The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-09-19
OUT OF THE DESERT.
Cherokee Boomers Hurrying
From the Barren Strip.
LIFE LOST BY PRAIRIE FIRES.
ChavreA Corpses, Some wfsh baiet
Holes, Feaad on the riain-Dfs-
passs Over Townsifss.

sr. LouTs. Sept. ia special 10 the
R<paJise from Arkansas City says: Asa
ycumans. Of Carthage. No., paid by
syndicate. took two lots Ia the "trip before
the opening. BOOMERS attempted 30 dis
lodge him. One asked for bis certificate.
Youmans said he had killed two settlers
and would kill more. The men strung him
up to q tree sad left bis body 40 warning
20 s.sooners."
Arkansas err, Sept Is Disappointed
boomers are returning by hundreds
There were at least ten men TO every claim
on the strip. "a consequences there will
be contests without number. and there are
reports OF several murders committed on
account Of them. Deaths by prairie fires
are reported 10 be numerous. Seven
charred bodies have been discovered on
the prairie, two with bullet holes in the
head.
The strip was again visited by hot winds
today. The wind here reached velocity
Of thirty-six miles an hour. II was laden
with intense heat and sand, and made life
burden. 1t caused rapid spread OF prai-
RE fires, aud reports Of loss of life In the
flames are expected 20 DO numerous
Nearly every toHnsits in the strip
has rival. Enid, one Of the county
seats on the Rock island road. has
rival with the same name two miles south
Of Ii. The government refused to locate
the site at the Rock Island station be-
cause On Indian allotment was taken ad-
joining IL. Now the Rock Island refuses
10 stop trains st the government site and
Is doing ali IL can to aid the rival town.
The government town OF Perry II also
being ignored by the Santa Fe.
This evening two more murders are re-
ported from Perry. George Hastings shot
and killed Hugh Johnson. Of Arkansas,
over . disputed claim. and man named
Bldford shot one Hiidebrand during .
quarrel over y woman.
GUTHRIE. O. T., Sept IA courier Just
IN from the Pawnee reservation states
that terrific prairie fro is raging there,
and hundreds Of settlers have been CON-
PEELED to abandon wagons. tents and out
fts and flee for their lives on horses.
Several dead bodies have been found, and
IL - feared many will perish. Boomers
are returning today by hundreds, dirty,
tired and sore
KAssas cfrr. Sept. The retreat
from the Cherokee strip is still in full
force. Each train which pulls into the
Union depot from tho southwest brings
hundreds Of disconsolate boomers. One
and all tell the same story OF mismanage-
ment OF tho registration booths and the
mad rush for land last Saturday. The
tale Ii severe reflection on the govern
ment's management OF the opening of the
strip.
Kansas and Oklahoma were swept today
by another hot wind. The sky was OBJ
scured by clouds most of the day, but the
temperature rose to 95 degrees VI this city,
and in various points in Kan
sas the thermometer recorded as high
rs e7 and os degrees. Late corn,
already damaged by the long drouth, has
been badly burned, and all vegetation
parched TO crisp. The wind reached
velocity varying in localities from thirty
five to forty miles an hour. In cities and
towns slight damage 10 reported.