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a visiting card to a large
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SANFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, APRII/27,1889,
LORD SACKVILLE’S SUCCESSOR.
’ -
The Sort of i. Man Julian Paunoelote
* yew Tork Tribune Cable.
..'I Sir Julian enters upon Jiinnissjon
aa British minister with something
more than a high reputatio’h and a
;c tdng record of distinguished services
in various fields. He sets out with
good feeling, with real good will to
America and Ariiericans, and wish
to see all causes of quarrel ended.
Heia the friend of many friends of
.ours, and he has, they say, far too
' much - knowledge of the world and
' ’of men to repeat recent mistakes.
He will take no part in American
■■ affairs as such. He will, ,not think
it a triumph to jnake a treaty so
. one-sided as to insure its rejection.
There are no animosities which he
feels called on either to resent or to
champion.-He goes as something
- more than the envoy of the foregin
office. He is not an emissary of the
, ■foregin minister of the moment,
3 whom political change may displace
,,bu± the representative of the British
nation, whose desire^ for friendship
’ with the American nation is deep
seated arid permanent. Sir Julian
W belong, in other words, to the new
*'. school of diplomacy, not to the old.
•r ' .He looks for success not ia snateh
- i-.-ing a diplomatic victory by mere
shrewdness, but. to establishing or
strengthening good relation between
,tlie two countries by a policy of fair
; - steal in gi'bf honorable concession, and
of mutual respect. I will venture
•to'predict for'hin both esteem and
^ general .popularity ftt,::.tbe .{toiled
g■- Sbites. ~
Cleveland, Harrison and the South.
-Gen. Harrtson has snubbed the
South very bluntly. For bis cablet
. lie has chosen members nil from the
North and West, except one, Mr.
% Noble—that ia<if you can count an
/■-. Ohio man livihg, in Missouri ns a
Southern man. Mr. Cleveland call-,
three of bis” cabinet officers from
• Southern States—Bayard, Lamar
■and Garland—^aitd tyro of them were
g* from the old'Confederate States.
Again let jus see what Has been
done, concerning foreign missions.
Under Cleveland’s ad ministration the
four first-class foreign missions were
filled with two Southern men, Mc
Lane, of Maryland, at Haris and
Lawton, of Georgia, at St, Pelers
bnrg, and one Western man Pemlle
ton, at. Berlin, and one Northern
- man, Phelps, at London. Afterwards,
"Lawton, pot being confirmed on ac
count of iis disabilities not having
been removed,resigned, andLothrop,
oEMichigan, succeeded him. Lawton
- ■ was then sent to Austria, to which.
Keilly had been accredited. The
ministers to Austria. Italy, Belgium,
jClana and Spain and Japan, stand
V in the next rank! Of these six the
‘f§ South filled three, and if Keilly had
gone to Italy, the. South would have
had four. Lawton, of Georgia, as
- we have seen, being atVienna, Curry
*if Virginia, at Madrid, aud Hubbard,
of Texas, at Toki^. Most Of the
South America missions, moreover
~ were civen to Southern men. J
*** %
- Now let us compare Cleveland s
V policy towards the South with Har
- - rigon's Of the legations there ure
twenty-nine. The heads of these
• legations were distributed as follows
by Cleveland : South, 14; North, T;
West, 8. Twenty-two of these
twenty-nine heads of legations liuve
been chosen by Harrison. They are
distributed as follows; North, 10;
^LiWeat, O'; South, 8. "l)o ”not "these
~*how who is better able to find worth
and talent in the ..South ami -give
e them recognition, Cleveland or Har
rison? What is Harrison’s position
is a dilemma that Southern Hepubli
' ~cans must decide. Harrison did either
One of two things. Either he was
aware of ability among Southern
\ ’ > Republicans, but refused to .recog
^.nfoettpor-be did uot lwliova fyal
there was much ability among them
•’ and so called few to place of h6nor
aiid trust. Harrison is making his
. ■ tory, and sofar he hat utterly failed
to approach Ctevelanl in giving the
,1 South recognition. ;
1 ■ : \ Lt': At-..'“ T'**7? $
Ooos not Look Like Weakness.
