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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, April 27, 1889. 
Oklahoma is a very irregular, somewhat 
triangular-shaped tract of country contain¬ 
ing 1,887,800 acres, or 11,800 quarter-sections, 
in the heart of the Indian Territory. The 
apex of the angle is at the south near Purcell, 
and a little north of this, on the line of the 
Santa Fd railroad,is Guthrie, and still further 
north at intervals are Oklahoma, Edmonds 
and Alfred ;while Kingfisher is off the road to 
the west on the Cimarron river. The base of 
the “triangle,” to the north, double as broad 
as tho main body of the the territory, stretch¬ 
es along the southern line of the Cherokee 
Strip or Outlet, which is about 70 miles wide, 
and separates Oklahoma from Kansas. Ac¬ 
cording to the latest accounts, a large part of 
the land is excellent; some of it ordinary and 
about one-third unfit for arable purposes.. .. 
Just before noon on Monday vast masses of 
people, variously estimated at from 30,000 to 
100,000, were impatiently waiting along the 
borders of the Territory until, at noon, the 
signal should be given by the military authori¬ 
ties permitting them to enter. The crowd 
was greatest at the north, coming from every 
State and Territory to the “promised land,” 
though there were a great many at the south 
also, coming chiefly from Texas and the other 
Gulf States. Many had also found their way 
into the neighboring Indian Territory to the 
east and west, so as to be ready to rush in at 
once and stake out their claims. Hundreds 
were also in the Territory hiding for the 
same purpose, while over 500 United States 
deputy marshals, consisting chiefly of land- 
grabbers,speculators and agents of syndicates 
and capitalists, bad obtained their positions 
merely to be at the town sites beforehand so 
as to grab the best lots before the general 
scramble began. A large number of rail¬ 
road hands vied with them in greed. 
.. On the arrival of noon where the restrain¬ 
ing soldiers were present and doubtless much 
before where they wore not, the inrush be¬ 
gan. Fast horses had been got ready, draft 
horses and others unhitched from the “prairie 
schooners,” and madly dashed riders on m all 
directions to pick out the best locations, the 
biggest rush being, of course, made for the 
town sites, the most eligible parts of which 
were found to be already gobbled up by the 
bogus United States officials and railroad¬ 
men. After the wild scramble of horsemen, 
venicles of all sorts drawn by oxen and all 
kinds of non-speedy horses swept or crept 
inward. Meanwhile the railroad, which runs 
north and south through the easterly part 
of the country, was running section trains 15 
minutes apart, and if joined they would have 
made many miles of continous train cram¬ 
med inside, crowded on the roofs, jammed 
on the steps, and packed from the cow¬ 
catcher to the end. Never was such a 
scene in this or any other country. 
The territory which was supposed to be un¬ 
inhabited except by officials at noon, had in a 
few nours a population of tens of thousands. 
Guthrie, a stretch of uninviting prairie at 12 
o’clock, was a town with a population of 
15,000, streets, a newspaper office, a bank, lots 
of stores, etc., etc., at 4, when a meeting was 
called to elect town officers. Much the same 
at the other town sites. All over the country 
all sorts of people were madly at work stak¬ 
ing out claims or marking them in other ways, 
or hunting for them, or preparing to defend 
them. Rifles and revolvers were as indispens¬ 
able as shirts or boots. Night brought no rest 
to a vast number, and the turmoil has con¬ 
tinued ever since. There have been a score or 
more murders due to disputes about claims, 
within reach of the telegraph, and God only 
knows how many in remoter places. Several 
deaths have occurred from over-exertion, and 
half a dozen or so have been driven crazy. 
Thousands couldn’t get a chance, and others 
are bitterly disappointed with the character 
of their sections. While steady streams 
are still meandering in, other streams of 
larger volume are flowing out. 
