The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 51

-r-xsKs: jrrrrr r1 irrr: I -'-RW Style THE KANSAS CITY STAR THURSDAY September 16 1993 Section W-- fS A I NGl A potpourri of patricians plebeians and peccadilloes Salsa supentarRsbca Blades has Again decided td pursue a bid for the presidency of his homeland Panama The opinion polls there indicate a popular Javorite The singer actor also a graduate of Harvard law school will put his career on hold after a jr 1' a-- I v-- fjft 1 1 1 -Vy -V I The love letters of Clarence BrittandaH and Rilla Stone (above) written in the 1890a after he settled In the Cherokee Strip have been carefulty preserved and studied by Caroline Dean of Shawnee (right) who also has a collection of photos of her grandparents Brittendal homestead in Oklahoma la in this photo from about 1900 And now ours too: Love letters that tell a tale of the 1890s By TONI WOOD Flaa-tancaWiNar En sweltering heat and dust packing canteens and mail white flags thousands of men and women positioned themselves along the Kan- sas-Oklahoma border 100 yean Ago A gunshot sounded at noon and a thrilling dangerous race for land began Men women and families thundered across the border on horseback in wagons and buggies on foot and bicycles making enough whoops and noise to rival a cavalry charge The luckiest and Cutest planted flags in Oklahoma soil in what had been Indian territory Others got to claims too late or were threatened off the land Within only a few hours on Sept 16 1893 the 180-by 60-mile Cherokee Strip was settled 1 Among the crowd was a young Kansas farmer 21 -year-old Clarence BnttendalL He rode a horse named that was rather slow he would write later and he lost his hat in the first mite But he pressed on and just when his was about to he found a piece of land that caught Ms eye He marked his spot in the Oklahoma dirt claiming 160 acres near a town called Homestead Back in Brookville Kan a 17-year-old girl named Rilla Stone waited eagerly to near what had become of Clarence In a tetter written the next day she tentatively told him that she feared for his safety got your tetter Friday evening and would have answered yesterday But you know it was Race day and I for I was afraid Somebody would get hurt and was thinking about that all the Not only did Clarence survive the race and make his claim official but he also Sea LOVE Col 1 tr i -s' 'As I i 1 a By BARRY GARRON TV CiMc 5 i'v if? 4 rTT v- TAMMY UUNOBLMyTTw 8tar ux CW GUSEWELLE The shown I A souri respectively games Indeed station it was In 1990 watched This year At least broadcast farewell conceit at the Hollywood Bowl with Tito Puente and Eddie Pabnieri and a reunion album with former partner Willie Colon (their from the is a salsa 'landmark) Blades 44 will run for president in 1994 if his party ftps (Mother -Earth) nominates him a he tells the Los Angeles Times been talking about running since 1991 Seeking Asylum EBasbeth Ana Wells ran away from home when she was 1 3 and stayed away two awful years Then she saw her photo in the Soal Asylaa music video Train" about missing children She was so moved that she called her mom and went home again Wanting to share their story the Wellses approached the band at a rehearsal before the recent MTV Awards in Los Angeles The manager shooed them away no jno!" he barked must be kidding You meet them Forget it!" I I Happy together I Melissa Gilbert is finding life more pleasant with the help and support of man I Brace Boxleitner The former House on the actress and the one-time and Mrs King" actor just returned from a Hawaiian herson aruhis two children kids get along great" notes Gilbert who filed for divorce from 1 aefor Be Brinkman last month after a leiigthy separation The new sweethearts are not making wedding plans she says very happy the we are" which is living a mile apart in Los Angele already been professional partners co-starring in the NBC Gothic chiller of Secrets" to be shown next month Top dogs It's a dog-eat-dog world out in Hollywood and the trendicst celebs snapping up just the right animal: Shutzhund-trained German shepherds Shannen Doherty Jason Alexiuider and Ba Derek are among the proud owners of the highly trained attack watch dogs which cost about $25000 'apiece A Teutonic word to the wise: Fast is the command for Many marry Grammy-winning folk singer Shawn Calvin married her tour manager and sound engineer Simon Taasano in a weekend ceremony at Twentynine Palms Calif Michelle Pfeiffer of will marry Fences" creator David Kelley in the spring He loves her adopted baby Claudia Actress Gcena Davis League of Their and director