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l G IIKl..-lil(lll.-l lS INHABITED. __..__â€"â€"â€"--â€"â€" THOUSANDS CROSS c THE. LENE . .‘_('.":Zl: Prairies of the New State -. 3: 'f Napiz‘mricencs and incidents , > -r: A: . fi , .- '_~_'~‘E‘;I‘l3.n of the State of Okla» ‘ i 3;: of u;.itcrial, for his work, will 3 .. A.» ~«-;-I-;_< of the early period of the I “ j, full of striking episodes and I " .1»: i:i.~i«.?.ents. Foremost among 3 113,3:“f‘1a‘ilc'e and historical interest ' 5‘3:? 14.1,, of April 22, 1889. That . ~ ‘12“: 1: 3.3.11: i t . live long in the .memory of l ::?,.,,,,;r “111‘ witnessed the blrth of the ve“' >: lie. 1: was a conspicuous landmark, :00, i:; the annals or the whole country. Vere? hire in the, llIStOI‘y of the Umted , S135“ hn'c 10,000 people. sat patiently! ground a Dime of land. awaiting for months, I 78355 ck'e‘ll. the «lay upon which they should i kw»; I):;;‘1;.E:5lx’x;l to take possessron. Never E refer; h :v~ so many people rushed l . similliitw 4:51.“ upon a given centre. Never i being. gt. ;ZI.‘:“‘ In. an so little land to be dis- l ti'ii‘lli': 1 till) :I_: so many people. Lever . Was :11:- -li Lt". so marked betu can supply 1 and .lyzrmi'. ‘d'lzy. according to a. most! underage L‘rillti. must least from 5,000 to 1 5.577390 fit-up}. :2.::.!_:€‘(l in {luthrie alone. An l a. 91:33.: :;.'.111. wt; segued at Oklahoma City. c;;;,-;.~l'.- less r':.*.1 u.» the number of those who , ;83: :~ z\'.i::-jf'.~?Ie-I‘. These include the merâ€" | 03,333. the ~,.- :2 r‘iOniLl men, the speculators, [ as . rule. iij: hr the greater number are; 73;; ~ "1.5.1 sczt'crs. They cannot number ‘ r3: . . as “um 19.110"). Half that many I Q;- ~~~g Illa .lil" Ll l'l'le ‘1ttlle Sdll’. Fork Oil the Arkansas River the day before the terri- l :3". w ,. x-gwntal up. and it is conceded that ‘ f3: 1 . '3}? VI“ ‘.'.l$ were awaiting the opening (11‘: ;.t l‘ui‘ctll on the southern border of; Oklahwznzi. then. l This does not take into account boomers ; fill-J 22:12:ch by other butlesspopular trails. l ' Al:.»_:rtllt'l‘. however, it seems a low estimate 3 r109 which gives 25.2% as the number to which 3 Ok‘...hrma gave shelter on that memorable : April night. Was there ever such sudden. THE FIRST TO REACH THE HILL. ”‘5“ [.5 population in the days of the Cali- fcrnii gold fever. or during the greatest ex- cizzrimit of the discovery of oil in the fields of Pennsylvania? No; the case seems unirgze. the experiment a. new one. It isnot .ikay ever to be repeated, certainly not on cue}; .L Scale. E".z:;c:‘.‘.lely at noon a trumpeter sounded the. “dinner call.” t was the signal agreed _ 29:3 for the start. Immediately there went up shunts and cheers. A hundred pistols (imaging their contents into the air but i:.i: :‘.y echoed the joy, the enthusiasm, the 599112: uf relief in the part of the crowd that the supreme moment had arrived at last. Away lashed the horsemen in mad gallop, hshzsg their horses as if life depended upon g the hill yonder. They were follow‘ e1 3:o:~;-Ly by buggies, buckboards, and road Wagi‘ns. and the rear was brought up by the heavy ‘lrays, all lashing up that steep in‘ tibia. Clouds of dust obscured the fore- grzxsrzvl. Through it at times those who re- minel l chind, caught glimpses of their him is as they galloped away. "There he is,” cries an old woman, clap- Pl“ :1 her hands, “ there, do you see, on the ii there he goes.” 25".: in huf>e is the first to disappear 1 '1 :2. crest of the hill. A second only, {saunter rider is lost in the little cloud $3 33*: vised by the rider on the white EELS." -ril Li :6”) ‘1 o. :7' f .55?” L1 “5. he can't beat our white mare,” F’Wiy exclaims the old woman. It is her 5'75- 34». I~IIly child, who rides the mare. r :l lilt‘li to that son of yours ” is the ‘77": '55:»: bystanders, as the old woman 54""? ’iimlm into her canvas-covered wagon, Elms up the reins and urges the team of 357%: miles. to strain and haul the creaking Cu; wagon out of the ruts, and drag it With ~ vr'i'I'iwâ€"‘TI'LHSSING THE CANADIAN RIVER. l, A - . diiulhii' {Zlun up the hill to follow the others. The. .