Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-21
IT COST THEM GORE
One Man Killed and Two
Wounded in Oklahoma
WAR IN THE PROMISED LAND
A City With Population LANCER Than
That Of Kinghsher or Fl Reno Springs
Up Within . Day.

KANSAS Cry, Mo-, April 2o,-Reports
reaching hare from the newly opened
Indian lands show that there were
several fatalities during the grand rush
of the home-seekers and boomers In
. fight over lots in the county seat Of
n" county one man is reported as shot
dead, while syva others were severely
wounded. FL Reno reports that child
was thrown out Of . wagon sad killed
by the following crowd Just after tie
people left the line at that place.
HIesrSs. Tex, April 2o.-A report
has reached herc that in an alteration
between Cheyenne Indian and man
who tried 10 settle on the Indians
claim the white man was shot dead.
The Army u noms-seekers.
KxeFIsHER. o. T.. April 20. = The
great race is over and the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe reservations exist no longer.
About 5000 people made the race
from west Of El Reno. as many from
Kingfisher. 1000 from the line of the
Wichita reservation west of Minco.
5000 from Rover. rs many from Hem
nessey, and about as many as all these
went in small squads all along the line
from the Cherokee strip on the north,
the panhandle of Texas on the west
and the Kiowa Indian reservation on
the south.
City Built in . Day.
The city of Okaarche, 10 miles south
of Kingfisher, on the Rock Island, sup
posed by many TO Be the future capital
of Oklahoma, has been built in day.
1t is nearly miles square and is the
scene of exciting activity. On one claim
forty men are swearing they are 6rst
in the order of preference. The popu-
lation exceeds that Of Klngfisher or Ell
Reno. w. j. Ray, special agent of the
Rock Island, says that at 1908 .
double-header ran into the new city.
and 1,soo people had occupied "the
future great" on Cooper creek,
northwest OF Kingfisher. It is as
serted by those who made the
race from this city that
crowds of boomers overran all the
lands, starting from tho Cimarrpn
river at 1885. The defeated runners are
disgusted. but declare that contests
will not pay, "a the land Is not worth
contending for at the price charged by
the government. Those who have been
successful are jubilant. and declare this
is the best country on earth.
Order Prevails.
The quiet and order that prevails Il
phenomenal, and indicates that the set
tlers are law-abiding and desirable cit
izens A few dead horses, few bruised
and few broken limbe constitute ell
tho casualties that have occurred up -
the present hour. with no loss Of human
life, which is most wonderful and
miraculous when it is known that not
less than 40, 900 people have been con-
tending for homes.
kiot 1t the Land once.
GUTHRIE, o. T.. April 20-Miss Con-
ME Sorcnscn. Of this place. who went
to Oklahoma City Tuesday morning to
file q declarstory notice covering q
claim in the Cheyenne and Ar
apaaoe country. has just returned
from that place. She was among
tho first who were admitted to
the land Office. She says that while
she was fling her notice the opponents
of the seat-warmers made IN at
tack upon the line and that
riot resulted People swarmed
into the land Office. where the
rioting continued. Several persons
were knocked down and trampled upon,
among thcm being q woman. whose
clothes were torn from her. One man,
name unknown. was struck on the head
and had his skull fractured and was
fatally injured. Many others were less
seriously hurt.
Likely TO he Bleedshsd.
BRowx's VALLEY, Mimi, April 2o.--
There is serious trouble among Sisseton
squattcrs and tilers. and more than ono
fist fight is reported. Many quarter
sections now contain two shanties and
two residing claimants. In numerous
cases squatters, after stalking their
claims and going TO town for
material to build shanties have re-
turned to End the land occupied by
another, who claims TO be the original
squatter, and the man who filed at the
land Office makes . third claimant. Re-
ports from this place to the effect that
two boomers had been killed is wholly
unfounded. but that there may be some
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