Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 23 September 1891 — Page 1

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COWBOYS AND NEGROES IN A FIGHT.

Two or the Latter Race Snltl to Have Keen Killed—Kxcltluir Scenes at tlie ......... Opening of the New Lands for Settlement.

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A WILD IIUSII HOIL nOMK3. GtmiitiK, O, T., Sept 23. —Bloodshed marked the opening of the Oklahoma lands Tuesday. The most scrioua' trouble occurred at Langston, where the negroes and cowboys had a lively exchange of bullets. So far as is now known two people were killed there. Particulars of the figlit are hard to obtain. MeCabe, the founder of Lang* ston, was the first to arrive from there, lie says:

Our people ngrccd to form lino and at tho discharge of shots rush for tho lands. This was dono at 12 o'clock. I located my claim and Immediately left for Quthrle. There was much tiring going on whon I left. Tho bullets from ono man's gun whistled so close to my oara that It was uncomfortahlo."

Mr. Robertson, a photographer, who returned later, said: "Two negroes wore killed about a mile south of the town. One of them was dead when I first reached there, and the other died a few minutes before I left."

At a point 5 miles below Tolice quite a number of boomers were gathered to make the race. Among them was ono woman whose name lias not been learned, whose impatience got the better of her discretion. She crossed tho line before the appointed time, and one

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of the deputy marshals guarding the party arrested her and forced her back over the line. Soon afterward she again crossed the line prematurely, and when the deputy a second time ordered her back she drew a revolver from her dress pocket and opened fire upon him. The marshal returned the fire and shot her in the left leg. just below the knee, shattering the limb and disabling her so that she was unable to make the race.

A sensation has been caused here by the report of Lee Whistler, the treasurer of the Sac and Fox nation, who just arrived here in company with Joe Springer, another Indian, that they were passed on tho road, 10 miles east, by the Dal ton boys. The leader of tho gang was seen here at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Guards have been placed around all the bank?, as it is feared tho desperadoes are planning an attack. Mayor Spengel has supplied the places of tho policemen that have deserted the town for a claim, lie says he is credibly informed that the Daltons are planning a raid on the town, relying for success upon the scarcity of officers and the semi-deserted condition of the city.

Tho government supervision of the opening of the lands seems to have been sadly (deficient. The entire government force was composed of two companies of United States troops, or 200 men, under Capts. Shay and Styles, and tho forces of three United States marslicls numbering about 250 men. Of these latter fifty were sent to Langston, fifteen were required at each of the three land offices and twenty-five at Tohee. Of the regular troops a squad of men was stationed at each of the two county seats. This left only some 300 men to patrol the borders of nbout 200 miles extent or one man to every twothirds of a mile of border. Tho men, however, were not stationed at regular intervals. In some places there were ten and fifteen men to a mile, while at others there were stretches of 5 and 10 miles entirely unguarded. Under these conditions it might have been expected that numbers of boomers would enter before the appointed time, and they did.

Two miles north of Tolice about 200 boomers had gathered in a secluded spot, knowing that the government's force would bo massed at the border towns. They had all set their atches three hours ahead Monday niglit so that their testimony would agree as to the time if ever their claims were contested on the ground of their being "sooners." At 9 o'clock, therefore, their watches indicated the noon hour and they rushed over tho border and began the race for choice sections of land. Tho "sooners" at other unguarded portions of tho border were also numerous, and it is estimated from all reports that the number of settlers who entered the land before the legal timo was fully 3,000.

Tohee Tuesday morning was an Indian town just over the Iowa border, due east from this place. At night it was a white man's city of 1,500 inhabitants. It fell into the hands of a town site company, organized here by tho president of the board of trade, the president of the First national bank, Mr. Joseph McNeil, and the city marshal of Guthrie.

A representative of the compauy returned to this place Tuesday afternoon and filed at the land office tho plat of the town and company's claims. IIo reports an election was held at which Mr. McNeil was chosen mayor. At Tolice tho boomers waited until the noon hour before making their rush for lots and homesteads, and the occu pation of the lands there was peaceful.