“‘”“L race continues. They are all f9“: Zil‘Irses, and they are all mounted by eff-tips rulers. They jump the boulders . , find «.1: :nes. They rush down an incline at l '9: 1 r?ak{i*:0!< speed, all the time urging their l . :umas with lash and spur. Here one is | . - it Signer), there one stumbles and falls ; but 1 Uk In: a moment only that he is delayed. l P_he pulls the beast, and away he goes l ‘8‘“. l‘lVe minutes after the giving of the l 5181131 not a single rider is to be seen on the norm stde of the hill. nun the meantime the wagons were mmb in 8 at good speed up the hill, their owners many instances having no saddled horses, Ind in securing good dependingu 11 Inc land. There wagono ideaofv keepingtothbv may longer. ' ' t§ “seem. ' more. the family. i duplicate of the “ Pikes Peak or bust,” . aggregation that was picked 03 by Indians 1 all and got the worst of it each 1» .ime. j were the words, tors, that pedestrians read : e ground itFrom behmdgulhen, out ‘ 83 were I n termgod M! ’fisfiz':fib'iiii II' THE C burnt. only game, they cashed across the prairie, up that stony hill, and disappeared in every direction to the interior of Okla- coma. ‘ On the railroad track, when the signal for the start was given, stood a. lot of men. They had neither wagons nor horses, but they were determined to settle in Oklahoma all the same. Shoulderimg their small bun- dles, they struck out boldly on foot. Half an hour afterward the spot which only a short time before had echoed the noise and bustle of 4,000 people was quiet and lonely again as the desert, and in the distance, toward the north, could be seen the outlines of dust raised by the rapidly moving troop of cavalry under command of Lieutenant Waite. At 1 o‘clock there dashed past this treme capacity with a motley crowd of hu- manity. They stood in the cars closely packed together, on the platforms and on the steps, on the tops of the cars, on the en- vine on the tender, everywhere. Stopping for a moment at the border to take up a. few newspaper correspondents, it was off again toward Guthrie. Guthrie was reached at 2o’clock. On the way, horsemen and wagons were seen dash- ing across the country in every direction. Here and there a man was seen driving his stakes and turning the sod. This was an hour only after noon, and at least twelve miles beyond the border. How did these men get there? Perhaps they broke through /’ A NEGRO HAYOUT. i the lines in the night, or they were some. of ' the old Payne boomers, who have been hid- ing in the woods of Oklahoma for a year or In either event they were there con- trary to law. But the worst offenders . against the law were met with at Guthrie. then the train arrived there, it found the land adjoining the station staked out and at least 500 people occupyina it. These peo- l i l I l I i spot a train of ten cars, each filled to its ex- ' i i‘ l I WATCHMAN, LINDSAY, country places. It Is difficult to persuade oneself that this collar was once the dear particular “ fad ” of the young and old men of fashion throughout the country. It was first introduced to the favorable notice of the public by a well-known New Yorker, a young man about town who had the courage of his convictions and his taste. The “dudes” of that day were as quick then as they are now to “ catch on” to a. good thing, and the paper collar entered upon its long career of popularityâ€"N. Y. Tribune. An Unfortunate Child. “Please give me a. penny, sir. My mother is dead and we’ve got nothing to eat.” “How long has your mother been dead, little girl?” “She died Ion before I was born, sir.” “Poor child ! ere’s a quarter for you.” once ANo-chs. A German peasant has been detected in tapping a telegraph wire to cure his rheu- matism. A man tried to raise money in Americus, Ga, the other day by mortgaging a. twenty- threc-year old mule. ‘ It is said of a certain cranky clergymanin Ohio that he always has either a row or a. re- vival in his church. Cycling has become the