The Kansas City Times from Kansas City, Missouri • 1

I THE KANSAS CITY 26, 1889. RECEIPTS MUCH LIGHTER futures and 5 THE KANSAS CITY TIMES, SPAY, A. VY THI Help and Situations for the masses. Send your WE EST amns liberally. the fact and use our colnotice by mail messenger or telephone 340, he The prices are cheap and the OBTAINS FREE EAL Tin ESTALES ESTATE MEDIUM, ST results gratifying.

Try it. (S OF BUS to $7,000 VOL. XXX VIII. TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 23, 1889. NO.

112. Moore, Emery be, YESTERDAY -Minimum, 52; Maximum, 66; Mean, TODAY: Light rain, winds shifting to colder northwesterly. AVE a seat in a billowy chair, if you please, and let us show you the most gorgeous (or as modest as you like) designsin Carpets that you ever chanced to gaze upon. Such Moquettes! Why, there is artand exquisite art at that -written upon the face of these pets. It really seems a pity to tread upon such lovely bouquets, such delicate tints, such rare and uncommon shades! The multitude of patterns seem to roll up by the hundreds when you look further at the Body and Tapestry Brussels, Wiltons, Aixminsters, Ingrains, and others! The Bullene, Moore, Emery Co.

quality in every one of them; so you know they are sure to be right. By making your selections now you get the earliest pick of patterns. The Armenians have their hands full waiting on the heavy trade for Turkish Rugs. See them on fourth floor. For to-day.

Nottingham Lace Curtains, 3 yards PAIR. Nottingham Lace Curtains, worth from $1 to $1.35, for 90c PAIR. Nottingham Lace Curtains, worth $3.00, $3.50 and your pick for $2.50 PAIR. Nottingham Lace Curtains, worth $4.50, $5, $6, $6.50 and $7.50 pair; will all go at the round price of $3.50 PAIR. Silk Curtains, in plain top, figured centers and cross stripes, worth $13.50 $40 pair; will be closed at from $5.00 TO $12.50 PAIR.

Moore, KEITH'S RUG DEPARTMENT! SPRING OPENING! April -OFORIENTAL, ENGLISH AND DOMESTIC RUGS MATS The variety large and varied. The styles and qualities exceptionally fine. The prices uniformly low. We have devoted much time and thought to the selection of the above-named collections. We respectfully invite an examination of our stock.

ROBERT KEITH Fartiture and Carpet 810, 812 and 814 811 and 813 Walnut St. Main St. HURRAH! Oklahoma Opened at Last. The Great Work Undertaken by Times" Completed. THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF SETTLERS IN FULL POSSESSION.

The Entry Made From All Points at the Blasts of Bugles. A WONDERFUL SETTLEMENT MADE WITHOUT A SIGN OF ANY TROUBLE. Intense Excitement All Along the Border at the Noon Hour. GUTHRIE A GOODLY CITY ALMOST IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE Graphic Descriptions of the Scenes in the New Eldorado. LONG LINES OF MEN WAITING AT THE LAND OFFICE TO FILE CLAIMS.

The Mad Rush of Mounted Men for the Choice Locaticas. TEN HEAVILY LOADED TRAINS SENT DOWN FROM ARKANSAS CITY. Lisbon All in Readiness to Become a Great Metropolis. Complete Details of the Settlement of a Future State in Less Than a Day---Not a Single Case of Serious Trouble Reported ---Thrilling Stories of the Many Wild Rides for Homes---Women in the Vanguard. to the Kansas City GUTHRIE, I.

April 22. -The first train from the -headed by engine 266 in charge of Captain George W. Cooper, the noted advocate of the opening of Oklahoma reached the Oklahoma line at 12:15 o'clock to-day. Immediately the hundreds who crowded the nine cars of the train set up a mighty on to Guthrie!" On all sides as far as the eye could reach were wagons dotting the plain. A moment later a bugle sounded clear and sharp and with one wild exultant cheer the multitude moved forward.

The rush was too picturesque for a hasty report to depict. Men on ponies put spurs to their steeds and dashed forward hat in hand to secure a home in fair Oklahoma's inviting domain. Teamsters plied the whip and the faithful team responded in unmis takable earnestness. Three minutes elapsed ere the throttle of old 266 was again pulled open, but a second later the flyer was off again amid cheers and waving of flags, hats and handkerchiefs. Safe In Guthrie at Last.

