Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1908 — CREATES NO MAN'S LAND [ARTICLE]

CREATES NO MAN'S LAND

.»■! ~!■ ■ I . Ruling That Arkansas Has No Jurisdiction Over 20 Mile Strip. Fort smith. Ark., Deb. 29—By a decision of the circuit court a strip of land twelve miles long and two miles Wide and adjoining this city becomes “no man’s land.” ' ' The strip was originally alloted to toe Choctaw nation, but was ceded by Cohgress to Arkansas in Brder to alloW lobai authorities tb have police jurisdiction over it. 1 The failure of Arkansas to accept the land by an amendment to its constitution is given aS a readonfor the ruliiig. The laffd is wbrttr A2,W0.0(W. ■