The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-09-18
THE LAND rs DESERT.
Boomers Getting Ont Of Cher
okee as Fast as Possible.
COUNTRY NOT FIT TO LIVE IN.
The rtnekr Ones Are Those Who Dfdn't
Get gfafms-Thoussnds Fissfng
Back 90 Cfvilizssfon-

sands OF the people who yesterday made 50
great an effort 20 get into the Cherokee
sts1p are making equally strenuous efforts
10 get out today. Even 50 soon after the
rush IS yesterday evening hundreds OF
peopse came ont from the strip and took
up quarters here. Today the return move
became sn exodus. and tonight the city 10
as badly crowded ~ Il was the night be-
fore the race.
dozen dead bodies have been found
between Arkansas City and Perry. Not
ali are identified, and the manner OF death
of only few has been ascertained. The
number who received broken arms and
legs and other injuries in the rush yester-
cay is very great. and doctors are kept
busy attending 10 the wounded.
The mystery which has for so many long
years Of anxious waiting shronded the real
character OF the Cherokee strip has been
swept away. II was promised land. but
s, has not kept the promise. 1t may do so
a year from now, but IT present the strip
IL about the most uninyiting quarter on
the face of the earth. Water is obtsinable
ut only few places. Food is so scarce
that loaf OF bread costs 80 cents pound.
and smoked ham Is worth 81 pound. The
weather Is suffocasing and another hot,
parching wind is blowing.
Tie drouth OF the past month has left
the country burned dry, and snothering
dust, fine a. sand, and ashes iiil the air.
adding TO the thirst and general discom-
fort Of tho unhappy boomers. Prairie
fires are blazing in many places and BOOM
ers are out lighting OFF the flames.
To-day was generally given over 10 an
effort to bring order out OF chaos. The
farmers families put up tents. arranged
their primitive houses as comfortably as
possible and began 10 search for water,
either In creeks, springs or IN driven
wells.
The county seats and townsites have be-
come busy communities. Those reached
by the railways are fairly well supplied
with provisions but in those OFT the lines
of travel the commonest commodities
command fancy prices. At Willow Springs
waterselis at 10 cents glass. Restaurants.
shops of ell kinds, drinking places and
gambling houses have been established in
tents and are doing a thriving business.
At Perry and Wharton today church serv-
ices we're held. but we're very shiny at
tended. The ccnters of interest are now
AT Kingiisher today 600 tired, weary BOOM
ers lined up in front of the Office and will
keep their places until the Office opens to-
morrow. Al Guthrie no less than 200
men and women are in line At Perry a
line of men miles long stretches away
from the land Office, and at Wharton !, go
people are in line. At Pond Greek the
crowd DESTROYS of doing business with the
land Office Is enormous.
KANSAS CITY. Sept. i7.-There was big
exodus of disappointed people from the
Cherokee strip today. The Santa Fe
brought IN three special train loads this
morning and the Rock Island two. All
the regular trains on both roads are
crowded with men and women who are
glad enough to get back to civilization. A
whole party OF people from Illinois who
planned to establish colony OF their own
In the strip, came back on the Santa Fs.
They were the mcst forlorn-looking party
the officials at the depot had ever seen.
They made the run on foot from the line
north of Orlando. o. T., but got nothing,
after having stood in line for four days at
the registration booth. sleeping on the
ground and existing on muddy water and
dry bread. Enoch Hooker. OF Green
county, III. acted as spokesman for the
party. Uncle sam has turned bunko-
stearer," he said TO reporter. 'lIe
turned over lot of land of no value to
poor people, and If they are ever able to
pay for 1t he will be receiving money
under false pretenses. Railroads and
newspapers were in the play. too. | pre-
diet that this winter will see more sick
ness. suffering aud death among tho peo-
pie who have CONS to this promised land
than has been seen in any pioneer settle
ment. When we made the run the crush
was something terrible and the casualties
numerous Just before the gun was fired.
one man started on foot into the strip. A
soldier ON guard called anon him 90 half
and raised rifle To his shoulder.
The mans partner rushed M 20 the soil
der and told hlu not 10 fire. The man
kept on running. the soldier fred and the
man dropped dead. The mans partner
fred and the soldier dropped dead. Just
then the signal gun announced the start
ol'ths race. and che double tragedy was
overlooked IA the excitement. We are
glad to get back. ard there are TO sour
grapes in ii. We honestly would not take
claim in the new country as a Gift now
after what We saw OF it -
An Archbishop Nceeixes the Paiitum
prBucvx, Ia, Sept. iT.--1hs palliuul
WAS conferred upon Archbishop Hennes.
sey, at -, Raphael's cathedral here today
in the presence of more than loo specta.
tors. Twice az many more who could not
gain admission waited patiently outside
through tho service. The scene within