Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 April 1889 — Page 2

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1889.

wild West crowd beaded toward a new field of enterprise and development, and no one who has never Meen finch a thing in action can, have the remotest conception of it. An amusing, and at the ftamo time rathetic, incident of the early morning was a cattle-car lying on a side-track loaded "with a boomer, his horse, wagon and a cow, "wife and children, and all bis little household eltects. He was a merry fellow, and i,Tiyed the crowd nnmercifullv for not gong through, as be expressed it, without change of cars, to avoid the rush. 'I travel in my own special roach. " said he, "like Jay Gould or Vanderbilt." "You'll get there too late," yelled someLodv in the crowd. "Sever mind." replied the boomer, "I'll get there all tnc tauie." It bad leaked out during the wakeful , hours of the night that the press special coach would bi a part of the tirst train to move out. The railroad management had succeeded well in keeping this fact a secret. Xo one but representatives of the nress were informed or the fact or knew the location of the coach and the time of its departure, but it was impossible to keep such information from people who sat up all night to tind out the shortest and easiest way of getting into the promised land. The result was that when tho newspaper coach was backed up at a point below the depot the entire crowd charged upon it. The newspaper men were ranged in a solid phalanx, but had to tight for access to the rear platform of the car. There were rustlers there who had been lighting along tho border for years, ho had a death grip on the iron railing aud expressed a determination to go in that car. Thiso were easily disposed of, but after them came a swarm of men with bogus credentials, presuming to represent every great newspaper in the United States. 2s early every correspondent was called upon to discredit two or more of these assumed jonrnalists, and 6cores of others failed of identification or recognition and had to fall back with more of precipitancy than good order. Every car brought up the lino was greeted with tremendous cheers. As the coaches which were to be attached to the newspaper special were brought out of the siding there was a simultaneous rush of 2,000 or 3,000 men toward them. They were rilled to overflowing in less than half a minute, and a countlessthrong struggled for places on the steps. It was in vain for the officials to say that the trains would run in sections, fifteen minutes apart. Every man there wanted to bo fifteen minutes ahead of everybody and not fifteen minutes behind anybody. The first section made up consisted of nine coaches, the newspaper coach and one caboose. It pulled out at 8:47, railroad time, drawn by ngine 20o", in charge of Capt. O. II. Cooper, who has been on the Santa Fe line for eleven years, and is one of the oldest and most trusted engineersm its employ. Trainmaster Foukes was in charge of the entire train. This was tho first train that ever ran out of Kansas loaded with settlers for Oklahoma, and even those who were disappointed in getting aboard it joined in a wild, enthusiastic cheer which rent tho Kansas air as the first step toward the realization of hopes and dreams of years and the reward for tho sacrifices of the past was taken. The train ran slowly, as there was great danger of misplaced rails and switches, or obstructions of various kinds placed there by those gone before and who wanted a corner on the best lands in sight. It was 9:40 when the sign which marks the State line and the dividing line from the Cherokee strip was reached. It was greeted with a cheer which rolled from the news-car in front to the rustlers' caboose behind. It marked the departure from tho State government toward a country where government is vet to be created and established. Still the Cherokee country lay between them and the rainbow land. There were no Indians to be seen until after Willow Springs was passed, when a wagon load of bucks of the Ponca tribe passed up the trail, who responded to the shouts and cheers of those on board the train with sullen looks and gesticulations of defiance, evidently not being pleased at the coming of the pale-face. Along the Pawnee trail the train also passed caravans of boomers' wagons, many going south, but some returning toward Kansas. Between Willow Springs and the Ponca agency, somebody in the newspaper car discovered a man riding on the trucks beneath the coach. Immediately an effort was made to open negotiations with him, but they resulted unsuccessfully, until tho train stopped at Ponca, when the adventurous boomer-on-wheels was taken up into the car, elected an honorary member of the Press Association, and furnished with refreshments out of a bottle, which he drank with relish, and amidst enthusiastic applause. He gave his name as Harvey Saddler, and said he was born in England, but had been in this country for nine years and had come all the way from Seattle. W. T., to get a foothold in Oklahoma. Ho was elected as the representative of the London Times, and also as the mascot of the new city of Guthrie, and to make the bargain sure, it was agreed he should have one of the best lots in the heart of the city. ACROSS THE LINE TO GUTHRIE.

