The Wichita Beacon from Wichita, Kansas • Page 1

TBS WEAIHEB PROBABILITIES. "WiSEirGTO.v, Sept. 1C For Kansas till 8 p. m. Sanuay- Generally fair; warmer Sunday morn-iaj; variable winds becoming southeast.

mi S3 3 SflSj! COMPLETE MARRKT F.K T. The Wichita Daily Beacon contains th v. comprehensive market of any paptr i t'i-i state. The Bkacox reaches the people au 1 -ht4 the news. tu ess If WICHITA, KANSAS, SATIXR DAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1893.

.1 jy cunts S3 PTJi Fi is; if IZt S. li IIS III! ill i 1 it BTTK tbemse ves rfr.vrn -HR k- nereis lor mat pisce. it is about fli'evn i 11 ti i mvr fittttfr "-J. I I the Texas Panhandle and No Man's Laud. dogs and coyotes flourish there, but the farmers will find it a struggle exist.

I On the BITTING- BEOS. The "ARCADE" Dry store is positively going out cf the retail business and nothing that can bs said by the other stores in town will prevent this. The "ARCADE is seeing every dollar's worth of goods for less than any house in Wichita, nnd the othT merchants know this to be true, but 1 hey mnot aflord At thC Cherokee StriP Was Evaded 10 all Sides by One Hundred Thousand Homeseekers. WJint-'Was a I)reai7, Desolate Prairie is Now Occupied By More Than a Quarter of a Million of People. See Us For School Suits.

for the Boys. We will Save you Money Every 7im. BITTING BEOS, One-Price Clothiers, Hatters and Fur.iishers. 126 and 128 E. Dour.

Discription of the Territory- I' I SI la lmavles, pickers anil mixed, jr.5.Va3.r lights, yorkors ami plus, $5 niail.n.V -Hece! pts. fluO; shipments, 8(K market steady. Ciiicaoo, Sept. 1. CiTTLLE Receipts, Htuxt; shipments, market slow, prices nominal at 4 tor severs.

IJimm Receipts, 12.100: shipments 5.0 io ni'irkPt unchanged common hnvy, sj Mia roihI f3 '(iaf 73, rtisd qualities cliolco enough for slilpnltitf wf 15 lights, from s-i eaS fiO, und nu-dlums and Lmtcherd, i Gomiip, Duluth received 302 cars. Inspections: Winter wheat, Ito, graded, IS; spring whoa', 11. uraded, orn, 330, graded, oats, 33iS, grader' Ho2: Chicago, 12,000, steady Kansas City, 3,000, steady 3.HO0; Omaha, 7,000, steady 2,500, Estimated Monday 28,009. IJeerbohn: Liverpool wheat futures quieter; corn slow lower; London cargoes off coast: Wheat rather firmer: corn steady; trench country markets steady. Chicago: Grain out store Wheat, corn oats 222,000.

Chicago: Est'mated car lots -Wheat, 200; corn, oats. 415. Iiradstreel's Exports wheat and flour ibis week, 5,357,000 egainst last week, and last EVERY TRAIN BRINGS NEW GOODS TO THE ui They now have the anJ Finest Stock of largest Suitings 'I rousers and Ovei coatings for Fall and Winter. Harry MeCabe, Mgr 155 North Main. VVm.

LILLIE, Cutter. FA -Iff rn 011 ui ,0 AND THE MARKETS. Chicago, Sept. 1C. Wheat The easier market for the past few days has created a moderate short interest and this was forced in bv Rradstreet's figures.

They Invariably closed up their trades oti Saturdays. The liradstre et's figures, while bullish at a cursory glance, are not really so, for the world's crop Is estimated to show a surplus over all requirements. Advances from the seaboard say the big exports will show a marked falling off next week and hereafter. Receipts at the primary markets show up heavily this week and the visible will doubtless increase from one to two million. Corn and oats The forjier firmed up early iu sympathy with wheat but the advance brought out such a flood of offerings that the markets soon gave way and closed weak.

The big receiving houses say that country offerings are on the increase and receipts next week will be larger. Oats have been relatively strong ou the heavy exports today. It is not believed this will keep up, but traders are apparently more friendly to the long side of oats than of corn. Provisions The packers not only maintain prices but lit le dilliculty in ad vancing them moderately though in doing so the speculative trade is about killed. Nkw Yohk, Sept.

