New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-29
AN OKLAHOMA MAN COMING.
40 RELICS OF WASHINGTON, But WANTS HIS
TERRITORY EEPREsENTTD.

| TERRITORY REPRESENTED.
| TO the Edttor Of The Tribune.
sir: have thought l would come TO the Centen-
NAL celebration going 70 De held in New York soon.
as want to have oklahoma rpraseEted, and shall
do 50 II can mako one TWO men understand that
| | not their claims. have already Convinced
two or three OF them, OF them a personal fac nd
who carried double -bgrrellcd shotgun. with the lar
| fcl sawed on short and loaded with s!uSs. which
Is one II tLe hardest arguments there to meet,
| but discussed the Issue wiki him clearly and Con
| WINGED him that M point VII taken. He isu't
| boihel1rg any n.C:e now. y Eian came along
tbs morning and said ne Lad tie papers for this
clam. I showed him that mad the irons for It, and
| he I writing this under difficulties,
! being N hole which l have dug IN The centre Of
| NY claim, find It healthy than upon the
| surface siunpins around In sight OF everybody.
| Where The fellows arguments were weak when
discussing who oancd this cain was that they
weren', in hole. when It comes 10 laying the
! foundation for a quiet house in a country l d
rather have 4 hole and good Winchester rifle than
all the Land Office papers and decisions of courts
| this side Of Halifax. l have bvilt up half dozen
different homes IN the West, AID my main depend
| ence every time has been good dry, properly
constructed hole in the glound and a gun
| Another reason / want 10 come TO The celebration
! is that have worried here for several Yeas and
want a vacauon Tie lat celebration went TO
wasn't tr.ltcd III a. laot 4u OF july Oul al
Pizon spring, 40 Mrns Land, where | was living at
that Tine trying establish place that could call
home which would be asylum. as might say, for
NY declining years. l was doing 1t with my usual
appliances and success. l have always believed that
| every lnan should properly celebrate the glorious
| Fourth and have always done n reIOrr craWEd
out that day. and went down 10 Pzen Creek, deter
| mined 70 ltiy observe tue day which commentaries
| the great act " our noble f0etalhers. About II
| O'Clock | was bark OF the Red Front livery barn
Watching Jim v ilcox AMI Horseshoe Met all fight 10
see who the best man, when suddenly heard
some one making 4 great noise up N Ittlc grove
not far away. and dropped Jms coat ana ran up
thinking II was a bigger fight. and when got there
| found IL wa a mp on platform WIN one mana
behind him. yelling about liberty and free rhoolS
and tho America an eagle aud those sort OF things.
was Disguised as am body wOuli have been. and said
So When I got bark the barn the fight was all
! OYER II I come To- Ncw-York l hope sha'n't have
any such dsappon'mcnts
I must close a, ! 500 another man coming. Tie
! looks some like deputy marshal and they usually
MS They are deitmcn al - peGce and quiet, which
'''' JOHN H. HoCTs.
| Paradise Point oklahoma. April "a.
| RICHMOND SEEMS To RE HFADQT ARTERS.
To IN, Edftor NJ me Trib"ne.
Sir: This IL to certify that earh have set Of
| silver knee buckles worn by George Washington when
inaugnraed President in New-York City in 1850
TOBIAS =. SMITH.
TRIsTRAN T. SONEH,
and two hundred Others.