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BE? ,jXendoliare. item of electric h 1, and has ap- “”*”r 11 *■*•*■» eeuTed connec- ce Eaat Ten ' lll imii II I minii 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, M 1 m ^ ' 1 1 The Illegal Rush Leaves Many Thousands .Homeless. ■■■ - n .-r - - ?; • ■ . S BVBBY _ CLAIM IW OKLAHOMA sssss *** “- A •>«“ •»«- 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-. - 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 ------ XJf yJbJrit V 4 tju PRBSB BUGBH