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(i I I i ll Our 3 Cent Column Is the Barest and Quickest Means by which to Procure Employment, or to sell or rent propertyTry itl ALTERNATE FOR PRECEDING PAGE A In vol. xvn. TOPEKA, KANSAS, 4 O'CLOCK EDITION FOR TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1889' 1 NO. 95 The Cimarron ford on the Cimarron or the east toward the Iowa's boundary, I paid his long promised visit to Bristol The Worst of This New Innovation. give his name and the peculiarity 1 HTER SLAUG Four Murders Reported Near Outhrie tiring ast Nitjht.

Indignation Expressed Against the "Topeka Crowd." General H. A. Pierce's Town Plat Rejected. Guthrie to Be Laid Ont "All Over Again. 9 A Quarrel Over a Claim Results in Murder.

Oklahomaniac8 Clinging To a Scrap ot Soil, And Paying Five Cents a Drink For Water. The City of Guthrie Out Government Officials and Others Accused of Fraud. 1 -I to-day, and received a reception such as has been accorded to few publio men since Garibaldi was the guest of the city away back in the sixties. His lordship arrived over the Great Western railway at nine o'clock, and was received at tha Union depot by a delegation of the local conservative association. Outside, at the root or Temple street, a crowd of fully assembled and twenty thousand had there was prolonged cheering when the premier made his" appearance and entered 1 his carriage.

Along High street Temple street, Broadway street and Park Row, the route of the procession to the Clifton Downs hotel, flags were dis- mm a played by almost every business house ana residence, ana tne sidewalks were crowded with enthusiastic unionists. Upon arriving at the hotel, which' is with- in a stone throw of the famous suspen- sion bridge, which he had never seen, the marquis was presented, with a score of addresses from Primrose clubs ahd other conservative orders. Subsequently he was entertained at luncheon by the Salis safe bury club. To-msht he will make an important speech in the Drill hall on Park row, in which he will areshadow the gov ernment programme for the remainder of the season. Slake the Boxes Larger.

Washington, April 23. The recent de cision or a western indcra that narnonn captured in the act of stealing mail mat- ter deposited on the top of a street letter box cannot be convicted under the federal law on the ground that matter so deposited cannot be considered as mailed with in the meaning of the law will, it is an nounced, receive the immediate attention of the postomce department. A lecral opinion on the subject has been requested by irostmaster uenerai wanamaker, and there are many who believe that the decision in question will be declared bad law. The fact is recognized at the department that the present size of the let ter boxes in use in the large cities is al together below requirements, and should the legal opinion uphold the decision re ferred to, a circular will be issued advis ing users of the mails of its purport, while steps will be taken toward provid ing adequate facilities in the matter of large boxes for the leading cities of the country. A Good Deal Wanted For $1,000.

Washington, April 23. Tho ludicrous side of the civil service system is presented to view to-day in the spectacle of nnmnatitixra Tnminifmtia in thia rnlrr Detroit, Chicago, New York and Boston for the purpose of filling a vacancy in the position of computer, or assistant in the nautical almanac office. The position pays one thousand dollars yearly and ap plicants are required to have a thorough and complete knowledge of the theory and use of logarithms; plain and spherical al a )aaa trigonometry analytical geometry: auier ential calculus and plane and spherical astronomy; together with a full acquaint- 1 a 1 A 1 ar- ance wita tne nautical aimanao. More over each applicant is required to fur nish a table of logarithms and an epher- dis ror use in the examination. The re sult of the examination will be forwarded to this place and after the civil service commissioners have eat in solemn iudg ment upon the papers, the successful aspirant will be notified that he can come to Washington at his own expense and proceed to earn his salary of eighteen dollars and twelve cents per week.

Mass in the Consistory Chapel. Rome. April 23. The pope yesterday celebrated mass in the consistory chapel, and by bis special instruction, invitation was extended to all the strangers visiting in the city. A large number responded and the little chapel was more than crowded.

