Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-30
Cherokee Strip stcck Association.

at its recent meeting the Cherokee
Strip Live Stock Association, among
other things, transacted the following
important business of interest to stock
men generally
The settlement of NJ. III. Bennett,
treasurer, was presented, showing the
amounts received and paid out by him
as treasurer to November 10, 1883, and
showing a balance in his hands of SlO,-
062.56. Said settlement was duly ex-
amined, and was approved by the board
and ordered filed.
The board then proceeded to decide
as to who were entitled to membership
i'm the association and ordered that GER
tifica tes of membership be issued to all
parties who have paid the first assess
ment and who hold undisputed ranges
in the Cherokee Strip,
On motion of Z. w. Payne, second
ed by A. j. Day, it was ordered by the
board that the treasurer refund the $40
paid hi z as a membership fee to all
parties not entitled TO a membership in
this association.
The cases of Windsor s. Roberts VS..
Estes Bros, and Windsor & Roberts vs..
w. w. Wicks were again taken up, and
after hearing all the evidence the board
decided as follows: "That the ranges
of Estes Brothers and w. w. Wicks
shall commence at a point on the north
line of the Ponca reservation half way
between Bodock and Duck creek, thence
running north or nearly so, to point
eleven miles north and half way be-
tween Bodock and Duck creek; thence
east to East Bodock, and down East
Bodock an the west side to where Will
low branch empties into East Bodock
thence east to the Ponca trail, and south
tion; thence west along the north line
of the Ponca reservation to the place of
beginning, and that the Black Dog
Trail shall be the dividing line between
said Estes Brothers and w. w. Wicks."
The following motion was offered by
A. Drumm THAT all parties who may
desire lease for part of what is known
as the Salt Fork and Eagle Chief pool
shall produce q written statement sign
ed by every member of said pool, stat
ing that they desire that six di.-
ferent leases be executed to diff
! ferent parties for the range known as
the Salt Fork and Eagle Chief pool, and
giving full description of each range
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the satisfaction of the board and that
upon the production of said written
statement, signed as aforesaid, said
leases will granted"
Sal d motion was adopted.
The case of Gregory, Eldred & Co.,
against the Comanche County Pool was
called and argued and after mature de-
liberation and carefully considering all
the evidence submitted, the board of
directors unanimously affirmed the de-
eision of the boaSd OF arbitration. K.
W. Payne and Charles Eldred, directors
being interested and not voting IN this
case.
! The following resolution was offered
by 4. IL. Hewins:
Resolved by the board Of directors OF
the Cherokee Strip Live Stock Associa-
tion that we will pay a reward of five
hundred dollars $500 for She arrest and
conviction of any person or persons
carelessly or nsaliciozsly setting any
prairie on FIRE, cuttingor destroying any
fence; or stealing or converting to his
or their own usa any stock belonging to
this association
i Said resolution was seconded BY n