Richmond Rtato. -
Tlie Republican nclministration is.
not six months ojd, and. the Demo
cratic administration, therefore, has
not been .six months dead, , and yet
the Democratic party is giving sign
of, life such as has not, in American
bistpryj been yhown by a' party so
soon upon the heels of its defeat.,,
'No lessthan three men are actually
now working with might and main
to secure the honor of the Democrat
ic nomination for the Presidency in
lS92p'fhese three are ©rover Cleve
land, H. B. Hill andW. C. Whitney,
all of New York. The New Nork
World yesterdy had four illustrat
ed columns devoted to Gov. Hill,
which it prefaces with the announce
ment that he is “the most talked of
Democrat in .the United- States,’’
This is a sweeping assertion; the cor
rectness of which we do hot admit
The true inwardness of the article is
in these two dosing paragraphs:
. “While the-Governor was showing
me through the executive mansion
to-day he pointed out a mirror in
.the south reception chamber. Stand
ing before that glass,’ be said, ‘Gov.
Tilden received_ the committee noti
fying him of his nomination to the
Presidency in 1876. Gov. Cleveland
stood before it also when receiving
a similar committt? in the summer
of 1884.’
“‘Perhaps,’ X said, ‘it will become
still-further'historieal in 1892,'- when
yOu may stand before it to receive
the committee of notification; f:om |
the Democratic convention; of that
year.”
Form this we o^n that Gov.
Hill will be &e World's candidate
for theT residency in 1892, And at
fc*va j>rne time ex^Sedretary WMt
'aHy nad ex-Pfesident . Cleveland are
with equal .enthi^iasm mentioned
by'otter papers, in connection with
this same office.- We do not use the
hackneyed phrase to .the’effect that
these gentlemen are ‘"being'Urged by
their friends." It is about time to
place that expression, ariibngthe had
beens. It has undergone such heavy
usage as to be worn in enough places
to reveal through it always the man
workmg for the very place at • the
time he is thus mentioned. • So we
accept the fact that these three gen
tlemen desire the Presidential noni
matioirat the hands of ~the" Demo
cratic party, and we assert tlisft at
no period iu the history of the
United States has such keen compe
tition for the office ~ been in the
ranks of a party almost in the very
hoar after its defeat. —L-—
This can mean only one thing—
absolute convietion that the Demo-,
cratic party is to win. -These three j
individuals are astute statesmen.
They have conned men and measures
long’euough to be expert in that
kind of reading. No political party
has ever beipre enjoyed such an evi
dence of vigorous nealtli, such an
indication of energetic lite to come,
such undeterred go-a-head-atjveness.
SS o other party nas ever before given
such'evidence ef inherent streught
us this. -If the iiepubliean party
expected an easy victory next time
that expectation has been dissolved
wituiug the past month. In fact,
the national democratic party is in
a delightful, nervy, lighting trim.
We make this announcement for the
gratification of numerous friends
and acquaintances, *
•!'vC: i the Centennial Parade. ...
The foiling ore expected to' take
part in centennial parade . April
30th; ’ ' % ■ j.
VVest l’ollit (Jadota, 400 strong,
head of column.* State, troops in
this order: Delaware, 750 men;
New Jorsey, 8,700; Georgia, 350;
Connecticut, 000;^ Mussnofousetts,
1,500, including the. Ancient and
Honoruble Artillery;Maryland, 400;
South Carolina, 350; N. Hampshire.
i,000;Virginttt, SOOjNew York, 450;
Vermont 760; Kentucky,. 450j Ohio,
3,500; Louisiana 400; Mississippi,
00; Michigan, 400; District of Col
umbia. 3*iO; F lorida, YOU; West Vir
iriuiti, 500.' ~7-r" •
In addition there will be 4,000
JO tilled States regulars and. 1.000
sailors and mariner* from tlm navy.
