Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-09
IMPATIENT BOOMERS
Eagerly Awaiting Permission to Rush
to Their Future Homes.
SOME, SOONERS ARE IN LISSETON.
Indian Territory Settlers Are More Discreet
in the Matter.
A BAN Is ON WHIsKEY AND GAMBLING

riNdl OF tne regular soldiers at broWu
Valley, Minn., last week there has been NJ
effort made by the Indian police to guarc
the border, and the soldiers remain close il
camp yet. The chances to get on the reser
walton during this time have been good
and hundreds of land seekers have gone
to look at land the past few days The two
troops OF cavalry are camped near the mair
road to the reservation, and the guard motto
ing the unusual amount of travel in that
direction, troops were Immediately ordered
to follow and bring them back.
Some of the teams were overhauleo
about two miles out and have returned, but
few of them must be Ii miles out by this
time, and if the cavalry is seen in time they
may lead them a long chase. The town is
filling up rapidly with prospectors and
homesteaders, and the rush is we'll scom-
menced. Hundreds arrive on every Train.
The New Annex to Oklahoma.
Dispatches from border points in Texas,
Kansas and Oklahoma show that excite
ment increases over the anticipated open
ing of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reserva-
tion. Home seekers are coming in on every
train, and are preparing to participate
in the rush to the new country. Fifteen
hundred people are now awaiting the
Presidents proclamation at Canadian,
Tex, and fully double that number will
make tracks for that point. Two troops of
United States cavalry have arrived there,
and are patroling the border to keep out in
truders The rush has only just commenced,
the reduced rates on the railways having
gone into effect but a day or two ago.
The delay in the appearance of the Presi-
dents proclamation, caused by the non
arrival at Washington of the alloting
agents reports, causes much disappoint-
ment, and many who had already gone to
the border are now returning, and they will
await with more comfort the time of the
opening.
A dispatch from Kiowa, Kan, says:
Hundreds of home-seekers continue to ar
rive here daily by the Santa Fe route on
their way to the Cheyenne and Arapahoe
lands. A company has been formed here
under the name of the Kiowa Overland
Cheyenne and Arapahoe Transportation
Company, the object of which is to assist
settlers in reaching the border.
Some Very Fertile Tracts in Sight.
The company furnish guides who know
the country and who direct the home seek
ers to that portion of the border whence
can most easily be reached the choicest
lands of the Indian country. The company
also furnish means of transportation. Ex-
tensive arrangements are being made for
the final rush, and it is expected that no
less than 5000 will make the race for lands
from the border below this place.
A dispatch from Higgins, Tex, says a
troop of United States cavalry has arrived
here and is patrolling the west line of the
Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation.
The towns on the eastern border in Okla
homa, whence start may be made for the
new lands, have become so crowded as to
arouse the fear that all may not be able to
secure claim. Many, therefore, are COM
ing to this point, the nearest railroad town
on the western border to the coveted lands,
being, in fact, barely over the line.
The lands in the western part of the new
country are exceptionally fertile, traversed
are broad, fertile valleys, which support a
good growth of timber and luxuriant
growth of grass. Horses and ponies can
be had at reasonable prices now. Hotel
accommodations are comparatively good and
supplies are held at only moderate prices,
the rush having only just commenced. The
soldiers are kept busy warning intruders on
the lands and preventing them from slip
pling in and locating the more choice
claims Nearly all the prospective settlers
understand the penalties which follow "cor-
nering," and the great ajority here are
waiting patiently the Presidents proc
lamation.
Gamblers Moving and Negroes Colonizins.
A Kingfsher, o. T., correspondent SAYS:
The warning given the sporting gentry of
this city has been supplemented bv the ac-
tion of the County Commissioners,
who have ordered the saloons
to close out the gambling dens
run in the same buildings with the saloons
under penalty of losing their licenses. The
result is that many of the sports have left
town and the dens are closed. The light
fingered thieves always found where
gambling dives abound are also becoming
less numerous.
A colony of negroes have laid out town
four miles north of Kingfsher, near the
line of the Rock Island railroad, and in the
line of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reser-
vatlon. 1t is to be called Cim-
marron City, and is chosen as q
point for the colored people to
radiate from it to the new country. The
publication of maps showing Indian allot-
ments has caused CONSERVATION. and many
are discouraged and re-
turning home. They find the red
skins have captured the most valuable
is not worth contending for But others
will come to fill the places of the dissatis-
led ones. and the day of opening, now pre-
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