National Baptist world., 1894-08-31
AS TO OKLAHOMA.
ONE we1TER GIVES SOME FACTS AS TO
POPULATION.

The growth of Oklahoma has been
ono of the most remarkable in the histo-
rv of American territories. A Few
wears ago it was barren wilderness,
Inhabited only by savage Indians ana
lawlnss white men; to-day it is knock
mo at the doors of congress Tor ad-
mission to the union as a state. W men
it is admitted it will have larger Afro
American population than any state ol
IFS size and population III the union
outside of the southern states. FROM
foures furnished the New York sun
bv Mr.. Peter Flynn Oliver, reputable
LAWYER Of Ell Reno, who went to Okla-
homa few years ago from 0outh
! Carolina, it is learned that the Alro-
American population numbers oo'ooo'
there being o,566 i'll Blaine county, H.
900 in Kingfishcr county, S,4oO Ill I1lh-
coin county, 10000 i'll Logan county,
the remainder being scattered III AL tie
other counties. The total property hold |
ineS Of these people is $6,353,326 dlvl-
vided as follows: $5,4S0, 100 represent
ed bv 54S,8l9 acres OF farm land; $751;
400 represented by town property ana
1897. .736 represented by personality.
Commenting upon these hgureS Mr'
Oliver says:
The land in Oklahoma is mostly raw
and the price l place upon it is extreme
" low. Settlers have hardly begun to
build elaborately, and the majority OF
. the njoaeers brought with them no per-
sonalitv worth mentioning save their
, teams when they first came; some came
even teamless. The personality val'la-
ton is, therefore very low. Ii you
f could have seen this barren country
d April %, 1889, then gone away and
), drop down upon us to-day, you
t would be wonder struck at the meta
e morphosis. The dug-out, the sod
/ house and the shock are being rapidly
IS replaced by beautiful and comfortable
e homes for tnan and beast.
e The estimates | have given you arc
1t for Oklahoma, excluding otherportlon'
IS of the old Indian Territory. There Il
le LARGE Afro American population II
- that norton of the territory, many
le thcm worth their hundreds of thous
/" onds of dollars. The Creek and Sem
le inolc nations have more African thar
~ Indian blood i'll their veins: and UoV
''' Brown. of the Greeks, shows hls AIT
!" can more than Indian blood. He is
" man of education and wealth. li'
lo H Kickapoo, the Kiowa, the Comanch'
=, and the Apache lands are likely to 500
come in for settlement. The next mo\
will then be upon the five clvllize
nd tribes who own their lands III commo
-be Then the whole Indian Territory W
loo have been swallowed by the WIN
DIR man. May lots of black men help
of the swallowing. The Afro America
SER have settled in some parts almost TO I
in exclusion O: the whites. Langst
CITY was founded by E. 7. McCai
will who was once auditor Of Kansas,
to man of great resource and energy. L
tes. streots. eyenues and boulevards
OF Langston City are named Ill honor
cry nrominent Afro-Americans. 1t 81
as ports a weekly newspaper called
ma Herald. Mr. McCabe projected ano
ors' er town, but it has not prospered
lail' we'll as Langston City.
lrhe Most of the Afro-Americans i'll vi
D., homa went there from the south
'ne states, Tennessee furnishing a very Ia
:1:t number, and these are constantly CIT
ard ing others after them as is natural
ond usual IN such cases, so that 1t IS r'
49,; ble that when the territory is admi
s,n- to the union it will have an Afro Al
sbon lean population of 100000. LII
stant stances when these men have been
Arch naced by unfriendly Indians and W
Ro- they have shown that the courage
| the determination which carried them
Iiller the territory and enabled them to st
op A. homes in the wilderness were sum
9th 10 protect them and their property
ghout The foregoing article is by MI.
Flynn Oliver, the gentlemanly y
,a,t,.I colored lawyer who moved to thu
fice Of from Columbia, South Oarolin
oon at 1888, and moved from here to Oh
.uizing ma when the first great rush 1or /
retary. there took place.-ED.
mittees ~,
II isa noticeable fact that In eV
-, lection held so far this year, the
oa,,- licans have polled an increased n
H.. of votes. and we think ii safe To [
that they will continue TO 40 ~
~. tho they again get control OF every
. of of the Government And when tn
not mems. there will be such chorus
- tho prevails 60 up all over this co"l
,oo,orad will make the welkin ring from
- to the Gulf. and from the Atlanta
nd man Pacific.