The Kingman Daily Courier from Kingman, Kansas • Page 1

A 1 I A jijy vo- I mi urn mi if BY C. SI. BAT. KINGMAN, KANSAS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 22, 1889. VOL II, NO.

203. NO WHISKEY FURIOUS FLAMES THEY SWEPT BLOCKS IN NEW YORK CITY. NEARING THE DAY! PURCELL ALIVE WITH fcSOOMERS. FIRST BLOOD 1 DEPUTIES AND BOOMERS HAVE AN ENCOUNTER. an til they can sen it mm oe oacn lor round ud.

The cattleman 'are making no attempt to protect their fences in the strip aud the boomers are cutting them. Hundreds of miles of fences will be broken to pieces. Today word was received here that whisky could be sold in the strip but no saloon wagons have yet'started. They would do liti le business for a while any way, for the or 8.000 men who have started from Caldwell have taken 7,000 or 8.000 quarts of whisky with them. The business done by drug stores in this line is enormous.

A second bank for Kingfisher was organized here yesterday afternoon. UOO.VEES ALONG THE LINE. The frail taken by the boomers lay clos along the railroad clear to the northerr border of Oklahoma aud there wagons could be seen. They all yesterday after noon continued to roll out of Arkansas City and in small parties their white topped wagons could be seen moving on southward. Many had stopped and gone into camp along the Chicolot creek.

At the headquarters of the Standard Oil company's cattle ranch, near Willow Springs and thirteen miles south of Arkansas City, the main body was found encamped. It was 5 o'clock when the encampment was passed and only isolated parties of two or three wagons were afterwards seen. 'Soon afterwards the Salt Fork wa9 crossed. This is one of the streams so much feared by the boomers in crossing the strip. Its waters were high but well confined within banks.

At Ponca a number of men alighted from the train: they were figuring on a townsite scheme for Guthrie. In this they were not alone, as many other persons are BETTER THAN EVER- Business Kapidly Improving Crop Prospects of the Kest. NEW. York, April 19. R.

G. Dun weekly review of trade says: Most the indications usually considered of I'alue point to a genuine improvement in Business rather in volume of transactions than in profit. Crop prospects irighten steadily. Lower prices result in largely increased expenditures. Money is ibundant, the treasury is pouring out freely and there are no signs of pressure abroad.

Railroad earniiigs are in-2reased and payments through banks easy. Failures iu some important branches of are numerous. Collections are slower than usual. The iron and lumber interests are em-Darrassed by production largely exceeding present dun Hid. At Kansas City wet has affected trade and collections nd at Pittsburg slow movement and iveakness in prices of iron aud steel products glass and coal affect business but at Cleveland more inquiry for ron ore is reported aud a better feeling is nan ifest.

The wool market is waiting: the old supply is nearly exhausted and new wool Peng not as yet available in quality, prices ira mostly nominal, but average for 104 jrades and qualities nearly one cent lower. The classification of worsted goo. Is as woolens by the appraiser at Philadelphia aas been endorsed by the board of appraisers, but it has no effect on the mark-its as yet. Tiia direct influence of the depression in ron and steel business is large, but it has i still greater moral influence, because of current impression that the of iron affords a reliable barometer of general condition of business. It is violent that this impression must be modified some measure iu times like these, when the consumption for rails has declined enormously.

A Chicago publ'catiou of mileage of all the roads projected fails to stimulate iron manufacturers, who are well aware how many consumers are in the market to purchase rails with bonds not otherwise marketable. But when the quantity of iron made into rails is deducted, the remaining consumption for all purposes this year exceeds that of last year by not far from 400,000 tons per quarter, which is surely not a discouraging symptom. Pi ices are low, however. The over production of leather does not appear to be caused by any shrinkage in demand for finished products, since the shipments of boots and shoes are larger than in any previous year, but the depression in price which has now continued Bince lssu and readied per cent is unprecedented as to duration and the excess of production undoubtedly begins to em-barass many firms. Cotton manufacturing is prosressing fairly with a consumption a little larger than in any previous year, with print cloth ftroug at 3.75 for sixty-fours.

'opper has fallen His at London during the past week and the projects for future control of the markets co not yet materialize. Tin has also declined to 20.S9 cents, but lead is strong at 3.07 cents. Wheat is but a shade lower and corn a little higher than a week ago. The rapid approach of another harvest with an inside surplus in excess of all probable demands which seems likely to be not far from 40.0i.H),00;J bushels July 1 is a sufficient cause oT depressiou iu heat. The general average of brices are a shade lower than a week ago.

Exports of merchandise improve, and for two weeks of April have been 20'-i per cent. larger than last year. The business failures number 210 as against 239 last week, and 222 the week previous: for the corresponding week of last year the figures were 195. OKLAHOMA WILL, BE VERY DRY. Commissioner Mason Orders Kevemie Officers to Issue no Liquor Licenses.

