Los Angeles herald., 1892-04-19
WAITING FOR THE SIGNAL,
Boomers Ready for the Big
Race Today.
Cheyenne and ArapahOe Lands
at q Premium.
Twenty-eight Thousand Men Look
ing for HOmesteads.
A Large Number Bound to Be Dfsap'
pofnted-Squabbling Between the
SissetOn Squatters and
Filers Begun.
Associated Press DISPATCHES.


road lines, make total of some $4,000
people who are seeking homes. Innu-
merable stories are current of steals
and conspiracies in connection with 10.
eating townsites, involving federal and
railway officials, but none have been
traced to reliable source. The line be-
fore the land Office numbers some 400
men, who are determined to keep their
positions despite the rumors that an at
tempt will be made to dislodge them. 1t
is not thought that trouble will occur,
as the sheriff has an ample force to keep
order. 1t is thought the last
man in line tonight cannot possibly
file before the last squatter has located
mis- claim. The filings made by the lat
ter will be useless, and there will doubt
less be much disappointment on the
part of both filer and equatter. The
scene on the border tonight is an inter
esting one as the crowds are drawn
up in a practical military line along
the edge of the border. Some confusion
and considerable ill feeling was created
during the evening by late comers trying
to get in advantageous positions, but no
affrays are reported, and the indications
are that the opening will pass off without
trouble.
OKLAHOMA CITY DEPOPULATED.
OKLAHOMA Cry, April 19.-The city
is becoming rapidly depopulated, and by
tomorrow business will be totally sus-
pended, as practically everybody is
leaving for the reservation. The banks
and other places have decided not to
open unless they can have good guard,
fearing.the raiders may take advan-
tage of the situation. 1t is now
certain that when IL O'Clock comes
tomorrow, the 800 men who failed to get
a place in the line at the land Office will
make q rush regardless of position and
the strongest man will get to the land
Office, which is situated in the third
story of building, first. The route from
here to the border is lined with people of
all sorts and conditions, and travelling in
every conceivable manner, and many
are carrying supplies for establishing
business. In fact, everything for coun-
try life is to be found. 1t is rumored
that two confidence men who succeeded
in robbing boomer, were shot dead en-
route to the new country, but the
rumOr is not confirmed.
TOWNSHIP SCHEMES.
DARLINGTON, O. T., April 1S.-Nearly
every colonist who proposes to race for
q claim at noon tomorrow is now on the
boundary. In this race the railroad
trains on the Rock Island road will play
an important part. 1t is proposed to
run special train to three
unallotted quarter sections on that road,
where a syndicate of capitalists of Ell
Reno, together with number of United
States officials and railroad represents
tives, propose to erect a town. 1t is
expected to land them there few min
utes after noon, far ahead OF those who
60 by wagon or horseback.
Another Rock Island train will leave
Kingfsher for another new town which
it is proposed to build on its line.
If the crowd is big enough to justify
it, two trains will be run from this
point. The largest number will strike
for the county seat of the newest coun-
ty. The number estimated to 60 to this
point is 10000.
sIssEToN sQUATTERs.
BRowN's VALLEY, April, 18.-Trouble
between filers and squatters on the
Sisseton reservation has begun. The
question at issue is whether the squatters
got possession before.flings were made;
$50 filers at Watertown, who were
among the first in line, have passed
through here and entered the reserva-
tion. They claim it is impossible for
the squatters to have reached points
on which the filings were
made from the borders, be-
fore their filings were completed;
therefore, they propose to have the land
on which they filed. They cannot get
it without fight. 1t may be several
days before collision takes place.
The Indian police are endeavoring to
check the setting OF prairie fires, which
the squatters are doing for the purpose
of breaking the land easier, as the fires
cause considerable damage to pasture
lands.
A number of people have struggled
into town half starved and nearly crazed
from thirst. While there is plenty of
water on the reservation, they were un-
familiar with the country and could not
find it.
The squatters have not delayed in
getting to work. Hundreds of acres are
already broken and in fax seed. Some
men are putting in corn and hope to
make enough this season to pay the ex-
penses of proving up.
So far no claim-jumping has occurred,
and if any trouble occurs it will be from
the efforts of filers to do so.
At Watertown a large crowd is still
before the land Office. As high as eleven
filings have been offered for single
tract.
For each tract in the southern por-
tion there are from one to five claims, as
the squatters were filing by hundreds
today.
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