On the train sped through the beautiful prairie. To the right and left were cavaliers urging their animals to the utmost. At the last station outside of the Oklahoma territory there was a great crowd of men who had forsaken their teams and hoped to get in quicker by rail, There being no room inside they climbed to the top of the coaches, and the entire train from one end to the other was roofed with them, Two miles in the territory and men who have just crossed the line six minutes ago, had dismounted and waved a god speed to those on the train. The remaining distance to the Cimarron river was made in eighteen minutes. Men put in an appearance as if they came from the ground.

Arriving at Guthrie at 1:15, the town of Guthrie had already temporarily organized with a population of at least 2,000 people. At the time of sending this o'clock-no disturbances had occurred and It was almost certain none would occur. Driving Furiously Forward, Promptly at 12:20 o'clock to-day the correspondents, after having reached an elevated position where for miles they could survey the country, could easily distingush the "praire schooners" miles distant rapidly approaching the Cimarron. Those in the distance were plying the whip unmercifully. They came in droves- -teams of every description, men on horseback, men and women and stock all promiscuously hurrying along together.

This was the grandest scene the correspondents had ever witnessed. The retreat of Lee from Petersburg made a fitting comparison, only there the rush was occasioned by an opposing army; here the settler has left his old home and is participatIng in the grand and final struggle for a new one in a new land. "Here they come crossing," exclaimed a companion. "See those cow boys swimming their horses up the stream." A glance in that direction and then down and the exclamation was verified. They had entered the stream: from the other side all along its banks and were making for the one favorable place of landing.

Teams In every direction on the opposite bank crowded and squeezed along. Many horsemen had soon crossed and then the wild rush across the country began. Every lying thing was full of life, The songbirds seemed to add more volume to their voices and every sweet melodious note welcomed the settler to Oklahoma's fair land. The leaves of the sturdy trees and blades of grass seemed to bow a welcome to the coming horde, and the clear blue sky with not a cloud to obstruct the enchanting view of the heavens bade the home seeker a hearty welcome. The flying cavalier in advance thrusts the cruel spur Into the flanks of his faithful mare, and with this piece of cold steel the blood of the faithful animal trickled down to stain fair Oklahoma's beautiful land.

On and on the cowboy cavalier rushed with the speed of an arrow. Rising in his stirrups he took a look backward, to ascertain who was second in the chase; he surveyed to his right and left; and then with eyes again turned to the front, and with another grand effort he was lost to sight as he rushes to realize the fond anticipation of being first in the grand free to all race. Thousands in the Contest. The scenes enacted here this afternoon were recorded as some of the most important events in the a thousand home seekers about 10 minutes later. The men in this train poured across the prairie like an army charging the wing of an enemy's army.

They spread out north and south with axes, spades and stakes and began with wonderful energy the location of town lots and streets. OThe third, fourth, fifth and sixth trains from 4 Arkansa8 City swelled the number to as many thousands. By this time lot seekers had reached the eastern horizon and in area Guthrie was as big as Arkansas City. When the seventh and eighth trains came in later in the afternoon the crowd bad overflowed all bounds On the 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, although a wide slope of green prairie was presented, This west land had been all filed on for homesteads with the exception of a wonderfully beautiful piece of greensward just south of the Cimarron river and west of the railroad track.

It was the finest stretch of ground in the neighborhood. Men were not alone in their search for lots. A few ladies came down on the train prepared to go to housekeeping with tents and camping outfits. One of them lost her tent somewhere on the cars and spent the aft- HAS HOW THE LINE WAS GUARDED. history of this country, or of any other civilized place on the globe.

Those who had not been eye witnesses to occurrences here could form no adequate idea of the magnitude and the numbers participating in this great movement. To make figures as to numbers is to a great extent guesswork, but 10,000 people would be a fair estimate of the number now here and within few miles of Guthrie. For miles and miles from this elevated position and with a good field glass THE TIMES man could see wagons, men on horseback and men running with all the speed they could command for the particular claim they had in view. Many a disappointment was in store for many an anxious family and with a feeling of deepest regret did they find after enduring the hardships and struggling for months for a particular claim, that when they reached the spot some more fortunate man had arrived of them. For ayles and miles, as far as the eye could reach, could be seen the white-topped wagons hurrying on the faithful brutes that had worked through rain and mud and over roads almost impassable.

What is to be the result of this vast influx into this new territory can only be conjectured. The lands now thrown open are not sufficient for one-quarter of the people who are flocking in and it is plainly evident that more must be secured. Millions upon millions of acres of fertile lands lie adjoining and these must be wrested from the grasp of the wily Cherokee and the scheming cattle baron and given to the people. GUTHRIE A FIRST CLASS CITY. By evening this city, which prior to 12 noon to-day numbered only about ten persons, now has a population of at least 15,000 persons, Not a single disturbance of any kind has occurred.