Secretary Noble Refuses to Reserve Townsites, as Was in the Proclamation. NO LIQUORS SOLD-Leavenworth-, April 19. N. F. Acers, collector of internal revenue for the district of Kansas, which includes the Indian territory, is today in receipt of the following instructions from Hon.

John W. Mason, commissioner of internal revenue, which settles the matter regarding the sale of liquor in Oklahoma and corrects the statements given out in yesterday's Associated Press dispatches, which were entirely incorrect: "Washington, D. April 19. F. Acers, Collector, Leavenworth, Kansas.

Send deputies as desired to prevent infractions of law in Oklahoma. Issue no stamps to liauor dealers intending to do business there. The government will not permit the sale of liquors there. Revenue-Agent Clark will assist you in preventing violations. John W.

Mason, Commissioner." In accordance with foregoing Collector Acers this evening detailed and gave special instructions to IJaputy Collector Ed Gats and he will leave lor Guthrie at once in charge of ten other deputies when Collector Acers has commissioned and sworn in for special service in Oklahoma. The intention is that force if depnties shall be on the ground in advance of boomers with arrangements consumated to prevent the sale of liquors at any cost and with full authority to use the military if necessary to compel au observance of. the law. WON'T GRANT TOWN SITES. Washington, April 10.

The secretary of the interior today rendered the following decision relative to town sites in Oklahoma: Department of Interior, Washington, April 19, IS59. To the Commissioner of the General Land Office; Sir I am in receipt of your communications of the 15th Inst, relative to application of the Oklahoma Capital City Town Site and Improvement company asking permission to locate and enter certain lands in Guthrie and Kingfisher land districts tor the town sites in the Indian territory seventeen in number said application having been referred by the department to your office on the 11th inst. I concur in the views expressed by you in your said communication that there is no authority in the department to grant application of the Oklahoma Capital City Town Site aud Improvement company to enter lands as now presented, and I am also of the opinion that the provisions of the act cf March I8s9. providing for entries of lands for town sites under sections 2377 and of the revised statutes does not app'r to corporat ions of this character, although the president might have power to reserve land sites for town sites under section Such reservation could not be made for the benefit of a corporation of this character, but would be disposed of in the manner now provided by law. Very respectfully, John W.

Noble. Secretary, THE WESTERN WiNG- Hundreds of Moving Wagons Leaving the Vicinity of Caldwell. Caldwell, April One thousand campfires glimmered along the old Reno stage trail last night from CaldweU to Pond Creek. Today, 1,000 canvas cov-ered wagons are moving along the trail. A reporter spent yesterday afternoon upon the plains with the boomers.

From 10 o'clock in the morning, when permission to move was given, until dark, the eager immigrants poured out of Caldwell, a boisterous and picturesque stream. The day wTas favorable, and notwithstanding late heavy rains, the trail, which is almost identical with the old Caldwell and Fort Reno stage trail, was in very good condi tion. The most popular outfit is a strong canvas covered Studebaker, drawn by two large, stout horses, and the horses of the boomers are all looking in good condition Some large wagons have four or even six horses. Some are drawn by heavy plod ding oxen. "Jest a peterin' said one of t3ie drivers, 'but we'li get there just the Some parties are mounted on ponies and carry whole camp outnts ueumd tneir saddles.

ire crossing the strip in buggies. One odd turnout is a large, high, old-fashioned buggy drawn by two shaggy yellow horses with a colt hitched by ifc mother and a black cow tied behind. The driver is a woman and she drove with one hand while the other supported a little child. A shockey-headed youngster of 10 followed on behind, stoppiug now and then to wade in the water that fills the buffalo wallows aud pelting the oid cow with clods. The woman was a Kansas widow seeking home in the promised land.

Four large horses pull a large frame room like a travelling photographer's outfit upon which in large letters reads "The Great War Show." From the great number of old soldiers among the colonists it would seem that it should do a good business. It seems as if half the men on the trail wear G. A. R. badges.

All the stories to the contrary notwithstanding it does not seem that there can be any trouble among the men who are driving over the trail today. They are as fine a body of pioneers as ever went into a new country. Most ot them are Kansas and Nebraska farmers and although a gun is in every wagon and across every saddle bow, the owners are men who will use them to keep peace and not to make trouble. They know how to use their guns if necessary, as they show now and then by taking a shot at a jacksnipe or a meadow lark which starts up along the trail. There has not been the least trouble among men since they first went into camp at Caldwell.

Most of the wagon boomers got out of Caldwell yesterday and this morning. There were about 4,000 of them. Many of them have little or no money, but almost all are well equipped for camp life. There are still many nin iu town that will go down today or tomorrow, taking the train to Pond Creek and trusting to the stage to get them to Kingfisher or Lisbon, the name which the new postouice will give to the town. Salt fork, Pond creek and all the other streams in the strip it is thought can be forded, although every one is very high.

