The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-12-15

.Granite. o. IT,, Dec. 1.-THE Enterprise
says: A mass meeting was held at Man
gum last Monday night to decide on
some action towards securing the south
western normal Henry Sweet and T.
a Johnson have agreed to donate twenty
acres Of land on the rise east Of town
for The SITE The Star, in commenting
on GRANTEES aspirations in this direction
says: Granite gives ten reasons why
the school should be located there. Nam
gum gives only one that fit IS better
place for the school than Granite.
sufficiently weighty reason If based on
facts. Granite is willing TO leave the
matter TO the Judgment and discernment
Of the next legislature"
"Mangum, o. r., Dec. 1I-Mangum is
after THE location Of the new southwest
ern territorial normal with "a good chance
of success Twenty acres Of ground,
overlooking the city has been donated
for Buildings whore the purest water in
Oklahoma is cbtaina5le and giving a view
of she surrounding country in all direc-
tons for miles Mangum has the only
hira school n the county, which is
crow ded to overlooking, and O. normal
school could De filed the first year. Man
gum already has the United States land
Office is The county seat of Greer Coun-
ty and contains a sober, Intelligent, in
dustri0uz and wide-aWake class of people.
Ut is heauful location. situated ON high
ground. and the town contains bat few
saloons making it the most desirable To-
cation in tae southwest
leading school men of the territory,
meanwhile admitting there is good deal
in what the southwest asks, yet jim the
generality of cases comment discourag
iuev Tt is remarked that the territory
is ce-rvlug a pretty good-sized load al
ready ana that If any measure Is pre-
seuteI o. the legislature at this session.
those Offering it could hardly expect
more than 20 set the movement launched
and the agitation in its favor well start
ed Id is also remarked that the Wichi-
TIA country and the IIiowa and Comanche
country are TO Poe considered ia the Ioca-
ton. and that in fairness to them the
matter should be delayed, even were all
other Obstacles removed
Senator Freeman j.. Miller Of still
water. when asked to state his views as
a school man on the question OF a south
western normal. said ia effect: cit is
perhaps little unfortunate that Okla
homa WIS settled a piece at a time 1t
was absolutely necessary that these high
institutions of learning should be located
and established at once. This resulted
in three of those now in existence being
placed within the limits Of old Oklahoma.
the university a Norman, the state nor
NAL at Edmund and the AGRICULTURAL and
mechanical college at saltwater This
comparatively close grouping would prob
ably never have occurred had an the
.reas which now constitute Oklahoma
came in nj the same time as old Oklaho-
ma. The matter has been evened up
So far as the strip is concerned, by the
boating ~ a normal school at Ava.
But Greer county has also been added TO
Oklahoma and the Cheyenne and Arapa-
hoe country has been opened to settle
ment They have now such popuia-
ton as to constitute practically one-third
II tha people ia the territory and with
this population they could hardly be
blamed for moving in the direction If SEE
curing the location of a higher mstitu-
ton of learning iu their midst