In the above estimates the Pens Vi
stula troops a.e omitted, H* there »
uncertainty about them*
C Tcv
'the eleventh census.
Some Idea of (he Work to bo dona the
Coming Year.
Ctwelattd TsetttUr "Washington Corretpon
The reports of the tenth, census
were but recently finished and put in
print, and alresjdy. preparations are
being made for the eleventh census,
which wiil.be taken next year. The
sehedulesupon which the census will
be based are to follow the general
plan of t hose ten years ago, but very
much modified in their scope. After
every thing is in running order there
will be about 4(1,000 enumerators
through the country. There were
§0,000 of these ten years ago. Over
those 40,000 enumerators there will
be 175 supervisors; there were 150
ten years ago. jCongress has appro
priated for the work $6,400,000,
which is to cover the entire census.
Onlyj $3,000,000 were, appropriated
ten fears ago, but since then liberal
means- have been .voted by Congress
to continue and complete the work,
that original $3,000,000 being found
entirely inadequate. • There were
employed in the main office here ten
yeai-s ago 1,400 clerks. It is thought
the somewhere about the same num,.
her will be heeded for the wotic. to
come, but they will hot bq employed
so long at the task, because of the
fact that muUr less H to be attempt
ed. Ten years when The sensus
was taken, d-Aa was taken on sojne
fifLeeh different subjects, but the
magnitude.of the work caused the:
projectors to abandon the compila
tion of statistics-of over- half the
subjects, and as it wus, the last of
the volumes was but' recently issued
from, the Gevetnjuent Printing Of
fice. . ..... ^
R6V. Sam Small Creates an Uproar.
" There was an exciting episode in
the old Brownstone Church,' Pitts
burg, Wednesday evening. Rev
Sam Sniull was lecturing on prohi
bition. Jacob Killen, a wealthy wine
dearer? occupied a front pew,' and
when Sam Small began in his usu
ally vigorous manner to assail the
saloon keepers as “lawbreakers” Mr.
Killen arose and objected. Then
came a voice from the rear, “Give
it to him. He’s one of them.’ ’ -
Kellen arose, facing the audience
arid cried in response: “Liar, you’re
a liar.”. Then there were cries of
“Put him out.,’* but Small objected,
and suid that he was accustomed to
such people. The cxcitement subsi
ded, but soon Mr.' Kellen was on his
feet again and asked Mr. Small if
prohibition became a law whether
manufactuers were to have their
property practically confiscated
without compensation. Small an
swered that a United States court
had decided that prohibition wascon
stitutional and did not carry com
pensation with it. Killen then at
tempted to-argue with Small,- shak
ing bis fist under the latter’s nose.
A.U attempt was then made to put
Killen out. The audiencecheered
and then Killen refused to go unless
he was foreed. ; An old temperance
lady beebmo so excited that she
rushed up to Killen and struek him
in the face with her fist. Small stop
ped speaking while the confusion
reigned. Order was finally restored
and he continued his lecture. The
audience passed resolutions requir
ing Judge White to refuse a renewal
of his license. - ^ ~ - -•
SweiHng the School Fund.
aurora. ,..s '
judge Walter Clark is an able
and fearless Judge, who pushes
business. Ue is an expert Judge
of human nature as well as law.
Law-breakers shun him, for he im.
poses heavy penalties. ' He fined
one adulterer?250and imprisonment
one mouth, another adulturer $150
and six months in jail, one. man for
S bloody affray $200, one man for
treating whisky at an Mention $100.
His total fines will amount to fOSO,
and all fines well secured, for he
took no straw bonds. The violators
:if the law complain bitterly of ju
lieiul tyranny, but nearly ah of our
best. citizens and and taxpayers con
sider him an able and upright Judge
Who does his duty fearfcssly. The
messes are enthusiastic in prioe of
lodge Clark ami wish Mni again to
‘make things humc’ ,
‘ i'r- ‘.-'1j ^ I .