Pontifical high mass was cel ebrated, his holiness officiating as cele brant. This is the first time in many years that strangers have been permitted to attend mass in the chapel of the Vata- can. The Adonis of the House Married. Louisville, April 23. The mar riage or congressman unaries uibson, the Adoni9 of the house of representatives, and Mrs.

Margaret Powell Holly-day, of Badcliffe Manor, Talbot county, Maryland, took place to-day at the resi dence of Mrs. Semple, the bride's daughter. Bishop Dud ley officiated. The bride is the widow of Col. Richard C.

Holly- day, for many years secretary of state for Maryland, ller rather was a prominent Virginian. Baseball. Result of games played yesterday: CINCINNATI. 12345678 9 110 11 Cincinnatis 02000124 Kansas 0000000 0 BALTIMORE. 12345678 9 0 0 Baltimore 10020120 Brooklyn.

00010003 LOUISVILLE. 123456789 Louisville 0300010206 St Louis 6 0100105 13 PHILADELPHIA. 123456789 Athletics ..45202200 0-15, 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 1 06 Guarding the Bald Knobbers. Ozark, April 23. A guard has been placed over the condemned Bald Knobbers.

Yesterday Dave Walker inti- would not have an opportunity to tie the halter around his neck if the should fail to interfere and as soon aa the officers heard of this declaration the guard was placed in the jail prevent the Knobbers from escaping. Scottish Site Ceuuion. Chicago, April 23. The thirty-fourth annual reunion and ot the members of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Bite opened in the Masonic temple to-day, with a large attendance of mem-. bers of the order -v i The Topeka delegation of spectators at the Oklahoma show, returned this after-.

noon. Judge W. C. Perry Commissioner Wilson, and other United States officials were surprised to hear tha rumor of the death of D. F.

Wyatt, deputy United States marshal, and discred ited it. Holmes Waggoner, druggists. was a dusty line filled with a strnfffflinsr mass of mixed up humanity, and horses wun wagons or all descriptions, the horses wet with perspiration, the riders and drivers dusty, grim and determined, principally bent upon getting farms, while the train people were only after town property. o'clock uuthne was a citv fully five miles square, and srowincr. Many I became discouraged and were ready to return, on the first train.

The sightseers had had enough, and were willing to return. The shot gun brigade was ably repre- sentedy but they were principally carried I py tnose who had decided on rough Iron-1 a tier treatment. The absence of liquor rendered them harmless. I As the trains came in. hacks were at the I depot, and instead of the usual cries of I hese vociferous crentlemen.

the cry was I MGood corner lots for SI on the east side," I and there were plenty of purchasers. I But little more can be said. By even-1 ing the broad prairie was dotted by men I ana women hoidmcr down their claims. I mm sitting, tired and weary, many of them I hopeless, but hantrine on. trastincr that something might turn up.

A Praine Ftre Near Guthrie. Guthbie, Oklahoma, April 23. A great prairie fire raged east of the city ast night, and with the camp fires spread over the city made a beautiful sicht A I squad of General Merritt's soldiers guarded the land office all night. In view of the scarcity of water one man last night procured a hogshead which he mied with water, whisky and sruo. ad did a rushing business selling it for cider at ten cents per glass.

Amusing Incidents. Guthbie, Oklahoma, April 23. Wild estimates of the number of people at Guthrie were telegraphed last night. A later estimate is b.UUU. There were many amusing scenes while staking lots.

A number of men would get together and agree that a street should run in a certain direction. Lots would be staked to face it. Men adjoining would declare that these fellows had staked directly in the fetreet and their lots faced the street Thus the greatest con fusion reigns, and no man knows for a certainty that he has a lot. Never theless many sites were sold, one man paying as high as S100 for a supposed business site. Trouble is feared over this point, which is the only thing that a -w mr- a a a at will breed trouble, in the state or un certainty every one is good natured and hanging on to his claim.

An Eye Witness. E. H. Snyder returned to Topeka to day from Guthrie, Oklahoma. Mr.

