The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-08-13
WOULD NOT DO It
Miss BeaI Says She Mould
Take a Regular Claim
IF SHE HAD DRAWN NO. /
Is Very Well Satisfied With
the One She Has.

Miss Matte Il. Beal. the girl who drew
No. 2 n the La-wton district, has returned
10 her home in this city. A reporter for
the Eagle called at her home last evening
and talked to her about her claim. She
was shown a press dispatch regarding
the trouble AIr. Woods was having with
the squatters on his claim and that he
had asked for United States troops to
drive them off.
well she said. 81 guess he viii have
2 good time with mis- land before he gets
through with It He acted real mean
about the claim, but think that have
Just as good one. He refused TO see
sne or my attorneys, and his attorney re-
fused to see mine. He does not seem
10 be able 10 take care Of his land after
he has it, for his fatherinlaw does all
his business. He VIII find THAI his claim
viii be well worth all he gets out of it.
The people there are very much excited
about the way he acted. His fatherinlaw
keeps him shut UP IN his room in the
hotel all the time and-will not let any
body see him but the attorneys. His
claim is covered with tents as thick as
the men could set them, and there are
a few on mine, but they don't bother
me any. here are very few tents on the
townsite and the lots are selling rather
slow. think have a pretty fair claim
and am not going 10 push the matter
any further. shall let it drop right
now"
Would you have Gone the same as
Woods # you had drawn No. i" asked
the reporter.
no. indeed 7 shouldn't was her quick
reply" and he would not have done it,
either, If it hadn't been for thise law
yerg and his fatherinlaw.'
Did you have any noticss o. idea he
was going to do such a thing before you
got to Lawton?' asked the reporter.
Yes" she said, II heard about It at
Oklahoma CITY and again at FL Reno.
That was about al you could hear when
we got to Lawton and it was rumored
around that Woods would be shown a
good time If he cid such e thing. but
nothing ever came OF It."
1--WE had very pleasant trip. We
went to Marrow, and from theme to Law
ton. It was about thirty miles TO drive"
when viii you SO back to your claim?'
she was asked.
In about two months. and then I will
have house built. think that my land
viii be just as valuable as his when the
town IS built, the railroads viii be
through the town in a few weeks and
when this is completed the toWnsite VIII
sell more readily. think have better
claim than Mr.. Woods as far a farm
goes, and also for city property. 1t is
almost as level as a floor and has a good
stream of water running through the
greater part OF it. Mr. Woods claim has
a great many little hills and ravines
all over it. I am very wei satisfied with
my claim but / DO think 1Ir. Woods
should have given me a chance TO get
townsite and I think that he would If
he had had his own way about it,"
Did you ever meet him2" she was
asked
och, yes. I met him. His father tele-
graphed to me while was going TO FL
Reno that he wanted to see me, but he
left before we got TO that town.
what do YOU think of him?'
II don't think he amounts to very
much.
'The whole cause Of my not getting
q claim adjoining tho townsite is his at
torney's and that fatherinlaw of his.
They found that he could take claim
that way and thought he might as well
have the whole thing.