Show DEATH IS THEIR PORTION Many IVho Soughta Homo Have Found a Grave 4V ARKANSAS Crt anept 13One hundred degrees of heat in the shade the air filled with suffocating dust and the hot winda blowing across the parched prairie were the severe conditions that boomers along the Cherokee line were forced t endure today At this place over fifty were overcome by the heat most of them being in the line before the registration booths Six have died and others are in a critical condition con-dition AtCaldwell thirtytwo were sunstruck two dying At Orlando there were twentytwo sunstrokes and two deaths and at Hen nessy eighteen strokes and one death The indications are that tomorrow will be a repetition of today The crush at the registration booths has become so great that from now on they will be kept open day and night During the three days ended tonight 42300 certificates have been issued The total number of hlvo certificates does not indicate the number homeseekers for most of the boomers take out certificates for both homestead and town lots The Santa Fe brought in sixtyfive carloads of people today The majority comelsimply to see the fun At Orlando today the soldiers brought fiftythree sooners into camp and more are reported to be concealed along the streams in the forbidden land The boomers in order to get rid of the speculators specu-lators will not permit any one in the line to sell his place In consequence the line is thinned considerably today and is now composed wholly of bona fide home seekers seek-ers The Rock Island took 3COO people into Caldwell today and many more are coming tomorrow The Young Peoples Society of Christian Endeavor has undertaken to relieve the suffering caused by a lack of water The Leavenworth society has pledged money to pay the expenses of hauling water from i Arkansas City to the booths and three water carts were put into service today |