10 There wa scarcely any business previous to the publication of the back stateme.nt, when, to the surprise of everybody on the street, after the bank statement was published stocks did not rally aud bustiiess did not increase. The statement is the best one made by the associated binks iu many weeks. distinctly favorabU; feature in" it is an increase of bank deposits, which means that money is coming here from the country which will enable banks to relieve more clearing house certificates. The volume of business today was smaller than any day for a long time past. There was scarcely any tone to the market at all.

It was quiet but on such a bank statement stocks bought for a turn should show a quick profit. The weekly bank statement shows the following changes: Reserve', increase, loans, decrease, 088, 400; speeie increase, 000; gal tenders, iu-ciease, $4,310,800: deposits, decrease. S3, 485, 900; circulation, increase, Banks now hold 10 in excess of requirements of 25 per cent rule. Money on call nominally prime mercantile paper 7. 10 per cent tder ling exchange dull with actual business in bankers' bills at tor demand, and 482 for sixty days; posted rates $4 834.8G; commercial bills, $4 81 4.81;2; silver at sto' exchanges, 5,000 ouuevs 74; bar silver 74; Mexican dollars, 59.

Wall Stuekt, Sept. 10. The stock market opened firm iu anticipation of a favorable bank statement. The range or prices at Clilcago today on active options, as furnished hy Rent haw Kimball were as follows- miles distant. Wild Hor.fj and Pocd Creek will get mat people Xroai the C'aldwell contingent ln.e I-Iand norta bound train: 1 which reached Caldwell at 7 r.vwt I.I 1 i tDronan the fdrtri at a hi.h of i I It was loaded with people, aud aacior eataiiehal iftab iut 1,000 pa I sengers at Kind-her, and hundreds otDer sutwna nn iho itq there were many sooners in the ettia and I A4.V.

I mat ne seen scores of thtir camo lires burning along the The day is clear. The north wind blew au night and many of the campers who naa just ceased suEerin from heat be gan to suiter irorn cod. Thev did not have blankets enough and hundreds of them sat around their fires to keen warm. The Laud Sept. Pekky, -After the the settlers "where he tore.

The race was over and when looked around to see was at," he was sore, very man who had taken ua a homeste found himseif located upon about as ap parently undesirable patch of lind as could well be found in the whole breadth of Uncle Sam's domain, excepting, possibly, portions of the American desert. Prairie fires had swept srreat tracts of land and ieft them black and uninviting. Other traets ha been cut clear of hay bv men who have made a living and some oi iiiem ioriunes gatnermz prairie urass. What hav had been left by the lires and haymakers was parched to a bv the rtcent hot wind3 and malted oj thd ground by the same agtncies. The pros pect was a dreary one.

1'raii ie extend ing as far as the eye could reach, relieved by no signs of human li excet.tina those brought into the desolate region the settlers themselves. Few of the homesteads were provided with natural water. rhe lack of water will be the great ob stacle in the way of the homesteader's comiort and that of his flacks and nerds. The season has been 'unusually drv even lor this dry climate. liut liule rain has fallen for a full month end none for the past two weeks.

The creeks have run dry and the Arkansas and Cimarron rivers have reached of stagnation, so that what little waiter is ob- tainabla is of a bad quality. There ate very few springs in the strip and ti digging of wells in tbe sandy -soil is a long, ardurous process. Tin ratu-t at least be sunk 100 feet, and in cases loO before water ii found. I'oiidinz the digging of wells or a fall of rain ilie set tlers will experience great dijliciiity and in some cases. actual suffering -5a providing water.

In many cases ihevwiUbe obliged to haul it long distftiic.es from the livers and then it will be and of an undesirable quuli v. the settlers have taken with them to their claims an ample supply of food no inconvenience will be encountered on that score. Tte townsiter was also a disappointed man when he found himself in possession of a much coveted lot. In his dieams and fancies he had pictured to himself a town at least. When be sot his lot he found he had a 25 foot piece of land in the open prairie exactly similiar to a thousand other pieces divided from each other only by imaginary lines.

