Another Strip Tragedy Double Murder and Lynching of a Bohemian Submitted by: Mollie Stehno

Alva, Ok., Sept. 30 — Ever since the opening of the Cherokee strip a large foreign element has been coming in and taking lands. It consists largely of Bohemians and Hungarians, who come in colonies from ten to thirty. When one of these crowds come to a part of the country which takes their fancy they pre-empt it totally, regardless of the superior claims of an settler who may be in lawful possession.

The news reaches here that on last Sunday two surveyors, father and son, names Allen, attempted to locate on of these Bohemians on a young cowboy’s claim about thirty-five miles southeast of this place. The cowboy in attempting to put them off, became engaged in a fight with the father, whereat the son secured a hatchet and, in defending his father, cut the cowboy in three places.

The cowboy, being worsted in the fight, got his revolver and killed both father and son. A man from that part of the country said the cowboy was taken to Hennessey, and that the dead body of the Bohemian was swinging from a tree. Parties who did the hanging are unknown.

Representative Springer has obtained leave to print the Record a defense of the charges made against the interior department in connection with the opening of the strip.

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