Pioneer Genealogical Society - Ponca City, Oklahoma

 

 

 

The Times Record
Blackwell, Oklahoma
January 13, 1898

Submitted by
Loyd Bishop


C. R. Sipes, one among the first businessmen of Arkansas City, Kansas, was found dead in his bed in that city on last Sunday morning. Suspicions of foul play or suicide led to a coroner’s inquest, which resulted in a verdict that he died from an over-dose of chloral self-administered.