Good feeling prevails and all is working well. THE TIMES correspondent is on the ground and intends to eat his first meal prepared by himself 1 tonight. The Kansas City contingent are here in force. Tents are hastily construed and houses are going up every moment, There was a town meeting this afternoon and the welfare of the city of Guthrie was considered. No mayor or town officers have as yet been elected.

The first hotel constructed consists of a large tent, where meals are furnished for the moderate price of 50 cents. ernoon looking for friends with whom to spend the night, Another lady who lost her husband in the crown when the first rush was made bunted all over the town site in a state of speechless agitation. The Land Office Besieged. Almost with the first rush of homeseekers from the cars, the homeseekers who had started across the Oklahoma north line at noon in wagons and on horseback, began to pour into the new city. Their horses were reeking wet from the hot and furious drive.

They took possession of such town lots in the future Oklahoma metropolis as they could lay claim to. Meanwhile the land office was besieged, by an eager and determined crowd of men waiting to file claims for homesteads. As the afternoon wore on this crowd grew larger. until at closing time it reached far down the line toward the railroad station. Business in the land office went rather slowly.

The registrar and receiver did the best that they could, but the pressure upon them was tremendous. The men who were waiting to file claims were forced into line two abreast. They carried blankets and baskets of provisions with them. Friends brought them water to drink from the engine tank at the railway track in the rear of the land office. Dealers in real estate began business before 2 o'clock In the afternoon.

One enterprising dealer had as a background for the safe transaction of business a stock of rifles weich had been placed there by the government troops on duty at the land office. Near by was the tent of United States Marshal Needles. surmounted by a In American flag with a young tree flagstaff. The land office occupies the mort capspicuous place In the entire township. It is located at the top of slope that leads eastward from the railroad and can De seen for several miles in all directions.

It is not yet finished but it is doing something more than a land office business. RACING TO KINGFISHER, The First Settlers on Claims and Town Lots -The First Ladies, Etc. to the Kansas City Time KINGFISHER, I. April 22. -Such a breakneck, headlong race for homes over a prairie dog town, a deep ravine and a mile and a half of flat country.

At 12 o'clock the signal was given and a hundred horsemen dashed down a slope where the neutral strip and southwest Kansas, camp was situated from dozen points toward the west. Bearded, resolute westerners, 80m10 on horses, some in wagons and a few on foot appeared dashing toward the office site. The race down the slope was even. Striking level ground the riders began to trail out and the best horses went to the front, In the prairie dog holes horses stumbled, throwing their riders, but none were much hurt. Mr.

A. M. Colston of Caldwell was mounted on a smart pony and stopped on a homestead just west of the town site, being the first man off his horse. The first on the townsite was Frank Fisher of Hoxie, Kan. He was closely followed by a colored 1038 AT CON A VIEW OF OKLAHOMA CITY, I.

T. To-night 15,000 home seekers are camped on the gerssy upland of Guthrie, the pioneer city of Oklahoma. Their campfires gleam in the darkness and their tents loom athwart the sky like an army in bivouac. Gutbrie, heretofore an insignificant station In wild and uninhabited country remote from civilization, has more than a population of 15,000, All this WAS gained in an afternoon. In no country save America and no part of that country save the great west could such a thing be possible.

It is a triumph for the western people and especially for citizens of southern Kansas, such as they may never again have the opportunity of achieving, That they were fully equal to the occasion needs no more proof than the presence of 15,000 people in New Guthrie to-night. The conservative and leisurely east may well look at this and wonder. The First Trains Arrive. When the first train arrived at Guthrie from Arkansas City the embryo streets and lots of the new city had already been laid out by enterprising citizens who bad been early on the scene. Hardly had the cars slowed down at the station than eager men leaped from the car windows, slipped from the roofs of coaches and poured out of the doors in streams.

One fat man was in such haste that he stood on his head and turned a somersault on the soft earth, When he got upon his feet he rushed up the slope to the land office like a crazy Texas steer, In 8 minnte the slope leading up from the station was blocked with men rushing headlong eager for coveted town lots. In two minutes not one of the 1,000 men who bad filled the train was left in speaking distance of the railway. By the time this crowd had reached the top of the slope near the land office, men who had been running parallel lines for streets and driving in stakes for town lots, were well on their way along the level strip of land east of the land office. The crowd then caught the moving line of streets and lots and rushed eastward at a tremendous rate. The men who brought along muslin sign bearing the words: "Bank of wers compelled to take up a lot one mile back of the station, Trains in Quick Succession.

