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se, it has recently completed a 910,000 new
Presbyterian church. It has increased its pop¬
ulation by nearly one fifth. It has attracted
around itehordersfruit growers from nearly
every State in the Union, until it is now sur¬
rounded on nearly every side by orchards
and vineyard*. It has put np the largest
fruit evaporators in the State. It is the home
ol thegrap* and its winemakingoapacity has
doubled. *very year. It has successfully in¬
augurated a system of public schools, with a
iSliils
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
aMR-wrsrssars
will have at alow estimate between6 000 and
7,000 people, and they are all of the right
eort—wide-awake, up to the times, ready to
welcome strangers and anxious to secure de¬
sirable settlers, who will not be any less wel¬
come if they^bring money to help build np the
town. There is about only one thing we
need badly just now, and that is a big hotel.
We hate several small ones, but their accom¬
modations are entirely too limited for one
business, pleasure and health seeking guests.
If you see anybody that wants a good loca¬
tion for a hotel in the South, just mention
G <£‘n is the place where -=ML% the Gmfpin News
fai p*MhhedL-<!iUy n. undweekly-the -£ a -n-ii’i- beet aews-
paper in the Empire State of Georgia. Please
enclose stamps in sending for sample copies,
and descriptive pamphlet of Griffin.)
This brief sketch is written April 12th, 1889,
and will have to he changed in a few months
to embrace new enterprises commenced and
completed,
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
HENRY C. PEEPLES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HAMPTON, UEOKQIa.
Practices in all tbs State and Federal
Courts. octedAwly
JOHN I. HUNT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office, 81 Hill Street, Up Staire, over 3 . H.
White’s Clothing Store. mar22dAwly
TH0S. R. MILLS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Wffl practice in the State and Federal
Comte. Office over George A Hartnett’s
corner. nov2tf
JOHN J>. STXWAHT. KOBT. T. DANIEL.
STEWART & DANIEL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Over George A Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga.
Will practice to the State and Federal
Comte. jnly!9dtf
D. L. PARMER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
HOTEL CUKTIS
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA,
Under Hew Management.
A. 6. DANIEL, Prop’r.
y Piters meet ell trains.
JOSEF HOUSE,
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The Illegal Rush Leaves Many
Thousands .Homeless.
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BVBBY _ CLAIM IW OKLAHOMA
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News from Arkansaa City, Kansas, says:
A meeting of Oklahoma boomers, disap-
pointed at securing claims in the territo-
gygj** * »»<w»feNWw-
TUweWMft IMgsand wc i sm , a
tendance. Speeclies were made denoun¬
oing the manner in which Oklahoma was
8ettled - tt tr ^y d^^ed that large
bo<u ! e8of men served as United States
marshals, in order to get into the country
and select the best claims, and that this
was unfair to law-abiding settlers. They
came here to secure homes, and as they
could not get them in Oklahoma, they
were going to have them in Urn Cherokee
Strip.
About five hundred men in this town
last night pledged themselves to go to
the Cherokee Strip and take claims, let
the consequences be what they may.
HOMELESS THOUSANDS,
tke Awfel Kurt, Leaves ^ Multitudes WHh- mwT-.
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out the Poorest Shelter.
Guthrie, L T., April 24.—There was
plenty of evidence yesterday that the
bushes and gorges and creek bottoms
along the southern hplfof the territory
were not entirely free from invaders last
Monday. Before the hour of setting open
the gates, men, many Of them followers
of Payne, were found complacently till¬
ing the soil along the fertile sections
south of the Cimarron when the boomers
from the east and west reached them.
How they got there is only a matter of
conjecture, but that they intend to re¬
jsjs main they stated with as much empha-
jor to every new-comer as a six-shooter
Winchester could give in plain lan¬
guage. It is safe to say that to-day every
farm in the territory is in the possession
•of one or more claimants. And that
there are from 20,000 to 80,000 more
land. wandering aimlessly about in search of
. At Guterie thfe rush is terrific. The land
sis tan ts are unable to give attention to a
hundredth part of the business that is
being forced upon them! The detach¬
ment of troopers which has been detailed
around tire building, with a view to keep¬
ing the mob in an orderly line, is com¬
pletely worn out, and the marshals under
Capt. talk Earlisor are so tired that some of
them of resigning.