rage in parts of Spain, and large numbers of machines are being shipped to Barcelona. ‘ The Bishop of Gibraltar is considering whether he shall sanction the establishment of an English church at -Monte Carlo. Of the total area of California about one- ] third is susceptible of sufficient cultivation to sustain a moderately dense population . without the aid of irrigation. ple had had a. meeting in t 6 morning, had ‘ adopted a town map, had decided upon the , names of two streets, one running north and south to be named Harrison-ave, in honor of the President, the other Mumford-ave, in honor of the Editor of “The Kansas City Times,” which has for many years made the cause of Oklahoma and the boomers its own. The crowd which jumped from the train long before it had stopped, and rushed wildly ‘ up the kill with stakes and flags and axes in their hands, ready to locate their claims, found not only corner lots, but whole streets and section: of the future capital of the Ter- ritory of Oklahoma occupied by people who had by some means or other secured an en- try to Oklahoma. “ The Oklahoma News,” published at Guthrie, though printed still in Winfield, Kan, was sold to a few curiosity and relic hunters from the top of a grocery box. Photographers were busy in every direction, taking pictures of the crowds as they were being discharged by each succeeding train. The houses erected are as yet only “tents,” but they spring up, like mushrooms, in a few hours. W hen the sunset, at least 800 tents covered the hillside and the plain be- yond, and a thousand people probably with- out any covering except their blankets, and nothing to lie upon except the ground. Up to the present time the citizens of Guthrie have bad no 0 rtunity to discuss the propriety of buildiiig an opera house, but a circus is already on its way and the con- struction of a big hotel, the next best thin to an opera bou-e in the West, is understoo to be in contemplation. ' The general good behavior of the Kansas boomcn bu been marked. Under very try- ing circumstances, they have carried them- selves with a restraint and a self-possession at variance withnthe absudl sensational statements which have found t eir way into print from time to time, and which seem to imply that the boomers from Kansas were disorderly and dangerous. Onthe contrary the have born themselves good-humoredly on time“ violation of the law. The sight and scenes incidental to the opening were picturesque, striking and not lacking in humor through which a touch of pathos sometimes showed. One old-fashion- od ”prorio schooner,” that had evidently been on the move constantly during the st quarter of a century, drifted through laws» City en route for the promised land. It bed the usual complement of three or four scrawny dogs, a big rooster, two or three kittens, several dirty faced children, and a lank couple representing the head of It was an Oklahoma Outfit, a not a score of years ago. The old man looked as if it was already a case of genuine , “bust” with him, so far as money was con- . cemed, and the semi-humorous inscription printed upon either side of the “schooner” indicated he was not a. stranger to the lead- ing attractions of some of the Western States. In fact he had evidently tried them These printed in large black let- . .............................. 'I 2 “Chinch Buged in Illinois, 1 Cicloaned in Nebraska, , 2 White coped in Indiana, Bal : knobed in Missoury, Pro- : hibitcd in Kansas, Oklahomy 1 or bust.” . .............................. . Paper Collars. The caprices of fashion order many chang- es in men’s apparel, but it is almost safe to say that the return to popularity of the once all-prevailing paper collar is about as probable as the return by the nineteenth century youth to the powdered wigs, cock. ed hats and knickerbockers of their colonial predecessors. And yet a decade and a half ago the paper collar, with its muslin foun- dation an its glossy veneer, was almost univertu worn. It is now stated, as a reminder of the one-time