The next train arriving from Arkansas City brought for all parties. The titles will thus be almost wholly dependent upon the privilege of actual settlement and there will be few disputes between filers of applications and settlers, which presented the most difficult problem. After opening, a certain number of claims can be acted upon each day for some time. The town of Lisbon may he said to be established. The deciston not to receive filings gives the town occupants a chance to settle and lay claim to the town for the future, so all is rosy for Lisbon.

By Tuesday there will be a mayor and police officials. Lisbonttes are scarce now but in a few weeks it will be the Kansas City of Oklahoma. Five or six hundred settlers were on the west line about a mile and a hait distant all yesterday. They were from the Panhandle chiefly. Lieutenant Goe with about forty men of the Thirteenth infantry is here to assist Captain Hall.

Captain Jack Stillwell, the United States marshal, is also on in fact the population yesterday consisted almost wholly of offietals, soldiers and the press. The liquor sellers were on the border with barrels of stuff," but Marshal Stillwell and Captain Hall were after them, Two rattlesnakes were killed here yesterday and more are expected. The Rock Island hotel gave its opening with a good spread but without printed menu. Nearly 500 men from the counties of Southwest Kansas, Texas and No-Man's-Land were on the line this morning within a mile and a half of here. They were after the south half of section 15, township 16, range 7.

This will undoubtedly ha the town site. The government acre is on the corner of the next quarter section. Meetings were held last night on the line and the colouists decided to act together. All persons here by military or railroad permits who Intended to take homestead or town lots were sent across the line with the rest. The settlers were very restless and had their fastest horses out warming up for runs to lots and claims.

Couriers in from Buffalo Springs this morning stated hat the wagons there number over a thousand, making quite 5,000 people and perhaps more. Race horses and light buggies were ready to jump forward at the word. Trouble is anticipated between those kept at Buffalo Springs, over twenty-five miles away, and the bands within a mile or two of the office. The latter had the advantage of coming through the Cheyenne country and if they get ahead of claimants in the other party there will be a collision in case the supply of land and town lots run short. The soldiers and deputy marshals are well prepared, however, to take care of any ordinary dificulty.

The deputy marshals emptied two gallons of alcohol last night. Their orders were to break up the use of liquor as far as possible. A town meeting was called for to-night and efforts will be made to settle amicably the conflicting claims. All along the Cheyenne line from Reno settlers were strung and the Cheyennes felt uneasy. George Bent, a prominent half-breed, said yesterday that the Indians thought their homes were being taken, but, while they felt dissatisfied, the majority comprehended that a contest was hopeless, The tribe is reduced from 9,000 warriors in the old days to 3,200 men, women and children, and with the numerous lines of railroad near they know they could not contend in arms.

The wise ones recommend accepting the severalty act of 320 acres to the family, provided they can get the best lands along the rivers for cultivation. Mr. Bent thinks they should all go south of the Canadian. The stationery for the land office came in last night, and every effort will be made to open to-morrow. Herman Houser, a Cheyenne squaweman, whose claim by mistake was located many years ago in the Oklahoma country, has had his claim allowed and he gets a homestead, his wife 160 acres and each child forty acres near Fort Reno.

Two other squaw-men are included in this decision. Everybody charged with selling liquor will be under bonds at once. ON TO THE GREAT GOAL. The Trip From Arkansas City to the Border of Oklahoma. to the Kansas City GUTHRIE, I.

April train pulled out promptly on time from Arkansas City. The arrangements of Superintendent Turner were complete in the most minute details and nothing that would lead to the comfort of the press correspondents was left undone. In a word, so far the Santa Fe as a company and Its employes had performed a task in railroading unequaled in the annals of transportation. The crowd seemed to be watching the movements of the press representatives, the fact having become known that they would lead, occupying the first car on the first train on the start for Guthrie. A great rush was made for this car by the indiscriminate crowd and very many enterprising fellows had the luck to get in with the press men and would have been expelled but for kindly suggestions.

The train moved off amid the cheers of the throng lining the tracks, the thousands occupying the cars responding lustily and most cheerily, As the train pulled out from Arkansas City the ladles stood at their doors waving their handkerchiefs. At the yards of the railroad the first train slacked up a little and here were several hundred waiting who doubtless had been advised that the train would stop and were ready to board it. They were not allowed to and these good fellows were left standing on the side track greatly disappointed. It was here that the great American tramp put in his very neatly as the train started, and while in motioir ne grouped the rods below the car occupied by the press and swung hits car onto to the trucks safely and most success Jose his life was great, but this fellow was of that risk much. The train was going at the rate of ten miles when two daring men were seen to grasp the railing to the platform and swing on the first train to the Oklahoma country.