Washington Grapieaity Described.
Dr. Joseph To wp* of Waihingtou,
D1C., has in his possession1 a letter
written in 1811, by David Ackeraon
of Alexandria, wh,®B>' response to
an inquiry by his pan, wrote thisre
markably realistic-account of Wash
ington. It described him as he look
ed, three days befiote the crossins of
the I)(deware: 7*
7 “Washington had a large, -thick
nose, and it was very red that day,
giving me the impression that he was
not so moderate in the use of liquor^
as he was supposed to be. Hound
afterward that this was a peculiari
ty. His nose was apt to turn scar
let in a cold wind. He Was standing
near a small campfire, evidently lost
in thought and- making no effort to
keep warm. He seemed six feel and
a half in bight, was as erect as an
Indian, and did not for a moment
relax from a military attitude.
Washington’s exact hight was six
feet two inches in this Jjoots. He
was then a little lama from striking
his knee against a tree.' His eye
was so gray tha* it looked 'almost
white, m\A he had a traubled look on
his Colorless face. He had a piece
of , woolen tied arouijd his throat and
was quite hoarse. Perhaps the throat
trouble from which he finally died
had its origin about then. ‘ Wash
ington’s boots were enormous. They
were No. 18. His ordinary walking
shoeswere No.il. His hands were
large in proportion, and he could not
buy a glove to fit him and he had to
have his gloves made to order. His
mouth was his - strong feature, the
lips always being tightly Compress
ed. That day they were1 compressed
so tightly as to be painful to. look
at. At that time be weighed twc
hundred lbs.* and there was no sur
plus flesh about lorn. ' He was tre
meudousiy muscled, and the lame oi
his great strength was everywhere.
His large tent, when wrapped up
with the poles, was so heavy that i!
required two men to place it in. the
camp wagon. .Washington would
lift it with one hand-ami throw it in
the wagon as easily os if it were a
pair of satldlc-bag3. He could hold
a musket with one hand and shoot
with precision as e.asily as other men
did with a horse^ntol. His lungs
werehis weak point and his voice
time in the prime of life. His hair
was a chestnut brown, his cheeks
were prominent, anil his head was
“not large in contrast to every . other
part of his body, which seemed large
and bony at all points. His finger
joints and wrists were so large as to
be genuine curiosities. As to his
habits at that period I found out
much that might be interesting. "He
was an enormous .cuter, but was com
tent with bread and meat, if he had
plenty of it. But hunger seemed to
put him in a rage. - It was his cus
tom to take a drink of rum or whis
key on awakening in the morning.
Of course all this was ehanged when
he grew old. I saw him at. Alexan
dria a year before he died. His hair
was very gray and his form was
slighily .bent.; His chest was very
thin. He had false teeth which did
not fit and pushed his tinder lip out
Not Far Out of the Way.
droc**sbor& Xortto State. ■>'_ ■
Some of the intellectaal prodigies
in the Democratic party have dis
covered that the Southern -Eepubli*
con party is like a little* dog with a
string around his neek tied to tie
axle tree of the G. 0. P. band wagon.
It.is not often they come sanear the
truth. ■ . ■ _ : •*
- ; Two Classeo.
<lrr**tt.oro Xartl Stale.
There are two cla'sea who seek
office: one kind looks for a place in
the same way he would any employ
ment. He puts it on the ground
thathe need* it. The othersaya he
demands it on account of great par
ty services. As h general thing the
man Who""prates about his great par^
ty service, ’can prove it easier in
Washington City than he can at
home,
TOQ MUCH INFLUENCE.
How Cheatham cal., Beat “Mas’aSim
mons” for Congrese.
