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or less advanced
Sith ft fourth independent system.
With its five white and four colored church-
», It has recently completed a *10,000 new
Presbyterian church. Ithae increased it* pop
elation by nearly one fifth, ft has attracted
jund its borders fruit growers from nearly
sry State in the Union, until it is now sur-
inded on nearly every side by orchards
1 vineyards. It has put op the largest
it evaporators in the State, ft is the home
the grape audits wipe making capacity has
abftfi twerigymr.jlt public has successfully schools, with in¬
durated a system ol u
|sd ThiFlspart ofthi|: He record, of AhaW decade
simply shows progress ol an already
admirable city, with the natural advantages
of having the finest climate, summer and
winter, in the world.
Griffin is the county seat of Spalding coun¬
ty, situated in west Middle Georgia, with a
healthy,fertile And rolling country,1150 feet
above sea level. By the census of 1890, it
will have at alow estimate between0 000 and
7,000 people, and they are all of the right
sort—wide-awake, up to the times, ready to
welcome strangers aad anxious to secure de-
sirable settle™, who will not be any lees wel-
earns if theyjjring money to help build up the
town. There is about only one thing’we
need h#lyjnst now, aod that is a W* hotel.
We have several small ones, but their accom¬
modations are entirely too limited for onr
business, pleasure and health seeking guests.
If you ms anybody that wants a good loca¬
tion for a hotel in the South, just mention
pap«tattteBmirfre8tote of Georgia. FW»M
enclose stamps in sending for sample copies,
and descriptive pamphlet of Griffin.)
This brief sketchiswrittenAprill2th, 1889,
and wifi have to be changed in a few months
to embrace new enterprises commenced and
DISEASED BLOOD
I contracted ef terrible With Mood-poisoning good physi¬ a
year ago, I doctored meany^goM^I two
cians, neither of whbm dfd
e, awr-
ictaded to
effect until I used theCimcPSA Remedies, and
am thankful to state that after two months
of their use I am entirely cured. I feel it my
s-rasslSCCu
Bug and Scratched 88 years,.
I go Mr. Dennis Downing ten years better.
I have dug and scratched for nraritfs, thirty-eight and
years. I had what is termed
uavs suffered everything, and tried a number
of doctors but got no relief. Anybody coffid
imr have got *500 had they cured me. The Co-
Remedies cuml me. God Mess the
man who invented Cctimfha ! -
for “How to Core Skia Diseases,’
.0 illustrations, and 100 testimo
bl M h -b^^c^ap^ and {oily
.Aching Sides and Back.
'Hip, kidney, relieved and uterine in pains minute and
weaknesses one
HOTEL CURTIS
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA,
Jtader New Management.
*• 8. DANIEL, PropY.
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USELESS ' PRECAUTION.
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Additional Dispatches, ftvvU t&B T-.d UJ/
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less. The tent is surmounted by a
American flag. r ,u 5 s'-'
.
When the second and. third sections of
the only left eassrs to those disappoint¬
recourse
ed in securing lota was to buy out such
holders ef late as were willing to sell, or
run the risk of taking lots outside the
changed Guthrie hands. already
has its Main street,
Harrison street, its Guthrie avenue, and
Its Oklahoma avenue, and yesterday
morning telope it was a wilderness, jack where an¬
sported and the rabbit lapped
The council was elected at the same
polled. time. Nearly There ten thousand about that votes were in
are men
Guthrie with the intention of becoming
citizens.
The The Bank Bank of of Oklahoma Oklahoma opened for
er, is president. The new city is flooded
With line cards of all sorts, representing every
of trade, business profession, and
every mail is occupation expected to imaginable. reach Guthrie A mam post- of
office at an early day.
Arkansas City, Han., April 28.—A
special from Guthrie says that three men
who took claims there yesterday were
foully murdered about 5 o’elrek by claim
jumpers. The name of their assailants
and the victims could not be learned.
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Guthrie, I. T„ April 28.—Precisely at
noon the train passed a barbed wire fence,
running east, and which many supposed
to be the northern boundary of Okla¬
homa.
The boomers had also taken a similar
view, for as the advance was made south,
camps and tents were seen in every di¬
rection. Bight in a pleasant hollow,
with a miniature creek flowing through
it, a wagon was standing with every evi¬
dence of the owner’s idea that he had
reached the promised land. The
were tethered, the man was digging a
little branch that might have been either
a dividing line or a fire guard. The wife
was busy cooking. It was evident those
good people thought they had slipped
into Oklahoma unseen, and were safe.
Close by, on high ground, two men were
holding down the quarter section in true
military style. The intensely morning was its bright*
and the snn was not,
—"—ring reflectii on the well-polished barrels of
theWi Tnchesters held by each. Fifty
wagons mile or more along, -’rr~, were making and after good time.
A. * further * a
interview, the train ain pulled up and took
on board Lieut. Forster, ” who had been
on guard at thi i point with company H
—d airy. that He he had reported held back
___— ,,—, hundred
all further on his ground, one
on.
The Jdn* Groused.
At 12:15 percisely there answered was a by
whistle from the train, engine, and
shout from the we were
Oklahoma at last.