Approaching the Arkansas river the train slowed up and two venturous men climbed on the cowcatcher and Engineer Cooper ordered his fireman to put them off, which was immediately done. At 9:04 the first train crossed the Cherokee line and with a toot from old No. 266 the crowd set up a yell that would have caused the children of the forest to blush with shame, Such enthusiasm the writer never before witnessed. Hats waved, spades were thurst out the car window and a sturdy old Missourian yelled: "We'll make that soil produce something else than grass." With this expression the crowd seemingly went wild. The open prairie presented an enchanting view like a lake.

The vast acres were swiftly passed and the sturdy farmer who had for years struggled with rocks in the states viewed them with a complacent smile. At 9:40 without accident the old reliable engine reached Willow Springs. Here a number of prairie schooners were passed, and the sturdy farmer, with an evident earnestness, waved his old and well worn hat to the fortunate pilgrims on the flying train. Sad it was to think this honest man would in all probability not reach the line on time. The poor fellow who risked his life to board the flying train and rode from three miles south of Arkan888 City under the press car ou the frame of the trucks WAS by an unanimous vote fished out at Ponca and given a seat in the first car that crossed the line.

His name was Harry Sadler and he hailed from Kansas City. An occasional prairie schooner was passed as the train moved to the front, one outfit carrying with them a boat on wheels, ready for swollen streams. At Ponca several persons who left Arkansas City yesterday in wagons took the train. These reported that owing to the Impassable condition of the Salt Fork thousands of settlers would be prevented from going into Okiahoma to-day. It was said that there would be 1,500 wagons and 4,500 of these people kept on the north side of the Salt Fork until to-morrow, unless temporary bridges should be constructed.

At 10:24 o'clock the pioneer train crossed the Salt Fork. A large number of colonists were at the bridge and with expectant faces did they view the train as it speeded on. Still, with confidence depicted in their every expression, they indulged in the fond anticipation of reaching the promised land on this train. The old soldiers' colony of Arkansas City occupied two cars. There were 160 men under the charge of Captain Thomas Hicks and Captain C.

W. Holden. They were going to Seward and thence to range 14. The boys were all in first class spirits and ready to take thetr luggage and tramp the six or eight miles necessary to the claim to which they had agreed among themselves they were to have. Their intention was to organize when they shouid reach their destination and endeavor to form a village.

On the first train down were two women traveling all alone- Miss N. Mathason of Topeka and Mrs. Brita Hall of 423 Lake street, Topeka, bound for Guthrie. In answer to the question as to their expectations they said they were confident they would succeed in locating a homestead. At 11:05 the train promptly reached Red Rock and after a few moments delay old 266 pulled out again for the line, 25 miles distant.

At this point THE TIMES correspondent clinbed from the press car to the tender. Here an unobstructed view of the beautiful country was afforded him. George Cooper, with his good right arm continually on the pulse of his trusty engine, every now and then would for a second only cast a glance backward to see that all of his charge were safely following. To the many extravagant reports circulated as to the intention of obstructing the track, credence was never given in these dispatches, still the Santa Fe company was justified in the precaution they displayed in selectIng the men that had charge of the pioneer train. There was a large number of people awaiting the train at Wahton, very few of whom could get aboard, owing to the crowded condition of the train.

Many were left here standing on the side of the track, but one man, determined not to be left, jumped from the top of a train on an adjoining track to the top of a coach, a distance of seven feet. UP FROM PURCELL, The Territory Deelared Open by Bugle Call -The Grand Rush, to the Kansas City PURCELL, I. April 22, -Never before have such scenes of wild excitement been witnessed here as those of to-day. At the first stroke of dawn the anxious pioneers were astir andh final preparations for the great march began. After a hurried breakfast tents were hastily struck, bedding and cooking utensils quickly gathered up and packed for transportation; the already tired and jaded horses were reharnessed and hitched to the lumbering wagons and a start for the river bank was made.

Within the town those who were to enter the beantiful domain by train were rushing hither and thither making ready for the start, Late comers who had ventured thus far unprepared, or whose stock of provisions had become exhausted, were Desleging grocery stores and restaurants for supplies. Many a poor fellow who had expended his last penny in getting thus far was begging for aid from his more fortunate tellow beings that he might be enabled to get a little something to eat, and to continue on toward Oklahoma in the hope of bettering his condition, At the depot a tremendous crowd jostled, squeezed and cursed each other in their mad efforts to gain access to the cars. The ticket agent, baggage master, telegraph operators and accident policy writer did a land office business for one day at least and are deserving of credit for the patience and politeness they exhibited in res Fading to the innumerable inquiries with which they were besieged. The conductors and train men were likewise busy aiding and directing passengers, and every precaution was taken to prevent accident. Persons attempting to take their guns into the passenger cars were usually restrained by the railroad officials and required to have them checked and placed the baggage car.

