Muskogee Phoenix
Muskogee, Oklahoma
July 4, 1889
A Fatal Dispute
Paris, Tex., June 28: News of a most atrocious crime committed near Wheelock, I. T., on the evening of the 16th of June, in which a man named TELLISON is said to be have been killed by JOHN PEBWORTH, has just reached the city. Tellison has been a renter on Pebworth's place, and when it came to settlement, each claimed the other owed him. The renter, howerver, being a very peaceable man, to avoid trouble, agreed to work out what the other claimed, but Pebworth, who, it is alleged, has the name of being overbearing on his renters, seemed not satisfied, and on the date named, went to the house of the renter, called him up from a sick bed, and after a few words in the presence of his wife and three children, it is alleged, struck him with a heavy wooden rake, causing an ugly wound, from which the man died about 24 hours late. Both parties are white men. Pebworth is now in hiding, and it is understood that he will resist.