popularity of this collar, that between the years 1860 and 1870 over 1,000,000 of the collars were sold daily. The extent of yearly sales of these collars nowadays amount to about 250,000. It is namely necessary to add that the pppet collar “still reigns, W inthogf k- wo'odl, and Mike bnoul'ofiohdfthu arti- .world. There are 120,000 acres of land, A Pennsylvania judge who has tried sev- real hundred divorce cases says the chief cause of divorces is the lack of money to keep a family comfortable. Two young ladies of Pike county, Georgia, have rented a farm, off which the are sup- porting themselves and an invali mother, besides laying up money. London has an electric omnibus. It carries twelve, and it is said that it can be guided with accuracy and ease by any man with in- telligence enough to drive horses. A new process has been patented by means of which beer can be preserved in casks and shipped to hot climates without danger of alteration or decomposition. A verdict rendered in the Court of Assizes of the Seine has just been set aside and a new trial ordered because the foreman of the jury spelled the word majority with a “ g.” A Neshkora young man who took a young lady sleigh riding and made her walk home from the country because she displeased him, was fined twenty dollars and sentenced to spend twenty days in jail. A mule owned in Jersey City performed the remarkable feat recently of walking across a. railroad brid e which spans the Hackensack river. T 0 bridge is trestle. work, with a space of about four inches be- tween each tie. A Los Angeles paper says that in helping her husband on his farm at San Jacinto, Mrs. T. N. Meade plowed and sowed over 100 acres of wheat, taking care of her own four- horse team, and she is a “ city raised” wo- man, too. Philip Armour, the kin of pork-packers, is estimated to be worth “50,000,000, and is growing richer every day. He lives in a' modest house on Prairie avenue in Chicago, and is at his desk every morning before the clock strikes seven. A strong fire-proof room has been con- structed outside Hawardcn Castle, and in this will eventually be deposited an enoro mous mass of correspondence extended oven the whole of Mr. Gladstonc’spublic life, and consisting of upward of 60,000 letters. There in said to be no falling off in the love for Burns in Scotland. Dinners, can- certs and club meetings held in more than fifty tons and vilhgeoin Scotland at the re- cent Bme anivorary showed the warmth of the national fooling. Last you the Pope received from “Poter'l Pence” shampoo; from interest on capi- tal inn-ltd abroad, $5“),000, and from other comes about NULWâ€"bcsides $400,. 000 in oak jubile- iftl. Ei- total disburse menu aggregated a uh $1,700,000. The Marquis of Lorna, son-in-law of Queen Victoria, is the latest recruit to the bioy. clist, and his wife, Princess Louise, is also the possessor of a safety machine, and con- template. accompanying her husband on some of his curly morning spins. Thirteen miles from Cheyenne is what in said to be the largest horse farm in the where roam 5000 horses, which re uire the constant attention of 65 men. One undred miles of wire fence keeps the animals in bounds. A shorifl in Georgia actually attacheda railroad train b running a chain through one of the whee s of the engine, and fasten. ing it to the track. After a while he was convinced that he had no right to stop thc United States mails and the train was al- lowed to proceed. Ex-Congressman \Valter A. Wood, 01 Hoosick Falls, N. Y., drives the most gor. geous turnout in Washington. The Wheel: of his barouche are of a bri ht red, the sor- rel hOX'IOl are covered by go d-mounted har- ness, and their driver is gorgeous in light livery with gold buttons. In a suburb of Louisville, Ky., known an California, a two-story brick building be~ longing to a. woman who lived out of town was recently stolen piecemeal from the 101 on which it stood, and everythin except the foundation carried away. T 6 house contained eight rooms, and cost about $2500. London is to have “luncheon cars.” Each car is to carry about with it a cook, together with cooking apparatus and a good supply of the necessary raw material, and to prevenf the charge of obstruction or anything of the kind, the public will be invited to enter the vehicles and take their cheap luncheon en route, so to speak. A New Jersey bird dog went into a room where a parrot was at liberty, when he stopped and pointed. The bird approached, looked the dog um in the eye, and said, “ ng’rcta 13:11:13!” Tgigddogpexs so sur- ris a a ’ that he dropped his tail, wheeled and ran'away, and from that day to this he “has "never been known to point a bird. - A new use for beer bottle: is an and in the Forest, of Swainboro, Ga, w ‘ch '85 thatMthL. McKomox-e hu‘ urchmdl beer bottlesto have his wife's owe: yard laid ofl‘with. Ho say-ibi- with nowsnufi than and that theygc very pretty... y McKénioré'bu a very pretty try hem . com 1‘. might not make any arran ements to pay ‘pldyfim""t‘dekbifili'â€"'Â¥Inndon‘ mas " THURSDAY, MAY .2, I889. ‘ ' 7 THE MEGANTIC' OUTLAW. DONALD MORRlSON WHO WAS RE' CENTLY CAPTURED IN QUEBEC. IIIII ENGLISH CONDITION POWDER, Used and recommended for years by The HIStory ofa Dispute Which Cnlminated in Bloodshed and Whlch has Engaged suc . .l ' the Attention orthe Montreal Police for h noted horsemen as ohn Cairns Manvers Months, Manvers, Joseph Staples, BEFORE Donald Morrison, the megantic outlaw who was recently captured near Springhill, Que... through the instrumentality of Detec- tive McMahon of the Montreal police force, is described as a blonde, so fair that at a little distance his hair and mustache seem gray. The history of his case is interesting reading. The events which culminated in the shooting of Lucius N. Warren by Morri- son, originated years ago in a dispute about the Morrison farm which culminated in 1883, at which time Morrison was in the North- west. At the request of his father he came Geo. Skuce, Ops, Wm. Hancock, Maripsosa, Geo. Worry, Fenelon, AlbertW Fenelon, Eugene Fee, Liudsay. Try item. .0072? Zaée (my 02%”. 25 cts.---Five for $1.00, at A. HlBENBOTHAM’S Drug Store Has removed to the store lately occupied by Mrs. Gemsjagcr, east of the Benson House, where he will keep a large stock of Fancy Goods, Wools, Embroider- ies, Silks, and all kinds of Goods in that line. M/ools mad after A mic/65 720w Selling at Cost. DONALD MORRISON. home and found' quite a. considerable debt against the farm. This he succeeded in paying off, and after remaining nearly two years he wished to o away again. He of- fered to resign all c aim on the farm if his father would pay him $400, but the old man, unable to raise the amount, said he would give him $100. Certain parties hav- ing tried to influence the father so that he Donald for the money and In. or he had in- veswd, the latter took action against his father for $900, and as he did not appear in court the case went by default. Donald’s I (.317? lawyer wrote the old man, demanding pay- ment of the $900, and the latter being shown to Major McAulcy he offered to take a mortgage on the property for 81100. There was at the time a mortgage on the farm held by Murdoch Morrison, Donald’s brother. It I was originally for some five hundred odd! dollars, but Donald had reduced it to three hundred. When the other mortgage was , taken by McAuley he paid off this one of i $3(_)0, gave $400 in cash and a promissory l note for the balance of $400. On the margin 1 of the note it was stated that the amount I when due was to be used to ay off in part , the new mortgage of $11 . It turned l out that the note did not bear interest as, agreed u on, and Morrison, when he learned { ' this, app icd to the court, asking that the 3 mortgage be set aside as fradulent, as he was i afraid he would not receive the 3900 he claimed. The case was put into the hands of :dSIEIEEEESI;21:33;re.2Ҥ.2;ff:éit?