Show a bay A divid ACCOUNT OF THE men murdered over a claim the following is the account of the opening of oklahoma as printed in tuesdays issue of the SL louis republic oklahoma is open tho trials struggles and sacrifices of yeara are partially rewarded but the events ot today to day have made those of the days weeks and months to follow of mu ch concern aud will provo how far the supply is below the demand and further concessions to avert disorder bloodshed and other conditions but little short of anarchy the history of the day will forever be memorial in frontier annals and will leave behind a heritage of litigation which will be fruitful to land bharka and claim attorneys but destruction to the claims of poor and honest settlers the santa po began running its sectionals section als trains out of kansas city last night picking up cars at almost every station along the route hun deeds of people wore waiting at every depot and the cars all of which were filled before the border line wa reached could they be coupled would have made a train a mile in length the crowds were composed of speculators adventurers bight seers thieves etc the farming ele mt it was not largely represented ah all of the homesteaders have gone on boford thero were men in ane cart from every great city and important point in the country and there was not a state or territory in the country which did nofa have its representatives the newspaper coach wah the first out of kaunas city it con representatives of all the leading newspapers in the country who ware to yield room and comfort for the good of the cause at arkansas city there were avei five coaches tracked in tin bards awaiting the rush all of chest were lowered into the yards some dis tance below the depot tho crowd begun gathering on the platform two hous before daylight and long before the first faint streak of dawn greeted tho fateful day the city was awake and stirring the streets presented u live and picturesque appearance hun deeds in their impatience to gei aboard rushed down en masse to thi bards and attempted to force a entrance into the cars all ui which wore securely locked the excitement cit ement may be judged from thi fact that a large number of coach windows wore broken out by the people who were anxious to secure seats it was in vain for the officials to sa the trains would run in sections fifteen minutes apart every mau there wanted to be fifteen minute ahead of everybody and not fifteen minutes behind anybody the first section made up consisted of ami coaches the newspaper coach and our it pulled out at rail road time it wab when the line which marks the state line and divid aug line from the cherokee strip was reached it was greeted with a cheer which rolled from the new car iu front to the rustlers caboose behind jt j t marked the departure from tin state government to the country whore a government is yet to b created and established still thi cherokee country lay between them and the rainbow land along tin pawnee trail the train alio casseu caravan of bommera Bo omera wagons many going south but borne returning towards kansas between willow springs and the poncha agency somebody in the newspaper car dib covered a man riding on the trucks ganeath the coach when the train stopped abc boucha the adventurous boomer on wheels was taken up into tho car daubor 0 the press association he gave his aaice as harve sadler and said he w is born in bug land bat had been in this country lo 10 i imo years and had come all the wa from seattle W T to get a booi hold in oklahoma he elected as representative of the london times and albo as the bascos of the now city of guthria Guth rio at th laba station outride of oklahoma ter there wa a great crowd 0 boomers who had a force theia teams and hoped to get in quicker b rail there being no room inside the climbed to tho lop of the coaches and the entire tram from one end to the other was lined with them in this way tho line was reached about five minutes after 12 before the late dead lino was reached and passed however a groat transformation scene had begun and was plainly visible to tho watchers from tho train first camo in view the white topped wagons gathered to gecher in groups on the level prairie or in little valleys which diversify the face of tho country it was at once noticeable that tho teams were not to be seen in any of cheso camps it was plain they had been taken out 0 harness to by ridden across the border by tho hard riders who wore to locate claims A little further in and tah conclusion proved to bo tho correct ona for iho antro faco of the country as far aa the beat field gluss could carry tho sight was overrun horsemen galloping to the southward the horses had evidently been picked for tho work and they were carrying their riders rapid ty the longed for goal the fifteen or twenty milea were boado in an incredibly short time by tho old boomers familiar with the country and who know where the desirable lands located the day was cloudless and far away in the horison both to the east and the west clouds could be ascending from the hoofs of hundreds of horses rua ing towards different in most cases but them toward the same one the race for the goal could be easily distinguished the riders were eager and intense bools and merciless slashing of horses were sufficient evidence of the prize they were running alter 1 one saddled but horse was seen gallop ing along the trail an ominous sign of some accident or fatality which had befallen his rider some went in charge of the horses and they evidently were riding relays toward the goal out of the dust which aribu toward abo could be scon after the train lad reached the summit of a high ridge a wagon caravan fully two miles in lenorth lenc rth and i which was being aped to the utmost speed of the horses these caravans were flanly distanced outdistanced out by the horse back riders and after several miles of territory biad been traversed it was seen the best horsek wore winning the best prizes one homesteader who had secured a quaner of rolling land dug a hole two or three feet deep at that corner of it where the surveyors survey orb section was located and where he had driven his stakes not looking upon the evidence of possession as sufficient to conform his title ho siezer a winchester rifle as the train ran by and tired out all its contents and then emptied his revolver yelling like a cowboy or comanche indian all the time not only the yells butcho shots were responded to from the tram and a volley went up into the air the entire length of the section which proved hov well the party was armed in expectancy of what might happen a few miles on the other bide ol 01 the line tho tram stopped at the military post where the white tents of the soldiers bol diers and the officers tenta surrounded by the national colors were a gratifying