All is doubt about the chances of fording the Cimarron and a wagon left Caidwell last night bearing a large boat. With which the owners expect to start a ferry. In addition to the men who have during the past twenty-four hours entered the Cherokee strip there will be a great rush into the new country Monday by cowboys who have been working for Cherokee strip sttlemen. Almost all those working on ranohes around Caldwell have given up their jobs aud will be on the border the 22ud. They do not intend to become farmers but will take a stood claim, hold More Destruction than by any Fire Gotham has had in Many Years.

Two Million Dollars Worth of Property Utterly Destroyed By FJames. TERRIBLE HAVOC New York, April 19. The biggest ana fiercest fire New York has witnessed in this generation swept the east bank of the North river clean today -from Fifty-ninth street to what would be Sixty-fifth street if that street ran to the river. It destroyed more than of property belonging to the New York Central railroad and $500,000 worth of lard, flour and the like belonging to other persons, notably X. K.

Fairbank, the great Chicago lard merchant. The flames destroyed the two big elevators A and of the Yander-bilt system, a big brick building stretching street to Sixtieth street, and occupied jointly by the Fairbanks Refinery and the Rossetor stores, and wiped out the dock property of the New York Central Railway system from Fifty-ninth to past Sixty-ninth street. At least one man was killed in his headlong flight from the fire at the first, outbreak. A number were injured jumping from the windows of burning buildings, but in the wild turmoil no account was kept of them. The police have the following record of casualties: Henry Bent ling, G19 Tenth avenue, workman iu Fairbanks' refinery, killed by jumping from a th rd story window.

John Johnson, 51 West Forty ninth street, likewise a workman in Fairbanks', severely injured by jumping from a window. Charles Brown, 003 West Forty-third street, seveie inluries about the head from the same W. J. Noble, fireman of engine No. 2, prostrated bv heat while at work at the foot of Fifty-ninth street; Edward H.

Tobin, fireman, prostrated by heat. Rumors were rife all evening that a Dumber of workmen had been caught and burned in Fairbanks refinery, but it is impossible to ascertain the truth of them. At least 250,000 people turned out to watch the brilliant sight from beyond police lines on Twelfth avenue. AU west sides streets were blocked and the elevated carried swarms up aud down town to swell the crowds. The police reserves were called out to preserve order.

Kvery fire engine above Fourteenth street was called out to aid in the work, but the firemen fought against tremenduous odds, first owing to the resistless rush of flames and second because of conformation of the ground in the locality which is upon a rugged slope from higher ground to the Hudson river. The tire broke out in the northeast corner of the Fairbanks refinery, where worknen were busy at the time setting up a new cooling apparatus. The fire started, no one Knows how, and probably no one ever will know. Soaked in grease, as the old building was, it was aflame iu an instant. From the ground the fire swept upward to the roof almost with the speed of thought.

Men at work in every story dropped their tools and ran to save" their lives. The stair cases were glowing chimneys throwing out fire through every tloor. The windows presented the only means of escape. Pursued close by Hames mea flung themselves out by scores headlong and behind them burst out the flames. How many were there no one could tell.

Those who came out were picked up and carried away by their friends, shuddering to think some might have been left. Cryipg wives and mothers crowded the police lines shouting for their husbands and sons and begging for news of them. They were turned back and bidden to look in the throngs for those they sought. They would, the policemen hopefully said, probably find vhem there. The fire swept on.

Fairbanks' refinevy, the old establishment of the W. J. Wilcox company, stands uuon the water front be tween Fifty ninth and Sixty-fifth streets; occupying half a block 200 by 100 feet. The refinery was on the south half; the Rosseter stores for general merchandise on the north side. A strong brick wall divided building in the middle Upon this brick wall the firemen during a half hour of desperation based their hopes of successful combdt.

The flames beat against it, heated it red hot and the roof feel iu upon it but it stood like a rock. Auything save such a fire it would have resisted, but the flames fed by melted aud flowing lard burned fiercely and leaped high. They leaped above and around the barrier and reached across Sixtieth street, and the dock slip. Over there stood the first and bigge-t of the enormous grain elevators of New York Central. It was elevator the construction of which cost half a million.

It stood presenting its gable end to the flames that were blown towards it. Once that caught there would be no saving elevator and no telling where the flames would stop, for beyond were freight sheds in-numeral. Between the elevators on the water front and Twelfth avenue were the first twenty-seven railroad tracks, which no fire engine could cross, and next the Union stock yards, a half mile of enclosure and pens equally inflammable. Even if a way could have been hewn through the enclosures and tracks, the line of demark-ation between the two was a stone wall with a sudden descent of five feet. The tracks were that much lower than the yard.

There was no way for an engine to reach the elevators except along Sixtieth street past the burning buildings. Chief Shay asked his men to fight for lite to save the elevators He knew even if they did get their engines into the railroad grounds they would be of little use, for there was only a six-inch water pipe there and that was insufficient. FATALITY AT A FORD. Huxnewell, April 19. Pawnee Bill's colony, consisting of 300 wagons, left Hunnewell yesterday and is now water-bound at the Salt tork of the Arkansas, twenty miles south of that city in the territory.