A Town Springs Up In Three Hoars, with a Voting: Population of 10,000. St. Locis, April 22. The Republic's special correspondent-says that at the last station outside of the Oklahoma strip there was a great crowd of boomers who had forsaken their teams, and hoped to get iu quicker by raiL Thero being no room inside, they climbed to tho top of the coaches, and the entire train, from one end to the other, was lined with them. In this way the line wa's reached, about five minutes after 12 o'clock. Before the late dead-lino was reached and passed, however, the great transformation scene had begun, and was plainly visible to the watchers from tho train. First came in view tho white-topped wagons gathered together in groups on the level prairie, or in tho little valleys which diversify the face of the country. It was at once noticeable that the teams were not to be seen in any of the camps, and it was plain that they had been taken out of har ness to be ridden across the border by the hard-riders who wero to locate tho claims, a little further on. And this conclusion was proven to bo tho correct one, for the entire face of the country, as far as the best field-glass could carry tho sight, was overrun with horsemen galloping to the southward. Their fleetest horses had evidently been picked for the work, and they were carrying their riders rapidly to the longed-for goal. Tho ride of Paul Revere dwindles into obscurity beside tho feats of horsemanship performed in Okla homa to-day. Rides of fiiteen or twenty miles were made in an incredibly short space of time by old boomers familiar with the country and who knew where desirable lands were located. Tho day was cloudless, and far away on tho horizon. both to the east and the west, cloudsof dust could bo seen ascending from the hoofs of hundreds of horses rushing toward different destinations in most cases, but some of them toward the same. One race for a goal could be eily distinguished; the riders wero apparently evenly mounted. They were neck and neck along the trail as far as they could be seen, and their eager and intense looks, and merciless slashings were sufficient evidence of the prize they were running after. One sad died but riderless horse was seen galloping along the trail an ominous sign of some accident or fatality which had befallen the rider. Some men were in chargo of two horses, aud were evidently riding relays toward the goal. Out of the dust which arose toward tho east, could be seen, after tbe train had reached the summit of a high ridge, a wagon caravan fully two miles in length, and which was being driven at the utmost speed of its horses. These- caravans were plainly out distanced by the horseback riders, and after several miles of the territory bad ben traversed, it was seen that tho best riders were winning the bct prizes. One homesteader, who had secured a magnificent quarter section of rolling laud, had dug a hole two or three feet dep at that cornerof it whero the surveyors ect ionmark was located, and where lie had driven hiastaken. Not lookinupon theseevidences of possession as suttU ient to confirm his title, ho seized a Winchester as the train izd. fcj and fired out all of iu contents, and

then emptied his revolver, yelling like a cowboy or a Comanche Indian all the time. "Sot onlv the yells but the shots were re-

"ponded to Irora the train, ana a voney went up into the air from the entire length of the section, which proved conclusively how well the party was armed in expect ancy of what might happen. A 'few miles the other side of the line tho train stopped at a military post. The whito tents of the soldiers and the officers' tents, surmounted by the national colors, were a gratifying evidence of a power sufficient to maintain order. Trooj D of the Fifth Regiment of cavalry was quartered there, and tho officers said that at the sound of the bugle at high noon there had been a movement among the boomers camped along the border, which had extended across the entire frontier line, and that the riding had been fast and furious ever since, some of the prospectors running to Guthrie to file their entries, and others going to locate on the land and secure a prior ngm to possession ny actual occupancy. The scene was one of the most stirring and picturesque ever witnessed. The smoke of a myriad of camp-fires, lighted to cook the first meal in Oklahoma, began to ascend in all directions, and before the first trainload of land-speculators rushed to the future gTcat city of Guthrie, the farmers had already become the possessors of a great deal of tbe land, ana more than one lurrow of virgin soil out of the land which had never before been tickled by the plow was turned over to the sun which has made tbe day glorious as well as memorable. It was twenty minutes after 12 o'clock when the first section of the Atchison train reachhd the line, and its progress from that point on to Guthrie was not rapid enough for the men who wanted to get thero in a hurry, before all the cream was skimmed otf the milk. Nevertheless it lacked but a few minutes of 1 o'clock when the train stopped in front of the Guthrie depot, a handsome and substantial edifice, which has has been irreatly libelled by tho numerous newspaper artists who have drawn on their imaginations ior its picture since mis excitement began. Before the train came to a stop, it was seen that somebody was already there; in fact, the town was already well populated. Tcuts were numerous on the eastern slope, and stakes were sticking up out of tho ground like poles in a bean-patch. Men could be seen racing in the direction of the valuable holdings, and the scene was as busy and an imated t a one as it is possible to imagine. Tho profanity among the Arkansas City, Wichita and Kansas City spec ulators was both loud and deep. If there has been a prospect of shooting at any tune to-day it was when