The Montgomery Advertiser from Montgomery, Alabama • 1

fcUW APRIL 231869. voTOly? I NO, 232 wired for. AS every passenger cat on that The last adminisWion, WALKING THE PLANK. HO" FOR OKLAHOMA PLAYED A LONE HAS5. BOLD HIGHWAYMAN AND HI8 BOO OLE.

strip in a short time that it will be thought better to leave them than to attempt to drive them out Arkansas city is headquarters of the engineers of the scheme, but auxiliaries are located along the Hue and the rush will be simultaneous at all Solnts. Officers fear this' and will en-eavor to hurry the patrol for the strip from Oklahoma to anticipate and thus prevent the expected rush. It is well known that such a scheme has been talked ofbyCoL Cole and other Oklahoma agitators and the present they find the most opportune time to make their advance. I SUSPECTED CAPITALISTS. Posing Vnder the Guise of Deputy Mar bale.

A party of capitalists of San Francisco sent their agent Geo. W. Perkins, to find a site for a town. They will build and call it Frisco. Perkins and his party took position upon the rear platform after leaving Purcell and just after Canadian river was crossed they leaped off and concealed themselves in the bushes.

The chances are that the situation of Frisco will be near this bridge. At Guthrie there are in preparation and agitation, a number and variety of town site schemes, and on account of the present prominence of the land office, the contest for possession will be intense. Troops are being as rapidly as possible sent into the country, and today there are in its borders fourteen companies of infantry and twenty troops of cavalry. Last night there arrived at Oklahoma City a queer looking crowd bearing deputy marshals' papers, thus entitling them to enter the country. There were seven in all In the party.

One man was about seventy years old. He wore a fine broadcloth suit of clothes and carried a gold-headed cane. There was not one in the party who had ever made an arrest.and it was stated that the aggregate capital of the crowd was over $2,000,000. They rode down on a Pacific car and alighting from the train, showed their commissions as deputy marshals properly signed and attested, and twenty soldiers, much against their will, were compelled to permit them to remain. Their evident intention is to form some town site.

It is thought that there are over thirty "deputies" in and about Oklahoma, who at noon will turn in their resignations and accept it all by themselves, and then turn private citi also said, had made a rule that super visors of elections should not receive pay for more than five day's service, irn A I Anmnfrnllnr that uu mv ubu Mu aw I' he did not think they were warranted or authorized in maiung bucd. i rule. He said he thought the surper visers, should be allowed pay for every day they served within the ten day limitation fixed by Congress, upon the length of service. There had been any friction between them, Miller said, in regard to anything except uaven port's accounts. As to Judge Durham's withdrawing his papers as a candidate ror cmi service commissioner, ne Knew nothing whatever.

He did not even know, that he was an applicant for the place, MOSELEY'S MINIONS tinplore the President la the Naine of Humanity to Give Him the Spoils. Washington, April 22. Special The delegation of. Alabama colored citizens, who called on the President last Satnrday, made an address as outlined in the dispatch of that date. They read to the President the resolutions passed by the mixed meeting at Birmingham, held at the same time the white Republican Tariff League was organized, and published in The Advertises at that time, and then presented the following address: Firmly believing that your highest ambition is to give the people who honored you with their votes, and entrusted you with the oversight of their affairs, such an administration as will most surely advance their moral, material and social prosperity and happiness, and tend to heal, so far as in your power, the wounds and hide thefscars resulting from the rebellion, re-establishing the laws of the United States in such a manner, that with the aid of Congress, there may be secured to the people of each State a Republican form of government Aid knowing that such a govern ment does not now exist in the State of Alabama, but on the contrary, those who dare oppose the unlawful methods of the dominant political partv.

who only hold power by force and fraud, are not only denied the right of citizen ship, but are ostracised and bovcotted socially and in business. We appeal to you for such help as you have the power to give us, and pray that you be not misled by our enemies. This state of affairs has become gall ing and almost unbearable, the laws- have been so ohanged that Republican votes, though in the majority, are not allowed an expression of their sentiments through the ballot box which is put by those in authority completely under the control of the Democratic party machine; the voting places are surrounded by an army of armed deputy sheriffs the boxes and tickets so arranged that fraud is easily practiced. The police and military of State and cities are held ready to shoot down or arrest us if we dare to question their methods in a public manner. colored citizens are not allowed to emigrate from certain portions of the tate.

