resumes it's
weary way and the pushing march
continues for those WHO will not be
content until they come closer.
Since the train left . motley crew
have made up the passengers. Here
and there is . man of the world, bent on
gratifying their curiosity only, but
they mingle with the brown faced
"boomer" and the COW boy and by
and by they become quite crony as
they talk Of Oklahoma, ever the same
-Oklahoma.
When the train reaches King6sher
there is great rush to get out Of the
cars and one faces an aggregation that
has come to zee. perhaps, how many
more faces thee are in the world.
As the new corners leave the depot
old comers follow, the negroes flock.
ing BY themselves, and the procession
then goes into town and soon are lost
in the polyglot aggregation already
crowded upon both streets and side
walks.
II 10 . little hard 1t first to tell
where the campers leave Of and the
town begins. There il . store here.
and there vacant lots, on several of
which are tents with stovepipe stick
ing out OF the top.
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