these men found themselves baffled at tho game of freeze out. But they were compelled to swallow their wrath, for, according to all tho tech nicalities in the law, the men in possession were the rightful owners, and the men who had been left out were the ones who had been most persistent in their demand for the law's enforcement. There was nothing to do but to take what was left, and it was in the scramble to get this that the most ludicrous scene of the day was presented. Falling over each other in the effort to get out of the cars, every varietv of man alone the fron tier made an army which charged the laud-office at the top of the knoll, not in a body, but in detachments. The land office was not their point of des tination, though it stands at the corner of the section, and is, therefore, the present center of the town. But it was to secure the lots nearest to it that the rush was made. There was but little left near it. Stakes had already been driven almost to tho limit of the half section of 320 acres allowed for a town site. As the law now stands, there was but a small margin, and this was being rapidly wiped out by the same men who had already appropriated nearly everything in sight. It was but a few minutes until tho line was reached, and a back-action movement taking up tho lots which nobody bad wanted before bee an. They wero not long on the market after the ebb of tho tide set in, and when the second and third sections of the Atchison train arrived and found ev erything cornered the air was blue for miles around the metropolis. There was nothing to do, however, as every lot was protected by rules and revolvers, and if the shootinir began thero was no tcllins whero it would stop. Tho only recourse left to the disappointed men was to buy out such holders of lots as were willing to sell, or run the risk of taking outside tho legal limit. Both courses were adopted, and a good number of Guthrie City lots changed hands. The first sale was made by a man named R. C. Rummels, of Malvan. Kan.. who sold a fine twenty-five foot front lot near the land office for go to an old doc tor, a resident of ono of the In dian reservations adjoining Oklahoma. The purchaser refused $50 for the lot five minutes later. Several transfers were ruado to-day, and others, who determined to locate here, drove stakes outside the town line. This is preparatory to purchase of the homesteaders' rights and extension of tho city limits. No one who has never seen a Western town take form and shape can comprehend how quickly a full-rigged city with a double-deck boom can be put in running motion. Guthrie already has its Main street, its Harrison street, its Guthrie ave nue and its Oklahoma avenue, and this morning it was a wilderness where the an telope sported and the jack-rabbit flapped his ears in the sun. This afternoon at 4 o'clock the first municipal election occurred. The election notice appeared to-day iu the Oklahoma Herald. a daily paper. published at Guthrie on tho first day of its existence. A Coun cil was elected at the same time. Nearly 10,000 votes were polled, and there are about that many men in Guthrie with tho intention of becoming citizens. The leading candidates for Mayor were Adju tant-general Reice, of Illinois: Win. Constantme, of fcpringueld, O., and T. L. cumner, of Arkansas. The Bank of Oklahoma opened for busi ness at Guthrie to-day with a capital stock of $T)0.000. II. W. Levy, a Wichita banker. is president, G. W. Robinson, a banker of Wintield. and Horace Speed, of In dianapolis, directors. Tho new city is flooded with business cards of all descrip tions, representing every line of trade and business, every profession and every occupation imaginable. A mass of mail is expected to reach the Guthrie postoflice every day. It is now being run by a postal clerk detailed for that purpose, out Mr. r lynn, of Kiowa, Kan., lately appointed postmaster, will tako charge in a day or two. The scene which resulted in the practical cornering of town lots to-day originated with the Atchinson, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, probably in combination with the syndicate who have been hard at work in Arkansas City for a week or more past. As stated before, numbers of men have been going into the territory as deputy marshals, and others under permits as railroad em ployes. The marshals were Minply com missioned and not sworn, aud the railroad ers were not burdened with official orders. Thev all did their work to-day, and did it well. Officials in the Gutherio land office sav that men seemed to spring out of tho earth as noon approached, and that it did not take fifteen minutes to occupy half the town site. The land office officials have not been greatly rushed to-day, as the great majority of the homesteaders are making title by actual occupation, and will perfect it at a later date. The first homestead entry at the Guthrie office was by an old soldier claimant, named Johnson, a Kansan. The land office at Kingfisher was not opened to-day, but advices from there, by stage to Guthrie, reported an orderly colonizing of the town, which is to bo a rival of Guthrie in the Territory. Every- !.: .1 ..:. 1 . . I. ' iiuug us ifwuncu iiuici ciiwu& i no v u Indian. Purcell is a deserted village, and now a little station on the Atchison road, about eight miles north of it. has been laid out as a town site. It is evident that Oklahoma is to bo opened peaceably aud with out bloodshed. The crisis was passed to-day. The ijreat number of her citizens are law-abiding, and those who are not will be suppressed by tho strong hud of frontier justice, aided by military authority under command of General Merritt. who has established his headquarters at Okla homa City. There are now about 500 troops in tho Territory, and they will bo kept hero until order is assured. The Scramble for Town Tots. Arkansas City. April 22. Fifteen thou sand home-seekers are camped on the grassy upland of Guthrie, the pioneer city of Oklahoma. Their camp fires gleam in the dark ness, and their tents loom athwart tho sky like an army in bivouac. Guthrie, heretofore an insignificant station in a wild and uninhabited country, remote from civiliza tion, has a population of moro than 15.000. All this was gained in an af tenioon. In no country Rave America, k and in im nart of that v country eavo tho great W est, could such a thing bo

