In 1887 the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway built a north-south branch through Whitewater, Kansas that was absorbed by the Rock Island after the 1891 foreclosure. Which Oklahoma town was reached by the same Rock Island subsidiary's extension through the Cherokee Outlet, its first train arriving in September 1889?

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Hennessey, Oklahoma. In 1887, the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway built a north-south branch line from Herington through Whitewater to Caldwell, later folded into the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway. The same Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway ran a line through the Cherokee Outlet, with the first train reaching Hennessey in September 1889.