Excited Settlers

K.UiKU TO ENTBIi. Wicbita, Kau., April 12.- The ÜklaUoma country Ls quiet Few booiners aro to be f ound in the country. Thoso remaiuing are no well concoalod that nolther soldier nor scout can thid thelr hidlng places. No one without a pemiit ík altowod to alight from the train, as soldiers guard every station. The Santa Fe has almost completad a new depot aud freight warehouse at Guthrio, and workmcn are eng&ged upon the land office. Thousands oï people are at Purcell and along the border anxiously awaiting thn öd Many are destitute. A. tra veling man said that hc was asked for money by a number of boomers at Arkansas City. The Bamta l'e claims that it eau take ean of all trafilo coming and run as many specials as aro rcquircd. All will leave the Kans:is border at tbe same time, uoL eren engiueers before their doparture knowing which train will be first ïhe Rock Island is preparing for a line of stages froin its southorn terminus to King Fisher. A line of stages wül aleo be put on between Guthne and King Fteher. Mayor Riley, of Caldwell, wrote to Commandaut Merritt at Fort Iieavonworth asking pormission for thoso in wagons to leave Caldwell before the 32d Ui have an adetiuato chance wrlth persons going by rail. Various schemes are being formed tor getting firnt into tha country. At TurceH raen are shipplng in the fleetest of horses, whioli they wtll have at the line at noon on the 22d and ride to claims already chosen. One map Kaid ho would thus reach a claim he had watehed for five yearR. If any ono beats him it would be between them cither to purchase or a duel to tho death. A pnrty of d ring men here havo been eudeavoring 10 secure a balloon, by meaus of whirh they expect to drop down on Cherokee claims In the North Cauadian valley at noon of tho 22L Largo rafts are ow building on tlu1 AjkausaH, just above the city, by means of which a colony I will float down to withiu ten miles of the Oklahoma line and f rom there easily reach thelr clatma The recent i aius have raised the river, and the oolonitrti say that as the Arkansas is a nsviffable stream they can easily accomplish the journey before tho 2"2d without being niolested by soldiers iii the Cherokee etrip. The boomers deny that they intend to burn bridgee and toar up rails, but Kuch a plot is known to exist. Kach south-bound train Is loaded with paKsengers. Tho cltles and towBS of Southern Kansas aro crowdd with people and caravaus of from ten to twelvo prairie schooners daily pass through here for the covctod land. They tire in general a determiued, desperate elass of men, and the authorities aro dreading the opening day with it promised rlota and bloodshed. Cildwell, Kan., April 18.- A continuous tring of prairie schoouors ík wending its way toward the boomers' camp on Fall creek, just south of the city. There are about 1Ü0 wagons he re now and more are joining daily. Within two or three days permission will be granted to cross the Cherokeo strip to the edge of Oklahoma, so that settlers from the north may have the same show that those do who are now at Purcoll and along the southern boundary.