Outline wis an animated town Tuesday morning. Many belated settler*

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came in on tho morning trains and were skurtying around to find means of conveyance to the new lands. Horse traders wero selling their stock and farmers wero soliciting men to ride with them to the fcorder of the new lands. Ten dollars wag the fare and the anxious boomers eagerly aecepted the chance to make the journey to their Mecca even at that outrageous price. The farmorsJflid a thriving business. So dul the (jtarekeepers. They all agreed Monday flight to double the price of their warofeWnd even thou the supply was nearly exhausted boforo night. I

The scene at land ofiice here Tuesday was a lively one. About 250 old soldiers, a.rmofl with declaratory statements, havo been in line before the office door for four days past. Some have slept in chairs, some on the ground ami some hardly at all. Their meals were brought to them by their wives, children or friends. The weather has been pleasant, bnt the veterans were accustomed to hardship and did not mind the inconveniences. When the hour of noon approached there was little excitement, the men in line being nearly the ofily people left in town, most every ono having gone to tho border to either join in tho rush or witness it. There was no disturbance about the office, and the business of filing the statements proceeded quietly and swiftly. At 7 o'clock all the old soldiers had got in their papers, The line did not decrease in length, however, for after 8 o'clock settlers who had located their claims in the new lands began to arrive to file their entry notices. For every old soldier that stepped out of the head of the line a fresh claimant stepped into a place at the end. The land office kept open until 7 o'clock. At that time fully 200 men were still in line and others were arriving every minute.

Altogether, with the exception of the large number of people who entered the strip before the legal hour, tho opening of the lands has been remarkably successful and their settlement has been more peaceful than any one anticipated.

When the noon hour arrived all the pent-up excitement found vent in the firing of revolvers and rifles, shouting and singing and cracking of whips and furious driving and running. The horsemen, of course, had the advantage over every other in the race, and most of racers were horsemen. A man had proceeded to the harbor in a prairie schooner with his family le*'t his schooner, family and one horse on the border and mounted the other and became a horseman. After locating his claim he will return and direct his possessions to his new home. Men who came here with nothing but money purchased saddle horses, ponies, mules or any kind of an animal that would carry a man, while others rented thorn. Some of the more desperate cowboys mounted steers, and the latter joining in the stampede carried their riders to the interior, while others were unceremoniously unhorsed or unsteered not far from the border.

IT WAS SHORT-LIVED.

The Invnslon of Mexico by Garoiii and Ills Hand rractleally Knded. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Sept. 2:1.—Gen. Stanley had tele(»rams Tuesday from Ben Lazerous, commander of the Fourth military zoue of Mexico, saying that the invasion of Garcia and his band had ended. They wero 27 miles from Keynosa Monday and are scattered in order to try and cross the Rio Grande into Texas. A few have gotten across at Tasilicliat, 12 miles above lirownsvillo. The rest arc somewhere betwen Solicano and Reynosa trying to get back. A thousand mounted Mexican troops under Cols. Hernandez and Caveyas have them almost surrounded and American troops are on this side waiting to intercept any of the band who may attempt to cross. Geti. Lazcrous says that the object of the band was robbery and that, the raid had no political significance.

Victims of Jealousy.

CHICAGO, Sept. 23.—A double tragedy ended in tho almost instantaneous death of Oscar Grundmann and his wife on Tuesday morning. Tho two people lived in the center of the manufacturing district at 43 Ontario street. Crazed with jealousy, anger at liis wife, and drink, the man blew out his wife's brains and then ended his own life in an almost identical manner—a bullet through his brain.-

Wrecked Ofl" Vrilczlila.

PANAMA, Sept. 23.—The steamer California, ('apt. Pichthall, bound from Liverpool to Colon, was totally wrecked September 10 on the north side of Orutia, one of the islands of tho Dutch Antilles, near the coast of Venezula. It was at the time enrouto from Curacoa toSavonilla, United States of Colombia. The passengers and crow, with the exception of the second engineer, were saved. The mail was also rescued.

Seven Miner* Statu.

LONDON, Sept 23.—From 'Waldenburg, Silesia, comes news of a serious accident. Owinjf to an explosion of firedamp seven miners were killed, and uiany seriously injured.

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The boomers had gathered for the race mostly at Tohee, on the Iowa border, directly east of Guthrie, 1-rings-ston, at the middle of tho Northern Iowa border, the inside boundary ol the Kickapoo reservation (which was not included in the opened lands) and at a point on the Pottawatomie border directly east of Purcell. The most desirable of the lands are situated in the Iowa and -Sac and Fox reservations and the greater number of boomers naturally congregated around them. Tho boomers were distributed among the various starting points about as follows: At Tohee, 3.000 Langston, 1,500 negroes and 500 whites on tho Kickapoo border S,00U, and on the Pottawatomie border, 2,000. The allotments to the Pottawatomie Indians nearly exhausted the lands in their reservation so that the liomc-seekers had little chance of locating a claim there.

