The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-26
THE KINGFISHER BOOMERS.

Special Correspondence of the Daily Eagle.
KINGFIsHER, o. T., April 25.-The ebb is
greater than the flow, and the prediction
| that Kingfisber would experience sensa-
tions similar to that of stuffed doll after
| the sawdust had run out have not been
verified. The people who entered the
| country on a run are now returning.
Those who secured homes are coming
back as fast as their jaded horses can
carry them, in order to get in line at the
land Office. The first to file secures a
great advantage, as it places him on the
defensive in a contest suit. and no
claimant is sure he will not be contested
There are nearly 1900 quarter setions to
be filed on at the Kingfisher office. Then
will follow long list of contest suits,
which will bring many thousands more
here. More than than this: 1t will be the
starting point for an army of freighters
tor some time TO come. So the last boom
is greater than the first.
Governor Seay, in writing to old friends
in Steelyille, Mo, told them that there are
more people on the streets Of kingfisher on
a common ordinary day than are to be
seen in Steelville at any time except when
a Democratic convention is being held or
during circus day.
j. S. Admire's publishing house under
his skillful management is rapidly forging
to the front. He has set up Il new engine
and presses. moved A building, started
daily and taken claim-all at one time
and did it all we'll Earnest, honest, in
dustrious, courageous, competent and
confident-he wears his own hat and will
never find it necessary to draw upon his
family name for success.
,f l,aI,
uunumbered centuries has slept in aborig-
inal silence and which was so rudely
awakened last Tuesday by the sounds of
civilization, i. e., the scramble for claims,
confirms upon closer acquaintance all the
contradictory reports sent out about it. 1t
is good and bad 1t has its long stretches
of fertile prairie and its worthless jack oak
ridges; its thousands of acres where the
tall blue stem tells of the wealth of soil
below, and its alkali fats that would not
raise black-eyed peas. /, has its rich valley
land and its wastes of shifting sands; it
has, too, for inhabitants, its industrious.
cheerful squatter and its gloomy and
shiftless Cheyenne. The landscape, too, is
succession of surprises. When you see a
long stretch of level prairie before you
few steps may bring you to canon that
bars your progress. You may see timbered
hills few miles ahead, and without
hesitation you say it is stunted black jack
and post-oak; but on arriving there you
find a forest of cedars. If you wish to
drive across the South Canadian after
rain you may fear 1t is not fordable and
be able to cross it without wetting the
horses feet. Again, after protracted dry
spell it may be a raging torrent. The
question is, Will the character of the peo-
pie partake of this perverseness? The
presumption is that it will not At least
the people are all united upon the first
political question which has claimed their
attention. They say that they will have
representation in the political conventions
which are to be held in Oklahoma this
year or know the reason why.
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