The Newtown bee., 1906-03-16
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THE HOME CIRCLE.
 OKLAHOMA. INTERESTING LITTER FROM THE PEN or W. D. BOsLER.

INTERESTING LETTER FROM THE PEN
 or W. D. BOsLER.
 Shawnee, Okla,
 March l, 1908.
 Editor NEwTowN BEE, Mr Dear Editor: In accordance with your re. quest before leaving Connecticut l will endeav0r to give your readerssomt information about Oklahoma and its resources and possibilities 6, in the evening, composed of Fl cars of home seekers, moving in two sec. tions. The trip across Illinois ana Iowa was made during the night and co we had little opportunity to see the country, except we noted the level, plain-like aspect of the land, The trains arrived in Kansas City the next morning about 10 o'clock, and all that day vas spent crossing Missouri and Kansas. The route lay along u e Missouri valley for dist ance, ,andlhere we passed thousands of acres of river bottom land as level as 8 floor and ap- valleys rose small hills, as we term them East, and as far as the eye could see were spread out acres Of apple orchards. We aScertaiped that this was one of the great fruit growing dis tricts of the West. The character of sthe dwelling houses and outbuildings were as 8 irule small and poor in con- struction. During our entire trip to Oklahoma we only passed two barns that were equal to the barns of 3 large farm in the Eastern country. The TRIP ACROSS KANSAS wAsA DULL AND NnNfbflNnI1a nNIR
 As we are all aware, t. is one vast plain, and one could sit for hours at the car window and gaze for miles iD every direction with only small house or . tree occasionally to break the view of the tired eye., It Is country 't calculated to impress the ordinary 1. d vidual, but when one studies the resources Of the country we find for agricultural purp0ses and for produc- tiOn of oil and gas 1t Is cunning forward on par with any of her sister states of the southwest. It was 10 o'clock tory Of Oklahoma, and at o'clock the next morning the Oklahoma City pas. sergers were routed out at El Reno. about 30 miles west of Oklahoma City.
 El Reno has population of about 600O and Is situated toward the dry part of the territory. The cropS here for the past two years have not been success and the town is not making substantial progress at the present. It is one of the towns that was on the old Santa Fe trail and during the early years of the territory was the scene of many clash between the different cowboys and outlaws that made it their rendezvous
 We arrived in Oklahoma City on the morning of the 8th. 1t is a city caIcu. lated to surprise the average Western man. It is l6 years old, has . popula- tiOn of 35, 900 and growing, situated in one of the finest agricultural counties of the entire territory. Here one finds . progress that out-rivalS many of the older cities of the Eastern states. The buildings are magnificent and sub stantiallv erected. The streets are we'll paved and we'll kept. A very noticeable feature Is that in the entire city. after going over every street, I could not see single dirty suburb. IL is the main distributing point, not on. !y of the territory, but of all the ad- of the other states. The jobbing trade alone done in the city amounts to some thing like 150 millions a year. The pr fessional walks of life are, as rule, over.crowded, particularly in all of the larger cities. There are in Oklahoma City 175 lawyers to it's population, while the city of Hartford has about the same number with population triple. The hotel service in the whole Southwest is far inferior to the towns Of the North of the same size, al- though Oklahoma City is better of in this respect than her sister cities.
 OUR NEXT POINT OF VISIT WAS TO
 eHAWNBE,
 35 miles east of Oklahoma City, town II years old, which brides itself upon It's marvellous, rapid and substantial growth. It is in the eastern part of Oklahoma, within six miles of the Seminole nation and in the greatest agricultural county in the territory. town visited South McAllester, 82 miles east in the Indian country. It is . city l2 years old, has a population of IF, 900 and has the most extensive de. posits of bitumin0us coal in the terri tories. The coal lands produce on the average S3O, ,0OO per acre, gross, and the leases are controlled in large part by the railroad interests of the lines running through the country. The population Is made up of Southern eX- traction and immigration largely, and there exists a rather mild aversion to the man from the North, although the feeeling is not pronounced. The town has the strongest bar of any of the towns in the territory and among the many practitioners here are Mansfield, McMurray and Cornish, who received fee of S75O, 900 for the services in con- nection with the affairs of the Creek Indians. They were indicted, togeth- CT with several chiefs Of the tribe, for conspiracy to defraud, but through powerful political influences the in- dictment was quashed. The city has no municipal Improvements. There exists DO law at pr Iesent in the Indian Territory under wh ch streets, etc can be paved, and the work remains un. done until in the history of the evolu- tton Of the territory into state mu. nicipal laws will be made. There are many mines in operation and the pop ula,ion necessarily is made up largely