Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-12-23
News from OK. and !. T's.

Pond Greek, has sunk well only seven
feet deep and secured an abundance OF
the finest water in the neighborhood.
Not only did Oklahoma receive first
prize on -four at the worlds fair, but
Oklahoma cotton received second prize
medal at the great fair. The cotton was
in its raw state.
The free homestead convention at
Watonga will serve to open the way for
much larger meeting in few months,
and the settlers of the new counties in
the strip will take hand. 1t is move
in the right direction.
'sTom King" the female horse thief,
known all over the west for her daring
exploits, escaped from the Jail at Ell
Reno and got clear away. The prisoner
was evidently aided from the outside, as
a horse was in waiting for her.
Governor Renfrow has appointed
Messrs. T. A. Emory, F. A. Emmons and
T. E. Hooker. commissioners, and P. A.
Booker, surveyor for County @, and
Rev. c. G. Hembree, superintendent of
schools in County M, in the Cherokee
strip.
1t will cost Uncle Sam to care for the
territorial government in Oklahoma $685.
150. The salary list of the executive
officers remains at the same figure, $13,-
400, and the contingent expenses at the
same, $500, but the legislative expenses
lump from $4,000 to S24,250.
William Lee was placed in the United
States Jail at Guthrie on charge of
counterfeiting. He took twenty 5 cent
pieces and, changing the figures, rolled
them in gold dust and made SIS gold
pieces out of them; 30 cent silver pieces
to so gold pieces, and 81 to $40.
Clyde Mattox, who has killed three
men in Oklahoma, and who has been
tried for murder three times, but has al
ways been temporarily saved by hung
jury, and who forfeited his bail at the
last term of the federal court at Wichita
has been arrested at Enid, 0. T.
The immense post traders establish
ment of Neal Evans & Co., of Fl. Reno,
o. T., is tota'',y destroyed by fire. The
building was a three-story brick, filed
with a general stock. The loss is said to
be $4,000 about half Insured. The fire
was started by lamp explosion.
DIR. Geo. W. Aver, V. S., the pioneer
settler of Barber county, KS, has taken
a claim six miles east and four south of
Alva. The doctor says there is whole
colony of Barber county farmers in that
He is IS years old, but
still remarkably spry and always inter-
esting.
Fire was discovered in Motifs regu-
lator store at Ell Reno but was quenched
in time to save tie store and surround
ing property. The goods were found to
be saturated with coal oil and fired in
many places. The grand jury investi-
gated the matter and indicted the own
er of the store, and his bond was fixed
at $4,000, which he gave.
F. K. Robinson, of Winfield, has made
application at Washington, D. c., to Or
ganize bank at Perry to be known as
the First National. This concession was
some time ago given to the governor
and the secretary of Oklahoma and some
other territorial officials, but they failed
to comply with the conditions imposed
by the department.
Daniel Preston, farmer whose home
is ten miles east of Kingfsher, came to
that town to attend law suit. He was
accompanied by his wife and grown
son. The three parted on the street, he
going to his attorneys Office. He had
barely entered the room and was shaking
hands when he fell to the floor and ex-
pired within fifteen minutes.
Under the laws of Oklahoma wild tur-
keys, quail, partridge, prairie chicken
and grouse can be shot from September
l to December 1; deer and antelope,
November 1 to February l, and geese
and ducks any time, but none of this
game can be shipped to market outside
Of the territory. Nobody is allowed to
hunt upon the unsettled Indian reser-
vations except by permission of the
agent.
G. W. Hoskins, of Beaver City, says
that the people of Beaver county are not
with the status of their county
in the territory of Oklahoma, and that
committee has been appointed to COM
municate with the governors of Kansas,
Texas Colorado and New Mexico with
view to arranging some means of at
taching No Mans Land to one of those
Secession from Okla
homa is. it is said, loudly demanded.
Pond Greek Tribune: The records of
The Perry land Office show that over 900
contests have already been filed there, !
and not much more than half the filings
nave as yet been made At the Enid
office about 500 contests have been filed
and about 200 each at Alva and Wood
ward. These contests make rich har-
vest for the lawyers, but will cost the
settlers of the strip over $560,000, and
will result in enmities and feuds, often
ending in bloodshed and murder.
Atchison, KS, Champion: Fl. W. Cav
,naugh has returned from the Strip.
where he went with two car loads of po-
atoes. He says there is practically no
among the boomers. and they
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