Much of the overflow is settling in the neigh¬ 
boring parts of the Indian Territory,especially 
in the Cherokee Strip and the other parts of 
what would have been Oklahoma Territory 
hadn’t Congress killed the Springer bill creat¬ 
ing it. It would have included the present Ok¬ 
lahoma, 1,887,800 acres: the Strip or Outlet, 
6,022,214 acres and No Man’s Land. 8,672,640 
acres—a total of 11,582,674 acres. Reports 
say it would take nearly the whole of the 
United States Army to drive the desperate 
squatters out of their new quarters. Much 
of this land is finer than any in the territory 
just thrown open, and it is thought the Gov¬ 
ernment must soon throw most, if not all, 
of this open also. Terrible destitution is al¬ 
ready reported among many ot the new¬ 
comers. Hundreds just managed to get there, 
with nothing left for support or to make a 
crop, and water is scarce in wide sections and 
provisions are unattainable. Think of water 
at 10 cents a glass even in Guthrie, and 25 
cents for two small loaves! Out in the coun¬ 
try, away from the railroads, things must 
be much worse in a region that has 
never known^the plow, and from which 
all the^cattle.lkings and syndicates have 
THE RURAL NEW-Y0RKEr« 
cleared out every head of stock. 
Detroit is bound to have a grand Internation¬ 
al Fair and Exposition costing half a million 
dollars, $148,000 of which have already been 
invested in a splendid site near the city. The 
buildings will be the “largest in the world,” 
costing $250,000 and covering 12 to 14 acres.... 
A mine of rock salt, pure and clear, has been 
discovered, 675 feet down, at Kingman, Kan¬ 
sas .Negotiations for the establish¬ 
ment of that gigantic Anglo-American Salt 
Trust still continue and are likelv to be 
successful very soon. A capital of $10,000,000 
is reported to be already secured and much 
more is said to be within reach, if it is ever 
needed.Postmaster Pearson of this 
City, who held the nlace under Arthur and 
Cleveland, has just died at the age of 46, from 
overwork—highly esteemed by all as the best 
officer who ever held the position. 
The Minnesota State Legislature has passed a 
capital punishment law similar in some re¬ 
spects to the New York law. Under its pro¬ 
visions the prisoner is to be kept in solitary 
confinement and see no one but his family, 
his lawyers and his spiritual advisers. He is 
to be executed before sunrise, and mav invite 
three persons to be present. The sheriff invites 
six persons besides the surgeon. It is made 
a misdemeanor for any newspaper to pub¬ 
lish anything more about the execu¬ 
tion than the mere fact... 
Slaughter at grade crossings is just as fre¬ 
quent as ever Wednesday last. John Wade, 
62: bis wife. 59, and J. M. Linderman,14. were 
killed at Newport, Del , by an engine on the 
P. W. and B. R. R. No watchman or safety- 
gate, though hundreds cro»s the track each 
day, and 75 trains have chances to kill them.. 
.... One death from a virulent type of yellow 
fever at Tampa, Fla., last Tuesday—an un¬ 
usually early case. Federal and State author¬ 
ities are taking prompt precautions against 
any and all outbreaks. Camp Perry, near 
Jacksonville, can he made ready as an asylum 
once more for refugees in 24 hours. Danger 
greatest this year where fever was least pre¬ 
valent last, as elsewhere most of the people 
have had it.Just as the machinery con¬ 
structors, in convention at Detroit, Mich., 
had nearly resolved to abandon the Knights 
of Labor. General Master Workman Powder- 
ly arrived there “opportunely” on a lectur¬ 
ing tour, Wednesday, and after some hard 
work got the convention to agree unani¬ 
mously to remain in the Order. 
.. President Harrison has issued a proclama¬ 
tion making April 30, a legal holiday in cele¬ 
bration of the Centennary of Washington’s in 
augnration as first President of the Republic. 
As Congress was sitting in this city at the 
time, the ceremony took place here, and is to 
be commemorated by the grandest maritime, 
military and civic parades and festivities 
ever witnessed on this continent. Over 80,000 
civilians will be in line on May 1, taking over 
10 hours to pass a given point. Od April 29 
a grand maritime parade of men-of-war and 
merchant vessels will attract mult tudes to 
the harbor. On April 30, about 50,000 troops 
will parad9. Hundreds of thousands of 
of visitors are expected from all parts of the 
country, hut, ot course, especially from the 
adjacent States. All public and private ac¬ 
commodations will pe taxed to the utmost to 
lodge and entertain them. Stands capable 
of seating a million are already erected along 
the line of march. The President and bis 
Cabinet will take part in the celebration. 
There will be balls, banquets, fire-works any 
amount of bunting and nuncombe, and for 
three or more days there will be the mosthi- 
larous, vociferous crowds and the most pomp¬ 
ous pageantry and general uproar that ever 
startled this Western hemisphere. Even 
wealthy people living along the route of 
the parade, are letting the windows 
of their houses, many of which now 
command $500. and prices are rising. 