§i°§ida l Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Constipa- tittliil‘li'ift’;:‘Sl’iliéfzt‘b that? 1310,, Loss of appetite Ne, 9 , : ' vousness, Foul Breath, liTS'fm'éZlitif fii’gfilnbffii’tietlgtfil‘i Heartburn, Liver Complaint, etc. 25 CENTS . AT . ‘ HIGINBOTHAM’S. STAMPING- DONE TO ORDER- DYEING and SCOURING promptly and neatly executed. A. ‘W. HETTGER. A Positive Cure for farm was of little use to McAuley, he sold it to a. French Canadian named Duquette. Disputes of one kind and another arose, Morrison advising Duquette .to leave the place or there would be trouble, while Mc- Auloy told him to stay and not to bother about Morrison, whom the major said he could get put in gaol for his throat. Shortly after this episode some one fired into the house Duquette was living in, and later on the homestead and buildings were set on fire. Morrison being suspected as the incendiary, a warrant was issued for his arrest and was iver. to a man named Lucius N. Warren. Iorrison indignantly denied. the charge of arson, and, it is said, threatened to shoot any one who attempted his arrest. Warren, on the other had, declared he would serve the warrant and capture Morrison dead or alive. Thecon sequence was that when they met some time afterwards in the villa e of Lake Megantic, each of them recognize that he had to deal with a desperate character. Accounts differ greatly as to what occurred at the meeting, but the following is as far as can be learned, the most accurate: Warren accosted Morrison on the street and said he had some business to transact with him. Morrison refused to listen to him and told him to keep out of the way. This was con- tinued for some time, until W'arreu, exaspe- rated at the other’s conduct, drew his revol- ver from his cket. In the o inion of some he inten ed to shoot, whi e others think it was merely to compel Morrison to go with him that be produced his weapon. Morrison apparently inclined to the former opinion, for no sooner did he see VVarren’s movement than he whipped out his own re- volver and “ dropped” the unfortunate man. Now that he is a prisoner the question as to whether he or Warren was to blame will be decided before the courts of justice. The Golden Lion SPRING IMPORTATIONS OFâ€"â€"â€" Developmcnt of Coal In Canada. It is well known to geologists that in many parts of western Canada. there are ex- tensive coal de osits, the successful working of which must of great importance in the development of the imperial trafic through the Dominion and on the Pacific. A large block of land, in which are thick and ex- tensive seams of anthracite coal, has lately been worked by a Canadian compan (the Canadian Anthracite Coal Company, Limit ed), in the Cascade district of the Bow ‘ River Pass, and with excellent results. This land covers the croppings of the ve" which dip from 32‘ to 60° in the sidemdf the mountains, which rise from 500 feet or 600 feet, to 2,000 feet above the cropping; A tunnel 209 feet long has been driven, and this is 45 feet above the water level and cuts through 22 seams of coal. Three of these seames are bein worked. The overlying seam measures 9. out 9 feet, of which 7 feet are cool; the middle seam has from 3 feet to 3feet 6 inches of clean hard coal ; and the underlying seam is about 5 feet 8 inches, with 10 inches of slate near the centre of, the seam. These are the Only seams as yet' practically tested, but from them about 15,000 tons of coal have been taken and shipped to the Pacific coast. The coal has been taken to San Francisco, where it has been graded “No. 1 free-burnt: white- ashantbmite. As yet the work'w ich the 10ml Canadian company have been able to, do has beaninpro of a proofiotingcharacter mm" mm ‘ for the. must. ind-.90. all, is m ' a. chowder-m“""‘i'esaiiaeifiilyfiatsi; __.__._._â€"___â€"â€"_â€"â€"- DRESS GOQP_$_ in all new shades. R-obed, Braided and Em- droidered designs. Costume Prints and Crincle Cloths in great variety. MRS. WEY‘I‘E Designs in SPRING MIL-LINERY. _,._.~» 1 ' ‘-' . . . . ., . .' . .' . "1 '7“ " - 4 ... ' . .. _ . - ’ . I . . . .‘ » . ‘ . .. - . . ' . 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