At the government townsites only tne blocks had been surveyed and it was impossible for a man to tell just where his lot was even after he had got it. The let that the lots were not surveyed led to endless confusion au.l numerous disputes, for in a given block more men would claim lots than there were in a b'iock and some would get left. The first buildings that went up on the lots were of cau-vass, they were tents erected by shop keepers who soon stocked them with their wares and were doing a thriving business before sunset. The Cherokee strip, comprising 5. acres, lies in the northwest corner of the Indian territory.

Its nor' hern boundary is the southern Hue of Kansas and its southern boundary parallels its northern line giving it a width of fifty-seven miles aud a length varying from 1C0 to 210 miles. The esteut of the tract is not easily comprehended without comparison. It is equal to the combined area of two Rock Islands, Delaware aad Connecticut, with 107 square miles to spire. It became a pari of Oklahoma territory when the president issued his prociama" tion three weeks aro and i.j now under its laws. It makes Oklahoma's area 303 quare miles aud rai.ses that teritory to the dignity of being larger than twelve different states of the Union.

With the which added themselves to Oklahoma's population to day, that territory has good reason to demand admission to the sisterhood of states which demand Is now bein pressed upon congress by Delegate Flynn. or nearly two centuties the Cherokee Indians have resisted the march of civil ization westward. As early as 1721 tfieir land on the eastern coast was encroached upon by the whites and they began selling off their territory, retinas westward. step by step, until tr.ey became cornered the comparativelv small area :fiua.Hv allotted to them in the Indian territory. 1721 the Cherokees dominated vast tracks of land in the east and southeast.

that year they eeded to South Carolina 1,079,000 acres. Since that year they have sold and disposed of by treaty at intervals of from five to twenty-live years, no less than 87,300,000 to North Carolina. Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Kan- i sas and the United States. Th-; "Chero- kee Indian is not much of a business man. Out of all these transactions exclusive of the Cherokee strip, icceived but 2,000,000.

for the strip he received but only after a hird fight with the United States government. After Oklahoma was opeted to settla-ment the booraer3 began at once ari agitation for the opening of the Cherokee strip. The Cherokees and the cattle barons, who had rented the strip for grazing purposesesiste 1 the agitation, but the boomer carried bis point and Uncle Sam bought the land and has bow distributed among his family. 4Jncle Sam is a thrifty eld relative and does'nt propose to lose money Ly the transaction. 11 doesn't give tlie Aaud away by any means.

He seii it to his people for cold dollars an 1 makes them pay the cosj of abstracts and deeds to boot. It costs the boomer about to his preliminary papsrs and from St 3 per acre to prove up his eUim ine prices set upon the various por tions of the land make a very good index its worth. The extreme a-tem portion of the strip will cost the settler $2. 50 an acre The middle portion 1-50 per acre, and ail west of that Si. The extreme eastern portion coBta'ns most valuable land.

It is jrood, rich farming land, well watered ixuA fairly well Umbered. Tbe mi Idle division is lai batsoathaf Vna Arkansas river lher in a scarcity of water. The wst- ii-toil ii "oi ior little i.fit It partakes of the character of a at at of for AKKissis City, Sept. 1G For a Tear uah. iub uoomers nave oeen nattered .1 tlie borders of tUe Cherokee strip wait n.e ujjiumsoi setuemnt.

Many of thtin were people who failed to Bctuie usiaaoina. (Jtliera hrt Deea auractea by alluring circulars from i professional boomer societies yho honed itius io arouse tae government to a sense of the necessity of opening the land to settlement, while others have lost homes it tne states through misfortune or ca lamity, moved to the strip, knowing that ii. must soon oe opened to settlement. iue great crowds, however, did not oegm to assemble until after the issu ance oi tne president message actuallv setting the opening hour. But when I tacjf uiu oegin to come, tuey came in greater numbers than were ever seealn lauds about to be given to people.

The crowds increased beyond the expecta Hon of all concerned. They thronged ail mo hotels, temporary lodging places and overflowed into boomer's camps which Had been established along the rivers and crteks near the borders. Manv passed the time previous to last Monday learn ing tne character ot the land and hunt mg tor good places along the line from which to start today's races Last Monday the reg stration booths opaned for business aud from taen on the boomers found plenty to keep them busy ui an opportunity to secure certificates issued from them. These ccr- micaie.i were tickets ot samission into the strip arid certificate no one could cross the border-, and if a person without a certificate escaped the vial- lai.uu oi me euarus, ne win not be per to j. preliminary, papers on any claim.