At 11:30 a. m. the first train pulled out from Purcell for the promised land, It was made up of twelve conches and was loaded to Its utmost capacity. A run of six and a half miles brought it to the Canadian bridge where it stopped at exactly 11:50 o'clock to await the hour of noon before transporting its load of living freight across the bridge into the Oklahoma land. As the sweep hand of the watch held by the military official in command of the bridge touched the hour of 12 they gave the signal, and instantly there rang out upon the midday air the bugle's welcome blast.

Never before had sweeter sound of music played forth to mortal ears, and as it went echoing and reechoing over the waters of the placid Canadian It was greeted by shouts of thanks and of gratitude from thousands of human throats. Then horses were urged forward with whip spur and plunged into the stream, and in an instant the river was alive with struggling, floundering teams, the drivers furiously lashing their horses to keep them on the move and out of the way of those crowding on behind. A single moment's pause was dangerous, as the treacherous quicksand of the Canadian would close around the wagon wheels and make escape impossible. As the train rolled away from the river and its struggling mass of teams a few of the first who had plunged in were emerging from the waters on to Oklahoma soil. Their enthusiasm knew no bounds.

They had safely crossed the Rubicon, and the fate of those behind was of small moment to them. They had reached the coveted land and were wildly pressing forward to secure the prize they sought. Onward the train rolled and from It could occasionally be seen mounted men urging on their foaming steeds in their desperate effort to reach the claims long ago picked out. It was an exciting race, but it plainly proved all the best claims within a radius of many miles of the border had already been picked out and would be secured before the slower going colonists could reach them. But few of those who travel by team have any hope of finding destrable unocenpied claims before late tomorrow afternoon.

That all might be successful was the sincere hope of all who saw them, as they were almost without exception a body of brave, deserving men, striving to better their worldly position. Never before has such a crowd of educated, intelligent, upright pioneers invaded any country, and it is safe to predict that under their magic influence Oklahoma will make the grandest advancement ever witnessed in the development of a new state. Worthy of all success are they, and if the dominion now thrown open to them is not enough to afford them all homes the balance of the unoccupied lands must be speedily opened to settlement. As the train sped onward over the fertile Oklahoma prairies the excitement of the passengers grew intense and expressions of delight were frequent as some new beautiful scene broke upon every side. At every station along the line scores of those who had come into this new country with only a haversack of provisions and an axe or a spade would jump off and strike out in search of a vacant quarter section.

metes and bounds of the United States government are concerned, no corner stones having been set or boundary lines established by the government. The Arapahoes and Cheyennes on the western border, bowever, know the bounds of their reservations and have their own private headstones at the river crossings. They police their own frontier and keep intruders off their reservation. It will prebably happen that some settlers will try to cross that border and 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 off, 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, lie thinks, is perhaps the most serious part of the Oklahoma question. General Merritt Not Worried. WASHINGTON, D. April Adjutant General Kelton late this afternoon received the Ing dispatch bearing on the situation in Oklahoma from Major General Crook dated Chicago, April 22s The assistant adjatant go val of artment of the Missouri telegraphs under date yesterday that he is just in receipt of a full dispatch from General Merritt at Oklahoma station in which he says he will probably need no more troops forwarded; that he is sure the show of force will prevent trouble, and that newspaper accounts are probably exaggerated and will continue to be so.

He reports much confusion on the line of the railroad, but he has established a line of couriers between Oklahoma station and Fort Reno so that hereafter communication can be had with cere tainty and fair rapidity. Postmasters for Oklahoma. to the Kansas City WASHINGTON, D. April 22. -Congressman Peters succeeded to-day in having the commission issued to D.

S. Flynn of Kiowa, as postmaster, at Guthrie, Oklahoma. The office at Lisbon' was also promised to David McCanse, another cone stituent of Mr. Peters, but the department officials finally gave the Lisbon once to an Iowa applicant. An Indiana man tried hard to get the Guthrie appointal ment, but, although he had strong backing, Mr.

Peters managed to hold the fort in favor of Flynn. The later bad a building taken to the Oklahoma line a weeks ago, and his bond has been here for two weeks. Three Trains from Newton. to the Kansas City NEWTON, April required three heavy passenger trains on the Santa Fe to take the people who went from this city to Oklahoma to-day. Almost as many left last evening, while others followed PSST OFFICE A READILY IMPROVISED POSTOFFICE.

