Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-10-11
WILL BE A NEGRO STATE.
okFlhoma Shows a Great Preponder
ancc Of Black Settlers Among
Its Settlers.


It's Settlers
The growth of oklahoma has been
one of the most remarkable in the his.
tory of American territories A few
years ago II was barren wilderness.
Inhabited only ~ savage Indians and
lawleSs white men; today il is knock.
ing at the doors OF congress for admls-
sion to the union as a state. When
II Is admitted it viii have larger
Aste-American population than any
state 81 its size and population in
the union outside the southern states,
f'rom figures furnished TO the Mem.
itMs Seimitar by Peter Flynn Oliver.
n reputable lawyer of Bl Reno, who
Went 10 Oklahoma frum South Caro-.
lima few years ago, Il Is learned that
the Afro-Amerlcan population mum.
/ bers 66,0o0. there being S,566 in Blaine
county, l4,0m in kingiisher county,
S,4W IN Lincoln county, 10000 in
Logan county, the remainder being
scattered IN all the other counties,
The total property holding Of these
people Is S6,33S,326 divided as follows:
Five million four hundred and eighty
eight thousand one hundred and
ninety dollars represented by 5S4,gl0
acres Of farm land: S37,4o0 repre-.
scented by town property, ana SSSI. 1856
represented by personally Comment.
ins on these figures, AIR. Oliver says
"rho land In oklahoma Is largely
raw and the price / place upon Il Is
extremely low, settlers have hardly
begun 10 build deliberately, and the
majority of the pioneers brought with
them no personally worth mentioning
save their teams when they first came;
some came even teamleSs The per.
sonalty valuation il, therefore, very
low. II YOU could have seen this
barren country, however. on April ~,
1889, then gone away, and dropped
down upon MS today, you would be
wonder-suuclx at the metamorphosls.
The dug-out. the sodhousc and the
shack are being rapidly replaced by
beautiful and comfortable homes for
man aud beast The estimates | have
given YOU are for oklahoma, excluding
other portions of the old ln0ian terri.
tory There Is large Afro American
population IN that portion Of the terri.
tory. many OF them worth their hun.
dredS of thousands OF dollars The
Greek aud Seminole nations have more
African than Indian blood In their
veins, and Governor Brown. OF the
Greeks. shows his African more than
his Indian blood. He Is a man OF
education and wealth. The Kickapoo,
the Kiowa, the Comanche and the
Apache lands are likely TO come in
soon for settlement. The next move
will then be upon the FIVE civilized
tribes who own their lands In COM
mon. Then the whole Indian terri.
tory will have been swallowed by the
white man. Many lots OF black men
help in the swallowing.
The ,Afro.Americans have settled
In some parts almost 70 the exclusion
OF the whites. Langston City was
founded by ~. =. McCabc who was
Uutt 1HultVt vi lhohod1t - tfti VI
great resource and energy. The
streets. avenues and boulevards Of
Langston City are named In honor
Of urominent AfrotAmericana II
supports a weekly newspaper called
nhe Herald. Mr. McCabe projected
another town, but 1t has not pros
pered as well as Langston City. Most
OF the Afro-Amerlcans In Oklahoma
went there from the southern states,
Tennessee furnishing a very large
numbr, and these are constantly
drawing others after them, as is nat
ural and usual in such cases; so II IL
possible that wher the territory is adj
mitted into the union 1t will have nm
Afro American population OF some
100000. In several instances, when
these men have been menaced by UNI
friendly Indians and whites. they
have shown that the courage and deter
minat!on which carried them into the
territory and enabled them to secure
homes In the wilderness were suffl-
cient to protect them and their prop
erty.