Show PREPARING FOR THE RUSH the condition of affairs surrounding oklahoma which by virtue of president a proclamation is to be opened for settlement at noon on the the present month is by no means of a pleasant nature according tia dispatch from there last friday serious trouble may be expected on the day of the opening hundreds of boomers so this dispatch says are hid in thickets thic keta and brush on the many streams in that country and have combined on a plan to burn nil the bridges on the santa fe road on the night of april or sooner so no trains can get into oklahoma on alie the boomers swear they are going to have the claims they have staked over at whatever coat people bound for are arriving here daily from all over the union and the excitement runs high another dispatch received two days later imports the army officers as eliat thousands of boomers are still concealed in the brush and that if the whole united states army was there it could not drive them out their names are taken but nine out of ten are fictitious captain woodson and lieutenant car bon are in receipt of telegrams daily to liiro horena have them saddled and bridled and in waiting on the arrival of trains at oklahoma city on april at noon the object is to mount at once and by fleet steeds distance their rival boomers on foot and capture the choice claims A party of four boasters boosters Bo with a balloon aro camped near antelope hill they nill make an ascent in the morning drift in midair mid air till noon and then descend an idour in advance of teams of speedy horses the state officials anticipated trouble and eay the country will be an el dorado for good land office lawyers alie excitement is increasing daily and all southern kan is ablaze the assessors think oklahoma is not what it has been painted the soil is red and the land is good chiefly for hay and cotton oklahoma was surveyed some years ago but the corners are nearly all obliterated now the settlers staking claims will find it difficult to describe the same when they go to the land office to make a filing and this will give rise to innumerable contests and more will grow out of the fil ings by boomers who stayed in the country against the presidents orders and will come out of the timber april and file anyhow tho contests settled at first kiy Win chestera will afterwards have to be settled again in the courts the outlook for the country and the boomers is not promising by my means |