How they might exist after they should succeed in obtuning a claim was a matter of secondary consideration. Hundreds who were upon the train were bound for City. CITY'S CROWDS. 2 One Hundred cocores to armed With People Sent Idents, to the Kansas City ARKANSAS CITY, April early o'clock this morning crowds of anxious people began to crowd around the Santa Fe depot to procure accommodations in the first trains going south. People were busy all night breaking camp and packing their tents and equipments and getting ready for an early start, and this morning numberless ash piles and beds of straw showed where the tents had been located the day before.

At 7 o'clock this morning the Santa Fe company switched seventy-two empty coaches on the side track and in less time than it takes to write it they were crowded. At 7:30 twenty-one more coaches were run up alongside of the others and they were Immediately filled from front to rear. Scores of people did not board the trains at once, fearing they would not be the first to depart, and in consequence mary failed to secure good accommodation. Before the first train started the crowd at the depot was estimated at about 12,000 people. This included the city people who gatnered to see the colonists safely off.

At 8:40 engine No. 287 pulled up the side track and hitched on to the special car that had been secured by the Press association and placed it at the head of ten coaches that were already filled, and at 8:48 Engineer Harry Livingston and Fireman B. F. Rogers sounded the signals for the departure of the first train. As soon as it became known that this constituted the first train crowds of people rushed like mad toward it, and in a very short thine there was not standing room in any of the cars.

As soon as the train had started many peopie ellinbed in the open windows of the cars and clung like monkeys on the Iron guards of the platform. One man in trying to board the cars was struck in the face with a club. He did not get on but had the pleasure of seeing his assallant put off, This was the only difficulty that occurred. The second train departed at 9 o'clock, and consisted of ten coaches packed as full as the cars would hold. This may also be said of the succeeding trains, which left every fifteen minutes afterward, and carried respectively twelve, nine, eleven and four coaches, the last mentioned being a train composed of baggage cars with four coaches attached behind.

As the trains pulled out the crowds cheered until they were hoarse. Many were waving flags, and one fellow stuck his head and arms out the car window and waved a huge horseshoe. Many people on the last trains were unaware that any had left before them and were constantly telling the people to get on board as this was the first train. The people of this city who were out en masse were kept busy wishing the colonists good luck and safe journey. Many placed coins on the track under the trains and kept them as mementos of the occasion.

The railroad company did themselves proud in the able manner in which they disposed of the people and with the one exception everything went off like clockwork. The agent informed THE TINES correspondent that there were between four and five thousand tickets sold from this place to the various points in Oklahoma, nothing of the through tickets that had been sold at other points, It is estimated by some that the fifty-six coaches that went south this morning carried 7,000 people. The trains arriving from the north were still crowded and continued to be so the rest of the day, A train load of cattle passed through this place this morning and the train men said that countless people boarded their train at Purcell and forced the train men to carry them across the river. About twenty-five covered wagons passed through this city to-day and word was received from points north of here that they were still coming. The streets this afternoon looked almost depopulated in comparison to what they were the day before, but many people decided to wait until to-morrow to avoid the rush and jam that necessarily occurred today.

Up to 3 o'clock this afternoon 100 had gone south to Oklahoma and they contained about 12,000 people. FROM POND CREEK. Thousands Start for Chosen Claims Sharp at -Many Already Located. to the Kansas City CALDWELL, April exactly noon the gates to the promised land were thrown open to about five thousand people. On the old Caldwell and Fort Reno trail it was one of the most exciting times ever witnessed.

The people seemed very much excited and as they were strung for miles up and the line they rushed in as though it was the land in the down, United States unoccupied, They moved on quickly, each one seeming confident that he would get the special 160 acres that he desired. Some began scattering toward claims, but most of them moved rapidly toward the land ofce. The high water on the Cimarron had subsided and no further trouble was anticipated. GENERAL McCOOK'S FEARS. Danger of a Collision Between Settlers and Cheyennes and Arapahoes.

WASHINGTON, D. April most serious trouble which General McCook, who is now here from Fort Leavenworth, fears in connection with Oklahoma Is one that has not been considered in the newspapers, that may arise on the western border. There, he says, the boundary line is wholly Imaginary, so far as any night. A number of syndicates were formed, and by 8 o'clock to-morrow there will be at least two banks, a bait dozen stores and other enterprises by Newton men in full operation at Guthrie. The Crowds There was a decided falling at union depot yesterday, sons at the outside passing were mostly capitalists who after town site matters or to the towns are formed Growing Small.

off in Oklahoma business not more than 100 perthrough the city. They are going down to look engage in business after Wichita's Council at War, to the Kansas City WICHITA, April the council meeting night trouble arose between Mayor Clement and four councilmen on one side and six members of the council on the other, which nearly resulted in a riot. The mayor made his appointments, all of which were knocked out. Words followed, and the lobby taking a hand, great excitement resulted. Captain Maher, who was a candidate for an appointment, asserted that the mayor tried to bleed him to the extent of $200 to defray campaign expenses.