or tne ballots they cast are substituted Democratic ballots. The managers of the Democratic machine assert that thev will not sub mit to have the State governed even by white men elected by a negro majority. The above is only a brief summary of the state of affairs which Chairman of the State Republican Executive Committee Dr.R. A. Mose-ley, found in existence when called to the discharge of the duties of the position bythe Republican State convention in'1888, and the same state of affairs still exist with this important difference: Under his wise and manly course Republican voters were encouraged to hope for relief, and by their zeal and forbearance have created a panic in the camp of our enemies, who are now making superhuman efforts to deceive those who, if they understood the situation, would be our friends, by a pretended willingness to let the true sentiments of the voters be expressed, provided the President will ignore Chairman Moseley and the State Executive committee, and allow some very passive man of their selection to discharge the high duty which should be performed by him.

We charge that the SantaFe road is in use, an extra train will be made up of cattle ear Division Superintendent Turner, of the SantaFe, says it will be night before the last of the Oklahoma special train will reach Guthrie. The number of people going from all the railroad towns in Southern Kansas is far great er than was anticipated. Many bun dreds go down merelv to see the scram. ble with no idea of remaining. It da believed that the stage line at Pond Creek on the Rock Island will be to tally unable to accommodate 'the crowds who will want transportation across the sixty miles lying between the railroad terminus and Lisbon, Bank.

Store and Honeea Ready. Newton. April 12. Three train loads of people bound for Oklahoma left Newton, Kansas, this morning oyer the bantaf among them was a nam- ber of capitalists who will organize a bank and open stores to be ready, for business In Guthrie to-morrow morn' ing. Two hundred dwellings Were shipped ready to be put up in a couple oi nours.

The Correspondent ia rOklahoma Special to 8U Loni Loot Kepabll April 22.1 It leaked out durinc the wakeful hours of the night that the press special coach would be a part of the first train to move out. The railroad managers. had succeeded well in keeping this fact a secret. JNo one but representatives of the press was informed of the fact or knew of the location of the coach and the time of its departure, but it is impossible to keep such information from people who sit up all night to find out the shortest and easiest way of get ting into the promised land. The result was that when the newspaper coach was backed up at a point below the depot the entire crowd charged upon it men ranged in solid phalanx, but had to tight for access to the rear platform or their car.

After them came a swarm of men with bogus credentials presunv iDg to represent every great newspaper in the United States. Nearly every correspondent was called upon to discredit two of those assumed journals, and scores of others who failed of identification or recognition had to fall back with more of haste than good order. The first sec tion pulled out at 8:45 a. m. and reached the Oklahoma line about five minutes after 12.

A little further on the entire face of the country, as far as the best field glass could carry sight was over run with horsemen galloping to the southward. Their fleetest horses had evidently been picked for the work and they were carrying their riders rapidly to the longed-for goal. The Ride of Paul Revere dwindles into obscurity beside the. horsemanship performed in UKlahnma to-day. WITH A GRAIN OF SALT.

A Syndicate to Control the Salt Product of the United States Said Mot to be a Trust. Toledo, April 22. The Blade will say this evening on most unimpeachable authority that Wellington R. BorV fJ oaginaw, rrewueui oi me micmgaoj Bait Trust, sails on Wednesday nextd for South Hampton on the Worth Gorman Loyd Steamer Saale 'on an errand the results of which will be felt rdm one end of United States to the other. He goes to secure $10,000,000, by means of which, with the pool already lormed in tnis country, tne entire salt product of the United States will be controlled by a syndicate of which he will be the The English capitalists who have operated the Salt trust in Great Britain, are in terested in this project the details of which have all been and which will all be settled by Mr.

Burt during his brief visit to England. The gigantic combination is not to be a Salt trust in the usual acceptance of the word, although in many of its features it resembles one. It is simply applying to the entire salt industry of the United States the same principles that from time to time have ben used in the. great salt producing section of the Saginaw Valley. Each, district will produce the usual quantity of salt, and will report to headquarters constantly the amount of stock on hand.

