Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-09-22

Co"ioy county, with Arkansas City as
inc center, presented Il scene almost as
animated and exciting as that ut Or
iahdo. In many instances men leaped
thelr horses down tho 1S.foot embank.
ment, landing in the water and hastily
scrambling out again. Others were so
unfortunate as TO cripple their horses,
and abandoning them, started on foot. !
just east of tho school a heavy {,
wagon loaded with six men was driven
over the bank, which was concealed by |,
cloud OF dust that came up from the
burned prairie. AS the horses went
over, the men jumped and all escaped
unhurt but one man, who had his leg
broken,
OF Every Condition.
There was the greatest difference in
the character. looks and aims of the
different people standing ready for the
start. In the first wagon was a grizzled
old Texan driving mule team attached
to an old freighter wagon loaded with
household goods and a goodly sized fam
lily. Next to him were a dozen cow
boys, mounted on bronchos, and beyond
them a Spectator or two mounted on
trained race horses. Next was an old
time boomer, with d%ilapidated outfit
and numerous children, and beside him
a Mississippi negro sitting calmly in
his ox-cart. Two-wheeled, four
wheeled and six-wheeled vehicles were
to be seen, and people of all sexes,
ages. sizes and races. The Indian was
here present with the rest, sitting upon
his pony, and gazing vacantly into
space.
Here and there in the line was a
plucky man or woman upon foot,
standing ready to rush for one of the
nearby claims that the horsemen might
leave u~noccupied, and an occasional
one.legged soldier could be seen mount
ed upon a horse, to risk again his life
in racing for the home the government
should long ago have given him.
Harki the sound, the booming of the
signal gun, and with a mighty shout
that shook the very earth,
Ten Times Ten Thousand
homeseekers rushed madly forward.
Whips descended, and with one mighty
bound the trained race horses and time
tried cattle ponies leaped forth and shot
like arrows acros the green prairie.
All up and down the line they shot out
like flashes of lightning from the
ragged summer cloud, being in sight
but a moment and then disappearing
over the first hill or dropping into a
ravine. Here and there a horse Stun
bled and fell, but perhaps with an ex-
ception or two was up and away again
in a moment, with the plucky rider
still clinging to the saddle. Soon these
meteor-like horsemen were lost TO sight
save where here and there they APP
peared and r%eappeared, mere dots on
some PARKWAY hilltop.
Next to them We're the carts. light
wagons or buggies, skimming over the
level places OF the prairie like swallows
over the lake, and soon disappearing
with the horsemen in the distance.
Typical Boomers.
Now came the typical boomers, in
their great prairie schooners. A few
rushed out to some nearby claim,
jumped from the wagon, pulled out a
plow and at once began a show of work,
but the great majority followed the
trails to the interior. A short distance
out from the line they fell into single
: file and went winding like a huge snake
across the billowy land. Here and
: there a man or a woman upon loot cap
j, tured a claim along the line, or rushed
across a piece of broken land or through
a deep ravine, beating the horsemen to
some fertile stretch Of bottom land, and
far in advance of the white topped car.
avian, riding for life on a beaten trail,
wa an occasional sweating, working,
r straining bicyclist.>
r In a few moments the excitement and
r strain Of weeks were over, and the few
e spectators upon the line had nothing
: more to see and turned their faces
: homeward. Already thousands were
1 settled upon homesteads, already had
o been laid the foundations of law con.
tests that will last for generations, but
t thousands upon thousands were still
rushing forward, seeking some particu.
larly coveted pieces of land, or nearing
the townsites where soon will be cen.
Q tered all the pent up excitement of
p weeks; where men will scramble and
s fight for business and home locations
where blood will be shed and probably
lives be sacrificed for gain. Before the
sun had reached the halfway point be
tween the meridian and the horizon 6
y dozen cities had been born, and before
9 it had set business had stared up, lots
had changed hands, and politicians
were seeking Office in every one o.
them.
}. anarchists Postpone.
" CHICAGO, Sept. 18.-This was the dat,
set for the opening of the international
n conference of anarchists for the pur
pose of proclaiming to the world tn,
great principle of human liberty ant
the solidarity of the human race
l. Owing, however, to the fact that som
of the foreign delegates have been nm