This war in the counell 19 liable to delay the transaction of business for mouths. Churchill Warns Chamberlain. LONDON, April Randolph Churchill has written an angry letter to Mr. Chamberlain in which he warns that gentleman that if the conservatives choose to make a test of their strength throughout Birmingham the contest will certainly result in the political annihilation of Mr. Chamberlain and his friends.

It these gentlemen have the success of unionism at heart they had better moderate their pretensions and turn their attention to conciliation rather than provoking the conservatives. Farmers Will Use a Substitute. to the Kansas City HIAWATHA, April 22. -The farmers of this county have decided upon using a substitute for binding twine, which is now entirely under the control of trusts, The substitute is a hemp twine which will cost for wheat binding about 30 cents per acre. Next year a twine manufactory will be established at this place, to be operated and managed by a farmers' stock company.

man, named Ed Thompson of Victoria county, Texas, Within five minutes a Mead county man bad a block of the town plowed around. Wilson of Wichita has his tent up and a real estate sign mounted in the sate time. The first lady to jump to the ground was Mrs. Amanda Roberts of West Platas, with her daughter Grace. She is a widow with five children.

The town site half section is. dotted with men now, each on a lot, and out on the prairie can be seen homestead claimants with spades and plows. Every claimant has thrown up a sod or two to show his settlement. The town site lies on the north slope of a piece of rising ground, from the top of which the prairie can be seen for two miles around. Kingfisher creek is a quarter of a mile distant.

There is no sign of a quarrel yet, though one or two claimants have warned off outsiders. When the other crowd gets in nobody knows what will happen, though It may be that they will peacefully go elsewhere. Surveyors the are out running the streets off and averaging lines. Everybody knows his street already and is prepared to explain all about it. Within half hour after noon, the town of Lisbon or Kingfisher was marked off into lots.

J. E. Waters, an old Kansas soldier has pitched his tent in the center of the town and claims a homestead. He 18 supposed to be acting for a town site company and if so the people who are engineering the same will either fall or get lynched. Yesterday here was devoid of excitement, but not of accident.

The place was so far from the routes of travel that even the register and receiver got lost coming Mr. over from Guthrie. Mr. Roberts, the register, and Admire, the receiver, with Colonel Paisley, the special agent of the general land office, arrived yesterday afternoon. They found no building ready, though the men had been working all day, By the care of Captain Hail the proper location of the office was found.

He foresaw the difficulty and notified the Rock Island surveyors, who consumed nearly a day getting the particular acre marked off. All the sections posts had been lost and the surveyors had to bunt about a long time. The town of Lisbon at that time consisted of the office building, which was small but neat frame structure, and a rough frame barn, added to which permanent structures are the Rock Island hotel and sleeping tents, THE KANSAS CITY TIMES office, the Chicago Tribune office and the camps of the soldiers. Captain Woodson was down from Buffalo Springs yesterday and reported his three thousand settlers happy and quiet. The prairie dogs were somewhat disturbed and the rattlesnakes suspictous, but the peopie were comfortable Captain Woodson issued a circular yesterday mornIng informing the settlers that Monday at 12 o'clock he would have them formed in line and have his trumpets sound the forward at the minute his watch showed the hour.

Most of them were prepared to abandon their wagons and start on their fastest horses straight for their claims, as it was known that the land office officials would not be able to open the doors for business until Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock, It being impossible to get in shape before that time, This was thought best "SEAT OF NORTH PLUG CUT SMOKING TOBACCO. Selected with great care from the choicest tobacco regions of North Carolina. SMOKES COOL, LASTS LONG, DOES NOT BLOW OUT THE PIPE. It is the undisputed leader of -Plug Cut Smoking Tobacco throughout the world. MUNFORD -8th and Vine.

This beautiful block now about completed -court sodded, asphalt driveway finished, large well-lighted, rooms, perfect plumbing, splendid range in every house, permanent gas fixtures, water free. Rents lower than any similar block, None but first class tenants. NORTON RENTAL AGENCY, Deardorff Building. ELEGANT HOMES Corner Peery from and Bellefontaine, 15 ride east Main street; modern yle: thoroughly well built; brick, slate, ard wood; water, bath, gas, hot air furnace: 10 rooms; ground 40 feet front, etc. It Lou want to buy these a home, it is to your Interest tog examine buildings.

Terms reasonable A. BREWERTON. 804 and Bank 605 Building American.