This plan was adopted by the gecerat iana oiuce as means of cneck- matmg the sooner, most troublesome of ail classes of boomers, the individual who takes advantage of his fellows by-entering land before the appointed time. the plan was at first hailed with delight by honest boomers, but when registration booths opened for business, it soon became apparent with facilities provided all could not bo furnished with certificates and then the boomers began to fear that the effort to checkmite sooners might deprive prospecti I tiers of the oonoitunitv to eater th ve set- the land. he iacilit.es for registration were totally inadequate and" everybody inter-esttd directly or indirectly appealed to the interior department to increase the facilities. It took the department several days to realize the situation, but finally, Thursday night, additional facilities "were authorized and all applicants for certificates were accommodated. In the meantime great lines of people had stood in front of the booth for four -days, in the blazing sun, during which time an unprece dented hot wave swept over the country, aau not winas Dtew as Diasts Irora a fur nace a moUh, addiog to the miseries of fhe waiting men and women.

Food was scarce and so little water was to be obtained that it was valued at from 5 to 15 cents a glass. These hardships heaped upon men already wearied and exhausted oy waiting in line day and night proved to be more than human nature could en dure. Many were prostrated; some died i-iosuaiions, so tar as reported, num bered over 10f, and deaths ten. In the midst of these deplorable con ditions mere were some bright spots. Men, true to American respect for wor men, gave up their places in the line to suffering memlrs of the weaker sex.

At Arkausas City women were permitted to enter tne booths in squads of hun dreds, without even joining the line. Good humor, as a rule, prevailed duriug the tiresome wait and nothing of a disgraceful nature marred the occasion. Having secured certiticiitea the boomers rt pared for the race. They trained their horses to gallop over the tough prairies, to swim rivers and to climb steep declivities. They practiced riding over rough stretches of land on bicycles tnd practiced foot racing over the same courses.

Others less ambitions became a prey to gamblers who who were in the infested cities, towns and camps and did a thrifty business among idlers. While the lmg wait for the opening wan not already a continued round of uninterrupted pleasure it will become one of the most memorable features of boomer's pioneer experience. taltlwtU's Contingent. Kansas City, Sept. 15.

The Star's Caldwell, special says: Thousands of people were on the streets of Caldwell at 7 o'clock this morning making final preparations for the run to the strip. The conductor of the Heck Island train which lef Kansas City at o'clock last niabt had instruction to rim his train ahead of time so as to pnss tlnouga the strip and reach Heimcsst on he southern boundary before -fleck in obedience to the orders of Seertnry s-mith. The enormous crowds of passengers at the stations along- the way, however, delaved the tram and it did not reach Caldwell until 7 o'clock and the run through the strip was uet atrem rueu. At ail stations between Caldwell and Wichita hundreds of people were left. At Wellington the crowd almost took possession of the train, climbinc on top of cars, on trucks, in cab and on "the ten- ere and pilot.

Lven then several hundred wen left at Wellington. It became impossiblu to handle the crowd and the doors of oars were locked and the people outside were left to take csre of themselves. The information that this tram would make an early morning run through the strip naa preceded it and people became des peiaie almost in ineir etiorts to and a place to hold on, hopingthey might jump uu. at tuuituwiat fiaces in tne strip. There were thirty-five cars on sidetracks and thev were switched down to the bonndary line two miles away and formed into a tram that will make the run into the strip, starting at noon and running at the rate of twelve miles an hour.

There was an enormous demand it ncucis on tuts tram, ana two wav cars and half a dozen clerks weresent aown to the une earl? this morning to sell tickets. With all this provision for selling tickets people fotisht for places. The ti window at Caldwell station and the Thirty-five cars did not accommodate half the peeple who wanted tickets. There was the greatest excitement here. People were moving to and fro, breaking camp and getting ready for the run.

At several places on the streets ponies and horses of all descriptions were soiiist auction at hiah prices. People were wild in their efforts to secure some sort of a conveyance to the strip and half of had to make -the ran on foot. The favorite townsite seems to be EnhJ and half the people bought rail wav on in In In he file to of the fair i ue strip is watered by the Arkansas ana cimarron- rivers, several smaller streams and many creeks. The settlers will not lack transportation facilities. The Situ Fe has two lines through th? country, one passing through directly south from Arkansas City and the other diagonally from Kiowa tothe southwestern corner.

