The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-18

of thousands of voices, some yelling, some singing, some laughing; all min gled with the rattle Of wagons, the neighing of horses, the praying Of mules, and above all could be heard the crying of children. Then there was the crowds joke. All who were there will recall it. No matter what time in the quiet of the night there was the cry: "Oh, Bill!" Then came the re- sponse, What do you want?"
 Here's your horse"
 1 And then the laughter ran through the camp like a wave. Added to all this was the presence of the tender foot with his first revolver, who could not resist firing it, and he continued to do so till his supply of ammunition i was exhausted.
 The first night at Guthrie was not one of peaceful slumber for anyone, old or new. The next day the arrivals poured in by road and by train till by i the evening of the second night the prairie was covered in every direction as far as. the eye could reach with spread-out Guthrie of tents, houses and knots of men.
 Of course the usual gambling outfit i followed the crowd, and the usual ten derfoOt was there, who insisted upon losing his last dollar in his conviction that he "knew the bean was under that she'll" These "skin men, were soon run out of town, even though there were no town officials. The plan to elect the first Mayor of Guthrie was original, but it failed in the end. There | were three men heading factions or ] parties. These candidates were Val ney Hoggett, J. c. Constantine and A. B. Dyer. It was, of course, impos- i sible to hold an election according to regular form. It was proposed to have each candidates followers form in line to be counted. After an afternoon spent in open wagons hauled about town and after each candidate had out 1 lined his plans for governing Guthrie, the three wagons started off and be- hind each the supporters fell in, marching in sets of fours about the town. Finally the three processions halted with the heads abreast and the three lines parallel. Then the counters began at the head of each column to count the number of sets of fours The candidate with the most followers should be chosen. But here the trou- ble began, for Guthrie early had its "repeaters" No sooner were the head sets of fours counted than hey dropped off and took place at the rear of the column to be counted again. and thus the counting might have continued to go on forever. So the election was de- clared off. The next day it was deci- 1 ded to adopt another way of getting a mayor. Each candidate selected one man. The three selected a fourth. This committee finally chose A. B. Dyer, who became the first mayor of Guthrie. Mr. Dyer is now the presi- dent of the street railway of Augusta, Ga.
 While the boomer was busy stalking out his town lots and farm lands the soldier was busy doing the duty he was sent to perform namely, to keep quiet in the town. He well knew that many of the lots would bring large sums when matters settled down, but he was not there to stake off claims. 1 He we'll knew that if he could get a l lot he would cover his pocket with dol lars later on, but such was not his good luck. It was a good test of disci- pline, and not one wearer of the army blue tried to file a. clai mfor. one inch of the valuable land on which Guthrie was to be builded. -
 In stalking out his lot one boomer found that one of his stakes came in the middle of the tent of Captain George B. Davis, now Major General Davis, on the retired list and a mem Der of the Panama commission. He asked permission to drive the stake in the middle of the tent space.C aptain Davis granted it. During the stay of the troops the Hstake remained up- right in the middle of the tent, much to the inconvenience of the occupant and his guests, who stubbed their toes ova, the neg every time they moved about in the canvas house.
 It was reported that there was a hogshead of bottled beer in the tent of hogshead of bottled beer in the tent of one of the boomers This tintroduc- l ltoh OL illuOt was dStttISL IllC ldN- When the fact was reported to Cap tain MacArthur he ordered three mem bers of the guard to accompany him. With his adjutant and three men. none of them armed, he went on his mission of destruction of beer. The adjutant asked him if he. did not think it best to take at least one or two revolvers when going to mans tent to seize his property and destroy it. "No," Mac Arthur replied. If we go armed the crowd that will gather to see the beer destroyed might become incensed and we might have trouble on our hands for they would think we were taking advantage of them. If we go unarmed they will probably look upon the mat ter in the light of a joke at being found out and will be glad to get off with the loss of the beer" His view proved the correct one. When the tent was reached the man was asked if he had lot of beer.
 "Yes," he said.
 "I am sorry. but I must destroy it. Captain Macarthur sad.
 The owner laughed. "Go ahead" he said.
 The guard rolled out the hogshea6 and handed out the bottles one at q