Stilt tire People Came.
dumped Between 6,000 to-day and 6,000 by people Santa were
'real, here the Fe
which ran trains from Arkansas
City. Three hours were consumed in
tunning tire twenty trains in and out of
the depot and by that time late comers
’who was bound for Oklahoma had been
accommodated with transportation fa¬
cilities. The trains moved across the
Cherokee There Strip need cautiously for hastening. and slowly. They
was no
were scarcely more than five minutqs
apart as they approached the land of
premise. Thousahds of heads protruded
from tire windows and curious eyes
feasted on tire green panorama that lav
before bound them. ahead Suddenly and then the cars tiiey seemed went
to
swinging down the track.
homa,” “We’re across the the word line, that boys, in passed Okla¬
was was
through with cheers. every car, There and it was temporary greeted
was a
halt at the Cimarron bridge, where the
engineer who exchanged armed signals with with rifles, strange and
men were
then the train load of pioneers went on
over the turbulent waters which have
been the grave of many a brave fellow.
From Cimarron to Guthrie the run Was a
short one, and, before many minutes
the task of raising teats which kinds they
brought with them to open various
6f business.
. Those who went for the hills were after
claims. and They willing were to enter a restless, the tireless lists with lot
were
the mounted men who side were them. clattering They to
tee claipre on .every of
wpro all well armed and evidently ready
for any sort of trouble. But tiiey came
a couple of days too late.
Guthrie to Have a Rival.
At Arkansas City the condition of
things is even worse than at Guthrie.
The town site settlers of the new south¬
ern cities are nearly all Texans, Arkan-
, , , T
; there until order Is
nous lire of camp
A WATER FAMINE.
The Murder of a Boomer—Locating the
Claims at Gathrle.
Guthrie, I. T., April 24.—It was gen-
may w&P
men had been murdered by claim jump¬
ers, and that the vigilante were out after
them. The newB caused great excite¬
ment and anxiety in the city of tenta,
and messages were sent up to Arkansas
City announcing the tragedy. But the
rumor is inoorrept, though unfortunately
founded on fact. One man the was shot
dead by a boomer west of town t
Last The city nighty continues there tiere to grow rapi
over se
hundred tents pitched
thousands of people walk al
all night while others took what
teey could onthe ground mid aro
rrP* tents is promising ROSS’S a god-sepa. The t
providedwofcouwe rough in the
The trains were mobbed as they pulled
up, and every <
consued. Then
railroad water I
comes from the
of a very dark
ish, and most of
regardless of. o«
ajx<| pedaled water among tae crowd at
fivd cents a glam-
CHILDREN ROA8TED ALIVE.
Two Little Girls Foolishly Left Alone, Sot
a Mouse on Fire In Missouri.
Marshall, Mo., April 24.-An ordina¬
ry one-room frame house, belonging
Edward Mounts, seven miles south of
this city, was destroyed by fire last night,
and in it perished two of his little girls,
Flossy and Rosa, aged 4 and 7 years,
visit to the scene elicited tire following
particulars: -
About 0 o’clock yesterday morning
Mounts went out on tire farm to do some
work, and his wife went along to assist
him. He had occasion to go to a black-
h^titi? thfe *
etructed the viev
fire had been tit ja
Mrs. Mounts <
sssartfi could hear theii
ed. The build
mass of flames
in.
whenthe
that the d
ago that
.totakem
reofWaah-
r follow aspracti- the
tsm-
-Ttisw the parade.
thaktiwn the
stand is only
te review of the
, cabinet, and dig-
KSHM
Scaling the Penitentiary Wall.
Columbus, O., Aprii 24.—Wm. Stew¬
ard, colorod, released from the peniten-
tehtiary in May, 1888, after serving a
the state the yardh; shop t
Into
heavy wooden (
h» obtained a
A Defaulter's Whereabout*.
New York, April at — Informa¬
tion was received at tire Produce
Exchange to-day that Wm. Riley
Foster, jr., tire absconding attorney for
tire trustees of tire gratuity fund, Is in
Mexico, where he cannot be extradited.
Foster fled cm September 27 lari, after
t^Tgr&sBsBt
exchange. To-morrow morning a eom-
mifctAA rcmreaentinc the trustees will no
.jSSWJSUi vatles&a&ss to Bavnort and take an m* inventory ThSTfel of
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