While attempting to ford the swollen and turbulent stream a man named Freither and his horses were drowned in full view of the frightened colonists, ho were unable to render him any assistance. The sad accident demonstrated that fording was out of the question and the whole colony is now engaged in the construction of a huge raft, upou which they hope to float over to the other side with their teams and outfits. This afternoon a train of 485 vehicles containing colonists bound for Oklahoma from Salt Lake Yalley, Utah, and points in Colorado passed six miles west on their southern journey. It is reported that yesterday evening while crossing the strip a fight took place between cattle men and boomers over some fence cutting and that four men were killed and the trouble is not over. The rumor cannot be confirmed as some people who are supposed to know of the trouble deny it and are dumb as oysters when the matter is broached, The Schemers Working all Manner of Sly Gaines to Gtt Possession of Ciaims The Townsite Speculators Still at Sea and Anxions to See the Outcome.

ALIVE WITH BOOMERS- PrncKLL, I. April 10 This place, like all other boom centers, is full of boomers. They are everywhere, and seem to contend with the gamblers and slugs for complete possession of the place. It is estimated that there are here in camps and in wagons 7,000 people. Many of them Lave been here for ais and have been the Most persistent of al! agitatois.

They are full of schemes and are the most liberal and easy debaters and discussers of the situation, the homesteads, the laws and everything else hi Oklahoma that are to be found anywhere in the land. Some times they get up in the morning Lilly agreed that the proper thins is to file first and squat afterward. They talk all day in this and going home, sleep over the matter, change their mind and argue all the next day that the proper thing is to set i le first. THE TOWN -1TK I -TioN. One of the most freely discussed themes at present is the town site The plan that they are all now at work upon differs from most town site scheme ever before presented.

is go upon the land jump a claim, if necessary in some most desirable spot; go there en masse and every man pick out his own lot just as it strikes lim and commence the town. They don't seem to favor very strongly having a long array of officers, any big fee. or any unjust discrimination in favor of the officers. It is a sort of every-man-pitch-iu scheme and make the value of your lot yourself. If you want to build a store, a court house, a joint or a jail on your lot go ahead and do it.

Then there is a party of Indians who expect to come up from 1 he Deal country and securing a claim by any means settle down upon it and commence their town. The simple facts of the case are that here are some of tie shrewdest men on the whole border, at least in formulating plans. 'Whether they will succeed as well in their development is a matter that the future will show. WATER liOF-SN'T III II THEM. That rise and fall of the South Canadian liver is not bothering the.se people much.

The getting across the river is a sort of secondary matter that they don't take much into calculation, iioiii liie shr.pie that they are-going to gst across and that is ail there is it. The waters have somewhat subsided the past few days and many have driven across in the wagons and are now pretty thoroughly established, in their own minds, at least. They have driven across because they thought they would take adyaniage of the fortunate circumstances. The river last night was rising figain: whether it will really affect them is 1 matter that will be found out definitely when the great day, the --d, conies rolling around. OETTINCi EVEN WITH KICKERS.

These old fellows who have given money to secure favorable legislation and worked with all their might in the past are somewhat distun ei as to who is or is not their friend. They are suspicious, very suspicious, and everybody, from their best friend to the railroad company, they feel like watching. They believe that one of their old leaders is putting up a game on them: they feel quite certain that the railroad employes are endeavoring to beat them; and so on the opening day one man who has looked with great longing upon a beautiful piece of land near Oklahoma City is going to find himself surrouneed by claim jumpers, and to be told, with revolvers dangerously near his head, to keep quiet, that he in the past opposed the boomers and now they are going to return the compliment. THE CHICKASAW Right here today comes up for discussion a cjuestion of as great interest, perhaps, as the opening of Oklahoma, that is lie opening of the Ohickasaw nation and its wonderfully rich and fertile valleys, Paul's and Washita. At the last meeting of the Chickasaw council it would have required but one vote to secure an allotment of the land.

In May the same question comes up again, and it is stated hat it will be carried by a good majority. The reason for this appears quite evident to those who are familiar with the country and people. There are in the nation many white men who years ago matried squaws. With that enterprise and industry characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race, hey have grown wealthy some very wealthy, while the full Indian has plodded along in his easy, indolent manner, and is no better oft now than years ago. He thus favors the allotment because he will secure lands and also the money accruing from the sale of that enriched by the industry of his white tribal brethren.

Bob Lott and Paul, it is said, would consent to the allotment if they each can get TOO acres. Should such an allotment be made Paul would hold in himself and family the greater part of the valley bearing his name. In view of the present situation of affairs, the condition of the strip and of Oklahoma itself, wiil not be uninteresting. The track of the Santa l'e lies through this country, and along it is now gathered many of the most striking thiugs of this nteresticg movement. BOOMERS ON FOOT.