JTew tortl am* ■ '■'*
The election of C&eaifiart. (eol.J
over Mr. I?* M. Sim.moas to Congress
from Eastern North Carolina, was
brought* about in a very ftuiny man
ner, and was practically- settled in
half an hour. Opposite New Berne
is the town called James City. It is
settled entirely by the blacks, and
Mr. Simmons knew that he had to
get this entire vote to be re-elected.
His frieads-went over and. called a
public meeting and stated what Mr.
Simmons had done for the district
and the colored people, and a? he re
ally had proved himself a benefac
tor the colored People wereready tp
go for hips b a man The talk was
all for Simmons, and Cheatham was
repudiated and insulted. No one
thought he Had a ghost of a show>
but he was biding“ his Jime. The
night before election Cheatham him
self appeared at a called meeting in
James City. The crowd opposed his
speaking, and pne of the leaders in
quired: ' ■
“Didn't Mars’ Simmons git1 dat
'propriation fur de new pos' offis?
“Yes, ho did.” - - ..
“Didn’t he git dat ’propriation' to
build a new revenue cutter for dis
yerdeestriet?”
“Yes, he did.”
“Well, then,' what you talkin’
bout? What’s de matter of Mars’
Simmons?” ‘
“Jjat s jist-do trouble, gerolen,
replied Cheatham as Jie got his open
ing. “Mars’-Simmons gottoo’much
influence. He goes down dar to
Washington and says: 'Misaur
Cleveland, I want dat new pos’ offis
down to New Berne.’ An’ Missur
Cleveland he says: “All right, Missur
Simmons, take all de money you
want.” An’ Mars’ Simmon3 goes
back dar purty soon an’ says. “Miss
ur Cleveland, I want stone road down
dar in New! Berne.” An’ Missur
-Cleveland he says: “All right, Miss
:ur Simmons, I give you $20,000 to
make stone road." An’ Mars’ Sim
mons goes back in two weeks again
an says: “Missur Cleveland, I want
revenge cutter down dar in New
Berne.” An’ Missur Cleveland he
says: “All right,.Missur Simmons,
I send “you one!" Now, gem’len,
when Mars’ Simmons goes down to
Washington dis winter an’ says!
“Missur Cleveland I want you to
take all dem niggers- in James City
an’ put ’em back into slavery again,”
what Missur Cleveland gwyne ter
reply ? lie likes. Mars’ Simmons.
Mars’ Simmons got heap influence
ober him. So he’s gwyne ter say:
“All right, Missur. Simmons,- I’ll
doit wid de utmos’- pleasure.” Data
what he’s gwyne ter say, an’ whar
will you niggers be in one week
after dat?” *.~
The alarm spread' like wild fire,
and the more it was talked the more
it was believed, and the nest day
every single negro vote in the town
went for Cheatham and elected him.
. Dwarf Tribes-in-Africa.
JT. Y. Comtneictal Advertiser. —-r
In the centre of the gloomy Afri
can forest, Stanley came across the
famous dwarf-tribes, which have ex
cited the curiosity "of civilization ev
er since they were first'described by
Paul Du (Jhatliii. Like many others
of Du Challiu’s discoveries, these
dwarfs were long believed to- l>e a
tiction of the French traveller’s im
agination j but later African explor
ers have confirmed the the which lie
told. Du Challiii reported the tiny
savages to -be exceedingly shy, but
not actively hostile. They simply de
serted their earth huts and fled to
the woods on the approach of stran
gers. Stanley’s experience with them
was much loss agreeable. He re
ports them to have been the most
annoying foes encountered on his
whole march. It was their custom
h to hide belliud trees and shoot at the
white men with poisoned arrows;
end no advances could win their
friendship. The -dwarfs of Du
Challin and the burlier explorers liv
ed much nearer to the coast, and
tfio difEt: foiled in disposition between
the yurioiis savage tribes of Africa i
isfjmfe csimirked ns.in the jciviiized
jieopl.-o difVr£UT..po. ? • f
A Girl's Composition On Boys.
