Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-17
OKLAHOMA'S NEW START.
Corn, Cotton, Politics and Other Subjects q
Viewed in the New Territory.

Corn. Cotton, Politics and Other Subjects -
Viewed in the New Territory.
Hamlin W. Sawyer, editor Of the Frisco Times
and one OF the newspaper pioneers in Oklahoma,
leaves the city tonight for his home. He has
been here looking after the interests oi
Canadian county in the matter OF county eI-
tensions and goes away hardly Is well pleased
as he would like to be.
"Our delegation from Oklahoma" said he to
. STAR reporter, consisted of Gov. Steele,
Congressman Harvey, Attorney General Brown
and myself, and in the main we were successful
Perhaps our best interests were not served, but
we are not to blame for that. None of our
counties wanted any great quantity Of Indian
land added to them and some of them escaped.
Canadian county, though, is twice as large as Ii
was and much Of the added territory is bur
densome. Part Of it 10 Indian allotment land,
which cannot be taxed for twenty-five years;
the greater portion Of the remainder is Indian
reservation, and that is entirely exempt. Payne
county, through the influence Of Attorney
General Brown, was most fortunate; it's lines
were extended but very little, and this was SO,
too, as to the other counties.
when do We expect the presidential proc
lamation fixing the date Of settlement I'm
| looking for it today. The new territory is as
| a rule, fine agricultural land, well watered and
blessed with q sufiiciency Of timber for fuel.
fencing and the construction Of outhouses.
Crops have been exceedingly fine this year and
widespread knowledge of this fact makes it
sure that every quarter section will be occu-
pied within one day from the opening.
brought with me and left at the Agricultural
Department specimens Of our products: corn
twelve feet high. sugar cane over eleven feet
and cotton that reached an altitude of six feet
four inches; the average height of cotton is
about up to the waist OF an ordinary sized man.
n,~. nxnnr 80 Id I'LL,
blooms. Some Of the prairie grass l had
measured eight feet six inches from the ground
up. Which will be our staple product? That 8
a puzzler Just now. We are situated between
the north and the south and we can raise both
corn and cotton. The two kings will have to
struggle for supremacy.
Politics? Oh, yes! Things are a trife
| warped just now but they will come out all
right. We elected Harvey to Congress by q
big republican majority. yet all the elections
last fall resulted in democratic victories. That
was due to the fact that Gov. Steele had vetoed
all bills to remove the capital from Guthrie to
either Oklahoma City or to Kinghsher. The
vetoes were no. popular and the democrats
took advantage OF the situation in q very sue
cessful manner.
President Harrison's administration is very
popular in our neighborhood. He endeared
himself to Oklahomans and to every other fair
| minded man in the southwest by his action in
behalf Of a deep-water harbor at Galveston.
II Gen. Harrison is renominated We shall be
satisfied, although We will not be able to help
matters along with votes. Popular as Harri-
son undoubtedly is, though. there is more
heartfelt affection for Blaine than for any
other living being. Republicans and demo-
Gratis alike are in love with his labors in be-
half of reciprocity. There is another man in
the cabinet we think great deal of-Secretary
Rusk. He would suit the west very well as a
candidate. Incidentally we imagine he could
get there"