People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — LEFT THE STRIP. [ARTICLE]

LEFT THE STRIP.

Thousands ot People Have Abandoned the Land of Promise. Guthrie, O. T., Sept. 27.-The Cherokee strip has been settled a week and things are getting down to a business basis. Of the 200,000 people who enter el the land on the 16th over half have left. The population of new towns is now about as follows: Pawnee, 1,000; Kirk, 3,000; Kildare, 100; Ponca, 1,000; Enid, 5,000; Pond Creek, 2,000; Alva, 1,000; Woodward, 1,000; Perry, 12,000. Perry is destined to be the leading town of the strip, and the governor has issued his proclamation declaring it to he a city of the first class. MaDy capitalists and town boomers have located there in the last week and will make an effort to start a second Wichita boom. Work was begun Monday on a depot and over 300 buildings are going up. One contractor has contracted to put up seventy-five buildings and is importing carpenters by the hundred. Sunday night three more dead bodies were sou nd east of Perry, two of them indicating murders.