Mt. Airy Xkujh.
' The - ^following ■ compositon
was written for the News by a
small girl in reply to-a production
on girls: • ' ' - ‘r
A hoy is. a rely common noun
indeed; singular number, but" hfis
a great desire to be plural. A boy
is a Strange animal any way;. Most
of them “stuck up,V and wear high
top hats, stiff collars, carry a brass
headed cane and smoko cigars. I
don’t see any since iff such foolish
ness as that. Then they think they
are the handsomest '•creatures”m the
TTorld and that all the girls adore
them; but I tell you if they could
only see how the girls laiigh and
mock at them tljey would come
dawn a button hole or two lower.
B.oys ain’t got much sense any how,
and take ’em any way you find ’em
they are hard customers; ugly—
“don’t say a word!" (all ’ceptin
’mine) They need not talk about
the girls chewing gum, for if they
would look at themselves chewing
'bacco they would go off and hide.
Now I 'don’t know much about boys
and don't wish to know any more
I don’t know much about any ex
cept . mine, and he is “mighty
cute."
SUGGESTIONS TO DR. TALMAGE.
The Reply of a Southern Clergyman to
his sermon on Miscegenation.
Atlanta, April 20—The Rev
Simon P. Richardson, a leading
Methodist minister and a presiding
elder of Georgia, has sent a reply to
the' Rev. T. De Witt Talmage,.who
recently preached in favor of misce
genation. Mr. Richardson says:
“L cannot' understand how any
man with Dr. Talraage’s wisdom can
advance such a miserable doctrine
as miscegenation. Whenever you
try to improve upon the work of the
Almighty and blend two such dis
tinct races as the African and Cau
cassian yon not only bring out and
develop the l?ad traits in each, but
weaken the human family. The ne
gro is as distant from the white
man as is the coon from the fox or
the wolf from the dog. That tire
Almighty intended that- these races
should be kept separate and dis
tinct is evidemvd by the fact that
while they readily cross, let two mu
latoes marry and in the fourth gen
eration they cease to produce their
spfeies. This is an unfailing .faet
that is not very generally known.
i he same rule applies to crosses
between the animals I have named.
The blood of the negro is different
from the blood of the white man, as
is also' his entire- anatomy. The
Lord- created the negro as an inferior
race, and it is desired that he so re
main. To amalgamate the two
diyarfs the species and weakens every
mentaland physical power. To de
velops either .to its fullest strength
they must remain entirely distinct
and separate. I have lived-among
negroes all of my life, and carefully
studied their nature and habits.]
They are utterly devoid of virtue,
honesty, or gratitude.. Their (pas
sions are as uncontrollable as those
of a wild animal. It took the Greeks,
one of the finest nations on earth,
more than 1,000 years to bring them
selves up to that degree of culture
for which they were '’remarkable,
and yet Dr. Talrpage proposes to ac
complish that same result with the
lowest aTld most depraved race in (he
human family, If Dr. Talmage is
really sincere in his theory, I suggest
that he marry one of his daughters
to the blackest negro lie can find,
smd then try the crossing process in
Ilia,own family before,, he force it
upon'on entires' nation.’’ . I
Four years ago a boy and girl
if York, Pa., each six years old asked
i gentleman to marry them. To' <
rumor them he read something from j
in uloiauac and told they were uni- r
«d. The boy’s family moved to
Baltimore, but best-ill writes to hia {
‘Dear wife.” I* his last letter , he t
lays:: "I don’t know whether you \
ypuid know or nut, because I'm \
rearing- ioug pants. - --:—i
THIS
OKLAHOMA STAML- >
■ FEDE.. .
