The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-24
TO CHOOSE
STATEHOOD PROPOSITIONS ARE
THICK IN OKLAHOMA.

ritory Shall Become One State; Another
| Is that Oklahoma and the Chickasaw
Nation Shall Make the Commonwealth.
While stiIl Third Proposes Single
| Blessedness for Oklahoms-An will be
Discussed - Interesting Experiment in
Breeding Cattle in oklahoma.
Guthrie, O. T., Nov. 23.-Special)-
| Two Statehood conventions are now in
sight. One of these is to be held on
| Dec. 4. at Shawnee at which only dele
gates from Oklahoma will be present
and the other is to be held at Oklahoma
City Jan. 8, at which delegates from
both the Indian and Oklahoma Terri
| tory will be present.
The papers of the Territory are talk
| ing little else The Oklahoma City
Times-Journal reduces the question OF
statehood to three propositions. as fol-
| lows:
First. The crea ton Of a state which
shall include all Of the two territories.
Second. A state which shall include
Oklahoma and the Chickasaw nation.
Third A state to be formed Of Oklaho-
ma territory alone.
The first proposition would Great a
state with a population OF COG, 900 people
the second proposition includes terri
| tory which now contains 100000 people,
and the third proposition includes with
In the boundaries Of the proposed state
| 230, 900.
A state including the two territories
with the degree Of development now at
| tanned in Kansas and Missouri and
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| 500, 900. 80 per cent Of whom will be EN-
ployed in mining and manufacturing.
A state comprising Oklahoma and the
Chfckasaw nation would, with an squal
degree of development, support popu-
lation Of 5000, 10 per cent of whom
| would depend upon mining and manu-
featuring industries.
A state including only Oklahoma ter
ritory would support 100000 population,
only per cent Of whom would be sus-
tanned by mining and manufacturing
industries.
Notwithstanding the gold fields and
reported mineral wealth. in the Wich-
ita mountains, 1t is quite probable that
the support Of Oklahoma's population
will always be agriculture, while min
eral enough already has been develop
ed in the Indian Territory to assure
a very large mining and manufacture
ing population.
Statehood for Oklahoma and the In
dian Territory will be opposed by the
powerful Indian tribes, with their large
contingent fund. but It will have the
support Of a large percentage Of the
white population OF the Indian Terri
tory.
Statehood for Oklahoma and the
Chickasaw nation would be opposed
by the same element, but not as vigor-
ously as proposition to include all Of
the Indian Territory.
Statehood for Oklaho alone will be
opposed by large percentage Of the
territory's population on the ground
that the state would never have suffic-
lent population and wealth to keep up
creditable state Institutions, without
burdensome taxation.
There will be strong opposition
brought against every proposition yet
suggested and for that reason the
Times-Journal believes that the chance
Of securing favorable consideration is
alomst equal among the propositions
suggested.
HERE IS A SCHEME.
According to word received at Guth-
RE big rancho near Woodward has
undertaken an interesting experiment
looking to the regulation Of the sex of
cattle bred by him. He will expert
ment on the theory propounded by an
Englishman. This theory Is that while
many theories have been advocated
as to how the male or female offspring
are produced, yet Their Is, after all, no
theory about the matter. but simply a
natural law, established from the be-
ginning, based upon the necessity of
maintaining the equilibrium Of sex in
the race. He holds that in the mating
Of cattle, for example. where the bull
and COW are Of the same age, and of
equal vigor, the produce may be of
either sex, but IL the bull be old or weak
or out of condition the calf will almost
without exception be a male, the rea-
son being that the bull, in its condition
is likely to die first, and therefore ma
lures demand, as a rule, will be to
replace him with calf of the same sex.
In short, the offspring, he thinks, Will
be Of the same sex as the weaker OF
the two parents. He admits that this
is contrary TO the generally received
opinion, which tends to q belief that the
sex Is impressed by the stronger Of the
two parents, but he says that after
study Of the matter for thirty-six years
past he has found it to be true, not only
in regard to cattle. sheep and horses
ibu even human beings. When the
British colonies were first settled and
quantity rather than quality Of stock
was the one thing desired, young spring
rams were put to old, broken-mouthed
ewes with the result that ewes were
produced in numbers as eighty Is TO
twenty; but when the country had be-
come fully stocked up and heavily
f1eeced wethers were wanted, old rams
were then put to two-year old ewes,
and the result was that about three
parts Of the lambs were rams. In this
connection he cites Observable by DR..
Brooks, Of Hopkins university. IN this
country. who came 10 the same conclu-
sion with respect TO the human race:
Whenever we are surrounded with a
favorable environment there is a ten
dency to an excess Of females: unfavor-
able circumstances, on the other hand,
tends to an excess OF males" By this
he means that so long as a man has a
good income and can live well the fe-
male part OF the population VIII 60 on
increasing more rapidly because these
conditions tend to render the mothers
relatively weaker and more eHeminate
So. many savage nations have been
civilized of the face OF the earth.
because bad whisky and worse rum
have wrecked the constitution OF the
males so that their progeny are all OF
the male sex, and In time the females
gradually die out. and the males have
only the poor satisfaction OF following
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