Benny Harlin are tying the kqot Saturday Upacreek Universal Pictures decided it worth $250000 a day to fight with environmentalists over filming part of Meryl new movie on the Rogue River in southwest Oregon I Shooting on River is being moved to Montana's Kootenai River imerce is still lamenting the nearly million that the crews would have jspent on lodging meals and other services birthdays i Camera" creator Allen Fuat is 79 Actress Lanren Bacall is 69 Blues singer BB King is 68 Clergyman-author Robert Schuller is 67 Actor Peter Falk is 66 Actor Ed Begley Jr is 44 Compiled from The press services by Evie Rapport KSMO-TV flexes new muscles Independent station offers lots of variety to its growing audience sports lineup that includes University of football and basketball games two and 10 and 12 University of Kansu basketball general manager Jim MacDonald says the has made giant strides in the three years since purchased by the ABRY Corp have effectively doubted our viewership" Mo-Donald said 36 percent of Kansu City viewers the station for at least IS minutes a month he said the figure is up to 73 percent put of the growth can be attributed to the of Royals games which started this year See KSMO F-2CoT The new TV season just for networks also for indepradent stations like KSMO Channel 62 And this fall Channel 62 has plenty to introduce: First-run programming all of it action-adventure between 9 and 10 pm weeknights Several new kids shows including at least three to inform as well as entertain Reruns of Matters" and both still on network prime time Prime-time movies including By Me" Cop" and People History shows Middle East peace is a tenuous one Ramallah been assassinated by the PLO That time I did look up the name It was the same man It would not surprise me at all to learn that the order for his elimination had been given by Yasser Arafat History turns in ironic ways Now it is' Arafat in the rote of peacemaker and I trust that newspaper editors around the world will have the foresight to keep his obituary updated and ready for print What Israel and the Palestinians agreed to this week was nothing more or less than what was available to them both a quarter-century and thousands of wasted lives ago And for some on both sides even that will be seen as a treaionous step 1 90 far The long march to peace begins with infant steps Even now you can be sure in whispers in darkened rooms plans are being laid to slay the baby in its crib CW Omendk'i column pptr Tswdiyi Thurt-Uyt sad Saturdays ia the Style national aspirations They were on both sides the dreams of radicals and finds But they were fervently enough held to make peace-seeking by either side a politically risky and sometimes suicidal vocation There were some from both camps willing to take the chance however And the Palestinian man I remember a notable in the town of Ramallah wu one of those In a staff car of the Israeli West Bank command I rode up a hill for luncheon and discussion in his garden on a prominence overlooking the town Senior Israeli military officers were there and one of the Palestinian host's near friends Slipping fadlely in and out of Hebrew and Arabic they spoke of the tragedy of that scrap of earth upon which as one of them put it We are destined God help us to live together" It was an amazing two or three hours And as we rode back down the hill As I listened to the PLO chairman and the prime minister of Israel basking in applause at the White House for their promise to seek a lasting peace a sad memory intruded Twentythree years ago this month in a town cm the Israeli-occupied West Bank I met another man who hoped for an end to the bloodletting Never mind his name I could look it up in my notebook but it matter his story that is worth retelling Those were if you remember days of preposterous illusion in that part of the world There were Palestinians and other Arabs who believed that regional and international acts of terrorism could cause Israel to disappear from the map of the Middle East There also were some Israelis who believed that military occupation and the condition erf statelessness would after the passage of enough time cause the Palestinians to disappear a people with a ms Amwfea nearing afterward I asked one of the Jewish officers what he thought would come of "ourhost's effort to find common ground with the occupiers be is one ofthose who will be killed One morning in the newsroom several years later a story came over the wire about a moderate Palestinian in OMORROW iifThe Sta H1HW4 i time to turn in her crown F2 OardenewfeOgw nature1 dto create new landscape.