Sny der went to Oklahoma as a spectator, with no intention of locating. He was on the third Santa Fe train which entered the territory, aad arrived at Guthrie at 2:30 yesterday afternoon. Mr. Snyder was seen by a Journal reporter to-day and bad a very interesting talk with this eye witness ot the greatest scramble of the kind ever witnessed. "I only know from hearsay what the passengers on the first train did," said Mr.

Snyder. 'I was told that the train had scarcely crossed the line before men began jumping off, flag in hand, and planted their banner on the outer wall of the ground they alighted on, as it were. At Guthrie the go as you ai a a VI please, rough ana tumble scume was a sight to see. As the trains pulled up to the depot passengers piled off, climbing and falling over each other, dropping out of the oar windows and landing in all sorts of shapes. Most of them were fit ted out with rour stakes with a string or small rope accurately measured and just long enough to enclose a town lot.

They sprinted for the nearest unoccupied and unobstructed piece of ground, hastily drove their stakes and jumped inside their improvised prepared to hold it and defend their rights against all comers. By niffht there were several hundred of these fellows holding down 'town There were no streets regularly laid out and the claimants have no assurance that town will be laid out on the ground where they are located. The crowd resembles a picnic or Fourth of July celebration more than anything else. There was no bad blood or disputes, and everybody took things as they came, was good na tured and inclined toward peace. I be lieve fully one-third of the people who went to Oklahoma on the trains went only to see the fun and not expecting to atav.

Many who wenLwith the intention of taking claims were sorely disappointed with the country and will return in ais crust One man from Cameron, cp me back on the train I returned on. He was bitterly disappointed. The coun try has been greatly overrated and overpraised. The land of fice at Guthrie was open for business when the first boomers arrived. The officers and their clerks attended to business with all possible dispatch.

A lone procession of homesteaders soon gathered at the land office. They ranged themselves good naturedly in single file and took their turn like men. The fel lows on horseback were not long behind those who went by rail. They drove out into the territory, picked their site, un- hitched from their wagon, leaving their families, where they had them with them. or a companion in charge, mounted a horse which had been stripped ot its harness and dashed away for the land office.

The passengers on the first tram say that as they went along through the territory the boomers sprang up like magic on all sides. From clumps of trees, from the tall grass and the sage brush, from the hollows and dales, from ait Boris or places wnere it seeznea impossible that anyone could have hidden himself, men sprang up, and nine out of ten of" -theta planted a banner in the virgin fod and swore it should be his. The seemed to be alive with Jxxr ie', moment 12 o'clock arrived TL 1 -ber who eluded the troops and cecreuJl themselves in the forbidden country we 3 tauch greater than was Bupyuseu. Lord Salisbury Visits Bristol. London, April 23.

Lord Salisbury Little Arkansas river is just three-fourths of a mile from where the railroad crosses hat stream near the old site of Camp Russell i SHOOTING OAMEKBOM THE CABS. All along' the route were to be seen deer, antelope, prairie chickens and quail. Two deer were within one hundred rods of the train, and at least fifty shots were fired at them from the car windows and those on the roof without effect. The prairie chickens and quail that were near enough to the train to sight were also reated to a similar salute. A GBEAT BUSH.

When the train crossed the last stream, Cottonwood craek, just before en- M. 11 II termg uruinrie, me passengers Degan um ping off and rushing ud hill on the east side of the track towards the land office, where a town site is to be laid out, One fellow became so excited that he umped through a car window. When the train stoDDed at Guthrie station here was an indiscriminate rush of men and boys running over each other to get to the land omce first, or 6ciuat on a claim. INSUFFICIENT WATER. The scarcity ot water will cause suffer ing until wells are dug, unless the water in Cottonwood creek can be filtered.

An enterprising real estate man had a carryall at the depot when the trams arrived and offered to carry people to his ots over on the east 6ide and sell lots at a dollar apiece. The crowd again at the land office is too great to be numbered, and those who did not get in to file their claims last night slept where they were in the line to be on hand this morning. Two miles each way from Gutnne sta-ion townsites are staked off and there was not a section between there find Alfred that did not have one or more quar- er sections stated off. I'eonle here are dumbfounded and look at the vast multi tude crowding into the country in silent wonder. Returning on the train hundreds of prairie schooners were passed, still winding their way to the promised laad.

