Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-08-17

has its Carnegie public library. These
soon become recognizable, as they arc
of tho Same general pattern. Oklahoma
has 337 newspapers One, called the
Oklahoma state Capital, at Guthrie, was
started. on the day of the big run, by
Frank II. Greer with SO in capital and
a secondhand printing plant, and the
building and contents are now valued
at 100000.
THE OIL DISTRICT.
Oil dcrricks are almost as numerous
as trees. At Cleveland every man can
have an oil we'll of his own. The oil Is
only about half the value of the product
Of the Pennsylvania wells, but there is
money in 1t. The individual owner pumps
into the big pipes Of the Standard OIL
company. which measures his output for
him and holds 1t till the sale Is effected
The market this summer has been conf
paratively dull. The shooting of an oil
we'll is an interesting sight. After tho
mouth of the we'll is cleaned tho nitro
glycerine persuader is sent down. and up
gushes the column Of oil. He who stands
too near is likely to get scriptural
amounting.
OTHER TERRITORIES.
Tho admission to the Union Of Okla
homa and Indian Territory has been
delayed by the complication from the
endcavor to get Arizona and New Mex
leo in. The latter territories arc diff
fercnt stock, and in general should not
be mentioned at the same time with
Oklahoma. either for productivcness or
quality of population. 1t makes the Ok
lahomans angry to think they are held
back by the small and scattered people
OF Arizona and New Mexico, some Of
whom still SAVIOR of their Mexican origin.
RICH SOIL.
Indian Territory has even richer land
than oklahoma. though on the whole
the popular quality is not so high as in
the latter territory Tulsa is a noble
little town. growing like mad and just
building Il stately hotel. You can feel
the wave of business rushing through
the place. Muscogce's electric railroad
carries you to a hotel that for elegance
would astonish many an Eastern city,
and to a beautiful opera house.
OUTDOORS IN OKLAHOMA.
Take the cowboy and Indian East and
they do not look the same. They may
dress as at home. and may appear the
same in n photograph, but in the East
the environment has changed. The back
ground is lacking. Yonder tall fellow
sitting erect on his pony on the hilltop,
the figures notching the sky at the horiz-
on-sitting like a statue-fits into the
%<r
horned cattle know him, and so does
Remington with his pencil. as you OBJ
serve while your train rushes by. That
indian with tho squaw and their young.
Etandng wrapped in colored blankets
by their tent, with the far mountain
ranges challenging the kccnness of their
eyes is not the same as when follow
ing the band wagon OF a circus parade,
though himself may be unconscious of
the difference.
FIFTY THOUSAND At A BUFFALO
BARBECUE.
Ever eat Buffalo meat? Tastes like
good bccfstcak. one hot day in June
Und Oklahoma has warm days and
breezy nights, one of those sunny and
clcar-aircd days Twill not mention the
date. for fear you might think it was
Sunday Miller brothers OF Ranch 1Ol.
Bliss. .. t. gave n buffalo barbecue.
Miller brothers are three sturdy young
men who have Il little matter of $1,000
acres of land in their ranch. including
grazing ranges and wheat fields. They
take in n part of four towns. They
built an Enclosure milo and a quar-
ter around, with nine tiers of seats for
the entire circumference, and invited
Oklahoma. dozen special trains COM
ing hundreds Of miles threw out Okla
hcmans upon the grconsward-and not Il
house in sight. Every seat in that huge
nclosurc was taken and many We're
compelled to stand. The surrounding
hills were dotted with wagons and with
the tents of Indians. Conservative men
estimated tho attendance at 50.OO0-which
FOR one lot is going some. First came
procession headed by the brothers three,
and including Geronimo and 200 Indians,
as many cowboys and a herd of Buffalo,
with one frolicking buffalo calf Who
said huftialoes were extinct? There was
broncho- busting, and steer roping, and
buffalo chasing. and cqucstrians and
eduestriennes, and fights between Indians
and scouts, with a brass band and an
occasional mouthful of meat The buff
falO head and skeleton hung conspcl-
ously as guarantee of good faith. Not
an intoxicated person in the whole 10000
What Il sight it was! One of the old
tournaments of the histories magnified
multifold, and in an arena which only
the American West could provide How
would they get the people back into their
trains on a single track road? BY the
simple device of putting on a frame the
destination of each train as 1t drew
up. But many id not get home until
after daylight
REMEMBRANCE OF TROY.
A comfortable citizen of Guthrie Is
John Twamley, formerly OF Troy and a
veteran of tho Civil War. Mr.. Twamley,
who can look from his front door into
the Carnegie library. went into Okla
homa in the rum of sixteen years ago.
He has prospered. but has not forgotten
his old Grand Army comrades of Troy
nor his old habit of dramatics, for he
recently engineered a successful per-
Torrance of Macbeth" with himself as
the Scottish thane, at the Masonic Tenn
pie in Guthrie.
A delightful old lady is Mrs. M. n.
Henry, living on Oklahoma avenue, Guth-
ric. She was Miss Mary A. Boyd of
Wisconsin. and graduated from the En-
ma Willard Seminary in Troy in 1s47. in
the same class with Mrs. Russell Sage.
Mrs. Henry Is fond of talking of the
happy days she spent in Troy. While