People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — THREE MEN SLAIN. [ARTICLE]

THREE MEN SLAIN.

A Battle to the Death Over a Claim In the Cherokee Strip. Hennessey, 0. T., Sept. 23.—James A. Liddle, a prominent business man, lias received a telegram from Waukomis stating that his brother, father and nephew were killed in a fight over a claim near there. Eight men were on one claim and the younger Liddle was struck with., a broadaxe by a man named Williams, of Texas. Father and son then jumped to his rescue and Williams pulled his gun and killed them both. He then drew his knife and plunged it into the heart of the boy. A posse left here last night for Waukomis, and if Williams is caught he will be burned at the stake. Citizens arc wild with excitement, as several people have been killed, robbed and have mysteriously disappeared since the strip was thrown open for settlement. The body of a young man was found hanging to a tree on Skeleton river Thurday afternoon. A placard on his breast reads: “Death to the man who cuts this body down.” Inquiry made among the settlers in the vicinity shows that the young man had a fight with a grayhaired soldier and that he killed the man and the soldiers lynched him.