The headquarters will make the sales and see that the stuff is shipped in the most econmi-cal manner. For instance, orders from the country tributary to Syracuse will be filled from that city instead of Michigan. Kansas and other States thereabouts will be supplied from Kansas instead of from Michigan or New York, and Kansas people will not undertake to supply Ohio and Michigan is now the case. It is estimated that in this way thera wul-be saved in the operating expenses of the business at least $50,000 a year, even at the present low prices Of salt It is not the purpose of the proposed syndicate to go into the matter with the intention of forcing up the price of salt. There will be no necessity for any such action, and with business management the consolidated and concentrated saving in operating expenses will yield a comfortable return of itself.

GEORGIAN A. The Blind Tiger Gone and Prohibition Prohibit. Georoiana, April 22. The "blind tiger" that has been giving us 6ome trouble' here for the last few weeks, has departed. They preferred "darkness to light" in moving as well as selling, because their deeds evil.

They packed their goods some time after night and procuring a team they moved to other parts, and Georgians rejoices to-day in having no "blind tiger;" so prohibition "doth prohibit" when the people say so. In reading the notice ot the death of old uncle "Dick Hawthorne, at Pine Apple, a few days since, calls to mind the death of Dick King, colored, who died one week before the death of Uncle Dick, near Uravella, at the age of one hundred and fourteen years. The old negro raised Uncle "Dick" Hawthorne as well as both the women who he afterwards married. King was perhaps the oldest citizen ot Alabama at the time of Ms death; he leaves a daughter who is 84 pears of age. I learned these facts from one of his children who resides near this place.

Mr. Guggenheim, representing house In Mobile, had the misfortune to lose his pocket book in our town a few days since with $100 in cash besides several drafts. He dropped it while boarding a tram that was slowly mov ing out from the station, and the fact was not known for several hours, when i search was made, but no trace of it as yet Thousands crossing into the new Crave Apprehenslousof Desperate Been to Come-The Disappointed Organizing to Sell Part of Indian Territory Blvalrtei Ovw Mow Town Wall as Farm Land. Chicago, April 22. This morning, According to the latest dispatches, fully 60,000 people are waiting on the border of that small patch of ground called Oklahoma.

Fast horsed, railroad trains, stages and all sorts of private vehicles will be called into the coveted territory at the earliest possible moment Ten thousand or more will get possession of all the desirable land and then thex apparently will have to hold it against five times as many dlsap-. pointed men. Everybody is armed. No government exists. There is reason therefore to fear much bloodshed will result from theeneral turmoil.

Many or the men who cross the Dor derof Oklahoma to-day will be-resi- dents of large towns which have no ex-' lstence this morning. Towns and farming lands will furnish a large part of the people with a local habitation, The rest will go to their old homes, or will help to locate graveyards in the new country, or will become spuatters in the Indian Territory or settlers in Texas or Arkansas. The scenes in Oklahoma to-day are without parallel The sudden turning of an uninhabited country into a country teeming with people is a unique incident in history. TRAVELLING ON COWCATCHERS. Determined to Get There One Way or Another.

St. Louis, April 22. The Republic's Wichita, special, says the first train south on the Santa Fe road, consisting of fifteen coaches, arrived yesterday, and there was no standing room in the coaches. People tilled the spaces between the cars and cluug to the steps. One enterprising boomer rode on the cowcatcher, and the crowd cheered him as the train entered the depot There were about 1,600 people on the train.

The arrivals yesterday numbered at least of which nam-- ber one-third went south to reach the line of Oklahoma in order to be ready lor the word "tio." Others went to PurcelL. The railroad officials are greatly worried over the pros- pect of moving so many people Side tracks are filled with fiats. Cattle cars and gravel trains are also in the collection, none of which will be below demand. Everything on wheels will be utilized if necessary. Thieves are bus- ily at work on the trains, and many a poor boomer has been fleeced of his alL There are no less than fifty pro-' fessional thieves under surveillauce by detectives, among them "Crooked- Legged Baker," who did active busi-.

nets in the '-lightning change act" in Pennsylvania -in 1885. The Mayor of iM-KBOsar VKf isBueo: ft proclamation permitting stores to be kept open yes terday for the convenience of boom ers. They were well patronized. A disturbance took place at Purcell between rival land speculators and their adherents, in which revolvers and Winchesters were fired freely, howev er, without any serious damage. A RACE ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

