Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-08-30

Nir. Allen was a cailleman on che
pln.hs ana mountains for atty years.
re Wna bof when he Wnni from
Kansaa city with the FIRST herd 81
cattle ever driven over the plains. For
the following atty years he was AZ thc
cattle business ln an parts of the
west. re drove eaftie thFeuAh the
mountains and over che deserts 90
california. ne drove herds along the
SANDY nhoros - ihe Pacifir, alnnE che
shores ii the Great Lakes ant alons
the Gulf 81 Mexico. lie has driven
cattle along All the old trails from
the rio urande n and into cannda.
ana ne was ia the cattle business Sri
Mexico. He was the intimate friend
og Kit Ceraon and be- was Win TIE
wife Of Carson when she died and ne
buried her IN his own safsen. lie
was with Carson when he died. His
brother married the only daughtor of
XII Carson, and They are living IN
Trinidad, Colo. Mr. Allen was the
nrst sheriff ~ the territory In south
east Colorado. and be led an oxpedl-
ton into No Mans Land ana cxter-
minated the Coe band az outlaws that
had a stone fort there. This expedi-
ton hanged eleven Of the band IN
one nirht in seine cottonwood trees
and captured tsoe and took him %
pueblo where he Was lynched
No Mans Land used 90 be the strip
OF land l67 miles long and 30 miles
wide between Texas on the south and
Kansas on the north. Later u was
nkown az Beaver county. Now 4 Is
made up OF CimmnFron. Texas. and
Beaver counties. Oklahoma.
Encyclopedia Version IncOFrcct.
'.None ~ the books tell tho true
story OF how that came 20 oe known
ns No Mans Land" said Mr. Allen
last week "Thc Encyclopedia Amer
lcana says of u. IN ists Texas. on
being admitted 70 the union, coded 60
the United states that strip of her
land. which lay north 81 latitude 80
degrees. 30 minutes north. This place,
Is7 miles long by 30, was without gov
ernment until 1890, when u became q
part Of Oklahoma
THE international Encyclopedia
SAWS: a region 10 miles long ana IS
miles In width. north Of Texas. coded
to the United states In 1850 and made
a mari 81 oklahoma IN 1880. Between
those yenrs the district was under no
form OF government and became
great resort Of outlaws.
The truth about Il Is this; In the
war between Mexico and the United
states this country took all 81 the
country south 81 the Arkansas river
in what IL now Colorado and al OF
New Mexico. Arizona. California and
Texas In tho treaty that coded this
vast territory 60 the United states y
Was ntipulatca that. for the benefit OF
the Mexicans living in New Mexico,
who were accustomed 20 trading with
the Indians Of the Indian Territory,
they should be given a free roadway
from New Mexico into this indian
country ana neutral strip was laid
out fG7 miles long and about 81 miles
wide that was since known az the
Neutral strip and 30 Mans Land
III was stipulated In the treaty that
this zone should be neutral forever
Mexico has never relinqulshed her
rights under that treaty. so ns "a mat
ter of fact oklahoma has no right 70
this strip of ground, because tAe Unit
Cd states had NO legal right 20 cede y
10 Oklahoma ~ is today as much
Mexican territory az "a h United states
territory, and the United states nor
the atate of Oklahoma had no riehi
10 give titles 20 the farms there.
you ask why Indians required a
road IS miles wide. will explain
that In those days there were no
roads. The people travelled over the
mains M viii. following the wafer
courses or going from one water mole
10 another IN zigzag way Ana an
they travelled they needed 10 craze
Ia hunt and 70 catch a Wild horse OF
two. That strip was full OF buffalo
antelope, deer and wild horses 80
the Indiana insisted on a wide road
wey chat they could travel az leisure
and live by the way. For many years
the indians used that strip Wltho~
/ fear or molonation, for the Nhl'eu
states government had Euarah'ee'
them security from attack by the set
I tIers on the north and the IeAahh on
the south The traders used cart.
made wholly of Wood--wheels ana an
were OF wood. They were hauled OF
rather pushed Dy oxen, mules or Dur
ros No yokcs were used. kaNhlu'
straps around the horns were con
nected with the 'front.' end of me carr
/ tongue ana the animals pushed the
cart with their heads.
"The traders took with them rom
New Mexico mainly silver, ana zoos
iack bunnlo hides and buffalo meat
dried. In those caravans 81 tracer. .
there we're often as many as ooo 81
those carts.
"The Mexlcans and Indians were
attn using that strip as tfadihe io"''
when 1 went out there Atty years "H",
And then d WAS gradually abandoned
a. "a trading route, and, as 'her' wa.
no government wlth jurisdiction vN',
A. and courts could not be eslapl'A''
there, Il became rendezvous TOT l'o
worst outlaws Of the southwest Nno
would run, out OF there ana commit
dopredations and then drop Dack 70
the shelter Of the neutral strip.
DISCRIMINATING the Coe ls"i'd'
zone OF the worst bands that iounu
refuge thore was tho Coe outh'' l,s
headquarters were ON the 'iihh'l ="
river In the southwest corner ol tho
strip. and u had stone foft mere,