UGLY STOBIES OF, FRAUD. As Guthrie was found already staked out wnen tne nret train got there, some 1 a am a a ly rumors were at once started, reflect- on the United States officers and the cials of the Santa Fe It is claimed that the director's car of that road has bean at Guthrie for several days and they as well as the government officials connived with men hiding in the brush on the west bottom, shielding them from the scrutiny of the soldiers, that those officials on both sides had the town all laid out quietly and had an understanding with these brush hiders so they all rushed in and staked off claims before any train arrived. Although, the regular train from the south which arrived about 12.45 p.m. was not allowed to carry any boom ers, when it reached Edmunds at 11 :53 and laid there until 12:05, a party of sur veyors got off, said to be railroad men. When the people at Edmunds saw this they rushed out and began staking off claims also.

Persons who arrived on the regular train from the south say that hundreds of claims were staked out at Guthrie when they got there. A sixty room hotel will be shipped from Kansas City, and be ready for bus iness at Guthrie by Saturday. The First Filings. Kansas City, April 23. The Star cor respondent who has been at Guthrie all night returned to Arkansas City to-day and sends the following to his paper: The first homestead filed at Guthrie was by Mark S.

Cohn, of Fort Smith, Ark. The first soldier to file a declaratory statement was Benton Turner, who was a private in Company Sixth Illinois Cavalry. During yesterday three town sites, Guthrie, Oklahoma City and Ed munds, three homesteads and twenty-one soldiers' declaratory statements were filed. At 12:15, Wm. Johnson heading the little procession at the land 'office, laid down a rough chart ot Guth rie and filed it as a town site.

This was the nrst paper presented. Four clerks from the land offices at Washington arrived yesterday, two for Kingfisher and two for here. Land Register Dille stated this morning that the Kingfisher land office would not be open until Thursday. THE FIRST MURDER. About.

5 o'clock yesterday evening a pistol report, across Cottonwood creek, west of the depot outside of the townsite reserve, attracted attention. In a moment a man on horseback went west over the hill at a break isk speed. Two deputy United States marshals went over, but were told that nothing had occurred. A Star representative got a boat and crossed the stream however to investigate. In the bushes were collected half a dozen On the ground and beside a half-made grave was stretched all that was left ot S.

T. Com pis. A bal from a revolver passed entirely through his breast coming out of the back. He lived half an hour after bing shot tind was dead when a Star reporter reached him. Efforts were made to conceal the body and only the assurance of the strict est confidence allowed the reporter there and then he did not dare reveal his business.

The face was at once recognized as that of the man who had eaten dinner with the scribe. Compis' partner said he and his partner had entered Guthrie on Donies. All the lots there were eone. and they swam the Cotton wood and had staked a claim. As they were driving the last stakes, a fellow was discovered in the bushes on the bank of tha creek.

This man said he had already staked the claim. Compis and his partner offered to divide. To this the fellow 'objected and warned them- he be would shoot before he would divide. Compis did not believe this threat, end as he left the meal tent he said he would sleep on the claim. Half an hour afterward Compis was shot by the first claimant as he stood by hia pony bridle in hand His murderer got away before Compis' companion- could realize what had been done.

Believing secrecy the easiest way out, Compis' partner dragged the dying man into tha bushes and said no one had been hurt Ha would cot situation prevented a searching in The dead man was about SO earmold and had black hair and eyes, and when he left the eating tent, he wore a grey flannel shirt, boots and pants and had his coat strapped on his pony. Compis' companion took possession of the murderer's outfit of a wagon and two horses. The man will never return as he knew his shot was fatal. The body, was buried in the bushes This was the only murder near Guthrie up to midnight despite other reports. WATER FIVE CENTS A GLASS.

After 4 o'clock yesterday and all night there was much suffering for water. The railroad company refused to let the 'set tlers take from the railroad tank for fear of exhaustion. The water in the Cottonwood is red with mud, and a water famine seems imminent. Hawkers went the depot last night with buckets of water, charging five cents a glass. The water was poor but found a ready sale.