The goal a Stake The Prize a Claim, Special dispatches from Oklahoma county, says that every body is on the quivive to make the grand rush across the line to the land of Uanvan at noon to-day. Five hundred drlars was yes' terday offered and accepted for a fleet horse at The horse was purchased by Tom Horton, the man who expects to reach the claim now proposed to be taken up by a town site, which expects to build across the river, a city which will in the future rival PurcelL As many fleet horses are being brought in from Texas and Kansas, the race will be the most exciting as they fly across the country, the goal, a state, the prize a claim There is as much if not more struggling for town sites as for sections. It" is said that thirty-two town companies are going for Guthrie, about that number for Oklahoma City, and about twenty for King Fisher, while there are applicants for sites on almost every section, This makes the average settler swear that trouble between the town site companies will be as dangerous as among the claim hunters. There has also been brewing for the last day or two animosity between the Northern fellows and Texans especially, inoluding some colonies from other States. Once within the strip, men either on foot or in wagons were to be seen going continually southward.

There were no soldiers or ofHoials of any kind to prevent their entering the country. Some were eu-camped on the banks of streams. Wo- men were cooking meals and the men were shooting at either marks or game. "Few persons know," said an old boomer, who was encamped on the Oklahoma line, "what dangers I have gone through to reach here. My party had a cowboy guide, and when, we came to the Chicasaw river we were compelled to pay the man $450 to swim the stream and bring us a little boat in which we could cross and we then pulled our rig and swam our teams.

The same thing had to be done at Salt Fork. We gave our guide $100, and if he gets us well located he gets $150. Another party paid their guide $200." A scheme has just developed, the magnitude of which in bold conception and the daring character of the men engaged in it makes it one of great im- 'portanoe. It is every day becoming more apparent that the lands of Oklahoma will be insufficient for the people who will be here to claim it As a consequence there have been organised bands or companies, the members of which are sworn to proteot their fellows. 1 The loaders of the companies have agreed that if any considerable portion of them fail to get into Oklahoma they will league together and take possession of the Cherokee Strip.

Two thirds of even these organized men will be left and in a week from to-day, they will have determined men desperate from failure of cherished plans driving stock out of the strip and holding down claims. The hope of the men who have undertaken this desperate enterprise is to have so many people in the URST! COMPTROLLER GOES OUT IN A HUFF. Sundry Causes Assigned, but Uie Cola Fact Seem to he that Be' not With Ay More You All Knew How It M-Johnnie Daren port and HU Little Election Washington, April 22. First Comptroller Durham, served his connection with the Treasury department to-day1. He tendered his resignation on the change of administration and it was accepted by Secretary Windom to-day to take effect at once.

There are several explanations for this action but the immediate cause of the change is due to a personal misunderstanding between Attorney General Miller and First Comptroller Durham in regard to the accounts of Mr. John Davenport as supervisor of elections in New York. The latter recently presented vouchers aggregating $3,200 for "extraordinary incurred during the last Presidential election. These Were being examined by the First Comptroller and he signified his intention to disallow them. He had several conferences with the Attorney General on the subject which resulted in an open rupture between the two officers.

so much so that the First Comptroller cn Friday last ignored two requests from the Attorney General to call at his office. Davenport's accounts were then taken out of his hands and turned over to the Attorney General, where they now are. Secretary Windom said this afternoon that he had accepted Durham's resignation in the ordinary course of business, not because of any fault with the letter's official conduct but because of several newspaper articles reflecting upon the administration which are said to have been inspired by the first comptroller. These attributed sentiments to the first comptroller, which, if true, must have made it unpleasant for him to continue in office under existing circumstances. The resignation of Nicholas M.

Bell Superintendent of the foreign mails, Postofflce Department has been accepted by the Postmaster General ALLEGED BEASONS. It is asserted by friends of the First Comptroller that strained relations existing between that officer and the Attorney General were intensified one day last week, when the former conceived that the latter had offered him a gratuitous insult. They say that Judge Durham called on the Attorney General for a conference in regard to the election accounts of Davenport, and that the Attorney General did not treat him properly, in so much that when Durham attempted to define his position in regard to the accounts the Attorney General cut him short and began a general' criticism of acts of. Cleveland's administration in its treatment or. election expenses.

