Show IN INDIAN TERRITORY Is all ready for the invasion early next tuesday morning COLORED 01 HID 11 II FORCE they want a little of r the ho beit rest valley and will probably get it bed red ben zen dont lile like black hen men GUTHRIE GuTH RrB 1 I T sept 19 the excitement cit ement baa as grown hourly greater among the people who will make the race for homes in the indian lands next tuesday there are several causee for excitement chief among them rh being i gh t the be large number of negroes who have a gathered a shored by hundreds at Langston the ii is 0 oklahoma negro colony and who w ho intend to more en mabee upon the cimarron Cic aarron valley the best perhaps of all the new lands and set tie tle there to the exclusion of all other settlers many white settlers among them there being numbers cf desperate and unscrupulous cowboys object to the negroes neg roea plans and will take take desperate chances to preempt choice claims in the very face of the negro hosts the most desperate eay say they will oppose by force the w wholesale hole sale settlement of negroes in the valley cooler heads however know that the race will be to the swift no matter what his color if the negroes gat got there first the land is theirs if the whites outrun the negroes the latter must look elsewhere for claims another cause of excitement is the hatred of the indians indiana tor for the negro the sac and fox claim th that t their r lands were sold to the government under the distinct agreement that they were to be opened to white settlement cimarron valley includes a portion of their lands and between hostile indians indiana and desperate it to cowboys the negro ia Is having an exciting I 1 time me of it still ano another ther cause for excitement is the uncertainty as to just what lands may be claimed by the ordinary settler the settler may make a success successful fal r race ace for a certain section of land and may claim it but when be he goes to the land office to file bis his claim be he may find he has claimed an indians Indi anig allotment or an old soldiers pre pro emp tion I 1 the land office here is besieged by veterans or their representatives they have formed a long line which stretches from the door three or four squares in the line are several old soldiers and many speculators who have purchased for a trifling sum the declaratory statements of old soldiers and who sell them to the highest bidder others have taken places in the line simply to sell them to bome some less fortunate person out on the border there id Is little excitement it Is a restless expectancy there people are camped in prairie schooners ners tents and brash brush huts buts for the most part but many have no covering but a blanket with the sod for a bed washington sept 19 the secretary of the interior has instructed instruct eS the and receivers of the land offices at oklahoma city and that the words white whit a settlement tl in the sac and an d fox F ox agreement do not refer to color but means that persons duly qualified under the laws of the united states without regard to color may make settlement 0 race war in oklahoma OLIa homa GUTHRIE okla ter sept 19 A deputy sheriff baa has just arrived bringing news of a race war in progress just on the line of the kiowa reservation the town of langston was founded several months ago and is inhabited solely by negroes there are several thousand of them tb there e r e and more are arriving daily on t the h e line of the new lands the negroes are contemplating fettling settling in a body in the marrou valley as soon as the lands are opened A gang of cowboys from the cherokee strip also have their eyes on the locality and say ay that any negro that attempts to settle ettle there will be killed yesterday the cowboys visited langston got into a row and attempted to shoot eggleston editor of the herald last night they returned all drunk and fired a acore of shots aboto into a crowd of negroes on the streets several received slight wounds the cowboys left swearing swearing they would return today and wipe out the town the ne no gross have all armed themselves and if they do return many will likely be killed officers have left for the scene |