The engineers were beseiged by thirsty people for drinks from the en gine tanks and many were accom modated. THE LAND GOBBLE 8S. Up to midnight not a quarrel a A 1 on the (jtucnrie townsite naa oc curred -The citizens' 4 clock meeting adjourned to 6. The great anxiety of every one was information about the size of lots. There was great indignation over the fact that people had gone on the ground before 12 clock and it was the general sentiment that all such should be singled out and debarred.

This would throw out many prominent men, for Judge Clayton, of Arkansas, among others, held a Guthrie meeting before 12 o'clock. There i9 also great indignation over the hundred or more deputy marshals who used their authority as a cloak to get i i. on the ground ana resigned bi noon. Thev all have a lot. They are to be eini gled out and complaint lodged against them.

A resolution was adopted to the effect that every invader should be com plained of and efforts at once made to drive them out. The feeling is very stroncf in this matter. After criers had crone over the town a great crowd gather ed on the highest elevation of the town to attend the meeting. Fully two thousand persons were present. Ex- Mayor Constantino was selected to pre side.

Addresses were made by halt a dozen or more prominent men from dif ferent parts of the country, and a strong a. A 1 A 11 reeling was manirestea against tne premature settlers, whioh will very likely lead to the forfeiture of their claims. Preliminary steps were taken toward sur veying the land and laying out the streets of Guthrie, etc. Gen. Merritt's Notice.

Guthrie, I. April 23. The number of soldiers present is large enough to insure order, and the followiug official notice has had good effect: "Gen. Merritt, in command of the mili tary department of which this territory constitutes part, wishes all law-abiding people to know that the United States troops are here; (1) iror the protec tion of government property and the United States mails; (2) To guard the people from lawlessness and disorder. He desires to impress upon the settlers the necessity of conducting their affairs in a quiet and orderly manner, deferring to the courts the settlement of all contro versies and conflicting claims.

It is hop ed that wise counsels and due respect for the law will prevail without necessity of invoking its power, civil or military, which is ample for all purposes of protection to law abiding settlers and for the due control of those who seek to take the law into their own hands." Kansas Men. Guthbie, I. April 23. Last night the first hotel proper in the territory was opened here by Messrs. General J.

N. Bees. Colonel Jake Wheeler and Colonel J. O. Bell, ot Springfield, 111., and called the Santa Fe house.

This hotel consists of fifty tents, five large ones being used as dining rooms, with a capacity of 200 beds, no electric bells, no elevators, no stairs, all on the ground floor. The reg ister last night showed the following names among others 0. Smith, Kan sas City: T. L. Webster, Has.

J. Hudson, Kansas City; T. F. Nee- dles.Fort Smith, Mai or Nelson.For Topeka; Z.T.Walrond Osborne. J.

D. Hall, Winfield J. Miles, Arkansas City, Kaa J. O. Campbell, Arkansas City; Dick T.

Morgan, Garden City, 11. D.J3aker, Salina, J. G. Freeman, Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe railway; Dr. Dulin, Guthrie, J.

G. Freeman, Wichita, George T. Chase, Wellington, T. J. Kellam, Topeka, Henry Strong, Topeka, Kas.

Scenes at Guthrie, Guthbie, I. April 23. The scene here when the first train from Arkansas City came in yesterday was exciting. It was about 2 o'clock when the engine and ten cars from the north came in. This train was a sight indeed.

Before the cars stopped the anxious lot, not land seekers, climbed out of the windows and dropped from the moving train, loaded down with blanks and stakes -to their claims. Soon the side of the hill was a black spotted spread of struggling humanity, eager and excited, all bent upsn securing lots. They ran jostling each other, headed for a point beyond the reach ot lots already claimed. Many stopped and staked out lots in the street already laid out. Their stakes would be pulled up.