possible. When the first train arrived at Guthrie from Arkansas City, the embryo

streets aim lots or tno new ciiy naaaireauy been laid out by enterprising citizens who had been early on the scene. Hardly had the cars slowed down at the station when eager men leaped from the car-windows, slipped from the roofs of the coaches, and poured out of tho doors in streams. In a minute the slope leading np from the station was black with men rushing headlong, eager for the coveted town lots. In two minutes not one of the men who had filled the train was left in speaking distance of tne railway. By the time this crowd had reached the top ol he slope near the land office, men wlio had been running parallel lines for streets and driving stakes for town lots were well on their way along the level strip of land east of the land office. The crowd then caught tho moving line of streets and lots, and rushed eastward at a tremendous rate. The men who brought along a muslin sign bearing the words, 'Bank of Guthrie,', were compelled to take up a lot ono mue oacK or me station. Alio nci.1 iiiiiu diiniu uuui aiiidusas Citv. abont fifteen minutes later, brought 1,000 home seekers. The men in this train poured across the prairie like an army charging an enemy. They spread out north and south with axes, and spades, and stakes, and began with wonderful energy the location of town lots and streets. The third. fourth, fifth and sixth trains from Arkansas City swelled the number to as many thousand. When the seventh and eighth trains came in later in tho afternoon the crowd had overflowed all bounds. On tho east the streets and town lots had been extended fully two miles, on the north a mile and a half, and on the south nearly a mile. No attempt had been made to lay out a town on the west side of the track. This west land had all been filed on for homesteads. Almost with the first rush of home seek ers from the cars the home-seekers who had started across the Oklahoma north line, at noon, in wagons and on horseback, began to pour into the new city, lheir horses were reeking wet from the hot and furious drive. They took possession of such townlots in tho future Oklahoma metropolis as they could lay claim to. Meauwhile the land office was besieged by an eager and determined crowd of men .waiting to file claims uponhomesteads. As the atternoon wore on this crowd grew larger, until at closing time it reached, in a regular line, far down the street toward the railroad station. Business in the land office went rather slowly. The register and receiver did tho best they conld, but the pressure upon them was tremendous. The men who were waiting to file claims wero forced into line two abreast. Dealers in real estate began business before 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Ono enterprising dealer has as a background for the safe transaction of business, a stock of rifles which had been placed there by the government troops on duty at the land office. Near by was the tent of United States Marshal Needles. The tent was surmounted by a large American flag. THE WAGON I1003IERS. They Obeyed the taw and Were Cheated The Country a Sad Disappointment. Chicago, April 22. The Daily News spe cial from Guthrie, Oklahoma, says that the object of ten years of agitation is attained, and Oklahoma is occupied. Guthrie, which was a name on the map, a little red stationhouso by tho railroad track, is to-day a booming city of 15,000 inhabitants. Its structures are canvas, and its population almost exclusively male, but there is an interest and exqitement here that is wanting in many more substantial cities. It can now bo seen that the opening of Oklahoma was conducted under circumstances that made it impossible for the law-abiding set tler to secure an even chance with speculators and sharpers, and the investigation that must be granted to the home-seekers will disgrace tho federal method employed and dishonor some officials. Your corre spondent followed the march of tho 10.000 from the Arkansas and Walnut valley, camps down the Ponca trail and across the Cherokee strip. This was by live times the largest throng that eutcred! at any one point, and was composed of; tho best material that entered the territory, j They obeyed tho law in magnificent form, and that obedience was given at the cost of their lawful rights. While they halted on the line until noon to-day. hundreds of Arkansas crackers, Mississippians, Texans, and negroes from the southern border had been for hours on the march. That fact, with the additional one that Guthrie was handed over to a syndicate of government ' officers and railroad men, is sufficient to : start an inquiry. The next few days will fully develop tho situation and bring in news from the scattered parts of the territory. To complete tho grievance, the country threatens to be a tremendous disappointment. The only heavy check encountered in tho descent from the north was at the alt Fork of the Arkanas river. The stream was swollen far beyond its normal volume. Two outfits were lost in attempting to make the ford. The. railway bridge was planked by the troops, and the schooners and trains passed in this novel manner. It was reported that a wooded country lay ahead, but an hours' march cleared the riverside timber and we were on plains again. The land, although green and treeless, became more rolling than the splendid prairie north