Judge Durham took offense at Miller's words, and saying that he would not listen to any more abuse of the Democratic party from that source closed the interview by taking an abrupt departure. Subsequently, so the story runs, the Attorney-iieneral sent to him for the papers in the case and he refused to allow them to go out of his office. Later in the day, however, Secretary Windom said be would like to look over the papers, and were sent to him. Judge Durham did not know It at the time, but the Secretary had sent for the papers for the purpose of turning them over to the Attorney-General and they are now in the lat-ter's office. It is also said by the friends of Judge Durham, that he had not acted on the Davenport case at alL Vouchers were being examined in his office, but had not been passed upon.

The First Comptroller was, however, of the opinion that the expenses covered by them were not authorized by law and had made up his mind that they should not be allowed. This was the state of the case when the misunderstanding arose between himself and the Attorney-General. The latter is said to have regarded the vouchers as correct in form and law, and to have recom-. mended their allowance. The fine Comptroller took the ground, that the Attorney-General had nO'jurlsdiction in the that he had exceeded his authority in endorsing his approval on the papers.

On the other hand, It is asserted that Judge Durham was not relieved because of his position in regard to Davenport's accounts, but because of newspaper publications concerning the official matters under consideration, said to have been inspired by him, and because of a statement attributed to him that he had withdrawn the papers recommending his appointment as a Democratic member of the civil service commission, for the reason that he did not wish to have anything further to do with this administration. It is but fair to Judge Durham to say he denies having had anything whatever to do with any of the publications complained of. Secretary Windom de. clteed to discuss the matter this aft- ernbon. He said that Durham had resigned in good faith, and his resig nation had been accepted.

Attorney-General Miller said this evening that he had not asked that Comptroller Durham's resignation be requested, and that he knew nothing of the Comptroller severing his connection with the Treasury Department until he saw the evening papers. He understood that the Comptroller's resignation had been ready for sometime, and that Durham had expected to go any time. It is true the Attorney-General said that there had been some difference between him and the Comptroller in regard to Davenport's ac counts. Durham was not disposed to allow these accounts, and he (Miller) thought they were proper and should be approved, it was, not true, he said thftt he cut short the Comptroler while" he was defending Ms position in tne uavenport matter. nor tiiat ne naa arraigned Democrat party for its conduct to-word election supervisors.

Miller said that while they were talking oyer the differences betweeen them in regard to Davenport's accounts, Comptroller Durham said that the last administration had not allowed Davenport anything. He had replied that he knew He Call on a Railroad Agent and Adjourn With Mgh Oato" $10,000. Eipree Packages, Freight and Ticket Fends Included la the Haul, Also Uie Ksoape et the Bobber. Gallatin, April. 22.

One of the boldest railroad robberies ever perpe- trated by a single robber in occurred at Pattonsburg, on the Wabash Railroad, Friday night, and has just leaked out About 9 o'clock Friday night one masked burglar entered the station at Pattonsburg. He covered the agent, the only person in the station, with a pistol, and demand ed the key, which he received. He then made the agent occupy a given, position, and proceeded to plunder the safe. He cleaned it of everything valuable, securing money estimated at from $6,000 000. Among the booty was one express package of $3,000, a letter addressed to the Pattonsburg Bank containing $100, and a number of other express packages.

He also took all the express, freight and ticket funds and robbed the agent of his own money and valu ables. The robber then backed out or the station, mounted his horse and rode away. The agent on Saturday, notified Superintendent McGee, of tlie Wabash and Western, and Mr. McGee communicated with detectives in St Louis and a search for the robber waa started, but it has been without sue cess. MARION.

The Schedule an the C. 8. A convenient. Jf Very la. Mabion, April 22.

Special. The very miserable accommodations afforded by the present running and schedule of the C. S. M. railroad, is working up a feeling of contempt among our people here and some of the more hot-headed of our people speak of circulating a petition to Mr.

