The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-11-28
SENATORS AT WOODWARD
Interesting 6y-Plays by Members of
Sub Committee.

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! Guthrie, o. T.. Nov 27.-Now comes
Woodward and declares that it was ths
FIST town visited by the senate sub-com-
mittee on territories. The News says:
I On last Friday, November q. the sub
committee of the United States senate on
a tour OF Arizona, New Mexico, and Ok
lahoma, came in about II o'clock a. m,
OF a special train from the west, and
| stopped long enough to grub" and re-
fresh themselves on Woodwards s best.
while admiring our little city nestled in
the beautiful valley of the North Cana
dian.
The party consisted of Senators Bever-
idge of Indiana, Dillingham; of Vermont.
Burnham of New Hampshire. and Heit-
field of Idaho, with their secretaries and
interpreters
As the party alighted from the special
they were met by Judge A. G. Cum
ningham. Col Oscar Won Fersen and
Hon. Ed 5. Virgins and other citizens.
who did the honors of our town in a
graceful manner.
+ BY George exclaimed Senator Bever-
idge. as he was whiried rapidly up Main
street, past the elegant First National
Bank building the mammoth double store
cf the Gerlach- Hopkins Mercantile COM
rany. and the imposing and beautiful
court house of Woodward county, this
town is all right. It beats anything in
Indiana outside of old Terre Haute and
the soldiers monuEent at Indianapolis.
You people out here seem TO have ad-
vanced as much in ten years as the old
HOosier state has in fifty
Others Of the party expressed high ap-
pIeciation. Dillingham; remarked, in look
ing at the map of Woodward county:
You certainly have an empire Of great
value here. An eastern man like myself
can hardly realize The rapidity of your
growth and the substantial development
everywhere in evidence. Down in my
state We can hardly realize that in one
county alone in Oklahoma are more tilla-
bio acres, more live stock and capable
OF sustaining a greater population than
my entire state"
Col. Won Fersen tnen gave them some
figures on TIE area of Woodward county.
its numerous streams, ETC. which led
Heitfeld TO remark: we have thought
we were progressive in Idaho. but there
j, more actual wealth visible in Wood
ward county alone than in all of Thun-
der Mountain. If the other counties are
equal to this in any manner you can count
me in for immediate statehood"
Just here Col. Virgins cIapped old man
Purnham on the back and asked him if
they had anything in old New Hampshire
bigger than Woodward county. The SEN
ator studied few minutes. combed out
his oiled whiszers. bit on the end Of
cigar. and drawled: wei. there are the
White Mountains: they are chock fun of
granite and VIII furnish moro tonbstones
than viii ever be needed in Oklahoma
Fact IS. he continued its mighty
handy to have en-. as the old state is
So dead it might not be known at all
but for its big monument called the
" hite Mountains. Il IS different with /
you people in Oklahoma. where every /
thing is alive. You don't need EN-. you
know" And the venerable law-mal,er !
sighed deeply as he gazed at the pro- /
grsssive surroundings with q strange sen /
sation Of being in an enchanted land
The party soon boarded their train again I
r. they were compelled to be on the /
way. which they kept without a stop un- /
n they reached Guthrie. They we're de-
shted with their stop here and Enl A.
Tays remember Woodward. the best town
Oklahoma