Show IN THE HURLYBURLY Bat Little Diminution lit the ExcItement Ex-cItement Aronnd the Cnero Lee Strip THE GAMBLING FRATERNITY IN THE ASCENDANT A Murderer Lynched from Wash Inglon The Mjozalnf and Idaho RUIn Bj Tsismph to the EL1 TIlE IIOOMCR Treoee flryIteinstrnejiena 10 Drive OQt the Iiivndrri ICA > SAS CITY Kan Stareli 15 The boomers were Stampeded Into the Cherokee Strip much the samu as the cattle were stompctliil out oC It They uibconitnud the passage of the Oklahoma bill Into ati act as providing for the immediate opening open-ing of the country to njtUemtmt anti each company of boomers alarmed lestItnobulIrpt = the ground to select the choicest tonnsitts and claims rushed IKH mcll over the bonier Fear is exprm < al by cooler leads that this premature and ill advised movement may be entirely useless that tie government may tleprlvu them of their ndvantases and drive the cottiers out to await the formal opening of the country ana give all prospective reuters equal shans Thla view i cnter alued only by a mall minority The great majority are already set tied down ou their claims a if ax our permanent residence They believe now that the invasion has been accomplished they will allow hem t remain and penult others to lake up land whenever they arrive ar-rive riveThe The majority are bonajlde settlers nreonafctel and carried on their wagons yesterday yester-day enough lumber t construct mall dwellings and today the white tents and wagon covers thai doll the prairies in all directions are being replaced with less pKtur etquo but more cubtttantlal board shanties Especially I UiU the rose at tho Bcttltmcut at Pouca only yesterday a email station ofa hued red people on the Santa Fejust over the line from Guthrie Ukla hOl today a city of 3009 iuhab lll sprung up over night TIlE GAJ11JLLNG FUEO1T J hero in full force monte men wheel of fortune and the walnut shells with the illusive r all b log manipulated in the open street wIt the usual 1 degree of sneers Several disturbances have occurred over theu gambling devices and many fighta took place but nothing erious lesulteJ At Guthrie a reporter boarded the fnutct rain in which the representatives I of the Cherokee Strip Cattle Corn any were returning from the Ft Worth cattlemens convention The firet Intimation they hal of the in asion of their leased laud was calned at Guthrie They could not I believe It but a few minutes later I imt > flre9surrounded by the mend ers themHilvcx were seen glowing in tie darknos and confirmed the report The cattltmcn are greatly disturbed at the Invasion and have appointed a committee to notify the Secretary of the Interior of the fact and ask for troops t restore them t loscsfcion of their own lands No military force I on the gtound now and as aries known none has been ordered to proceed thither Captain Cavenaugh commanding the forces rt Guthrie and Captantlturbac at Oklahoma City have both oQIcially notified General Jlerrltt at FL xavenwortli commanding the Ie nrtmentofthe llssouri of the invasion In-vasion and THE CATTLE C3MfAXY hat requested protection from Washington No replies ro far as known have been receive f these if patches I and r uoorJir have been given to move the troops into the Invaded country The cattlemen are completely rut fences cut the grass burned cattle stampeded and the range completely destroyed for the near future at least They will be complied com-plied t get their cattle together as well a possible and hunt other pan tureProkeoor Profetsor Coppak of the Indian schools telegraphed last evening for roofH t expel the boomers from the Indian school lands THE TRI WILL HE USED WASIIIMITON March 5Adju antGeneral Kelton telegraphed lr ft I IF c eneral llerrltt at Fort Leaven worth t use troops If necessary and with prudence a heretofore to enforce en-force the proclamation issued by tIle President relative to the Intruders upon the Cherokee Strip land This order was sent by direction of the Secretary nf War THE LAtCh OX THEM KIOWA Ka March 15The laugh I on the boomers That b we expression of the sentiment wit which the Presidents procla nation was received here The boomer who had ties good sense t refrain from joining yesterdays Invasion In-vasion are doing the laughing while their more hotheaded companion look upon the matter a anything but laughable A third perhaps the whole number of boomers who rossed the line yesterday have already al-ready returned and tire on their way t this place They come straggling back with a good deal of their im petolous energy lost to await a tear their prospective claims as pos Ible the formal opening of p trip CLAIM STAKEUS AHKAXSAS CITY March 15 Nearly every quarter section of land for eighteen miles south of this city I at present staked oil Mid many of them occupied by squatters The report that a company of cavalry would arrive this afternoon caused the hours some uneasiness but a houf rolled by without the troop putting In an appearance confidence was restored and feelings security prevailed vailed This however was short lived for at 4 oclock the news that the President had Issued a proclamation procla-mation ordering all settlers of the mon wa rlve In a few min utes large numbers omen who had staked claims I r returned here for provisions gathered together at the itreet corners and discussed the situation sit-uation Some counseled a prompt compliance with the Presidents order but others insisted that ore a good plan to hold their claims n i expelled by the troop and then a soon n the roope were out of sight to return ndbesn fanning operations The advocates of the latter plan are evi ently In the majority The old Idler element seem t be mOle den nnined to retain their grasp upon their claims Should the soldiers I tempt t remove them there will be an organized resistance and i is believed it will take an annyof SOOO men t keep them from settling back on the strip The cattlemen her did not receive ceive the news of the TOESIDEXTB PBOCLAMATIOS ordering the invading settlers oT the strip with much interest From onca Willow Springs and other tUgmgnts In the ouUet CQJHg hg to have been generally agreed I upon that the frt tIng fo the settlers t do was to start a prairie fire and much of the strip has beeu burned over These I prairie fires served a double punnse 6ne they drove most of the cattle before them and also destroyed the Coder which those remaining might have fed upon Therefore the cattlemen are naturally depressed by the gloomy prospects Bald Hewins of Ihe Cherokee Strip Cattle Company today ° ° There are now or rather were before the invasion abut 60000 head of cattle on tIe strip I do not believe tho most energetic action on the part of the cattlemen and the government can save them from irreparable l If left in the strip the cattle will starve for there t Is nothing at them to eat there and wo cannot chip provender to them it would be a losing investment to here are 50000 head of cattle good for nothing but hides glue and bone dust > IT DIDNT STOP TIC CALDWJILL Ivan March IS Late til Is afternoon a telegram was received announcing the PresIdent PresI-dent had ordered the settlers out oner out and that soldiers would b sent to enforce the order This tae Was announced but It did not stop the xvhitetopped wagons that continue appear and disappear Many oC hem contained families who arc jolng prepared 1 to stay and one of hem to whom a reporter WIlted hit evening voiced the sentiments of the majority when he said Wear We-ar brought going I we come out we wll |