Between the Santa Fe's Unas the Rock Island passes through from Caldwell, Kansas, in a north and south lice. The country has been divided into seven counties, K. L. M. N.

and Each county has been provided oy the government with a countv seat and by speculative townsiters with various prospective towns. The governor of Oklahoma will appoint the county Jiileers as soon as possible and the settlers will soon be provided with the political ami legal machinery necessary for government. From a barren waste the resort of fugitives from justice and dren- ucoua ui net jjci auues, wueie train robberies have been planned and exe cuted, whence maurading parties have guDe forth to raid banks and the herds ot Cattlemen, the home of the Dalrons. Mars and numerous other gangs, the strip will shortly be transformed into a populous, peaceful, thrifty, ambitions commundv. 1 lie Settler.

Pf.i.m:v, Sept. 16. The people wiio settled today upon the Cherokee strip do not differ much, except in point of numbers, ficm boomers who have taken possession of public lands on former similar occasions. It is estimated tiiut fully 70,000 people have preempted claim or town lots. Kslimatiug the number in families at one and a half to each claimer the number of people now camping on the strip is about 175,000, far exceeding the number who raced into Oklahoma when nearly twice the number of acres were thrown open to settlement in country.

Speculators, -the gamblers aud confidence men compose a greater portion of the population when Oklahoma was opened. The townloters sre especially numerous. They are mostly men who have been thrown out of work oy the recent financial distress and who hope to make a stake by sei ing their claims. Among them, however, is the professional town-lotter in Kansas and Oklahoma who is always on hand on occasions of this kind. All the county seats and town sites have them in numbers, but they also boast their full quota of mechanics, merchants and tradesmen and men of the professions.

Doctors are present to administer to the physical needs of the scalers, lawyers to th ir leal needs and newspaper men to their mental requirements. Every county seat will have a newspaper which aopes to ohiain county and government and every townsite has one it ns the Peerless Princess of the Plains. C-rpenters and masons are plenty. ha nr.t been much building iu cities these hard times and they have taktT.i tini opportunity to seek employment at big wages in putting up the new towns, besides securing a town lot or farm. Many of the gamblers anel confidence men "quit the" game" when the race began.

Their golden opportunity was while men were idling the hours away awaiting for the opening. Some of them, however, went in with the- crowd, and having tiken up a lot will do business so Ions as it is profit able. The boomers as a rule are adventurous people, and duriug the settling of Oklahoma of them piayed with hosr.estea and town lots for aud ou this occasion the professional is not fo.ua i a dearth of business. The newly formed local governments, with nu laws and few facilities for administering the territorial iaw, it will be a hard matter to deal legally-, with the gambler, und he will nourish until the law csii lay a stern hand upon him. But of all the classes of settlers the farmer is the most numerous, and as a rule, the mosUreputable.

Farmers have com 2 from all over the country, some alone on foot, some ou horseback, some by the rail a ays, but the majority in the reliable old prairie schooner. He has uone into the new land with an honest desire to provide for himelf and family home aud a means of livelihood. He will knock together a house in which to pass the winter; will gather what prairie hay that has been left by the prairie fires and hot winds and will begin at once to transform the barren domain of savage trioes into an empire of American homes, it is upon this class that the future of the strip depends and upon which the ooomcrs have based thtir Most of the- farmers made their run for farms in the eastern aad middle portion of tha strip where the land is richest and water most abounds. Others who have brought with them the nucleus of a her.i of cattle also went into the middle portion. Many large families went into the western end where their numbers could take up adjoining claims and thus secure large cattle ranges.

A tanv.iy oi nve members of. legal age could fcure a range of 800 acres, which would afford. grazing to a verv respecta lIe herd of cattle. Kain maker. Henxesky, Sept.

1. Jewell, the Rock Island rainmaker, begun operations at Ilennesey yesterday and the probabilities are that the Cherokee strip will have a deluge in the next few days. The Rock ofSeiais ought to have sent Jewell here two weeks ago and if he had succeeded in getting rain, the road would have been the bestad vertised one in America. However, i better late than never, anT! if he is successful the great rusn i. uomes may oe made, in a rain.

storm. Wicliita's Crowd. Every train south ot Wicbita this morning carried large numbers of people wno were going to see the strip opening noon today. AU the regular trains were crowd-d and the Kock Pacific and Santa Fe ran excursion trains that carried great crowds. The most oi tbem went to Caldwell and the- Kock Island excursion train leaving here 7:50 carried at least 3,000 people in-cladlusr manyladies.