of tho fork, and tho soil was not quite so good. We were promised by every government employe and Texas ranchman, who alone sharo the strip with the Indians, that tho country would deteriorate southward. They viewed the passing tide of imigration with wonder and amusement. The promiso seemed to bo fully borne out this morning, when with the boomers' army, we reached the line. Tho trail then ran at the 6ido of the railroad track, and the boundary was marked by a long picket line of cavalry. It lacked but a half-hour of noon when the writer reached the border and passed through tho thousands of boomers held in check. A red, white and blue guidon was planted at a point on the line, whence the guard stretched evenly away on either hand. We advanced beyond this point to the Quarters of Lieut. Waite, commanding, and were in Oklahoma at last. The prospect confronted was a most cheerless one to have ridden so far and hard to see. The landscape is duplicated on the great American desert. It was a plain, broken only by buttes, gullies, and in the immediate foreground, by a railway embankment. The surface thus scanned revealed a soil as red as brick dust, and in spots almost vermilion. The whole region could be a huge paint quarry, and the sunlight upon this highly-colored ground reflected upon the figures of men and teams with 6trange effect. There was no vegetation save the scant and scattered buuch grass, and with it all, the heat was tropical. Such a shabby introduction to the promised land weighed heavily upon tho pilgrims, but, though many thought with regret of the glorious fairy fields of the Cherokee strip through which they had passed, all were eager to advance. Indeed, we have seen but one man turn back, and ho was going liome to nurse a rifle-shot wound through the neck, tho result of an accident. Those who had seen the plunge over the Kansas border had regarded that as a lifelong sight, but had not anticipated the repetition of that scene on a greater scale. Whereas, on the first occasion the boomers were crowded iu a singlo column down a muddy road, they now spread out along a lino a half mile long. Tho ground roso gently before them for about five hundred yards, then dipped and rose again higher. It was evident that thero was going to bo a rush and a race. Th mounted men crowded up to the front; the drivers of strong teams gathered their reins snugly in hand, while those with jaded stock of which there was, alas! too much looked sadly on or moved hopelessly hack to avoid tho impending rush. Thero was a tense strain of excitement upon all, and upon none more, it is certain, than those who were mere observers. All had previously set watches with the lieutenant's, and noted the last moments in a silence that echoed, as it weru, tho hush upon the boomers. The lieutenant stood in the open space at some distance behind his men. As the hands overlapped at 12 o'clock tho officer made a sign, the bugles sounded on both flanks, tho cavalry rolled back. closed up, and then swung away like a huge gate, with the pin resting on the railroad. Shrill cheers roso from the boomers, their whip-larhes resounded, the horsemen among them shot forward impetuously, the teams tugged at the rattling harness, and the whole motley crowd

swept forward with gathering motion. In a contest so wholly one of 6 peed, the race was to tbe 6wift, anil the broad line hcgan to straggle, the galloping horsemen disappearing over the first crest ero the teams in harness had half covered the ascent or the astonished oxen had responded to the goad. One mau. on the far right, who had run his horse like a deer in tho lead of a hot chase, leaped to the ground on the top of the ridge and began driving stakes. This was certainly the first homestead legally taken up in Oklahoma. He was wished a welcome to his claim, and the rest went tearing on. We were prepared here to send back our horses andoaggagovan and take the train due on this line at noon. It came a few minutes late, and it was difficult tq determine what manner of moving object approached. The locomotive was covered with men, and the roofs of tho coaches held nearly as many as tho interior. We flagged the train and secured roof space. We dashed over tho twenty-one miles to Guthrie in thirty minutes, and halted there, the first train to arrive since tho opening. Tho town 6ite had, however, been selected for us. It was set on the side of the track, and already the wooden land office and one hundred tents were standing, while twice as many more town lots were staked out. A rude postoffice was opened, a lnnch tent was going at full blast, and two meetings looking to organization hau been held. Three or four hundred men had done all this, and they had been on the scene two or three days. They pretend to have complied with the law, and declare that they did not take np their lots until 12 o'clock. They had no right, by the special laws under which Oklahoma was opened, to be in the Territory at all until noon today. On a side-track stood a JSanta Fe directors' car. In it were Judgo Guthrie, for whom the town is named; Judge Foster, the United States marshal, and other officers of the federal court at Wichita, and some Topeka men. They had been there ostensibly upon government business, but really to secure town lots, which they did in wholesale quantities. There were 500 deputy marshals on hand, and each had a lot. Not only is this true, but the same crowd, having its