Before the train had crossed the line
flft y^yar ds a man sprang ofl\ regardless of
was on Ste feet in a few seconds, collect?
ed his baggage, which* 1 he had thrown
out ahead, and was turning sods
the train was out of sight, For quite a
little other distance, settlement perhaps noted. half a Horsemen mue, no
was
were seen in the distance, and ’wagons
were also pressing on towards the better
land further south. On the summit of
the ridge, a little to the east, two
him, and whose back he was about un¬
loading. skirted He bad selected a
nook, by trees. Further
to the west a colony of boomers close had that set¬
tled, and their wagons were so POrefed
there could be each. soancely half the
180 acres for
Already Full of Squatters,
So far it was just posable that every
boomer seen had waited until 12 o’clock
before lie crossed the line, but sqpttew
pure and simple now came In view.
There could be no pretense that any of
tjisee had obeyed the late, and the im¬
mense number who had eluded the vigi¬
lance cf the military, is a scandal, 1% all
officers have kept on announcing boomers in the
along that there were no to
country, that all newspaper reports
fleer in charge was'the
“Well," reply, “if it has been
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>; NO EXCESS OF IMMIGRATION.
What Congressman Springer Says —The
Cherokee Strip to be Opened Up.
Springfield, HI. .April 28.—Hon. Wil¬
liam Springer, chairman of the commit-
con-
open to settlement.
“If the commission appointed by the
president meets with anticipated success,
the Cherokee outlet containing few over weeks 6,-
000,000 acres of land will, to a
aa the land now t
strip of land is nearli
84 miles wide, ort
n Oklahoma Creek proper,
inole and rare
^Le is bate
stead accomplish law, and this all that order is required of tee now
to is an sec¬
retary of the interior removing the Ara-
pahoes and Cheyennes north of tee Ca¬
nadian River to the south side of the
river, being the larger the south portion side of of the tee reserva¬ river.
tion on
Homes Enough for All.
There is no doubt that tee great influx
■S' ™ a
tends at once. Therefore, into I this say tee ex?
cess of immigration country,
while disappointed entailing temporary settlers, hardships will be condu¬ upon
the
cive to great national prosperity, opening forcing
tee the other government unoccupied Into lands at once to settlement. up
“tKrS&'Sft*- There will be homes enough for all who
wn m
the senate did not pass tee Oklahoma
bill. This biH would have furnished a
lawful government for tee people, who
would have settled on these tends, aad
would liave entire confidence and dis¬
pelled all fears of violence. Jiut I Ameri¬ have
great faith in the capacity themselves, of the and
can believe people that to the govern people who settle
may establish
upon these lands will at oaoe a
provisional government which wfil give
perfect security to persona and property.
How this can be accomplished I will ex¬
plain briefly. As soon as more than 100
should call a mass meeting and at once
appoint a provisional mayor aad other
and city government officers, adopting thetews for of their Kansas, guidance tee
nearest state, in reference to tee govern¬
ment of cities and towns. This provis-
ayer of the city si
issuing a call for
tion, >n, to to be be composed compose of delegates from
every municipality or centre of popula-
tion.
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Deadly Assault by a Negro.
Lawrencevillb, Ga., April 28.—A
negro named Will Bennett inflicted a
serious wound upon tee head <tf to.
Hamilton, who lives near Woodward's
when Mr.
the negro
INGALLS ON Hi
sentment or the instin
%*&■&fiat
satif action
tee Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad
at this place on account of their having
been paid off in light weight gold. Thir¬
ty thousand dollar* was paid out by the
railroad large portion company of it at tips gold place, stamped and “L” a
was
by the government. Such currency was
SSI?
stuff was distributed with great impar¬
tiality among tee train hands, shop men
and clerks. The company is invesrtiga-
e day°t£i favorable bright for and large cool, with
mots a vote,
parties have been active In the cam-
i and a full vote was expected. The
s a legal holiday with the exception
certain contracts, business etc., transactions wffifc valid, Jelat- and
c
s, exchanges and wholesale business
Charleston, 8- C., April 88-Thls
morning the dead body of Ben Morris, a
constable of this place, was found on the
tracks of the Chesapeake mile from here. aad The Ohio rail¬
way, shout a body
2 | ; e:a
1 Will'"
ril ,
ut of the 1
IrVMS
will be
SMS
Lincoln in
proper official!
him for trial.
centennial celebration; but this wi
bmme, which th. nark .otboriO^
has been damaged $300 or 8*00.
*78 ft Month for Ufe,
Utica, *. Y„ April *3.—Christian
Hols worth, of Lowville, who has hem
insane ter yean, owing to hardships of
sons, and steps will be taken to set apart
g£K&£ jSSaH L3fr l 3&
in washing. Holzworth Is an incurable
inmate of the Lewis county asylum,
CoZADPAHt, Ohio, April 88.—Presley
Netris, living near Goshen, Ohio, died
very suddenly. Not kmg ago he per¬
mitted himself to be mesmerized, and
while in this state, a pin was thrust
Loia, Ohio, April 88,—Forty thousand
barrel* of oil teat flowed out of teeStm-
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