LONG ON CORN.

8. V. White & Co., of New' York, Try to Corner the Market.

THEIR EFFORTS END IN DISASTER.

Tlie Wcll-Known WaII Street 11 An ken and Ilrnkem Are Forced to Make an Assignment Liabilities of ooo.ooo.

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THIltl) FAILURE.

NEW YOHK, Sept. 23.—For the third time in his business career in Wall street Stephen V. "White was on Tuesday compelled to suspend payments. On the two previous occasions ho got on liis feet and paid his creditors In full. The grit, the vigor, the fighting qualities of Mr. White, liis many friends say, will bring him out of the present disaster.

The cause of the firm's present embarrassment was a gigantic speculation in corn, engineered by the head of the house. Ho tried to corner the country's supply of tlie grain for September and October delivery and failed It is impossible as yot to get any accurate statement of figures which will show the extent of the falluro, but the situation appears to be just this, according to the best authorities.

The firm owes about 82,000,000, mostly to banks apd money lenders. Against this as assots are about 8,000,000 Jjusliels of corn held by White & Co., in Chicago and the west. This deal was manipulated in Chicago and the purchases were made there. The average price at which the :corn is believed to have been purchased was 00 conts a bushel. For some of it as liigli as 70 cents was paid.

It had been going down almost ever since Mr. White began buying, and tlie price Tuesday was 49, there having been a decline of 17 cents in three Weeks. That enormous drop would have required the resources of a national bank, and the daring speculator's failure wasdnevitable.

Mr. White freely received reporters, but he would make no more statement than covered in the words: "I have been largely long of corn and in closing out tlie depreciation, with the calls for margin, ivliich was unusually heavy, 1 exhausted my resources and there was nothing left but to stop and to assign. My assignee is Charles W. Gould, lawyer, of 85 Madison avenue." Mr. White subsequently declared that there were no other houses involved in the failure. The Chicago branch of S. V. White A Co. announces its' suspension as W matter of course. Late Tuesday word came that tho Pittsburgh correspondents, Rea Bros. &Co., had temporarily suspended until they could find out how their accounts stood.

BASEBALL..

liow tho VnriouH Profcsiilona! OamM Flayed on Tuemlrty Resnlted. National league games on Tuesday resulted as follows: At Cincinnati— Chicago, 4 Cincinnati, 1. At New York (two games)—Philadelphia, 4 New York, 3 New York, 11 Philadelphia, 5. At Pittsburgh—Cleveland, 5 Pittsburgh, 2. At lioston—Boston, Brooklyn, 0.

American association: At St Louis— St Louis, 12 Washington, 9. At Milwaukee—Boston, 5 Milwaukee, 3. At Columbus—Columbus, 10 Baltimore, 8.

Wisconsin league: At Marinette— Marinette, 9 Green Hay, 0 (forfeit). At Fond du Lac—Oshkosh, 10 Fond du Lac, 2. At Appleton—Appleton, 13 Oconto, 2.

The battle for the championship of the Wisconsin baseball league has come to an abrujjf end and every toam in the league claims the championship. It is alleged that Hart, who pitched for the Green Bay team Sunday, was bought by Marquette parties for $300 and threw the game in the fifth inning. The Green Bay team has been brought home.

FATAL FAMILY FEUD.

A Little Girl Killed During a Free Fight Near Jollet, 111. JOI.IET, 111., Sept 23.- A family foud in which corn knives, sickles and bricks were used, resulting in the killing of a girl, occurred Tuesday at Marley, about 10 miles northeast, between Gottlieb Kellam and August Hunt The row was over tho use of water from tlie town pump, where the wives of the two tnen got to fighting. The men took a hand and Kellam threw a brick at Blunt, missing him and killing Blunt's littlo 10-year-old girl. Then both hands joinod in with sickles, corn euttors and clubs. All the persons engaged are badly used up. Kellam is in jail.

International Clgarmakers* Convention. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 23.—The fifth biennial convention of the International Cigal-makers' union opened hero Monday morning with several hundred delegates in attendance, Canada and nearly all the states being represented. President Strasser reviewed the history of the union briefly, saying there are now 292 unions in this country and Canada, with a membership of 28,000. Tho cigarmakers have in their treasury 8460,000.

Ten Persons Killed In a Wreck. BERLIN, Sept 23.—A dispatch from Gloiwitz, Prussian Silesia, says that a collision occurred on the railroad connecting Golaczowy with Wolbrom, near the Russian frontier, between two passenger trains. Ten passengers wero killed and many injured by tlie accident, which shattered all the cars of the two trains.

llarker Still In tlm Lead.

