Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1910-11-11
COUNTIES HAVE .
/ HAD DISPUTES
EPIDEMIC or BOUNDARY TROv'
BifS IN OkIi MONA.
I'LL FEELING PROVOKED
History of Recent county Contests
Reads Like Diagnosis 0f
Things catching

While The endemic of county seat
| lights thar swept Ohl'homh last year
lns about subsidcd The southwestern
countics are now ~ tho midst of a
bounty formation epidemic even
worse than the sQu'hhles FOR county
seats
While nuuc Of the county secession
! or county scat fights except the one
I'm Mcintosh County, has yet rlyalcd
! The notcd Kansas county seat wars
| oI thirty wears ago some Of them
| lhlVo been pretty interesting
10 was only few days ago that
| GoNeruDr Hpskcll Nopt Admtmt Gem
lcll Frank Canton a. the oklahoma
National Guard, and % select bunch or
miltnmon together lest tho SNYDER
MountIiu Park contest 10 the new
county oI swanson shounl lead to
nl0odshcd Snyder ana Mountain
Park are hereditary enemies Eight
NouTs ugo wncn posse of the Noun
tain Park citizens attempted 10 rurn
"a bridge between 'ho two towns
Whicn mc onN two mileS apart. "a
crowd of Snyder people went to the
luoienso ol tho bridge. ana In the
|pitcuod hutle that touoWod two men
/ were killed, and doctors kept busy the
most week pching uitd shot aud buck
Isnot out of other participants In the
shotgun battle.
/ naturally. when the new county Of
swanson WAS creatcd--m0rr ABOUT
| this county later Mountain Park und
I lsnldor were hot faNoritcs for the
lcuuntN seat Governor Haskell, with
~, lumOnic wisdom. settled tho qucs-
tion umicabll. In place of leaving
. q, ftt..I.st.l 81 an
| ltiou Of an election, both- of which
luould have lcrt bad feelings and pron
ahlA onc or TWO dead mcu, the gov
ernor proposed that the leaders oC
the two towns pitch coins Tor the
county seat prize. This was done,
Mountain PARK Wch "heads ana tne
county seat Snyder went. on peace
ably homo, well sat SIZED.
However Mounplin Parks legiti-
1 innate cluim to the county seat vas
soon hidden 10y the wrath Of the Sny-
derltcs every time they had to go
up to the county seat to court. All
the county officials except the sherlt
were from Snyder, which made the
lsituatl"n more aggravating. to them.
| 20 one dark night two months ago
gJi the officers but the aforesaid sher-
III bundled their records and official
parlphcrnalia into tram of wagons
a. mianight and uundled away down
Ito snyder.
Hence the watchfulness Of the gov.
ernor and the mllitiamen. In the
meantime the sheriff still stays at
4 Mountain Park the others are down
Int snyder, and the courts have the
4 fight. A situation almost exactly
, paralellng the Guthrie-Oklahom
lCity capital fight.
The first new county since. state
! hood was Harmon named, hN the
! way, alter that looming hope of De-
, mOclucy. Harmon Went through the
same squally and somewhat dubious
! formative state that has characterized
the making or attempted making of
all new counties. 1t was cut of the
western half of Greer county, the
latter once the largest county Of the
state but since so sub-diVded that
what is still called the name Is one
! Of the smallest. In the first place
the promoters of the new county are
grossly charged with padding the
/ census, in order to reach the required
| 5000 population, the 1910 census
showing only a little more than IL
OOO. As consequence Harmon may
be dissolved back into Greer, suit
now pending with that end in view.
The attempted county Of Park was
] the next. The promoters of Park
wanted to cut IL out of portions of
Con lnche and Kiowa, and after long
legal fights got an election. This
election was held on Saturday, and
the Park countyito3 lost because a
colony Of Seven Day AdventIsts wotld