The Red Cloud chief., 1892-04-29
THE RUSH FOR HOMES.

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Lands-wild Rush Into the Country From
All Points.
THE SIGNAL VEN
ELRENO. Ok, Apri. 20.-Just at noon
yesterday, as provided by the presidents
proclamation, the cannon Numbered
forth the signal, carbines repeated it
and $4,000 men on horseback, in wagons
and on foot ushed into the country of the
Cheyennes and Arapahoes and this after
nOon horsefiesh is suffering. Animals
drawn from the Cherokee strip to the
to No Mans Land, are rushing over fat
and hollow under whip and spur, madly
racing for quarter sections and town
lots.
A feld-piece had been hauled from
the fort and stationed on a rising knoll
and as the hour for the dash drew near
the word went down the line. Horse
men twisted to see that their saddles
were tight and drivers looked to their
harness.
just at noon tie sharp report of the
cannon followed by the cracks of car
bines sounded and the next second the
horses went off. The horsemen sprang
away as though they were riding a
quarter dash. The wagoners put the
whip to their beasts. There was a cloud
of dust and the flood of pale faces swept
into the country of the red man. The
soldiers at the signal put spurs to their
horses and flew to get away from the
rush behind them. After a ride of a
mile or so they formed 4 line.
Every man seemed to know just
where he was going and headtA for his
longed-for land without even bestowing
a glance of attention to his brother
rushers.
A special train over the Choctaw road
from Oklahoma City dumped its load at
the Rock Island crossing a few moments
after IL o'clock. A crowd from Elreno
City, which had a town organizaVon all
complete, also reached the land at the
same time and the site was black with
men within half an hour afterth open
ing.
RUSH FROM KINGFISHER.
KINGFIsHER, Ok, April 2O.-The OPEN
ing of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe res
%ervatiOn was a tame affair besides the
Oklahoma and Sac and Fox openings.
Everything is quiet at the land Office.
Capt. Woodson, with but forty-two
men, successfully guarded forty-five
miles of frontier. The soldiers were
continuously on duty for seventy-two
honrs.
Nelson Church associated press agent,
was kicked in the face by a pony while
watching a fight between a white
woman and a negro for q claim. His
nose was broken and his left eye badly
injured.
Charles B. Pierce, of Nebraska, rode
the a horse Fossette against the Rock
Island special train, pulled by two en-
gincs for Okarche, beating all competi-
tors and took the proposed TOWNSHIP as
a homestead. The palace a boomers
were much disguised.
SiXty-six entries were madeSesterday,
thirty-nine of which were soldiers de-
claratories. A conservative estimate
gives 1900 people along the border I'M
der Capt. Woodson's control and over
half hat number neal Kingfisher.
A CITY SPRINGS UP.
OKARCHE, Ok, April 2o.-Yesterday
morning Okarche was a lonely depot on
the Rock Island railroad just inside the
Indian lands, last night it had 1,5OO in
habitantS.
The morning train from Caldwell had
five coaches. After it came a Wichita
special of eight coaches. All these
were loaded to the platform with men
who came to build a town at Okarche.
The trains halted just outside the
inc until exact noon and then run for
Okarche at full speed. There was a
wild scene at the station. Men jumped
out of the windows and rolled off the
platforms in swarms.
A TOWNSHIP had been established on
tanning 1000 lots, but these were not
marked off and there was a general
Every man drove his stake
where he saw fit and many got in the
middle of the streets. There We're owe
twenty women in the party and they
drove stakes, too.