Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-17
NOW FOR OKLAHOMA.
The next Great Race for Homes Takes
Place Thereon Tuesday.
EASTER SERVICES on THE BORDER
AZ In the North, the Willy Red Nan Gets
the Best Of the Bargain.
sIssEToN BOOMERS SETTLING DOWN

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Ell RENO, April 1a4About 800 people,
seekers of homes in the Cheyenne ant
Arapahoe reservation, which will be opened
to general settlement next Tuesday, will
pass over Sunday along the line. There
| are q number of diviues who expect to
preach on Easter Sabbath on the new
! border.
Although, their whito.toppod wagons are
getting away from the towns, some places
are still filed to overdowing with people
who have come in on the trains A man
needs to have special dispensation to
obtain place to sleep, and must eat what
he can get. A large part of the late ar
rivals expect to get lots in the new towns
They are not so numerous as when Okla
homa was opened There are men who ex-
pect to enter into every kind of bnslness-
butchers, bakers and candle-stick makers;
preachers, gamblers, editors
Besides the county seat there will be
several new town laid out in the eastern
part of the new country near the Rock ISL
established Is miles north of Ebrene, called
Okarche, and town will be built there.
A Town Name spliced Together.
The name of Okarche was built up out of
authorizations of "Ok" for Oklahoma, 'tar''
for Arapahoe, and ''che" for Cheyenne.
Major Ashley, Indian Agent at the Darling
ton Agency, received a telegram from the
department to-day, telling him to use hls
force to see that the Indians were protected
on the opening day. He has 40 Indian po-
lice under Tall Bull, Cheyenne chief, who
sports gloves and uniform Of officers blue.
He won't have much to do Thursday, how
ever, as but few of the Indians will be on
their claims.
Monday will be ration day at the agency,
and a large number of Indians will come in
after their beef, and few will 60 back until
after the rush.. Those who can talk with
the Indians at the agency say many of them
were advising their brethren to stay away
from their allotments and let the white men
settle on them, as the whites will make im-
provements and the Indians can make them
get off any time. This shows that the "poor
Indian" is looking for the best Of it.
The department has decided to pay the
Indians the second installment due them in
cash. instead of supplies, as had been pro-
posed. This amounts to $75 for each man,
woman and child, and they will probably
get it within the next go days, and then the
world will be rosy for them for few
weeks g..
Some Of the Redskins Are MossbackA.
A few of the Cheyennes, however, are so
much opposed to giving up their land that,
although like all Indians they want money,
they have refused to draw their first INSTALL
ment
Major Lee, q. 8. A., arrived at Fort
Reno yesterday to inspect the Darlington
agency and the condition Of the Cheyennes
and Arapahoes He will make an investi-
CATION of the spread of the Messiah craze.
The Indians at first held three dances
openly, but since they have found that the
white people do great deal of talking
about them they use every means to prevent
anyone from finding ont when and where
the north arrived at the Arapahoe agency
yesterday He professed to be a member of
the Catholic church, but is said to be
disciple of the Messiah, with new words
from the fountain head of the craze in the
north.
A dispatch from Browns Valley, MINI.
says: The situation here>to-day presented
nothing to justify the slightest apprehension
of trouble from claim jumping or any of the
causes which usually make mischief in SIM
liar occurrences. The Sisseton reservation,
so far as heard from, has been thrown open /
without the firing of shot or squatter's
row or anything OF serious character.
The First-Comers on the Ground.
A few minutes before 1 o'clock the leaders
in the town-site race arrived on the chosen
ground. Half an hour afterward 200 men
and few women were on the spot. There
ensued a discussion as to the exact locality
of the section line. The first care of the
Il. l..
Burnett, of Minneapolis; Miss Sharpe, Mrs.
Osborne, Miss De Hart and other venture
some squatters OF the fair sex, were promptly
installed on good lands close to the town
site.
The site of the town is on an elevation.
Half an hour later restaurant and grocery
store were running fall blast, while dozen
frame shanties were In course of coustruc-
ton. Inspector Callahan, of the Quarter
masters Department Of the Army, sta
TONED at st. Paul, rode fast horse, and
was on the ground early.
The outlook for. water and other neces-
saries is good. There will be no suffering.
Excellent water flows from numerous
springs. The site is close to the intersection |
Of three proposed lines of railway.
stragsiers Coming Back Discouraged. /
The crowd is increasing at the town site, |
but all is quiet. Officials who have Just re- |
surned from the reservation say the crowd |
1t that point is slightly increasing, and |
here is liable to be trouble there, though |
not of q serious character. They have found |
'tragglers in every direction. In the last |
TWO hours they passed 30 people on their |
way back here, discouraged, bedrsggled and |
exhausted A few are now arriving and |
nave not word to say. They became lost |
IN the prairie and thereby lost their claims
rhe number will steadily increase. The |
indians have picked up quite number and
guided them back to town. Soldiers have