Gabbett that if the present arrangement cannot be improved upon to discontinue all trains, and we will adopt the old-time stage line which would give us far better and less expensive facilities for getting abroad. Were it not for the hope that good to Marion will eventually come of it, our people would be indignant in a still greater degree. We all appeal to The Advebtiseb to come to our rescue in this time of need. Judge James F. Bailey died at his residence in this place from the effects of a cancer on Thursday evening at 7 o'clock, and was buried Friday eve- ning.

with the impressive burial ser- vice of the Baptist church, of which Via PiSfl l.ltirV PAan a A 1 Judge Bailey was for fifteen years before the war probate judge of this county, and served the people in various capacities of publio uau iuuK woou a atubiuiu luvuiuvi life. He was one of the landmarks of this county, having nearly reached his four score years. His sorrowing and grief stricken family have the sympathy -of this entire community. Judge Bailey was one of the few left who drew a pension for services in the Mexican war. Mrs.

C. C. Huckabee after an absence of several weeks visiting friends and relatives in Louisville, returned to her home here this weelc Rev. Dr. Coswell, Atlanta, a very able divine, is assisting Rev.

H. D. D. Straton in' a meeting at the Baptist church. Rev.

J. P. Hamilton has been in Lowndisboro this week assisting Rev. Mr. Lamar in a protracted meeting.

Dr. John E. Frazier, of this city, was elected by the late dental convention held at Mobile, Second Vice President of the Alabama Dental Association. Miss Katie Lee Sibley, of this city, was married on Thursday evening to Mr. C.

A. W. Neal, of Lexington, Ky. Rev. H.

D. D. Stanton officiating. The happy couple have the best wishes ot hosts of friends here. The musio lovers of Marion are indebted to the management of the Jud- was in Joisi9 graduating 5.

Marfm-- piano assistelry i3j Juliet Plnnier The young ladies showed close application to their work and thorough training and afforded the audience an evening's pleasant entertainment as was evinced by the rounds of applause which they secured. Dr. J. A. Frazier, Hon.

J. A. Moore and lady, Messrs. G. Tarry, J.

W. Hurt andO. Pugh are attending Y. M. C.

A. convention at Huntsville. Col. B. M.

Huey, W. J. Mitchell, G. W. Tarry and W.

G. Ballard, attended the Grand Lodge of P. 1 at Annis ton. WICKED PARTNER DOWNS He Sojourn In Canada Aftev Swindling Confiding Bank of Much Lucre. New Yobk, April oounsel for N.

Henry Rothschild and Isaac Dreyfus, partners in the fancy shirt manufacturing firm of Downs Einch, stated to-day that he had learned that partner Downs was in Canada. The partners have brought suit to set aside the firm's assignment and secured the appointment of Miles M. O'Brien as receiver. If Downs returns here, Counsel says he will have to meet- criminal charges. Within one week of the failure over $300,000 in cash and stock convertible into cash was disposed of, most of the money went to Mrs.

Downs, although she does not appear by the firm's books to be a creditor. According to Counsel, Downs has defrauded every bank with which he was connected, and made the most extravagant misrepresentations to g-1 money. Kothsoelld hope to back into the estate the bulk of tue money withdrawn. Suit has been begun in New Jersey, where the factories are located, to set aside two mortgtur one for $20,000 and one for $10.000 1 1 Mrs: Downs, recorded on the day the assignment to Downs' lawyer. assignment is also attacked for fn Uneasy Lies the Head, Etc.

St. Petebbsdbg, April 22. The C. is suffering from extreme nervotrs oitement being in constant dre attempts upon his life. AUbatnlans Washington, Washington, April 22.

Speoi -W. H. Goodwin, of Alabama, ht Harris House in this city. tL f-feB for a delightful evening's enter-ZrJlTf I gfhapel of M. M.

I. It zens and locate claims. THOUSANDS OF ANXIOUS MEN. Danger Lost Sight of in Reckless Desire to Cron the Border. Kansas City, April 22.

A Star special from Kansas City says: Saturday night there was a continuous line of camp fires from Warton, the last station in the Cherokee strip to Kansas city. There were fewers fires along the border line of the promised lands than would have been expected. Comparatively few of the wagon men reached the Oklahoma line until last night and this morning salt Fork Creek which winds through the etriuand en the bank of which -the Ponoo reservation is situated, caused the settlers much delay. Rains had made it so high that fording was dangerous and a few were fool hardy enough to venture it Friday morning fully a mile of wagons were trying to get across, Capt. Hayes and his company who escorted the settlers to the border rendered them most valuable service.

