Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1891 — THE OKLAHOMA OVERFLOW. [ARTICLE]

THE OKLAHOMA OVERFLOW.

Many Boomers Settled In the Cherokee Strip for the Winter. A m\p coming in from the dfeerokee strip says that hundreds of families that failed to get claims in the lands opened last week are settling In the strip. In the Blackbear valley about fifty families are constructing dugouts and log cabins, dig* glug walls and making preparations to

spend the Winter. It is the same way along the Salt fork and Arkansas rivers. Further west the boomers are keeping the grass burning everywhere, hoping t« drive the cattle out and thus hasten the opening to settlement.