Shortly after leaving Arkansas City we met a party of colored men worrying along under a burden of tents and cooking utensils. Afterwards when the train was stopped to await the passage of the northbound train they came up and Zack Mul-hall paying their fare they were taken aboard. They were part of a colony that had left Morris county, Kansas, for the promised land. They had no conveyance of their own and so had started on the journey afoot, taking advantage of such 'lifts'' as they could get along the way. Mr.

Mulhail, whose ranch is at Alfred, the first station in the Oklahoma country, s'ated that he felt very much concerned over his cattle. Many of them had strayed away and will be either frightened away or killed by the boomers. He has wandering around on the ranch about 1.000 head. Those that he has already bunched will be sent up into the strip. Many cattle were found dead along the railroad.

They had been shipped up from Texas and being wea. ami exliaustef had been trampled to death in the can aud their carcasses thrown along thi track. At Ponca a party of cowboys were await ing the arrival of a south bound train on which was to arrive a large shipment cattle from the Simpson ranch. Then has been recently shipped from Texas tc this ranch alone C.0O0 cattle. Men from Toxas Tresspass on Oklahoma and Refuse to Surrender When Caught.

The Military Ready to Answer any Call at an Hour's Notice If Trouble Comes. MORE BLOODSHED. "Purcell, I. April VJ The chiet deputy marshal here, with a posse of men, has all the afternoon been engaged in hunting the boomers in the Oklahoma land opposite this place. They returned at 4 o'clock with one party and have corralled in the woods and ravines a party ol 300.

Intelligence reaches here tonight that an engagement took place between a party ot boomers and the deputies, in which several persons were wounded. The boomers, who were mostly Texans, it is stated, were attacked in a barricade of logs and stones by the deputies and commenced firing. The volleys were returned with spirit for some time, but the boomers surrendered after some had been wounded. The jug goes to the water until it brt ak-. i That neglected cough may rack you until it breaks down the entire system and con- sumption is fastened on to you.

A sure cure is found i Warner's Lost Cabin COUGH AND CONSUMPTION remedy: Two sizes. S1.00 and 50 cents AT AN HCUR'S NOTICE- LEAVENWORTH, April It). AU tht troops at this garrison, including part of the hospital corps, with the exception of the company of infantry, are under arms and following General Merritt and his aide. Lieutenant Podge, into Oklahoma at an hour's notice. General Merritt and aide are now on their -way to the territory; the general with unlimited discretionary powers.

The troops detailed for this service frort this point consist of four companies of infantry, only a small garrison guard add the company gardeners being lei'c. The infantry company mentioned as excepted is under orders to Itave for Newport Barracks, Kentucky. The order to move was received at noon today. The four companies filled four Santa Fe coaches, and their equipments as many baggage cars. Reinforcements will reach the 'territory and be ready u- service before Oklahoma is opened tqhe settlers.

AVasjhngton, April 19. The general land office officials have information than persons will attempt to evade the law of homestead entry in Oklahoma. The method is to procure from soldiers declaratory -tatement which will operate to reserve the lands for a period of six months. They also obtain from the soldier at the sameime a relinquishment of his rights thereunder. Sharpers may then be aide at any time within six months to sell their claims to persons desiring homes and by filing relinquishment the purchaser obtains a preferred right in the lands located.

Every possible eftui wiil be made by land officials to prevent consummation of these frauds and when found the guilty parries will be prosecuted to the full the law for perjury. The law on this'subiect permits soldiers to make their entries through attorneys who. however, must swear thev have no personal interest in the claims and filings are not made with a view to relinquishing the claim. MERRITT WILL PRESErTvE ORDER-Washington'. Aprii 10.

The following order supposed to have resulted from the cabiuet meeting this afternoon has just been sent by telegraph to the commanding general of the division of the Missouri at Chicago: Awi'tant General's Oi kk rril VI By direction of the major general the following is communicated: The president directs that General Merritt act in conjunction with marshals of the I nited States courts having jurisdiction in the country open to settlement under the president's recent proclamation to preserve Deace and will." upon the requisition of such marshals or their duly authorized deputies, use the troops nnder his command them iu executing warrants, making anests and quelling any riots and disturbances of peace that inayari-e. He will use his influence to promote peace and good order and will take every proper measure to avoid any conflict of arms between or with the settlers. He will also see that the laws relating to the introduction of ardent spirits into the Indian country is risidlv enforced. A caretul enforcement of thsse provisions will do very much ta promote good order. LSigued W.

C. SHEI.TON, Assistant Adjutant General. NOTHING WILL STOP THEM. Wellington, April 19. Two Oklahoma colonists outfits attempted morning to cross Slate Creek which is greatly swollen at Foraker's Ford, two miles south of this city.

