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BOUNDARY TREATY HEARING IS BEGUN
PACT IS NECESSITATED BY DISPUTE INVOLVING BIG TRACT.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 31.—First steps toward the formation of a boundary treaty between Oklahoma and Texas were underway today with an Oklahoma Legislature committee to assist in drawing up the treaty partially chosen.
The treaty is necessitated by a boundary dispute involving 43,000 acres along the west line of Oklahoma and the east line of the Texas Panhandle.
Where Oklahomans settled years ago and filed Government claims the land today is in possession of Texas with the "Oklahomans" in danger of losing their very homes. Texans have filed on the land homesteaded by the Oklahomans, claiming that the national "patents" of the Oklahomans on the land are valueless since the Lone Star State entered the union with agreement to retain right to its public lands.
As a protection to the Oklahoma families now living in the newly-acquired Texas land, the Oklahoma Legislature late yesterday passed concurrent resolutions in both Houses to send a committee to Austin to assist a Texas committee in drawing up a boundary agreement.
If arrangement cannot be made to protect the property of the native born Oklahomans, the committee may decide to draw up an agreement giving Oklahoma opportunity to buy back the territory that was given unknowingly to Texas by a Supreme Court decision several years ago.
Bank Affairs Taken Over.
LUBBOCK, Tex., Jan. 31.—Representatives of the state banking department took over affairs of the First State Bank of Idalou today following failure of the bank to open for business Wednesday. J. W. Turner, president of the bank, attributed the closure to a run by depositors. The bank was organized in 1920 and had capital stock of $35,000, deposits of $186,000 and loan of $115,000, according to the last statement.
GROCERY HOUSE EMPLOYE IS FOUND SHOT FATALLY
FORT WORTH, Tex., Jan. 31.—Parnell Walker, 25, was found shot to death early Thursday at the Cash and Carry wholesale grocery house, where he was bookkeeper.
Walker's body was found at 1:15 a. m. by Patrolman Barker. He had been shot through the head with a revolver and an empty bottle which had contained poison also was found nearby.