The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-10-09
4 noM1sos or STATE xzx1xe.
The Growth OF ok,ahom. TERRITORY. Tire,
Years Oid.

TIE Growth OF ok,ahom. TERRITORY. Three
Years Ola.
II Oklahoma shall succeed within the next
year In getting into the Union she will have
made the quickest race on record from the
Territorial condition to Statehood. The short
history Of Oklahoma 10 the romance OF state
making. The act OF creating the Territory
was approved by the President on May ,.
1890. BY the census OF that year the Territory
had little less than $4,000 inhabitants. Two
years later Commission, including the Gov
ernor OF the Territory, was appointed to make
new estimate Of tho population. Tho. Gov
ernor, in his report to the Secretary OF the In
terror dated one year ago. declared the popu-
lation. according to the estimate OF Juno 30.
to be 49, 100. not including about $500 In
dans living on tribal reservations.
The latest official statistics OF oklahoma are
contained In that report OF tho Governor. The
report for the current year will not he given
out for nearly two months. but tho statistics
OF year ago read like fairy tale. and those
OF this year will tell tho same story with
heightened details. Counties A. Is. c. D. T.. +.
and G. down in tho Federal census OF 1890
rs uninhabited had in 1892. according to
the Com Emissions report, % 100 inhabitants.
Canadian. Cleveland and Favne counties had
doubled in population. Logan, Oklahoma and
kingfsher counties had gained respectively rs
NJ per cent a w Er ognt m .ne
colored. and b per cent Indian. while nearly
AL we're native horn and almost every State of
the Union was represented.
The increase in population is an index to the
increase in matter Only the Ind ans, whom
imam itous. though generally inw-ahiding.
stood still. For every loo acres OF farm land
settled. SO acres was under cultivation, The
tory vas "a ab ,S Sll.5oooot. gain OF more
II yn.th RI n fnf tnn
To- 'H lots were SHs %St at :nsa and
assessed valuation seG5 There we're " si.sp5
homeeteads Of 3500OO0 acres unassessed In
KInGsher Payne. and Oklahoma" 1' D bsf:
school lands and Indian allotments. the un-
hese WIFI bs sSb
the doyernSr's estimate e ths s total taxable
opening UP OF unsettled lands had added
vastly to the wealth and population OF the Ter
When Oklahoma was scarcely two years old
the aerrito5y seemed to have acquired, IN more
ness. and most Of, the, public Officers were
however possessed inil and one had built a
Court House by private subscription. There
toral banks. and fourteen private banks. with
known and estimated capital Of nearly $780,
OOU.
The story Of the Oklahoma public schools,
colleges. and universities is the most inter-
esting chapter. because the most astonishing.
In nearly oil parts of the Territory as soon as
that by 1892 there were nearly 10000 children
going to school, rS gain F OF more than 1890 in
authorized the retention for the endowment
OF schools Of two sections in each township.
A Territorials university was established at
n N n mari n nnh
for the training Of teachers at Edmund. Okla
homa county. and provision was made for an
ty. this institution to be endowed by the Fed
eral government. a. Are agricultural colleges
The n best t farms sccordnS to the Governors
wheat and 1is bushels OF oats to the acre. and
south. east; and west. Farmers were building
was already taking on q curious G mm ir Of
older communities. The Governor named
nss wsS5 Of nensS societies
el s Masens Odd Feows KNIGHTS sss
Py1na and the Circle Per-
%s; fsr9Isssss sns.. e ssssssosd
report upon the Territorial Legislature He
declares that the people have not yet learned
to ther Tssy and that h
body learned In the law. there was not one
ho hi be Ms
conflicting. some absolutely wrong. and many
II Oklahoma gould realize her dream of an
nexing Indian Territory the area OF the pro-
posed State would exceed 10000 square miles.
CO. ppobsby be 'f the most ' urbaient
State in the Union. as 1t would include a strong
minority OF tribal Indians untrisndly to the
whites tenacious OF their own tribal customs,
much under the inf uence OF native chiefs. and
torn by political jealousies among themselves.