He Induced the Santa Fe road to permit him to lay planks beside and between the tracks of the railroad bridge and got the emigrants over. A soldier with a red flag half a mile from each end of the bridge prevented any train from approaching until the bridge was clear. In spite of the precautions a woman and two children and a number of cattle were drowned at the bridge. Capt Hayes good work at Salt Fork bridge kept him and his troops from getting to Oklahoma border until this morning. A careful estimate by the Star reporter who was on the border last night is that within a radius of five miles from the Border entrance on the Ponca trail fully 5000 men were at least a mile over the line.

Wire fences divide the slip from Oklahoma The men did not know the fence was the dividing line, or if they did, did not heed it No soldiers were there to dispute their entrance or tell where the line was. Without let or hindrance a great number of people went into Oklahoma, as early as Saturday night The sky was cloudless and it was cool this morning. The crowd at the depot was larger than was expected. From the top of the dispatchers offlc, a potographer took the crowd. Four trains with ten coaches each, stood about ready for the start Crowds of people wa Iked up and down on tops of the cars.

The moment the doors were thrown open the cars were nlled. The crowd followed the newspaper men hoping to find by them which train started first. Fifty tents which were pitched about the depot were down before 6 o'clock. It is estimated that 5,000 men were at depot awaiting transportation, uutnts at the depot were striking. Spades and axes were the most common equipments.

Before the. train the town was almost deserted. There were many boomers among those who go to Guthrie. Danger seemed to have been lost sight of. Many crowded under the cars until the police stopped them.

It was 8.45 when the first train pulled out A Bhout from a thousand voices announced the fact The press car was next to the engine and eight cars were attached. There, were fully fifty persons 1 in the press car. Many had no credentials, and many freitrht trains have been supplied with seats to follow later. At the St San Francisco crossing, where a stop was necessary, people Desieged the first train, but the guards kept them off. Just outside the city two dartng.men got on an air brakes under the press oar.

At the speed at which the train started the train will reach Guthrie late. The wagon bridge across the Arkansas river was full ot settlers' wagons. Two men jumped on the cow catcher, but; were put CATTLE CARS Are Fixed Vp to Haul Boomer. the Anxious Wichta. April 22.

Three train loads of boomers numbering about 1500 people left here for Oklahoma this morning over the SantaFe road. A lame number also left bv wav of Book Island. Another train has been nuu ouuiu low xvo- publlesn sore heads and office seekers to carry out all agreed plans to let Re publican Congressmen be counted in, while the country is under Republican rule, but to keep control of the State under the management of the Democratic machine and that this may be done, and not be subject to exposure they ask you to ignore Chairman Mose-ly, and take for your advisors in selecting men to fill the offices in Alabama, a man of their selection. To portray the horrible situation would make a large volume, therefore we can only allude to them. We implore you in the name of God and humanity, and for the best interests of the Republican party to sustain and aid Dr, Mosely in his grand and patriotio efforts, to redeem the State from the slate of organized anarchy which has afflicted it for thejpast years, and place ber in the grand column of progress with her sister States of the North and West with a free ballot, fair count and free schools.

THAT VISIT. The President 'sold the Nea-roe He wanted Protection Democrats. Washington. April 22. fSpeciall Facts relative to the visit of Alabama colored Republicans to the President on Saturday are gradually coming to the surface.

It is now learned that the President told them plainly that he proposed to use the offices in the South in a way to try to bring Protection Democrats into the party and that he did not think colored people ought to expect to control the offioes in the South at present He said he thought if Democrats could be divided and a portion brought into the Republican party, even at the expense of certain privileges of offices, which the colored people thought belonged to themselves, it would result in improvement of political methods and fair elections. He was wise enough to say nothing directly about the division of the colored vote, but it is evid-dent he expects this to follow. The Ex-King Becomes a Monk. Belgrade, April 22. The Journal Seibobran says that ex-King Milan has become a monk of Jerusalem, with a view of eventually becoming Patriarch of all the Servians.

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