A veryjpleasant event occurred recently at the 
hay-press works of Geo. Ertel & Co., Quincy, 
Ill., when Mr. Geo. Ertel was presented by 
his employees with a handsome gold¬ 
headed cane, suitably engraved. 
Quebec is to have a $10,000,000 cantilever rail¬ 
road and passenger bridge across the St. Law¬ 
rence... All the Vanderbilt roads east of 
Chicago will abandon a large part of their 
Sunday freight trains.beginning May 1. 
..'ihe biggest fire in this city for years swept 
along the bank of the North River a week ago, 
destroying more than $3,000,000 worth of 
property, including two large grain elevators, 
together with vast stores of lard, flour and 
the like: 15,000 bags of Timothy seed were 
destroyed and 8,000 bags of clover seed. This 
was old, long-carried stock,and for some time 
it has had a depressing effect on the market, 
so seed merchants are not bemoaning the loss.. 
.Both branches of the Minnesota Legis¬ 
lature have passed a bill making drunkenness 
a crime, and it now awaits the Governor’s sig¬ 
nature. The penalties are, for first offense, a 
fine of not less than $10 or more than $40, or 
imprisonment for not less than 10 or more 
than 40 days; second offense $40 to $50 fine, or 
30 to 60 days’ imprisonment; third offense 
60 to 90 days’ imprisonment. 
New Mexico, nothern Texas and southern 
Kansas expect to gain considerable popula¬ 
tion by means of the Oklahoma boom. It’s 
thought that many of the disappointed and 
disgruntled boomers will seek settlement in 
one of the neighboring States. A dozen agents 
of the Maxwell Land Grant syndicate are now 
busily canvassing the discontented people, ex¬ 
patiating on the ad vantages of thtir employers’ 
place.The Canadian Parliament 
has passed the Weeaon bill enlarging the 
scope of the extradition treaty with this coun¬ 
try, so as to render the Dominion an unsafe 
place for “American” boodlers and other 
rascals. Those north of the line now, how¬ 
ever, are safe, as the retroacti ve provision of 
the bill has been cut out. 
The Pennsylvania Senate has defeated a bill 
against railroad grade crossings. 
The Delaware House has defeated a bill pro¬ 
viding for voting after the Australian fash¬ 
ion by a vote of 14 to 7—the Republicans 
all voting for it, and all the Democrats 
against it... An important railroad forfeiture 
bill has been stolen by Minnesota lobbyists just 
at the close of the legislative season, which,of 
course, acts the same as would a defeat of tho 
measure. This is by no means an uncommon 
trick of such gentry.The Illinois 
Senate has passed an Australian Election law, 
and the House put through a stringent Anti- 
Trust bill by an overwhelming majority. 
Massachusetss has just defeated the prohibi¬ 
tory amendment to the constitution by about 
50,000 majority. Including cider in its pro¬ 
visions gamed the opposition of thousands of 
farmers the price of whose apple crops would 
be lowered by it, and farmers were expected 
to be its chief supporters. The same cause 
defeated a similar measure m New Hampshire 
a few' weeks ago and is likely to do the same 
in Pennsylvania in a week or two. 
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Those w r ho are skilled in the nice adjust¬ 
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following. They will also discover why we 
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zine, and Agricultural Department of Ttie 
Philadelphia Record , says. 
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The brochure to which we refer contains 
the history of Compound Oxygen and a record 
of cures in many interesting cases. This, with 
our quarterly review, Health and Life , will 
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street, Philadelphia, Pa; or 120 Sutter street, 
San Francisco, Cal.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, April 27, 1889. 
According to the latest reports from differ¬ 
ent points especially from the West, the crop 
conditions of the country are favorable. All 
the Northwest, West and Southwest are re¬ 
joicing at the good effects of the copious rains 
of last week. The cool weather has also given 
the grai n a good chance to root,and the return 
of warm weather must cause a very rapid 
growth of spring-sown grain. The condition 
of winter wheat continues exceedingly good. 
During the last three weeks it has made very 
rapid growth, and harvest seems in¬ 
dicated at least 14 days earlier than last sea¬ 
son. The amounts of wheat in farmers’ 
hauds are reduced to a very low per cent. 
The flour trade seems dull; stocks everywhere 
are very large, but no demand. The spring 
wheat seeding was completed last week. Oats 
have greatly improved during the last week. 
The rains came at the time when most needed. 