Truths of Today Stranger than
the Dime Novel of tHe Fast. J
. Purcell, Indian Territory April
22.—The man stampede lor Oklaho- ‘
ma began hist night. Theboomera
;ould be held in check no longer. :
They are now crossing 'the Canadian -
in crowds and rushing pell moll over
to the other, side,' and they are doing;
iverything in their power to stem **.
the tide. Every possible contrivance
is being used to cross the river whieb
a still swollen." >«v'
The boomers made a dash upon
the officers, and some of them were
successful in reaching the thiclcet.
The rest' were arrested and brought *
back to this city. Some of the
boomers have crossed the river three
or four times, only to be caught and ■
returned. * - r
An officer who has just retarded *
from Oaklahoma*reportsL that five
boomers were wounded and one kill- ;
ed in a light with officers.' The
boomers ran into the brush. An
Indian scout discovered them, and
when they were found by the officers.
they show fight. Those who were
not wounded or killed after the first •
volley went deeper into the timber.. •
Scouts are again after them.* .
It was asserted here that the raiT- ■
rood bridges across the Canidian rir- •
or would be burned before morning.,
A squad of cavalry has been station
ed along the rever. If the present
uproar continues there will bo few
boomers in Purcell by noon. * ■'?-%
BEFORE THE RTTSH.
Chicago, April 22.—The scramble
for the virgin soil in Oklahoma bo- j
gins at noon to-day, says the Daily
News., This morning according to
the latest dispatches,' fully 50,000
people are awaiting on the border of
that small patch of ground. Feat . !
horses, railroad trains, , stages and,
all sorts of private vehicles will bear
them into the coveted territory at J
the earliest possible moment. „
Ten thousand or more will get po
ssesion of all the desirable land and V
then they, apparently,'will have to '
hold it against five times as many
disappointed men. Everybody is
armed.. No government exists.
There is reason to fear, therefore,
that . much bloodshed will result'
from the general turmoil. , ■
Many of the men who cross the
border of Oklahoma to-day will be ~
residents tonight of large towns ‘
which have-no existence this mor
ning. Towns and farming lands
will furnish a large part of, the peo
ple with local habitoti<mt^--.‘Th«t-'
rest will go to their old homes or
will htlp to locate graveyards in the
new country, or will become squat-;.
tore in the Indian Territory, or set-'
tiers in Texas or Arkansas. ; ' ; ‘
The scenes in Oklahoma today are
’without parallel. The sudden tur
ning of an uninhabited country in- :
to a country teeming with people, is
a unique incident in the country’s,
history. . ■
■mux STANDING BOOM IN XBAINa.
St. Louis, Mo., April 22.—The
Republic’s Wichita, Kansas, special
saj’s: The first, train south on the
Santa Fe, consisting of 15 coaches,
arrived yesterday andthert was not—•
standing room in coaches. People
filled the spaces between the cars
and clung to,the steps. One enter
prising boomer rode on the cow
catcher. The crowd cheered him as
the train entered the! depot. There
were about 1,400 people on the train.
The arrivals yesterday numbered at
least 5,000. Of this number one
third went south to reach the liae of
Oklahoma, in order to be ready for
the word “go.” Others wept tq
Purcell. ——S
The rail road officials are greatly
worried over The prospects of mov
ing so many people. The side track* ii
u-e fitted with fiat cars .and cattle
:urs, and gravel trains are .also in Jl
the collection, none of whieh will be :
below demand. Every thing on
wheels will be utilized if necessary,
rhieves are busily at work on tne
;n»ins, an 1 many a poor boomer has
jeon (leered of his all. There are
10 less than fifty professional thieves
tnder JJsurYeilliiuce by *. detectives,
timing them ‘‘Crooked Legged Ra
ter,” who did active business in the
lightning change act" in Pennsyl
vania in 1885. ■ . 1.
The mayor of Arkansas City itsin
d a proclamation permitting the
tores to be kept open yesterday for
he couvepience of the boomers,
they we?! ^patron iawii,
A disturbance took place at ’ Pur4* ' J
ell between rival land speculator*
nd their adherents in which rend
ers and Winchesters were fired
reply; however, without any serious -l*