Then they would stake out new lots crosswise of the lots claimed. Then there was another pulling up of They had lost ground and gathered up their traps pushed rapidly on to the front, away out on the plains. The second train load was repetition of the scenes already given, so with the third and fourth, by which time there were 6,000 people on the ground uid the time was only 2:30 The boomers were not much better than the United States' officials. By 12 o'clock they were scattered all over the land in sight, showing remarkable time in traveling the nine and eighteen miles between the border and this point, 7 At 11 o'clock the long stretch of road Capt. De Blasits 'Pon honor.

Vincent, never enjoyed a dance so (notice frown a horrible suspicion' him) the devil! Once a Week. Qoch Enthusiastically Endorsed. Marion, April 23. Special. The county convention has just closed with great enthusiasm for Hon.E.

WJIoch. He was allowed to name the delegates who are representative men. Bousing resolutions of endorsement were passed. Turning the Tables. In Justice Jamison's court, to-day, O.

P. Updegraff was acquitted of the charge of trespass preferred by H. N. Castle. The two men own adjoining property a few miles west ot town, and each charges the 'other with destroying the division fence.

A similar case is set for to-morrow Justice Cheeney's court, H. N. Castle being the defendant and O. P. Updegraff the prosecuting witness.

Mr. Joseph Maitre and Mr. John R. Woodlock arrived from Chicago to-day to set up the State Journal's new fast web press and printing machinery, made by J. J.

Clause. It required two cars to transport it and will be a week or more before it is in operation. Mr. Maitre has had many years experience in the manufacture of the Clause web presses. Woodlock has been for years pressman for the Chicago Times.

Mr. J. H. Wetherell, sterotyper for the Journal's new fast press, arrived to-day from Kansas City. He was the stero-.

typer for the first web press brought to Kansas City, namely, that of the Kansas City Journal, with which paper he remained until some months sgo, giv-. ing up his place to go to California. He returned a few weeks since from the Pacific coast and engaged the position he now takes with this paper. A jury in Justice Cheaney's court today found J. H.

McCall guilty of trespass, and he was fined $10 and costs, a total of $64.45. He was charged by T. H. Adams with cutting down a fence and entering some enclosed woodland about four miles northwest of the city. Died, this afternoon at 2:30 p.

Mrs. Nellie Hall, 'wife of W.P.Hall, aged 28 years. Mrs. Hall has been sick only since Saturday, with acute congestion of the stomach. The rumor that D.

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Kansas Cztt. April 23, 1S88. Whxat Weak. No. 2 red Cash 78 asked.

July sales 63c Cokw Stronger. No. 2 cash, 25c asked; May sales at 2Sc. Oats No. 2 cash, 20a asked.

May sales at 20c CATTU-Heoeipts. 4.152. Market steady. Shipping steers 3 254 25; native cows $185 15; mixed batchers' stock, $2 2562 60: 8tockere and feeders 1 3 2063 60. tfciuo lower.

HeaTies $4 854 42: mediums and lights 14 8714 6f 4 45; pun S4 47U. BHnp-Receipts fc92. Market at $3 804 33 15c higher. At Chicago. Chicago.

April 23, l8a. Hoos Receipts 12,000. Market actire and firm at full former prices. Light, $4 7CX34 80-rongh. packing, $4 5564 60; mixed, $4 656,14 fc5: heavy packing and shipping, $4 654 85.

CATTiJt Keceipte, 7,000. Market steady. Beeves $3 50654 60: cows, 117063 15; Blockers and feeders, $2 6a BBBrpBeceipts, 6,000. Market steady to Ktt 80; cornfed westerns, $1 We $5 80: lambe, f5 00 10. Whxat Weak lower.

Cash 79 He; May, 80 July, 78c. Cpas-Bteady. Cash, tie; May. 34 7-15c; July SSHo. Oats Steady.

Cash 22h'c; May, 32ftc; July 23Mc. ltT 40c May. Pbdox Tmonrr fl 55. Flax fl 65. Prax-Lower.

May. $11 42K; July, 11 6a 1 Lam Easier. Mayo809 July $3 87tf 15 lO wu. rJHOsrr bibs May. (5 87H.

Buttxb amu Eoos Steady. At8tX.oais. i.r;.-.v 1 8T. Loci. April 23.