CHICAGO,Sept 23.—In the eighth day's play of tlio Reed-Barker checker contest two games wero played with sin-gle-corner openings. Both wore drawn. The score now stands: Barker, 4: Reed, 0 drawn, 12 yet to be played, 14.

The International congrcss, called to discuss the cause of accidents to workmen and tho best moans to prevent such accideuts, opeued at Berne Moftd»y- jta*5

In Every Receipt

EMBRACED BY FIRE.

Many Towns In the Northwest Surrounded by Flames.

that calls for baking powder, use the "Royal." Better results will be obtained because it is the purest. It will make the food lighter, sweeter, of finer flavor, more digestible and wholesome It is always reliable and uniform in its work.

FINLAYSON, MINN., REPORTED BURNED

Tillages In South Dakota and Wisconsin lladly Scorched—The Losses Aro .y Heavy—Farmers Fighting the Flames.

FOHE8TS AND I'HAIIIIES AFIKE. ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept 23.—News was received hero Tuesday evening that a terrible prairie fire was raging in tlie vicinity of Vilas, S. 1).. a town of 300 inhabitants about 40 miles south of Huron, on tho Chicago & Northwestern railway. Great damage was done to crops and farm property, and the town itself barely escaped destruction. The fire was driven rapidly by the wind which blew 45 miles an hour. The grass and stubble is very dry, and the intense heat of tho last seven days has fairly parched tho earth, so that fire breaks were littlo protection. There is great fear at Huron for tho safety of Vilas and towns in that vicinity. After the fire had passed the town the wind changed and drove it back, when it destro3'ed everything in its crurse. A telegram says the entire populace arc fighting the fire and it is hoped tho worst is over. No estimate of tho damage can be given. Tlie town of

"I have found the Royal Baking Powder superior to all others." C. GORJU, Chef Delmonico's.

Bradley, on tho Milwaukee line, is also reported badly scorched, but this is not confirmed.

Reports from the Dakotas show that

Reports from down the Omaha road state that the damage will be the lioav-1 lest ever known unless tho flames are chocked soon. Over a hundred acres arc said to bo a mass of flames about 3

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down to a considerable extent feared the devastation will be even more serious than that of last spring.

Finlayson, Minn., is reported do-' 6troyed and all the women and chil-! dren of the place were sent down to Hhickley on the St. Paul & Duluth limited this afternoon for protection. Sandstpno is in imminent danger. A great quantity of hay has been destroyed and a number of cattle arc lost and supposed to have been burned. Tlio town is safe for the preset]t^but there Is a terrible fire about a mile west, which may destroy it before morning if the wind gets in that quar-! ter. I

Forest fires are raging all around Ilinckley, Minn., which would certain-1 ly havo been swept out of existence! but for the heroic and untiring efforts of the fire company which has been on duty continually for tho last thirty-six hours. The dense smoko and licat drove many citizens from their homes on the outskirts.

Reports from Fort Yates, N. D., and other points along the Sioux rcservation say everything north of Grand River is burned. The Indians made no preparations in the way of fire breaks,

control. As a result the fires have escaped from them and swept with resistloss fury over tho prairies.

The Great Northern and other roads arc also taking every precaution to prevent the spreading of fires. Furrows are plowed along tho borders of thp right of way, and between these furrows and the track the grass is all burned. This serves the double purpose of protecting the bridges and cul-

vcrts of the road and Preventing!^

the lighting of fires by sparks from the engines. Those who havo witnessed these vast prairie conflagrations describo them as furious caldrons sweeping over the country, which cannot be stopped unless well-prepared fire breaks are previously made, and which destroy evtrv unorotected in-

flammable object in their course. Tlio Northern Pacific is taking extraordinary precautions to prevent the spread of fire by placing at every available spot for 1,000 miles along its line barrels o£ water for tho use of section men and farmers.

MILWAUKEE, Sept. 23.—Forest lircs aro raging to an alarming extent in tho heavily wooded districts in the northern and central portions of Wisconsin. Reports from the northern part of. tho state are to tlio clt'cct that many new forest fires have started, and that in places where there are as yet no lires tlio sun has dried everything so tliorouglily that a spark would set tho woods on fire.

