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Subject: [KSELLIS] Clips from the Oakley paper, November 28, 1890
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:42:41 -0500

Ellis mentioned in "LOCAL NEWS" column of Oakley GRAPHIC, November 28,
1890:


The traveling men say that Oakley is one of the best towns along the
Union Pacific west of Ellis. Times are dull enough here, but our people
would think them very lively if they were located in some town off the
railroad.

W. S. HARRISON was up from Ellis Tuesday. He said that the present
Indian scare in Dakota reminded him of his experience in that country
five years ago last spring, when he, with a large party of settlers,
were driven from a reservation which President ARTHUR had opened to
settlement and which President CLEVELAND had subsequently closed. The
settlers threw up breastworks and prepared for a siege from the large
number of Indians who surrounded them with hostile intentions and were
endeavoring to force them from the reservation. The redskins burned all
their improvements and kept them in their fort until government troops
came and drove them away and conducted the settlers off the
reservation. HARRISON said that was his first and last experience as a
homesteader.



Source: The Oakley GRAPHIC, Oakley, Logan County, Kansas; Friday,
November 28, 1890; Volume II No. 2, page 8 column 1 to 2. Microfilm
available at Oakley Public Library, Oakley, Kansas; filmed by/for
Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas.


transcribed by Cic. Stetter

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