eyes on a nne piece or not torn land lying across the track from the town, have been, in the open mockery of justice, scouring most the brush for boomers that they might occupy it themselves. Whether tho judges are party to these schemes or their Topeka gueets. who are more or less connected with the Santa Fe system, is of course not known. SOKE NEW DANGERS. Threatening to Occupy the Cherokee StripPossible Trouble with Indians. Purcell, Ind. T.. April 22. A scheme has just developed, the magnitude of which, and tho bold conception and the daring character of the men engaged in it, makes it one of great importance. It is every day becoming more apparent that the lands of Oklahoma will be insufficient for the people who will claim it. As a consequence thero have been orgauized bands, or companies, the members of which are sworn to protect their fellows. The leaders of the companies have agreed that if any considerable portion of them fail to get into Oklahoma thoy will league together and take possession of the Cherokee strip. Twothirds, even, of theso organized men will fail to receive locations, and in a week from to-day they will have 10,000 determined men, desperate from failure of cherished plans, driving the stock out of tho strip and holding down claims. ' The hopo of the men who have organized this desperate enterprise is to have so many people in the strip in a short time that it will be thought better to leave them than attemnt to drive them out. Arkansas City is tno headquartere of the engineers of the scheme, but auxiliaries are located along the line and the rush will be simultaneous at all points. The officers fear this and will endeavor to hurry a patrol for the strip from from Oklahoma to anticipate and thus prevent the expected rush. It is well known that such a scheme has been talked of by Colonel Cole and other Oklahoma agitators, and the present time they find most op portune to make the advance. A Washington special says General McCook, who has had long experience on the plains and is one of tho most skillful of our officers in dealing with the Indians, is now here. Ho is in command at Ft. Leavenworth and has been in consultation with the authorities as to the a Hairs in Oklahoma. General McCook says he does not anticipate any serious trouble, and he thinks that the troops will be welcomed by the boomers. Tho colonists who have been long on the border know. General McCook says, that the troops have no interest in the Territory and only desire to seo that the country is settled in accordance with the law and so that every settler shall have a fair chance. The troops will be scattered in diff erent parts of the region so th.it the utmost possible protection shall be given to the greatest number; at tho same time it will be possible for General Hatch to concentrate, with three days' notice, a force of 5,000 men at. least, composed of infantry, cavalry and artillery. That force will be sufficient to a ue 11, and probably prevent, any serious isturbance. The most serious trouble that General McCook fears is one that has not been considered in the newspapers, and which may arise on the western horder of Oklahoma. There, General McCook savs, the boundary line of Oklahoma is wholly imaginary, so far as any metes and bounds of the United States government are concerned. No corner stones have been set or boundary lines established by the government. Tho Arapahoes and the Cheyennes on the western border, however, know the boundaries of their reservations, and have their own private headstones at the river crossings. They police their own frontier and keep intruders offof their reservations. It will probably happen that some settlers will try to enter Oklahoma from that border, that they will suppose they are in the Oklahoma country, when they will be in the reservations of the Indians. The latter will warn them otf, and the settlers, claiming that they are in Oklahoma, will resist. The Indians will maintain their rights, and will put the settlers off, and trouble may follow. This, General McCook thinks, is, perhaps, the most serious part of the Oklahoma question. Gladstone on the Washington Centennial Buffalo. N. Y., April 22. In a recent letter to a Buffalo citizen, Mr. Gladstone writes: I re joice to bo put in possession of such declarations at a moment when your great country is about to celebrate, on tho 30th Inst., tbo centennial anniversary of the inauguration of George Washington as the nrst .President of the American commonwealth. I have been requested, from Chicago and elsewhere, to intimate an assurance of my participation in your national' Joy. It is a real and grateful participation, for the statesmen of the American revolution have taken their place once for all among the rreatent political Instructors of tbe world. Jeorjre W ashin 5ton was their acknowledged and illustrious head, and to him and them I have long felt that I owed no trivial part of my public education. Lonp, without limit of length, may that Union flourish under the blessing and favor of God, with the foundation ot which their names are Inseparably associated. Dishonest City Treasurer. Dukango, CoL, April 22. A warrant was issued to-day for the arrest of T. F. Burgess, citv treasurer, on a charge of being a defaulter in tho sum of $12,000. After considerable effort he was induced to turn over to tho city a certificate of deposit for 3.600, on a promise of release. As soon as set at liberty he procured a horse and started toward tho New Mexico line. Officers are in pursuit. Steamship w. New York, April 22. Arrived: Ems, Bremen. Southampton. April 22. The steamer Elbe, from New York, arrived here to-daj Why the Service Needs Reforming. Boston Herald. Tho postoffice at Jackson, Mich., is puzzled over the travels of a photograph mailed to Sturcis. Mich., last December. It left for its destination promptly, it was supposed; at least, it disappeared, and a few days aero it was returued to Jackson from ttie dead-letter omce ut Washington. The address was plain, but it had, mean time, been to New l oris, thence to England, and from there to Bombay, where it went into the dead-letter ollice Feb. 4, 1S80, and was returned to Washington. From the latter place it was, through the address of tho photographer printed on the card, cent back to Jackaon.