The first horses to enter were drowned, the wagon swept away and the occupants rescued with great difficulty. Without attempting to save the submerged wagon or contents the boomers hastily drove the other outfit to a farm house near by, leaviuar it in charge of the irmer and mounting horses galloped awav to the nearest railroad station to take the cars for Oklahoma. They had traveled over 0J miles overland and said thev were determined to reach Oklahoma in spite of "II 1 and high water." NO TROUBLE LIKELY. Chicago, April 19. Superintendett Brit-ton, of the Baltimore Ohio railway, said that threatened trouble between the company and its employes, growing out of the life and accident assurance plan which the company has been seeking to put into operation among its men, had beeu amicably settled.

He added: "There has been no trouble, but some of the men seemed to think they had grievances and accordingly the company has agreed that none of the employes need sign for insurance benefit papers unless they are so disposed. The paper is still being circulated anion? employes and the readiness with which they sign is proof conclusive to my mind that the dissatisfaction never did amount to anvthinsr iu narticular." BECAME DESPONDENT AND SUICIDED San Antonio, April 19. Clinton M. Storms, of Kansas, the husband of a variety a variety actress named Loa Du-rand, took an overdose of morphine at 10 o'clock last night aud died about 2 this morning. He was of good family, was a druggest by profession, and married the woman three months ago in Leadville, Col.

His mother lives at Ottawa, Kan. After his marriage he ran a drug store in El Moro, but failed, and afterwards drifted here. He killed himself because he could not obtain work and his family would have nothing to do with him. THE RUSH BY KAIL. Caldwell, April 19.

The rush of people who will try to take the Kock Island railway routa between today aud Monday will be so great that the Rock Island almost despairs of able to accommodate them. One colony of 600 will leave Wichita tomorrow by this route. General Manager Perkins, General Passenger Agent Sebastian and Kansas City Passenger Agent Moffet, of the Kock Island, were in the city this morning and risited Pond Creek. Mr. Sebastian as soon as he heard of possible trouble at Pond Creek telegraphed to Wichita that the road would furnish free to teams and wagons if tickets were sold to owners, the travelers to proyide their own transportation from Pond Dreek.

Mr. Parker arrived last night from a over the projected road from Fort Reno to Pond Creek. He crossed the Cimarron yesterday morning. He says it is not as high as represented and can be irossed. To provide for emergencies, however, the Rock Island sent two large boats to Pond Creek this morning.

They will be carted to the river. Manager Green, of the stage line "Can-nonball Green," as he is known throughout the southwest is buying all horses to ba had here and in the neighboring country. He shipped seventy-six to Pond Creek this morning. Fourteen stages in addition to those used by the old Fort Reno line which are at Pond Creek were shipped from Wellington today. Messrs.

Parker Sebastian and Maffett returned from Pond Creek this afternoon. They say that the reports of high water have been greatly exaggerated and that Captain Woodson reports from the front-tier that there will be no trouble with the streams. THE MOVEMENT AT ARKANSAS CITY. Arkansas Cnr, Aoril 19. The change of date for crossing the Cherokee strip line by the Oklahoma settlers from the 19th, today, to yesterday the ISth, made number in the first batch to cross the line smaller than it otherwise would have been.

Succeeding events show the change to have been a wise one. Despite the solid five miles of wagons which went into the strip yesterday morning the influx during the rest of the day was enormous. The word that the movement would occur today had become widespread to the north and many settlers who otherwise would have beeu here for the start remained in their camps, not breaking until afternoon yesterday, so late in the day there continued to be an almost continuous stream of wagons on Summit most of the afternoon. Arrivals camped here last night aud proceeded this morning. Only a few entered the strip, for there is but one stream between here and Salt creek fork fit to camp on and that is only five milts from the outside line of the strip.

Last night the old soldiers union colony of this city, held its last meeting before going into Oklahoma. Al Mowery is president. The colony consists of 150 old soldiers, and of these 120 will leave Monday to take up a homestead, each under the soldier clause. A location has been selected but they will not reveal it. The members will go by train.

They have siarttd a wagon train with supplies of ttits and provisions, and a raftsutliciently large to ferry all the accoutrements across any stream between here and Oklahoma. The old soldiers colony of Wichita started ten wagens yesterday. They will enter at Caidwell. Land Register John I. Dille returned last night from Guthrie.

He says the roof is on his land office and it will be ready for occupancy by tonight. The land officers, both at Kingfisher and at Guthrie, held a consultation last night gave out the following as the official to manner of application for filing claims: All applications must be presented to the register and receiver in the form prescribed by the rules and regulations of the department. No original entry papers will prepared by the land officer. Proper blank tonus wiil be furnished by land officials to ictual applicants on application, but not to attorneys. Guthrie land office will be aliened Monday at uoon.

The non-meneial affidavit cannot be made up on heresay, but upon the actual knowledge ot the applicant himself. All affidavits and oaths must be administered by the receiver oi registerer. The Kingfisher land officers will leave for Kingfisher Saturday. The others will go to Guthrie Sunday. The land officers are made much of by settlers on the theory that personal acquaintance will hurry along land claims in the future.

