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Show "CHOCTAW STRIP" CASE UP TO HIGHEST COURT FORT SMITH. Ark. March 2.V The stale circuit court of Arkansas today granted an appeal to tlie United Stales supreme court in the case growing out of the contest to determine whether what Is known as the "Choctaw strip" is a part of Oklahoma or Arkansas. The Choctaw strip Is twelve miles long and two mil.'s wide and adjoins Fort SmUh-It SmUh-It originally was a purl of the Indian territory, ailoted to the Choctaw Indians, In-dians, hut later was coded to Arkansas by congress so the local authorities could have police jurisdiction over it. The strip had become a refuge for outlaws, out-laws, ami during the border days eighty-eight eighty-eight men were hanged there after being be-ing sentenced by the Arkansas courts. By a decision or the United States circuit cir-cuit court here on December -S. 190S. the strip was taken away from Arkansas Arkan-sas because the stale had failed to accept ac-cept the land by constitutional amendment. amend-ment. The- Oklahoma constitutional convention conven-tion adopted a resolution declaring the land to be a part of Oklahoma. William Bowman, under sentence to be hanged in Fort Smith on April S for criminal assault, was today granted a reprieve. Bowman's crime was committed commit-ted In the strip and the contest over this land had a bearing upon the granting grant-ing of the reprieve. |