The Settlement of Oklahoma.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3256, 15 July 1889, Page 2

The Settlement of Oklahoma.

The invasion of Oklahoma is now over, and the rapidity with which the territory lias been occupied indicates how little exaggeration there was in the reported number of intending settlors, Promptly at the discharge of the signal gun the onset began, The "boomers" rushed in from the borders on horseback, on foot, and in waggons, or emerged from the thickets of the territory itself where they bad been hiding from the troops, Tho.torritory was open on Monday, April 22, and on Tuesday night it boasted of 50,000 inhabitants, The first train reached Guthrie on Monday at 2 p.m., and before sundown a city of 15,000 inhabitants had risen on the plains. On Tuesday an election was held, in which .3,000 votes were cast, and that day a bank organised with a capital of LIO,OOO. Some of the settlers of the new city did not count all the cost before starting out, The famous city had no houses, no hotels, and no wells, The feed supply became scarce and dear. The people could buy drinks of muddy water from a stream some distance away at ten cents a pint, This illustrates the American methed, which is so different from the old slow European growth. With us a Stale is born in a day, and a full-fledged ity appears in a morning,