At Ashland the weather for tlio1 last few days has been intensely hot and dry. Early Monday evening it was noticed that forest (ires had got under way again and seemed to sweep along almost with tho velocity of prairie firos. Several homesteaders toward the reservation lost their shanties and barely escaped with their lives. During the day the atmosphere was heavy with smoke from the surrounding fires. Timber is very dry anil everything seems to burn like shavings.

The village of Comstook, near Cumberland, was all but wiped out by tho forest fire Tuesday, and Cumberland is in momentary danger of sharing the same fate. Telegraphic communications from tho burning districts lias been practically cut off, as many miles of poles have been burned.

HER OWN SLAYER.

Mrs. lCntlibuu, Who Sit Nynt^rlouHly Dlauppeitrori from Chicngo, l£ml* Iler Lifent Ninffuru FAIIM.

BUFFALO, N. Y.. Sept. 23.—Mrs. Dell Rath bun, the wealthy widow of Buf-

prairio fires are still raging in Steele falo, who left the lionse of Dr. W. II. and Stutsman counties, and that anew Buck at Hyde Park, Chicago, on Sunone has started with great fury near day night, committed suicide TuesBartlett, In Ramsey county, and has day morning on the Canadian already destroyed a great quantity of side of Niagara falls. While the staclted wheat In Traverse ana Big1 Michigan Central train from the counties, Minn., the fires are

Stone counties, Minn., the still in progress, though efforts to stop tliem were partially successful. Specials from Duluth say fires have broken out in the Vermillion country and tho air is stifling with the hot smoke.

west stopped at Falls View station Tuesday morning the lady loft tlio train and climbed the fouce of the embankment and shot herself. Tho body was found at about noon in the Hume of tho water works. Tho identification is complete.

When she left tho train sho was bareheaded. Just as the train was about to leave sho was observed to separate herself from the other

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and tho flames once started swept serious, though she had often everything before them. Farmers west, Passed sleepless nights and seemed to of tho Missouri are building miles of

fire guards. The Northern Pacific has interested itself ahd plowed flro guards on both sides of its track from tlie Missouri river to the Montana line, and through Montana as far as Glcndive.

Farmers through North Dakota liavo suspended thrashing operations and all aro Vusy forming fire breaks to protect their property: They protect the grain or buildings by plowing two strips of ground some rods apart, and then burn the gross between the two plowed strips. In some instances farmers have been careless and in trying to protect their own property have started fires which havo done great damage to others. Most of the fires so far started have been from this cause. Tbe farmers have attempted to burn around their premises, but have misjudged their ability to keep the flames

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over tho tho steep island. Sho on the wav.

rail and run down incline toward Cedar fell down several times

When near tlio island she shot herself in the temple. Nothing more was seen of her till her body was recovered by the park police, who found it floating in the shallow water just below Cedar island and about 100 yards above the brink of the Horse Shoe falls. Cedar island is separated from the main slioro by a stream about 3 feet deep, and into this lhe woman must have thrown herself after firing the fatal shot, probably expecting to bo carried over the falls.

Mrs. Rathbun's friends believe sho killed herself while laboring under mental disturbance. They gave no reason for the theory. Mrs. Rathbun had all tho money she could use, and seemed to bo leading a happy life. Nobody ever considered her mind weak. She wa« a highly-educated, well-read, intelligent v*oman. She took great interest in the welfare of several religious institutions. Dr. Maycoek lias been nttlindingher for a year and a half. He eaid slie had been ailing all summer with stomach trouble. It was

nervous at times. Mrs. itath

bun was a Miss Moses, of Moiienry county, 111. Iler husband died ten years ago. Her home was at 47S Karl street, Buffalo. Sho was worth S100,000. The body has been embalmed.

SulTerlng from tlie llcut.

ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 2.1.—The heat reached such a degree of intensity Tuesday that it was almost unbearable, and Superintendent Gilbert issued a general order closing all public schools, giving tho 20,000 children a holiday until cooler weather shall arrive. The temperature all over Minnesota and the Dakotas is again running between 92 and 108. In fact, except for a few hours Sunday evening, there has been no appreciable fall for seven days.

Fell lJunri 011 thu streol.

SiiEiioYfiAN, Wis., Sept 23.—.Tames H. Mead, a well-known banker, of tlm city, fell dead from heart disease while walking on Seventh street Tuesday.

Oitarrli in Colorado.

I used Ely's Croam Balm for dry catarrh. It proved a cure.—]3. F. M. Wooks, Denver.

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winds.—W. A. Hover, Druggists, Denvor. I can recommend Ely's Cream Balm to nil sufferers from dry catarrh from personal experience.—M. Herr, Denver, Colorado.