The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-28
YOUNGEST CHILD OF THE
 LOUISIANA PURCHASE A GIANT
Editors and Printers Ink Will Pour Out Praise and Push the Right of Statehood
 For Oklahoma


 in Guthrie and on learning that I was from Huntsville, Ala, called at the hos tel to pay his respects and inquire for his beloved masters family. He and his wife presented me with fruit flow CTS. candy and souvenirs of Guthrie and were respectable and respectful, | cherishing a kind, lovihg interest in Alabama and his home people. A touching incident transrired during the visit of the editors to Oklahoma. Major Screws. the beloved president of the National Editorial Association for | 1905, was given a delicate mission to | perform. The old family servant and | faithful nurse of his grandchildren has l motherless grandson in Oklahoma and she begged Major Screws to look him up," and give him a package for her. In order to faithfully perform the duty imposed, Major Screws gave up a sids trip given the editors and went % Oklahoma City day earlier in order | to meet the little fellow. At the ap- pointed hour, he went down to the rail- | road station to meet him, and found on | the platform the bright-facsd little boy II years of age, who with his f2ther had walked seventeen miles to meet Mejor Screws and receive the gift | sent by his grandmother. This unsel- | fish, Christian act Is only one of the many that endeared Major Screws to the delegates of the National Editorial Association.
 completed a tremendous, stupen- dous task within the past ten years which was the equabie distribution If 2o.5o0,0o0 acres of land among s7594 Indians~-the Creeks, Choctaws, Chick asaws, Cherokees and SeminoIes, known as the five civilized tribes. With the exception of the Chickasaw and Ehnnfaxu N0 A-aR. erned by different laws and treaties, which necessitated a different system Of allotment and basis Of acreage. There were 100000 applicants and out or these had to be chosen those who were eligible, leaving only a7,594. This laborious task required the great est tact and diplomacy to prevent an and the Indians. Tribal laws and tra- ditions bucked up against civil laws, but were met with soothing syrups of diplomacy that Quieted to a restful desuetude ere the Poor Los realized they were thwarted. Joshua's task at Shiloh in allotting the seven tribes of Israel their inheritance was not moro difficult ,as in Joshua's day "the land was subdued before them," and "so they made an end of dividing the country"
 The 1of Ranch Incident,
 When the Miller Brothers extended an invitation to the National Editorial Association to enjoy on Sunday. June H. 1905, the Inequalities of Ranch l0i, (which contains sS.000 acres and is the largest stock and agricultural ranch in the world), a reforming son of a Min nesota town attempted to stamp out the invitation with indignant, blood curdling remonstances, tyewritten and printed, sent to every delegate in reach. and petition to the President begging that the proceedings be stopped and such dissertation of the Sabbath be prevented Major Screws, as President of the N. F. A.. informed theiconscience- strickened gentleman that the National Editorial Association would disband sine die on Friday, June 9th, and would become individuals, guided by their own consciences on that date. Those who had been delegates to the N E A. had all the privileges of free American citizens to go to 101 Ranch and wit ness the wonderful Wild West Show, or stay away, as he intended to do And as individuals they acted, but few re- maining away Those who went de- clared it to be a clean, interesting ex- hibition of Western athletics--nothing to shock the most refined nature. There was no drunkenness on the ranch, no disorder and even the delicate nerves of staid New England could have stood the test without undue strain on their puritanical consciences. This is re- markable. considering that there wers 6O,000 people present. who were served to an appetizing luncheon and met with royal treatment from the gallant Miller brothers, who have all the instincts and Kindly natures of the most civilized community.
 Congressman B. s. Mcclure and his lovely, accomplished wife are contrib uting a great deal toward the social and material upbuilding of Oklahoma, and ywer1 foremost among those to wei come the N. E. A.
 Dr. Charles Darwin in the Eighteenth Century wrote the Botanic Garden" masterpiece of literature, and to this author. E. H. Smith. paid 8 tribute in l798, and speaks of the praise from the new Hemisphere to como to him. From this tribute quote as toast to Ok lahoma:
 'In future years. fin ages long to come. When radiant justice finds again her
 home,
 Known, honored. studied grace with
 noble fame,
 Its charms unfaded and it's worth the To voster schemes shall light the kind
 ling view
 And lift to heights no earlier era
 knew"
  The bounty flows. but spreads to neigh
 boring realms, And a new hemisphere with joy OCT
 whelms Here, read with rapture. studied with |
 delight Long shall 1t charm the taste. the
 thought excite And youths and maids, the parent and |
 the child,
 Their minds llumined, and their griefs
 be yailed,
 By all o. fancy. all of reason moved.