Grass has taken a wonderful start all over 
the West, and what promised to be a short 
crop 14 days ago gives evidence of 
being a good one. Pastures and mea¬ 
dows have sufficient feed for stock. Farmers 
have made good progress plowing for corn, 
and planting has commenced. The ground, 
however, is too cold for planting in the 
northern portions of the corn belt. Too much 
rain in Kansas and Missouri has delayed 
planting there, but should the remainder of 
April prove as favorable for farming opera¬ 
tions as the spring has been thus far, we 
shall see early in May fully 50 por cent, of 
the corn in the ground. 
Tho wheat deficit in the Australian colonies 
of New South Wales, Queensland and Tas¬ 
mania is fully 8,750,000 bushels. Victoria, 
South Australia and New Zealand have an 
available surplus of 9,500,000 bushels. Ship¬ 
ments to Europe and the demands of South 
Africa and the South Sea Islands will, how¬ 
ever, eat up this surplus, it is believed, and 
California, with her large wheat crop, expects 
to be called on to meet the requirements of 
the colonies.The official roster of 
the Patrons of Husbandry in Massachusetts 
shows that there are in that State 140 subor¬ 
dinate granges with a membership of 8,000— 
the highest the State has ever had.. 
Toe New York Assembly has passed Repre¬ 
sentative Erwin’s bill establishing four dairy 
schools in this State, and appropriating $4,000 
therefor.The Secretary of the Home 
and Foreign Produce Exchange of London, 
England, has notified the Secretary of the 
Chicago Produce Exchange that American 
dairy products are in danger of being ex¬ 
cluded from English markets under an act of 
Parliament on account of adulteration. He 
says that it is of the utmost importance to the 
fuiure of the trade that American cheese and 
dairy products continue above suspicion and 
that tho matter calls for prompt action. The 
Secretary of the Chicago Exchange has for¬ 
warded copies of this letter, together with 
other facts on the prevalence of dairy adulter¬ 
ations, to the legislatures of various States, 
and efforts will be made to secure tho passage 
of bills in all Western and Northwestern States 
for the prevention of fraud in the manufacture 
and sale of adulterated dairy products. 
Last Monday St. Louis dropped the antiquat¬ 
ed and unfair method of selling poultry by 
count instead of by weight. Even the Mound 
City advances.English hop-growers 
complain that California and Washington are 
flooding their home markets with a very in¬ 
ferior grade of hops which give them no pro¬ 
fit while breaking down the English market*. 
..... New potatoes have been selling at. 
$10 per barrel in St. Louis and Chicago, and 
new tomatoes at $10 to $12 per bushel . 
....The Anti-Binder Twine Trust agitation 
is still flourishing at the West, and bids 
fair to amount to something. 
An excellent selection—that of Prof. G. FI 
Morrow, Champaign, Ill., to represent the 
Agricultural Department at the Jubilee Show 
of the Roy r al Agricultural Society of England 
to be held during the summer. He is also 
commissioned to visit other European coun¬ 
tries and to study the live stock interests of 
the Old World for th9 benefit of the New. 
.The charter of the “Royal” was 
granted March 26, 1840. The Queen has ac¬ 
cepted the Presidency of the Society this year. 
. Secretary Rusk has made the 
following New Jersey veterinary appoint¬ 
ments to take effect on Mav 1. Dr. W. B. 
Miller, of Camden, and Dr. W. H. Cooper, of 
Salem to be Inspectors of the Bureau of Ani¬ 
mal Iudustry, the former at $1,000 a year, 
and the latter at $1,400, with traveling ex¬ 
penses, of course. The New York State 
fair will henceforth be permanently located 
just outside Syracuse'on commodious grounds, 
formerly a part of Smiths, Powell and Lamb s 
Lakeside stock farm, which have been 
donated by the city at a cost of $30,000. 
Euglish farmers and farm journals are justly 
berating the Privy Counci for permitting the 
free landing of cattle from the Netherlands, 
which have for years been scourged with fre¬ 
quent and disastrous outbreaks of contagious 
pleuro-pneumonia. Isn’t it time for Ameri¬ 
cans once more to raise their voices against 
the unfair embargo imposed on cattle 
from this country?. 
