In Oklahoma City

In the exciting life of Oklahoma City where great gushers and gassers periodically endanger life & property, two notable events occurred last week.

Rock Island Land. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. has abandoned its downtown station in Oklahoma City, is building a big new station with St. Louis-San Francisco Railway. The land was sold to the city for $4,000,000.

Last week Constable Sam Bartell, onetime (1889) U. S. Deputy Marshal led a group of friends to the land and "squatted'' on it. His contention: Rock Island was given title to the land by the U. S. Government. It forfeited title by abandoning the land, leaving it open to settlers under an old act of Congress. Oklahoma City went ahead and took possession of the land, drove off the squatters.

Frisco Land. One of the executors of the properties of the late Thomas B. Slick, "King of Wildcatters," is his widow, daughter of a vice president of St. Louis-San Francisco Railway. Last week on land belonging to the railroad, and on which is located a roundhouse, the Slick interests brought in a well yielding 50,000 bbl. of oil and 4,000,000,000 cu. ft. of gas daily.

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