When the train drew op at the station platform the people rnhed to get on the cars before they were stopped and it was a wonder some of them were not Injured. Wbea the trains had gone the streets resented a deserted appearance. Most thai, going this morning will come back this and evening and with itoasacris wh i have been goinz In weeks aud will siod themselves dis- OXTIXCEI OX FOCKTM PAGE. 1 i 1 1 to have their customers go to the "ARCADE." knowing that a visit to th "AKCrtDE" wil convince any one that money can be saved on every dollar's worth offered for sale; hence every conceiveable story or yarn is resorted to to keep customers away, but cur Cut Prices are spreading like wild fire One neighbor is telling another and those who visit the "ARCANE" are the ones whj go home with money in their pockets. "ARCADE" V.

J. WILSON. President. WICHITA, FUlir, rLUMBll.O EC1TLY (::. Plumbers.

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hold If NEFF'H SHOE ITER 1 0 Times T- 9 44 N. MAIN Street I. mi I ii i.1 a' FORD Incidents of the Mad Kush for General Details of the Water in AicKAN3As Citv, Sept. 1. At live minutes before noon today 75,000 jnen are gathered upon the north and couiu oounaary ol the Cherokee strip availing breathlessly the signal which hail announce to tbem the airival of the hour when the land shall pass from the ownership of the United States govern ment into the possession of its individual citizens.

All are ready for the race which will 1 ring fortune and happiness to some, disappointment and suffering to others. au expect fortune and ail are ready for the race for lands. Some are mounted oa thoroughbred racers, some on less Ueet, but surer footed cow ponies, some tu oicycics. uiners win make the race i i higgles and wagons. An air of t-; rained expectancy prevades the throngs and eacn is eager for the signal.

Uing! of the revolvers of the 1 tided States army oilicers who have the flair in charge, gave the signal to start and the race for homes is on. Seventy-live thousand ineu cud women rush over boundaries and into the coveted land ns if thrir very lives rather than the mere possession of a farm or town lot depended upon upon their going. The hlioutnig of men, the screaming of womtn, neighing of frightened horses, cracking of v.hips, creaking of prairie f.ehooncrs, rattling of wheels, clatter of loofs and the explosion of lire arms combine to a confusion of sounds in keeping with the general confusion of the sta. iiad to render the scene one of indescriibie pandemonium. After the line is crossed and racers spread out over the strip an exciting coiucMt take place.

Here is a neck and r.eek vxz'i between horsemen who have (ert.iu Iul3 in certain town s-t as the oTiiy thins: worth having in 'he whole country. The stake is alluring and each horseman puts forth every to the prize. Tmjre a choice farm is the stake and 1 lie rave is equally exciting. Here racers upon a guUv over which they urge horses. They abandon auimals trusting to luck to ilnd themagain, and i iake lor the coal oa foot, stumbling iver wading treams and climbing precipitous banks in the mad race.

Here women engage in the race for a lri.e and there men and women are oiajing over the prairie for the same piece ct land. During the long hot days of reeistra-S-'ou, when staudiug in line in the blazing in entailed great suSering, men chival-r r.uly surrendered to the weaker sex places in the lines. Ttitre is no c'ivalry now. race a business tir and uo se interferes with transaction of the matter in hand on "t.usinos.i basis. Women must take their e'lfineej." Their sex avails them nothing in this contest.

There along railway tracks, boomer t-ains, loaded to the guards with town- s.ters, ate creeping along at a snail's pace, it seems to tiic an-xious passengers, while the llsct horses outstrip the luizhty iron horse, handicapped by being forbid ieu to exceed twelve miies an -hour. Horsemen shout deriseively as the pass the trains and some of the mere hot-heedfd passengers fall off of the cars fovthwitn, scamper a distance into the prairie and squat upon the tirst vacant patch of 1( acres which comes In their way. A3 the train pulls into a T.ownsite or conutyfseat it disgorges its load and townsiters swarm over the land like an army of ants. The plat of ground which fifteen minutes before was nothing but a surveyed patch of prairie with not rn inhabitant, becomes a populous community. Innumerable disputes, many altercations and some lights will take place.