The Illinois House has passed a bill making it 
a finable offense to sell adulterated or impure 
lard without a label stating specifically its 
character and quality.The American 
Langshan Club will soon issue a new cata¬ 
logue. A. A. Halladay, Secretary, Bellows 
Falls, Vermont.At the Paris Exhi¬ 
bition Messrs. Vilmoriu Andrieux & Co., the 
noted French seed house, will make a very 
extensive exhibit of seeds and agricultural 
products. They also wish to announce that 
they will be pleased to have such of their 
many American customers as visit the exhi¬ 
bition to inspect their large trial grounds 
and seed farms. 
Florida orange growers complain bitterly of 
lack of proper transportation for their pro¬ 
duct, by which they have lost thousands 
owing to the rotting of the fruit before ship¬ 
ment or during culpably' slow transportation. 
The fruit-growers cannot staud such treat¬ 
ment from the transportaton companies, and 
are trying to devise some better way of 
marketing their fruit. Associations are formed 
all over the orange-growing section, and a 
convention will be called before long to work 
out a plan for marketing the fruit different 
from the present .James T. Riddle 
of the Western Reserve Stock Farm of 
Ravenna, Ohio, has just paid $2,500 to F. D. 
Stout of Dubuque, Iowa, for the eight-day- 
old bay colt Cortez, by Nutwood, dam 
Georgmua by George Wilkes, second aud 
third dams by Mambrino Patchen, fourth 
dam by Mambrino Chief.A bill is 
before the New York legislature providing 
that cheese made from milk from which any 
part of the cream has been taken, shall be 
branded “Skim Cheese.”.There’s 
a good deal of talk about the establish¬ 
ment of a Plug Tobacco Trust; but one or 
two large firms aren’t in it; and it cant 
do much harm without them. 
LATEST MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York, Saturday, April 27, 1889. 
NEW YOBK MARKETS. 
Cotton.—T he quotations, according to the American 
elaeslflcatlon. are as follows: 
New Orleans. 
Uplands. and Gulf. Texas 
Ordinary. 8 3-16 8 7-16 . 
Strict Ordinary. 8% 8% . 
Good Ordinary.il 9-16 9 U-16 . 
Strict Good Ordinary. 10 10*4 . 
Low Middling. 10% 10% . 
8trlctLew Middling...10% 11 . 
Middling. ...10 15-16 II 3-16 . 
Good Middling.11 7 16 11 '1-16 . 
Strict Good Middling..U 11-16 li 15-16 . 
Middling Fair.12J* 12% . 
Fair.12% 13 . 
STAINED. 
Good Ordinary.8 1-lfi I Low Middling .. 9% 
8trlctGoodOrd.8 11-16 | Middling..10 7-16 
Poultry--C hickens, spring, per pair, 75o.@$l 25; 
Lav* Fowls, near-oy, per ft, 12®12We: (owls, 
Western, per ft12®12%0' roosters, per ft. ,®8c; tur. 
keyB, per ft 12%al4c; ducks.western.perpalr,?.‘>efflU.90; 
geese, western, per pair, $1 15®$1 50. 
Poultry.—Dressed—T urkeys, dry picked, good to 
choice, per ft, 15<tl6c; do do,common to fair, 10®l4c; 
do, Iced, dry picked, choice, ll®12c. Fowls, western, 
do, choice, ll®13%c; do, nearby, do do 13®l3%c; 
Chicks und Fowls, mixed, 10® 12c; do dodo, scalded, 
8®9c. Squabs, while, per doz, $3 50®$3 7Jdo, dark, 
do, $2 50<ai$2 75. Chickens Philadelphia, dry picked, 
15tal7c, do Jersey, do, choice, 14® 15c ; do nearby, do, 
good, 13ftl4c: do Western, do do, U®12c: do do, Iced, 
good to choice ll@12e. Ducks, neurby, choice, per lb, 
14<ai5c; dodo, good, 12a 14; do Western, good, 12® 14c. 
Ceese, Western, good, 8®10c. 
Game.—W ild Ducks, Canvas back, per pair, 3-(ft 
®$-; do, Red Head, do, $ 50®$1 oo ; Grouse, do, 
—@—c ; Wild Ducks, Mullurd. do, —®—c; Teal, do, — 
®—. Plover, per doz., $1 50®$I 75 ; Snipe, per doz. 
$1 50®$l 75. 
Hops.—S tate, new, best, 21®22c : do. prime, 19®21o; 
do, low grades, 13®16c; do do, 1887, 10®11 do do do 
California, common to prime, 13®19c; choice, 20®21c. 
