The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-19
OKLAHOMA AFFAIRS.

GUTHRIE, o. r.. April 1S-fSpecial i
The supreme court, in the case of the set
ting aside SIS, 900 for worlds fair purposes
| ordered the mandamus To be issued. This
| will make the worlds fair warrants worth
dollar for dollar.
| The district court sits at Saltwater
this week. There is a full docket at that
! place.
The weather is warm and crops are com
ing forward
At the last meeting OF the local board OF
| the Oklahoma worlds fair commission, at
kingfsher, these billswere presented. al
| lowed and paid by the treasurer: o. Bee
! son. 500; o. Beeson and wife. for expenses
attending meetings the last two years,
| Sl6170: Colonel St. Clair S72. go: j. Il.
Safer, $39 50; Matty Kelso $40. This took
| the last dollar III the treasury.
| The total receipts from the several coun-
ties were 81, GA. of which ST. 165 has gone
| into the territorial building, Sl65 for Mr.
Beeson's expenses to Chicago and the bal
ance to the members mentioned above for
| personal expenses in attending the meet
ings. There is considerable feeling on the
part Of many who have contributed
| money. They hold, and rightly so, that
the money should have all been expended
for the territorial building. The MEM
OEiS VI Luc AOCft! DOditt piE'a3CN tA~'A -
that the money should not be expended
fer the personal expenses of the board.
Following is an extract from letter,
under date OF April 10, received by Gov
ernor Scay from Hon. A. c. Scott the
Oklahoma fair executive commissioner,
now in Chicago:
And now as to the woman's depart
meut OF the fair: There is woman's S
building devoted exclusively to the eXhi-
hilton of their work and progress in every
line. had this afternoon long talk
with Mrs Starkweather, the superintend-
ent. She has a very. warm interest IN
Oklahoma. is fully advised OF the Difficult
ties we have had to encounter, and insists
that our ladies shall endeavor to make an
exhibit. She saws, however, that space is
not reserved III this building for state eE-
hibits, but it is set aside for certain kinds
of exhibits. For instance as space may be
reserved for needle work, for painting, for
china decorations, for education, for
othmology, etc, but no two of those
displays can be combined in one
exhibit. That is, our Oklahoma
ladies cannot make miscellaneous Okla
homa exhibit; and | am afraid that is what
they have in mind. II they. or any indi-
vidual one of them, have sufficient of any
one kind OF exhibit. they can get a space;
and Mrs. SbarkWeather says she Will eX
tend the privilege to them, even up to the
first OF May. The spaces can be had for %
cents per cubic foot with suitable cabinets
already prepared. This makes the regu-
lation space worth $50 But even if they
should have articles enough in one line to
justify a space. they must be of a high
standard of excellence, and must be passed
upon by Il committee for the purpose. L
should state, however, that any article Of
woman's work-even if single one-if
found sufficiently excellent will be as
signed a place. There is a ''loan depart
ment" also, where articles may be con-
tributed during the fair, and sold (by the
owner to be delivered after the fair.
1T Is plain from this that there is no
use for Il lady from each state, in the
woman's building From these facts l
come to this conclusion: That If our ladies
have articles they desire TO exhibit. they
should be sent first TO the territorial build
ing If it then develops that there is
enough in any one line TO justify getting
space in the woman's building, | am as
sured it can be had. Such Us is left (or
alb will do excellent service as an eXhibis
in the territorial building. Individual arti-
cies of special merit would also thus have
"a chance of admission to the woman's
building. Mrs. Starkweather seems par
tlculariy anxious that we should get
i'll the Indian relic line for the
department."