The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-12
THEY WANT HOMES
Boomers on the Cherokee
Border.
ALL GIVE WAY TO WOMEN.
Ready TO Make the Race, and Many
VIII Race in Most Novel
Ways.

ARKANSAS CITY. Kans.. Sept 10.-Nine
clerks from Washington began to-day reg
istering 10000 home-seskers who are in
this vicinity. During the first hour less
than 100 certificates were issued, but as the
clerks became more familiar with their
clties they worked moro rapidly. The
record for the day was 1859. At this rate
1t is impossible for all to register before
Saturday, when the strip will be opened,
unless the force is increased.
Owing to the dust that fills the air and
the lack of water those in the line expert
euce much discomfort and suffering.
Water sells at 10 cents a cupful and %
cents for a canreen. The Interior De-
partment is bitterly condemned for locat-
ing booths on the strip away from water
and shelter.
John 3. Cameron, a Kansas City real
estate man, who had been waiting since 3
O'Clock on Saturday. received the first GER
tifcate. Then a lot of women who had
not stood in line, but to whom the men
Rallantly gave way, were registered
Nora Wiley, IA years old. got through the
crowd with two cups of coffee, which she
gave to the clerks, saying:
81 am an orphan and therefore the head
of family. and 1 want to register for a
town lot"
The men displaced at first looked
blankly at her, then cheered. The clerk
gave her a certificate, which she tTi-
umphantly waved aloft.
The last two days have seen a great
Influx Of boomers. Every road leading
here has been filed with an unbroken pro-
cession of wagons. and every train comes
in crowded. The crowd now present
exceeds that at the Oklahoma rush. On
Saturday and Sunday there was a serious
bread famine. and it is almost impossible
to get anything to eat at the hotels or res
taurants. About thirty wheelmen came
in from Kansas City and st. Joseph to-day.
The bicycle organization numbers over a
hundred men, who will make a run for
land.
The County Attorney has sent out
deputy sheriffs TO drive away three-card
monte men and other sharpers who were
swiDdling the boomers.
CALDWELL. Kans., Sept 11.-Twelve
thousand people are here awaiting the
opening of the Cherokee Outlet. About
1900 succeeded in getting certificates to-
dPEand as fully 10000 more are yet to be
kfstered Officer Ketchum has teIegra phed
9shngtOn for permission to open two
Booths. The crowd is patient and
gWI6hum Ored and give up their places in
line to>women without grumbling.
The strippers are all numbered as they
fall in line. so they can leave without los
ing their places. The poorer farmers who
have no blonded horses with which TO
make the run are becoming excited. and
many will probably try to enter the strip
before the opening hour. One man will
make the race with mule and common
bob-sied. claiming that the runners will
glide over the grass with greater ease than
wheels.
WASHINGTON. Sept. II. - Secretary
Smith issued an order this afternoon that
no railroad train viii be permitted 10 enter
the Cherokee strip for six hours before the
opening next Saturday. For three hours
after the opening trains will be allowed TO
enter under regulations. chief of which are
that they shall be for general use and not
chartered to favored passengers, and shall
stop every five minutes and not run faster
than fifteen miles an hour.