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A Farmer Who Was Bitten by a Dog Dies with All Symptoms of Hydrophobia. Anderson Workmen Ask for Iligiier WagesKnight Templars Observe Easter Safe Robber Confesses Flags in the Schools. INDIANA. A Farmer Diet a Horrible Death, Caused by the ISite of a Mad-Dog. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Tekre Haute, April 22. A farmer named Shoaf, living in Parko county, was bitten, in February, by a dog, and has just died a horrible death from hydrophobia. IIo was not alarmed by tho bite until last Thursday, when he informed his wife he believed he had hydrophobia. From that time on he was almost constantly in spasms, bark ing like a dog ami trying to bite everything in reach, lie was tied with strong rones to keep hira from injuring himself or others until death brought him relief. A bov named Mvers bitten by the same dog has begun to show the same symptoms. His arm, like that of bhoal, has swollen and turned black. Knights Templars Observe Easter Day. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Kn'igxitstowk, April 22. The Presby terian Church of this place was taxed to its utmost capacity on Sunday to witness the observance of Easter services, under the auspices of Knightstown Commandery No. 9, Knights Templars. The pulpit and space around tho organ was profusely and taste fully supplied with floral decorations. At 10:30 a. m. the Sir Knights, to the number of about sixtv. headed bv the craud com mander and grand prelate of Indiana, Kev. W. t red rettitt, followed by the commander and officers and members of Knightstown Coinnianderv. in full uniform. marched from their asylum to tho church, escorted by the Knightstown Cornet Hand. The services were impressively rendered throughout, and were listened to with the closest attention. The sermon was elo quent and impressive, the speaker closely confining himself to Faster day and its observance by Knights Templars. The music was rendered bv a select choir of singers, under the leadersbin of W. M. Edwards. with Kate Bradford as organist, aud the Misses Nell Whiteselh Alice WhiteselL Maud Holloway, and Nannie Welborn in special parts. Teamsters and Laborers on Strike. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Anderson, April 22. About three hundred teamsters and laborers engaged on the new additions to the city went on strike this .morning. The men have been employed in making streets and other improvements in Avondale, Ilazelwood and other additions. Saturday the men demanded an increase in wages, and receiving no satisfaction from the contractors, quietly refused to go to work this morning. Improvements in the additions are at a standstill to-day. Teamsters have been receiving $2.50 per day and demand $3, while laborers have been getting 1.25 per day and now demand $1.50. They claim that hi uh rents are the cause of the strike. The strikers are quiet but determined, and so are the contractors. There is no trouble so far and none is anticipated. A Vicious Prisoner Attempts Suicide. Special to the Indianapolis JournalAnderson, April 22. William Coon, confined in jail on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill, on account of striking his wife with a skillet for refusing to bring him a drink of water, attempted to commit suicide last night, by sawing his throat with a tin-type. Coon has been playing crazy for some days and last night he attempted the act, and managed to make a scratch and draw blood before being rescued by the jailer. Coon came near going to the penitentiary last winter for striking his wife, then Miss Emma Fiskner, with a stick of stove-wood, for reiusinir to dance, but was allowed liberty by marrying the girL Young Woman's Death Explained. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Wabash, April 22. To-day Coroner Woods investigated the mysterious death of Rose Heyer, which occurred on Sunday morning. A post-mortem examination revealed the fact that the girl had been terribly mutilated with instruments used for a criminal purpose, from the effects of which she died. The case is being rigidly investigated, and it is believed that the guilty person will soon be arrested. Mistaken for White Caps. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Mount Vernon, April 22. Quite a commotion was caused to-day among the colored people of Mount Vernon by a body of masked men marching through the streets, dressed in peculiar Turkish costumes. The negroes thought they were White Caps, and many of them left town by crossing the Ohio into Kentucky. The masked men, however, proved to be members of the Grand Order of the Orient, who were celebrating Koorday.as they called it. Will ripe Gas Into Kentucky. Special to the liiUanapoIls Journal Corydon, April 22. The Kentucky Gas Company has contracted with an Indianapolis firm to lay an eighteen-inch main across the Ohio river, for the purpose of piping the gas from the wells in Boone township, Harrison county, to Louisville. Thus tho constitutionality of the act passed by the Indiana Legislature at its last session, prohibiting the piping of natural gas out of the State, will be tested. Death Did Hot Ixng Separate Them, Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Peru, April 22. Isaac Newman, aged seventy-eight, and wife, aged seventy-two, died near Mexico, Miami county. The husband died yesterday and the wife to-day. They were among the earliest settlers, and were wealthy and widely known. The deaths occurred at nearly the same hour. Glanders in Wabash County. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Wabash, April 22. A deputy State Veterinary Surgeon was here, to-day, to investigate two cases of glanders among the 6tock of a farmer named Ham. at Mt. Etna. A valuable horse and a mule have already died, and another animal is ilL The farm has been quarantined. Confessed to Robbings Safe of 84,800. Bpeclal to the IndianapoUs Journal. Elkhart, April 22. Some time last night the safe in Hubbel & Corley's law-office was broken into and robbed of about $4,800 in money and notes. To-day George Jones, a young colored man, was arrested for tho robbery, and confessed the crime. Crushed by a Saw-Log . Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Martinsvillk, April 22. Jonathan Davee, who lives live miles northeast of here, was very badly crushed this morning, while loading n saw-log. A chain broke and the log rolled back over him. He is past sixty, and cannot recover. Minor Notes. Isaac Earhart's residence at Kent, Jefferon county, was burned on Sunday night. Loss, $3?000; insurance, $1,000. Joel Newlin. a Hendricks county farmer. while crossing a field on Sunday, was senously gorca oy a vicious duil The school trustees of Winchester have hought four acres of ground, and will erect a titty-thousand school-house thereon. Two hogs belonging to George Craven, a fanner near Milan, died from hydrophobia in the most violent xorin a tew days ago. Abraham Rimes, of Rochester, has filed suit for divorce. IIo has been married eight times, and only one of his wives has died. Jonathan!). Bevans,agedfifty-threeyears, and Minnie Cavcnangh. aged nixteen vears. were married last Saturday at Crawfordsville. Crawfordsvillo has a young lady who is teaching her intended husband the duties of the household. He washes dUhea for

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Daniel Lewis, one of the pioneer settlers. and one of the largest land-owners in Jennings county, died in Marion township, last Friday, and was buried on Sunday. Herman Hansheer, ex-treasurer of La Porte county, and ex-city treasurer of La Porte, died on Sunday of paralysis. Ho was a leading Germau citizen aud a veteran of the civil war. Samuel Reist, an alleged clairvoyant, has created a sensation by locating boxes of old coins buried on farms in the vicinity of Goshen. His last discovery contained money to the value of $10. Adjutant-general Ruckle says that tho colored men of Crawfordsvillo cannot bo mustered into the Indiana Legion, from the fact that Montgomery county has now two companies of infantry. Zachariah Hildebrant's residence at Elizabethtown, Bartholomew county, was burned on Sunday night, with its contents. Loss, $2,500; insurance. $1.1XX), in the Koyal of Liverpool. Mr. Hildebraut was severely ill at tho time, and was barely rescued, from the flames by the neighbors. Charles A. Osborne, a brakeman on the Vandalia line, was caught between the bumpers of two freight cars, at Crawfordsvillo, Monday, and had his left shoulder and arm crushed and the collar-bone broken. His recovery is rather doubtful. He was taken to his home, at Terre Haute. He was insured in the Travelers' Accident Company. A convention of the Sabbath schools of Harrison county was held at Palmyra on Sunday. Addresses were made and essays were read by Prof. G. B. Haggett, Rev. J. K. Welker, Mr. Harry McGraiu, Prof. Grant Sims, Mr. James Wynn, Mr. Thomas W. Hise, Mr. James A. Davis, Mrs. E. V. Allen, Mrs. S. K. Jones, Miss Kate Luckett, Miss Annie Reader and others. The attendance was quite large. ILLINOIS. Beautiful American Flags Presented Public Schools by a Woman's Relief Corps. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Monti cello, April 22. The ladies of Franklin Relief Corps, No. 64, visited tho public schools to-day in a body, and Mrs. Flo Miller, in behalf of the corps, presented each department of the public schools with a beautiful American flag, six feet long, of pure bunting. Professors Fisher and Downs responded on behalf of the schools. The-day was duly observed, as requested by Gov. J. W. Filer. Brief Mention. William B. Spiller, a well-known citizen, died at Marion, on Sunday, aged seventysix years. J. H. Furnish, on Saturday, received f2l from the clerk of Piatt county, as scalpmoney for seven wolves killed by him near Monticello. Mrs. Reuben King, the Springfield negres. who claims to have fasted forty days and nights last winter, advertised that she would turn water into wino on Sunday. A large crowd assembled, but she failed to do as she promised. After a long trial in the Circuit Court at Tuscola, Joseph B. Barkhurst, Frank Brown and William Willis have been acquitted of tho chargo of causing tho many incendiary fires at Murdock, involving a loss of over $40,000. NEWS FROM ABROAD. Lord Churchill Puts a Chip on Ills Shoulder and Defies Chamberlain. London, April 22. Lord Randolph Churchill, in an angry letter reproaching Mr. Chamberlain for his want of magnanimity after the conservative sacrifices in Birmingham, and justifying in detail his own acts, bluntly tells Mr. Chamberlain that if the Conservatives choose to test their strength throughout Birmingham, the result would.certainly be the political annihilation of Mr. Chamberlain and his friends, who, if they have unionism at heart, liad better moderate their pretensions and conciliate rather than provoKe the Conservatives. The Rioting at Vienna. Vienna, April 22. The rioting in connection with street-car strike was continued to-day, and many an-ests wero made. At midnight tho Favoriten, Ottakarin and DonibacU quarters were occupied by cavalry. Every arrest made to-day was followed by a vigorous rally of the mob, with the object of rescuing the prisoner. It is estimated that there were 20.000 rioters. ODe woman was trampled to death, and many persons wero seriously injured. Foreign Notes. The Czar is suffering from extreme nervons excitement, being in constant dread of attempts upon his life. Lord Brownlow denies that he has accepted the vicerovship of Ireland. He eay he has never been ottered the post. The Date of Edinburgh, commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean station, is prostrate from fever, and is returning to hng land on board the Alexandra. The Journal Srbobran, of Belgrade, saya ex-King Milan has becoiuo a monk of Jerusalem, with a view to eventually becoiniug Patriarch of all the Servians. . Mr. Convbeare, member of the English Parliament, has been summoned to appear before tho court at Falcarragh, to answer the charge of conspiring to oppose the law. The Pope yesterday celebrated mass iu the Consistory Hall. Many strangers were present. At mid-day ho received prelates and others. At the coming consistory ho will create 6evcn cardinals. The rioting in connection with the strike of the Vienna tram-car men was reue wed j'esterdav. The strikers attacked the earn, and succeeded in biuashing mauy of them. The cavalry were ugain called out, aud ik charge was made upon tbe rioters, manv of whom were wounded. About one hundred strikers were arrested. A fact that all men with gray and many shaded whiskers should know, that Buckingham's Dye always colors an even brovA or black at will.