There are no oflicers of the law to interfere and lot seekers are too bnsy with T-heir own aHairs to mis in ether people's business, so lighters fight "it out untiione is incapacitated while bis victor captures the pri.ee. Immediately when a lot is claimed stakes are driven, in some cases teuts are erected and iu a few iatancjs tiwn meetings are held, officers elected and before the thing seams possible a municipality hasjsprung into existence. In the mean time out on the prairies farmers continue their race for homestead pre-emptions. Tne head of a family aa I his sous at legal aga make the race on horses or on foot, If horses are not nuoierous enough to go round; while "women folks" follow more leisurely la a prairia sjhooccr which pitches and rolls about oa broken prairie lik sure-ououg schooners In roush sea. From a line south of Arkansas City a number cf young men make the race on safety bicycles.

They need saftiss. They have practiced for days riding over rough prairies iu preparation for the race. A gudy, a mlciarure canyon." parallels the norta line of the slip axu. three miles ia Interior. Across this it is impossible for cyders, to ride and those who outstripped horsemen are obliged to dismount and take what they can find north of tae gsify.

This same guly -proves-obstacle In x.ou.ie A aiauy racers aud only trafned lies are sore footed and advea-enough to descend the side and scramble up the other in safety. The gaily soon becomes lined with horsemen. AU cLtims are taken and those whose horse wiil not attempt to cross it are obliged to make long detour around its ends. They are not discouraged and hope for better luck farther on. Enough people make the race to take Land At the an big of of the on the no Opening- Scarcity of the Strip.

possession of every one of the 37,:00 homesteads and give every countv seat and townsite at least 1,500 inhabitant. It is estimated 75,000 people made the race. It is known over 125.000 certiti-cates were, issued from various registration booths, but majority of the pros- yc-wvc seiners iook ootii nomestead and townsite certificates so that number of certificates does not represent the number settled. It is estimated that 25,000 people made the race from Arkansas City, 15,000 from Caldwell, 11,000 from Orlando, 9,030 from Hennessey, 7,000 from StillwtHr; 3,000 from Kiowa, 3,000 from Jlunnewell and from 5,000 to 8,000 from other-points. The total number the crowd which raced into Oklahoma when that territory was opened.

xne weatner was all that could be da- sired for lhe Occasion. T'hp str ivmj clear and a cool north wind was blowing briskly, but still not with enonsrh force io raise me oust wmcn settlers had come to regard as a necessarv comnnner.t r.it-r. of strip atmosphere. Thest; favorable conditions were a great relief to settlers who have suffered so greatlv the nast week from the unprecedented hot snell. The greatest rush was into the eastern portion of the country, which contains by far the most fertile and best watered farming land in the whole strip.

Terry, the townsite on the Santa Fe. was the favorite destination of speculators. but Milford and Pond Creek on trie Rock Island were objective points of hundreds who made the run from Caldwell. Simply Waiting. Kansas City, Sept.

16. The Star's Arkausas City special says: At an earlv hour this morning the crowds of people, made their way to the Santa "Fe yani where freight trains of ten cars eack stood ready to pull out to the border, there to wait until the signal to go haa been given. At each door stood a deputv United States marshal, with carbine presented, to demand the registration cer-ficates. When all the cars had been rilled the first train, to which had been attached General Manager Frey's private car with members of the press, pulled out slowly and stopped within a foot of the strip. The other sections followed closely behind.

The crush to get on the trains was awful. After the cars were full people climed to the roofs and soon covered them. They clung to the steps, invaded the engine and even crawled upon this trucks. Iaside the cars the jam was. irigutrui, people were crushed and the I pressure at the doors could not stopped.

The efforts of the deputy marshal did not avail much alter Khz first fow had shown their certidcates. The trains left hundreds of disappointed people be-nind who were unable to get a foothold. the edge of the strip a horde of peo ple were waiting tne trains, but was no rcoia for them. there i The Santa Fe sold 8,000 tickets for trains, most of them for Kildare. Camped along the side of the track at the state line were about 200 men.

