The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-07-18
EVER MOVING,
AIMLESS LIFE
Spectator Gives a CurSOrl
View Of the Conditions
at Ell Reno

EA htNof " % jug A'
rt midnight Is different from El Reno
kuring the day. The crowds swing
lhnsidy about during the hours from
ruu 60 sun. scattering dust over each
sther but no one does any kicking.
amer the booths close i'm the evening
kc crowds become less scattering
and gather ia large groups about town
as talk Nearly everyone here has met
usme one else whom he knows. but Il
a fellow is eny mixer he soon knows
suite number
There S. but one subject under dis
sneaIon. and that. Of course. is the new
had. The talk is nearly all concern-
ng how 70 get claim. Choice OF any
particular location is not mentioned
scarcely at all. To draw number
some number-any old number that
ain cntitie the holder to a claim. Will
DO. some claim, any old claim.
rhe crowds do not begin TO thin
snd untn fully eleven o'clock. and then
y * slow At 2 o'clock a. m there
rre stiil scattering few about town.
A row OF chairs in front Of the ker-
foos are the orchestra chairs, the bald
Readed row. so to SPEAK but shiny
patns arc not to b, found there but
ssldom. Others lay around upon the
ddeUalks aad look longingly at those
thafrs The negro porter usually has
a vord battle with several Of them
8saore ne can get the chairs back in
10 the hotel. which he does after
Hcruhbing up the office about o'clock
an
Down NJ the depot things are In a
Vile. However, the men there can
suickTy locate anything they have on
aand but there is a pile Of stuff that
d uncaned for, that makes most Of
zhe trouble
frequently a man unaccustomed TO
zrnFeIing. rushes across the platform
nnh a trunk Just as the train is
about 60 pull out. or course, 1t can
not be checked. It is safely aboard
she train. then he begins kicking for
ais check, and the rag gets chewed to
pieces One Fellow going only thirty
nICz made a great fuss and the
train haggageinan settled It by kick
saE. his trunk pff the train as It start
I'd This changed his stern aspect IN
~ absolute beggary. anything to get
Ais trunk hack on, but II was too
lale.
Beer &c the chief commodity that
games :Gto town. On one train there
gere 30 kegs TINT came by express,
Aszug more than ala other express and
saGsage together.
Tho lodging fonts at o'clock in
ehe morning remind one OF an army
bed hospital and the still mate forms
sr.t COWS OF bare feet suggest an
imRomptu morgue. AS one wanders
over town at 2 o'clock In the morning
ae frequently stumbles over some man
asleep on the sidewalk, unless he
teeps away from the buildings.
Thnndcrous snoring comes through
tkin gaayas upon an sides where
soae private tent has been locateo
Or nram the interior of show tent
efsily locating the proprietor but in
Die large public tents there is very
little snoring The men sleep like
droi children.
The show people are not as plenti-
ful as one would imagine and are not
aaing hattering business All the
'4la shows that went out OF style long
Ugo in' Kansas are being tried here.
Bat unnecessarily the babies and
SAILS E1Eaq is chief among them
A waI up Biokford or Rock Island
erly IN the mornlne presents a vary
ng Inorama. First men sleeping,
next "a che binding, then group Of
mes discussing the registration and
pennnng their ideas as to how il
shsala have been done yet there is
ae dissatisfaction save that some would
rather che claims had been drawn.
lraring the settler no selection. thus
nsnNG anxiety OF mind AS you are
tk.nkng Of the discussion you just
gRs1ed you notice white Indian
Elg pansmma. First, men sleeping,
Eie has on saddle and to the horn
hEugS thee bfidle You turn TO look
~ Aim ana .are yanked around by the
siar1d odor ot t'burning liver and on
inna. then other Odors equally as vile.
nainsfed with the sound Of water trick.
Ang down somewhere.
Beer runs freely II is small
hsiue- crowd and ols0margarine form