Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-09-23
THE SOON Err.
He VIII Fare Badly ut tho Hands OF the
Genuine Homo Seekers on the strip-One
Reported Lynched-Af ter the Rush.

He VIII Fare Badly ut tho Hands Of the
Genuine Homo Seekers on the strip-One
Reported Lynched-A fter the Rush.
ARKANSAS CITY, Kan, Sept 19.-Stc-
ries of casualties, homicides and fatal
tiles from innumerable causes over the
strip opening are being reported here
without number, but few of them can
be verified, and still fewer are told
with names and details. Tragedy and
comedy are closely intermingled, and
pathetic incidents are followed by
those of the most ridiculous character
Sooners are being treated with no
! gentle hands, and many men who have
sought to take unfair advantage will
not live to give utterance to the per-
Jury that is in their hearts. Gener-
ally speaking, the sooners got what
they claimed in Perry, but on
Black Bear creek, west OF Perry,
four sooners were routed and
driven off their claims by four
Kansas men who made the run from
Orlando, viz: james Trimble and Nat
Howell, of Atchison county; Jack
Simpson, of jefferson county, and
George Wright. of Arkansas City.
These four had fixed their eyes OH the
Black Bear valley and got start from
Orlando we'll in front of the crowd.
They kept the lead and reached Black
Bear in fifty minutes. There they
found the bottom land in possession OF
four men who had neither horse nor
wagon. 1t was clear case of sooner.
and Trimble, who was in command OF
his party, at once set up an adverse
claim. There was n short parley, but
the Kansas men showed fight and the
sooners weakened and moved on, TAX
ing claims on the uplands.
The Atchison colony, headed by ex-
Mayor S. II. Kelsey, of that city, got
left completely. They were well or
ganized and equipped with plenty OF
money and material to found town,
but they ran for section which was
in full possession of sooners. Wher-
ever they went they found the land al
ready taken and the men in possession
prepared to fight for their claims Mr..
KELSEY, however, is not discouraged,
and it is plan now to buy up a tract of
land and carry out his original purpose.
1t was reported, on what seemed
good authority, that Mrs. Charles
Barnes, of Eldorado, Kan, had been
thrown from her horse and killed
while making the race about mile
south of Perry Saturday afternoon. A
correspondent met the lady alive and
well this afternoon ut Perry. She said
it was true that her horse had fallen,
but she was not run over and easily re-
covered from the shock she expert
enced. She left her horse wounded on
the ground and ran into the TOWNSHIP
on foot. where she is now holding down
q good lot with true Kansas pluck.
At Ponca boy rode into the town on
a broncho. The horse became fright
ened at the bowling and the many
lights and started tori He stumbled
in gully. pitching the boy over his
head, killing him instantly. There
was nothing on the boys person by
which he could be identified.
A great many disappointed boomers
are looking for q lame young man
named Harper Hooker. Mr.. Hooker
made his headquarters at Guthrie, and
sold certificates at SIS apiece. The GER
tificates had all the appearance of be-
ing genuine, and probably they were,
but the great ajority of his customers
failed to get claims, and now they
want their money back.
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Arkansas City was held ut the intersec-
ton of the two principal streets and
resolutions were adopted protesting
against the murder of j. A. Hill, the
New Jersey man, who was shot down
Saturday afternoon ut the Chilocco
reservation line by soldier OF the
Third cavalry. Strong resolutions
were adopted denouncing the killing
as wilful murder and demanding that
the murderer be turned over to the
civil authorities. The army officers
still decline to give the name OF Hills
slayer and insist that he simply obeyed
orders in shooting man who persisted
in rushing into the strip before the
signal was given.
A SOONER LYNCHED.
ARKANSAS CITY, Kan, Sept 19.-Asa
Youmans, who formerly lived at Car
thage, Mo-, came to the strip in com
pany with number of Missourians
who were regularly organized and paid
by syndicate of real estate men.
When the first runners of the boomers
reached Chikaska near where Black
we'll now stands, they found fifty men
holding down claims with no other
baggage than their rifles This man
Youmans was holding two, claiming
that his friend and partner had
gone out in search for water. The
first corners did not attempt to disiodge
him, but those who came later, to
whom the circumstances had been re-
| --l~l ,~lontad fhaiy. HaOs and deter.