Two hundred land filings per day will be the limi each office. Word was brought hen last night from Purcell by a man who wa here yesterday that a great deal of law exists along the southern borde of Oklahoma. He saw a man was held uj in the streets of Purcell in broad dayiigh and robbed of 300. The boomers dety law They hve purchased or hired every avail able horse iu the neighborhood and wil mount and wade through tha Canadi.u river just before noon Monday. When th eignal flags drop at nooa there ill UesDrate land-race on the oppsite haul- The gambler and toughs declare they will not let past a certain distance auybody who is not one of them.

The town is full of special correspondents, who are writing from imagination and against space. A glaring misstatement was made yesterday in a St. Louis paper. The Arkansas river was said to be out of its banks, threatening the town. The Arkansas hatfnot been out of its banks for more than sixteen years.

A cowboy from Caldwell who arrived late last night, says the Cimarron is very high, and that up to the time that he left, eighteen persons had been drowned trying to ford the stream. He can give no names, as he did not inquire. No definite information can be learned of the drowning. Atone time this morning there were over 100 wagons on the streets. PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS.

Washington, April 19. The president made the following appointments today: Solon W. Stocking, of Onendaga, N. to be an examiner-in-chief in the patent office. Ralph W.

Wheeler, of Mitchell, receiver of public moneys at Mitchell, Dak. Harrison Kelly, of Jacksonville, Ore. receiver of public moneys at Dremsey, Ore. Jas. R.

Hayden, of Olympia, W. receiver of public moneys at Seattle, W. T. Lillian J. Miles, of West Branch, agent for Indians of the Osage agency in the Indian Territory.

James G. llatchett, of Frankfort, special agent to make allotments of lands in severalty to the Indians under the act of congress approved February 18, LSS7. Morris D. Wickersham, of Alabama, to be attorney of the United States for the soutuera district of Alabama. at woric upon the same thing.

At Wharton the last station on the Santa Fe going south, large numbers each day alight. Several boomer's wagons were to be seen near the station and camps were being erected in the creek bottoms. Six miles south at the line a party afoot and carrying a camping outfit were evidently awaiting a favorable opportunity to slip unobserved through the wire fence that is between them and their lauded possessions. Here will be the last camping grounds of the boomers before they make the final rush. It is well adapted to the.

purpose: on the banks of a stream and level lands of sufficient extent to furnish the desired resting piace. The waters of the treacherous Cimarron have to some extent fallen, but the broad extent of red quicksands which is to be seen shows that the fording of the stream is still dangerous. A GLIMPSE OF GUTIIIiiE. Soon afterwards Guthrie is reached and every person made a rush for the car windows and door to get a glimpse of this new, noted place. Soldiers were lined along both sides of the cars and every one that alighted was watched.

The Santa Fe are laying spurs aud side-tracks and erecting railroad buildings. The land office is being built upon the hill east of the track and there is as yet but part of the frame work completed. It is believed there that the building will hardly be ready for occupancy next Monday, the opening day. SCARCE AS HEN'S TEETH. At Oklahoma City the troops were found in charge of Lieutenant Sam E.

Adair, of the Fifth cavalry. He claims that there is not a boomer no, not eveu a jack rabbit, around Oklahoma; they have ail been frightened away. If they have not been, the reason' is not to be found in the constant warring of the vigilant lieuteuant and his troop. At Edmunds there are no soldiers, and a number of boomers, taking advantage of this, had leaped from the train. Wnen the officer was informed of this fact he remarked that, they could not get far away before he.

or his men could find them. The iters of the South Canadian aroj still high, but many of the boomers have crossed into the promised laud with their teams aud wagons. 1TECEI.L INFESTED WITH TOFGIIS. The people here are complaining of the sxistence of a gang of thieves andl gamblers which appear to have most thoroughly infested the piace. They are plying tfieir nefarious occupation upon the stree they not only importune but really drag their victim into their dens and literaiiy rob him.

Last night a man man was sandbagged and robbed of $375. Today the arrival of three shrewd deputy sheriffs has had a tendency to scatter them and several of them have lelt for Texas and the south. NOTHING BUT OKLAHOMA ARKANSAS ClTV, April 19. This peaceful tovn is simply crazy over the Oklahoma boom. Nearly all business, except that directly concerning the boomers, is practically neglected.

The hotels are so full of strangers that many men are com- fielled to walk the streets at night through ack of sleeping accommodations. Axes could not be bought in the town today. The boomers were on the move all day today, passing through town and going down to the Cherokee outlet. Some of the wagons carried fiat boats to help the boomers get across the streams, which are much swollen by recent rains. A boomer came back from the Outlet this afternoon saying that he had been unable to make the fords.