They had walked out to take the train this morn- ing. They had heard that the trains would be loaded in town, and not complying with Hoke Smith's regulation, would not unload. They threatened to throw ties under the "cars unless the regulation was complied with. Last night the weather turned very chilly, and thousands who camped on the strip did not pass a very comfortable night. At day break this morning roads leading to the state line were jammed with wagons and horsemen, a seeminglv never ending procession of people.

The biggest crowd was gathered on the 100 foot strip west of Chilocco school reservation. Hero on the strip tor two miles west wagons and horses were literally wedged hfso tightly that a man to pass to the front would bave to climb over the wagons. The wheels we're locked and Horsemen wedged in. Right in front of line facing the south and ready to spring forward were hundreds of horsemen who had camped there -for forty-eight honrs. Among them were many thoroughbred horses and cow ponies who had been employed by townsite companies to run for them.

In the crowd were big, heavy, canvass topped boomer wagons, sulkies, buggies, ice wagon and every conceivable vehicle to whicn were hitched mules and fat farm teams. Hundreds of men afoot were waiting to start with canteen and blankets upon their shoulders. Among them were manv negroes. Troops rode along the line keeping back the crowd which edged up continually for a little more advantage. The crowd, though eager for the start, was good natured, and" joking and chaffing was very general.

In the crowd were many women on horseback some them wore bifurcated skirts, and ullv half of the wagons contained members their sex. Lined behind the boomers "were water and provision wagons which followed crowd and provided the settlers with water and food. As the morning wore away it became very hot and those who had provided themselves with bat one canteen of water Jjoaght or borrowed from their neighbors and when thev eot their claims will nndonbtedlv suffer. Nearly every wagon had a bale of hay tied to it. Soldiers have burned over whole strip and there is absolutely feed for horses unless it is taken in.

Some of the horsemen have loaded i I. 7 1. 0 September 15. Opening liiglient Lowest Cloning Wheat 69s 69 Sfs Tlt 3ls 7'i Slay 79s Wit 7y Corn-September 4lts 411 to 4i December 4Ua 41t i't's is May 45 45'4 oats-September VV December Z7s May 3ia 8its 31 ai Fork Ssptfemtei ss October 14 65 Lard September 7. 8 75 October 8 7 kibs- September 9 October 70 Prices to Suit the A RAD Street 44 I N.IAIN Wichita, 8ept.

ii WBtiT VO. 2. soft. 45c; No, 3 soft, 4liC, No. 2, bard.

42c; No. 3, 39c. Cork No. 2, H5e. Oats So.

2, 22c. PomvrBT--Hens. per lb. chick ens, Ac; roosters, 3c; ducks, Ac; eese, 5c, turkeys.se BtTTTKR Good, 13C, Coos-Per dozen, w. ST.

LOCIS. Sept. 15. What nigber; cash and Spptembr, 6sWc; October, 64igc; December, 6S'79C: May, -Casn higher; options weak; Pep temper, asc: ctober Decombr, 36Sc; year- May, 4JVc. Oats tady cash and September.

2-iC, October. Xoveuibr. ic; My, sic. Ft Quiet; new Jobbing, $17. W.

La ftp Higher; 75. assas Citt. Sept Reported by the Kansas Grain and Seed company. KasM Mississippi river. Whbat Xo.2 red, et' jc; So.

2 hard, C3C. Corm So. white, anc. mixed, 35c. Oats No.

2 white, 22c Rtk So. 2, inc. Wichita, sept.76. CATTLE Market steady. cow low) row jfn calf lfio calf mt 2 1 2 75 1 65 6 6toekers.

72rt 1 stacker Itit 1 aif 12'i 1 cow 9.0 2 t-n 1 so 2 75 1 SO HoGS -Market steady. 7 211 6 43 147 5 65 310 45 Kashas Crrr, Sept. ifi. BATTLE -Kecel Dt. fi Via-, shlnments tit, nest cattle were stead r.

others i mm and shipping steers. 2 uy5 Texas and natrve cows. SI 25r3 ttu thr-rs t-k. stackers and filers. mwra 45 H008 Becelpts, 3.400; shipments, market steady; bulk sales.

saS6a 5.5: We have ENLARGED OUR STOCK and added many new lines in Men's, Ladies', and Misses' FINE AND MEDIUM SHOES. School Shoes a Specialty. Do not fail to look-through our stock before purchasing. orders receive prompt attention. RADFORD I.