1SS8. Cattxic lUceipts, 1 .500. Market steady. Hoes lcipt. 4,000.

Marker eteedy. Choice pfa BHrxy Receipts 50k Market steady. 'WHiAT-Lower. Cash 80c; May, eoc; JcJy Coax CashV'SOtfcescc; May VOSci July S2Hv Oats Higher." Cash Jus 23Hc I'owc Dull and lower. $12 CCCJ12 23.

laKKD jjower. 11. Miss 9 3 I 3 0- A1 6 Staking Out Lots as Early as Sunday Last. From Oklahoma. A beans as City, April 24.

Bulletin. A special from Guthrie at an early hour this morning says that three men who took claims there yesterday were foully murdered about 5 o'clock by claim jumpers The names of the assailants and their victims could not be learned. A vigilance committee is now scouring the country in search of the miscreants. "DOWN WITH THE TOPEKA OUTFIT." Guthbie, Oklahoma. April 23.

In defiance of the fact that no town was supposed to exist until noon yester day, the several hundred interlopers held an organization meeting at 10 o'clock. H. A. Pierce, one of the Topeka orowd, secured the presidency but when he tried to foist his plat upen the meeting he was beaten, amid the cries: "Down with the Topeka outfit" The railway runs southwesterly past the town and it was proposed to lay out the streets on direct angles with the track but a plat with north and south, and east and west sections was adopted. This was proposed by Geo.

H.Clay Arkansas, brother of Congressman Powell Clayton, and a twin brother of the lately assassi nated congressional candidate. It was decided that a town lot shall be 30 by U0 feet and streets shall be 80 feet wide, except two one hundred feet intersecting avenues which were named respectively Munford avenue, for Doo Munford, of Kansas City and Harrison avenue for the resident. Meanwhile the whole town site was homesteaded repeatedly. Forty applications under this right of public domain were filed at the land officer and some very beautifully complicated law suits will follow. It looks only fair that those who are there in advance of the authorized hour, and who crabbed the land for the cor porations that back them, should be dis possessed and the whole townsite placed in the fair and even reach of all.

It is almost certain, however, that for all its present pestige for everything is to go ftnfViriA thara nun navar ha n. tnwn nf any importance there. The surrounding country is sterile, and with the exception of a small piece of bottom land, can grow nothing but buffalo grass and and cactus. Tne adjacent stream is small and alkaline, and well water is deep and eAfirna. TTia (AmnarAtnra brmnda from blighting cold to withering heat, and there are long periods or arougnt ana lr regular occasions of floods and hurri canes.

UKSHELTEBED THOUSANDS. As the sun went down little tents and man rlnttad the recion over an area larcre enough for an eastern metropolis. There 1 1. 11 IS covering ior nuuut uue iuuubuiu pet-eons on a liberal estimate, and the nights after the warm days are absolutely chilly. Whether it rains or not great suffering must be endured Dy ine tnousanas or unsheltered.

Art Annas fJitv is filled nn with crrea crowds from northern states that will de- cvnfl nnnn Gnthrie in the mornincr. A break out ot here will be sure to be the event of the next few days as there are vnnnv thnnsAnda mora hara than can he supplied with food and, shelter. Mean while the rush continues ana the excite ment is at a very nigh pitch. ON THE OKLAHOMA BOUND ABY Poster, who started tha niifmma Ratnrdav. comincr via the Ar kansas City trail, estimates that at least 4,000 outfits people ranged along the border of his trail, started at the sound ot the bugle.

Lieutenant Waite, nephew ot the late Chief Justice Waite, started inose entering iuo uuweu trail rV1nn1 WAra started thosa on the Hunneweli trail, he being in charge oz tms terntorj'. uuu ojp bhuwu hv tha Black Bear trail It seems like a fairy tale, but there is scarcely a doubt that from 20,000 to 30,000 entered by these; trails, while the efv froina thnt ftAtnfr in from Arkansas City to Guthrie brought fit six thousand people. mnil mnl Within Ona him i I dred yards of the railroad all the way. Ik ft -1 ft 1 fit, i -i i. i.