His friends, ith some trouble, had pushed on ahead, rontoon bridges are being built on some of the routes. No estimate of the number of boomers who passed through here yesterday and today cau be made. People counted the teams until they had to give it up as a hopeless task. The arrangements for the running of trains to Oklahoma on Monday have been completed. Superintendent Turner will take charge of the matter in person.

The trains will be run in sections. The newspaper correspondents will have the first car iu the first section. A meeting of persons interested in forming a town site company for Guthrie was held here today. It drew an immense crowd. Arrangements were made to lay cut the town of Guthrie, if some other town site company does not lay them out.

Every man bouud for Oklahoma is armed to the teeth. Two young fellows from Oregon came in this morning and loaded themselves down with repeating rifles, and revolvers. They are going to be let alone, iu Oklahoma if they have to fight for it. John W. Lyon, western passenger agent of the Missouri Pacific, was watching the boom this afternoon.

A complete livery stable outfit, and a bus3 line outfit went south this afternoon. COLONEL LEARNED'S NEW ASSISTANT. Lawrence. April 19. The Hon.

John K. Rankin has been appointed and assumed his duties as assistant superintendent to Colonel O. E. Learned of the Haskell institute. He is one of the earliest settlers of Kansas and is one of the best known and posted men in its early history in the state.

His championship of the university in the lower house of the recent legislature gave him commendable prominence. An experience of some years in the Indian territory makes him a very valuable addition to the institute, which is being given great prominence by the Indian department owing to the expected impetus to Indian education by the opening of Oklahoma. AN OPPOSITION AT TKACTION. Garden City. April 18.

A strong effort is being made to turn the tide of immigration from Oklahoma to Western Kansas. A delegation will leave this city Saturday night, fully equipped with advertising matter which sets forth the advantages of irrigated lands and the superiority of Kansas as a place for a home. Special inducements will be offered to settlers, among which is the refunding of all railroad fares to purchasers of land. NESS WILL HAVE SUGAR WORKS. Special Dispatch to the Daily Easle.

Ness City, April 19. Ness City is have an 885,000 sugar factory. The city ind three townships have each voted aid thereto. THE NATIONAL BANK PUZZLE. Washington.

April 10. The couipt roller of the currency has received not less than twenty applications for authority to established national bauks in Oklahoma. He has issued no title to any banking organization, and is in doujht as to whether he has authority to do so. He has accordingly referred the matter to the attorney general for an opinion. The law requires that national banking associations must be formed by not less than five persons and that tbeir organization certificate must specifically state the name of the association, the place of opera-lions, the amount of capital stock and the number of shares into which it is to be divided, the names and residences of the shareholders and he number of shares held bv each.

The difficulty about granting titles to national banks in Oklahoma lies in the following of the Revised Statutes: Section 5145. The affairs of each association shall be managed by not less than five directors, who shall be elected by the shareholders at a meeting to be held at any time before the association is authorized by the comptroller of the currency to commence the business of banking, and afterwards at meetings to Iu held on such day in January of each year as is specified therefor in the articles of association. The directors shall hold office for one year and until their successors are elected and have qualified. Section 5140. Any director must during his whole term of service be a citizen of the United States, and at least three-fourths of the directors must have resided iu the state, territory or district in which the association is located for at least one year immediately preceding their election, and must be residents therein during their continuance in office.

Every director must own in his own right at least ten shares of the capital stock of the association of which he is a director. Any director who ceases to be the owner of ten shares of the stock, or who becomes in any other manner disqualified, shall thereby vacate his place. Since directors are required, and the law further stipulates that three-fourths of them must have been residents of the territory for a year preceding the organization of their bank, the department is slightly puzzled. National bauks might be authorized in Oklahoma a year hence, but uuder the law it is difficult to see how their organization may be permitted now. There is supposed to be nobody in Oklahoma, and nobody can become a resident until the i2d of April, It is probable that directors might be selected from other points in the territory where whites Jhave been permitted, but it is doubtful whether many of them are such citizens as a banking in-situatiou would want to introduce into its ofganization.

The matter has been referred to the attorney general to ascertain whether a literal construction of sections 5145 and 5140 may not be avoided, and pi-rectors of the proposed national banks taken from the adjoining states. If the attorney general holds that the law quoted must be literally observed, theu the banking organizations in Oklahoma must do business without national charters. They may be conducted as private banks until duly authorized by congress to tto business as national banks or until their directors shall have acquired a tear's residence in Oklahoma. DR HUGHES ACQUITTED. Tor-KKA, April It).

The case of the State vs. Dr. N. B. Hughes, in which Rhoda Maury, of Arkansas City, charged him embezzlement of money paid by her to assist in getting the release of her son from the penitentiary, was dismissed iu the district court by a nolle prosequi, the county attorney stating that the prosecuting witness had given the money to be used as he ileemed best, and that the charge of embezzlement could not be sustained.

Dr. Hughes was at one time postmaster Arkansas City and afterwards published the News at Alma. Kau..