evidence of power to maintain order troops JD of the fifth iteli ment of cavalry of the united y tales army was quartered there and the said at the sound of the eagle at high noon thore had been a movement among the boomers camped along the border which had extended across the frontier line and that the had been last and junous over since some of the prospectors running to guehne to take up kneir entries and others going to locale on land and secure a prior right LO its by actual occupancy itie scene was ut the moot burring ind picturesque ever witnessed thu of a myriad of camp aires to cook thu fa bt mani iu jk 1 lacoma began to ascend in all diorec t ions and the birst train of land rubbed 10 the future breut greut city of the farmer had al lyddy become the of a great beai of land and more than one fur biow ot virgin soil was turned over to he sun emch has made the day glorious as well as memorable ac wa U minutes after 1 when the section ot the great Atchi bou arain reached the line and its pro greeb li om that point on to guehne was not rapid enough tor the rapid men who wanted to get there in a before all the cream was orf the milk tc lacked but a lew minutes of 1 anen the train stopped in bout 0 the depot before ine train cajoto a stop it was seen mat homebody was already there in thu town waa well populated benta were numerous on the eastern siope and stakes brero sticking up ol 01 the ground likic poles in a dean itch iea could by seen racing in rue ind the scone was w buby aud animated a one as it is possible to imagine the profanity anity among the arkansas city aud men as well irom other points aud the bas city wore both oud and deep it had been u ot as any tune to a ii liia anen laube men foaad ac their own game ji oai bat they ceru bom to swallow their wrath for ac to all la law anu m were tho nghia bui and mun wha had badii autt oufa ceru tho bueb who had in their tor tho bolh iy ay 10 do out to tako anai waa lull daia it wua lu tho to got ahat tuu moat ludicrous bdeau jl mu day wab Liili uy obyr baun other lu u ui out oi alie aura uura bury banot ji man aluisy thu made up iu firmy arod uli the adud ot uce at luu top ot htiu not lii a out lu tha laud wad bot iho of their dub though il al tho cor aur oi a buc tiou aua la thera foru thu cguire ut the town but it tu t u nearest to it that jhb vw mado chere was codr it had already beau devyn alfoot to tho limit oi thu aalf bounous ot ahe 30 acres for tho townsite m duj law noar blands thero aftab bustill aud chis waa being vapidly bouc by tho daame mu buo vuo nad already appropriated la bichi it adi out a tow uund atie line v as reached aud a back action t of lak lug which nobody had wanted acau alio bufond end third councils oi ano tram arrived aud annid cornered coin ered tho air evad for ailed artio metropolis chere was nothing to do how yvor as every lot was protected by aud revolvers aud if shooting goyau tharo was no where it gouid atop abo only recourse left io thu men way to buy aut bach boldeia of lots as were willing to bell or run the risk of taking thu legal alioth coumbes courbes were adopted aud a number of city loia changed hands the arst aale mude waa by a man named of maleau gaubas Ka who sold a twenty five foot front lot near the land office for 5 to an old doctor a resident of one of the indian reser rations adjoining oklahoma the purchaser refused 50 for the lot five minutes later several transfers were made today to day and others who were determined to locate here drove stakes outside tho town line chis is preparatory to the purchase of homestead rights and an extension of its limits no one who had over seen western town talk form and chapo can comprehend bow quickly a jagged city with a double deck boom cau be ufa into running motion outline has already its main street its harrison avenue its guthro avenue and its oklahoma avenue and this morning it was a wilderness tho antelope sported and the jack rabbit hopped its oars in the sun in the afternoon at 4 the first municipal election occurred an election notice appeared today to day in the oklahoma herald a daily hushed at guthrie on the first day of its existence A council will te elected at the same time nearly 1000 votes were polled as there are about that many in guthrie with the intention of becoming citizens the leading candidates foi mayor were adjutant general beece of illinois william constant of springfield ohio and F L sumner of arkansas city A strong dark horse is T volney daggatt of huron dakota the bank of oklahoma opened for business at guthrie today to day with H capital stock of W levy the wichita banker js president the new city is flooded with business cards of all descriptions representing every line of trade and business every profession and occupation imaginable A mass of mail is expected to reach the guthrie postoffice post office every day it is now being run by a postal clerk de detailed for that purpose but mr plinn lately appointed postmaster will take charge in a day or two the scheme winch resulted in the practical cornering of the town lots today to day originated as has been frequently indicated in this correspondence pon dence with the atchison topeka santa fe railway probably with the syndicates who have been at work in arkansas city for a week or more it was stated before that numbers had been going into the territory as deputy marshals and others under permits as railroad employees the marshals were simply commissioned and not sworn and the railroad men were not burdened with official orders they all did their work today to day and did it vell the officials in the guthrie land office say that the men seemed to spring out of the earth as noon ap preached and that it did not take fifteen minutes to occupy half the townsite the land officials have not been greatly rushed today to day as a great majority of the homesteaders are making title by actual occupation and they willbe will be perfected at a later date she entry a the i guthrie office was by an old soldier the claimant is named johnson of kanbas the land office at kingfisher was not opened today to day but advises advices from thereby stage to guthrie reported orderly colonizing of the town which is to be the rival of guth rio in the territory everything is reported quite along the canadian purcell is a deserted village and now a little station on tho atchison road about eight miles south of it was laid out as a townsite it is evident that oklahoma is to be opened peace ably and without bloodshed the crisis ass passed today to day A groat number of her citizens are law abid ing and choso who are not will be suppressed by the strong hand of justice aided by military authority under command of general who has established his head quarters at oklahoma city there aire now about troops in the territory and they will be kept there un til order is assured |