The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-06-25
GREATNESS or
OKLAHOMA
ENTERS STATEHOOD ON A PAR
WITH OTHER STATES.
Low Percentage Of Foreign Born Pep.
Uiation-eeIieved at Washington
that Republicans will Elect
Three Of Congressman

into the Union as a state, a new star
will be added to the field Of blue in
the flag that will represent an empire
endowed with all the rights and prlvi.
leges guaranteed by the constitution.
that will represent an empire endow.
ed with all the rights and privileges
guaranteed by the Constitution.
Since the days when the govern
ment at Washington first conceived
the idea Of segregating the Indians in
that portion OF the Louisiana Pur.
chase until recent years. the popular
conception of the Indian Territory and
Oklahoma has been an indefinite place
in the West, where train robbers and
desperadoes congregated.
The wild exploits OF the James. Dal-
ton and other bands OF cutthroats
we're more intimately associated with
Indian Territory than was the agsi-1l.
ural and mineral development OF an
exceedingly rich country.
The vast strides In material pro
gress made by Oklahoma can be dimiy
comprehended when It is remembered
that but seventeen years have elapsed
since that territory was opened for
s,,rc,o,, aud mot ,odov i,s ,o,,,,,.
tion numbers over 100000. The com
binod population OF Indian Territory
aud otiabomo g. to-day estimated n,
lso ooo clossi, ,,.n.o,i,n.t,,, ,to.
folIoYing s,,,os I'm nn,,h.,s NJ i,bsi,t.
ta,ts.
Arkansas ........... IAN ,sl
californi, taSro,q
Kansas a-o 4e5
u,n,os,t, ,-.tqe,
N.hr,sk, osc coo
t,pisiop, t2St 60,
South CaroIiuo tgloq,c
N,r,i,,1 ttssoit
N,boucb tho vbi,o man b,s ,.ac,t.
calIy oxnatriated himself Inv residing
g., India, ,ro,r,,cr. s,attg,ics chou,
that no bas been n ro,yarfm factor {,
tho dovcloumep, of that terrltorv Tho
c.,sps of tooo dascr,,,ss rho total no,.
,,,t,,, nj 900 oeo ,s connosed of 2oo
c,l ,,ri,., 20 zoo I,li,us suI ar,-,|
,...,.,,y Tho ,dy,r..J stst. a., ,..
,,io,.-,.,, ~ tho torri,ory is i,d,.o.ai
Nv a.. fac, that cf the 2GqOSl gcrey
~ n..,i,ulturaI land . oca 49, ar.--
ave Ir,proved
A. ,,tcrn,iIy i,ta,ded bv ~, GOV.
.-,,,.nt Indian Territory was In be
o,t, , homo for the Indians The dee.
in,t,o, of tho Indian t,ibas rendering
,h, n,,,lo,ion ahrormslIv lov for the
,r.a, ,erri,orv was recognized bv
Co,,,rass uhicb &, 1850 divided In.
d,ar Territory nv deslgnat,ng the
,,a.,o.., no,.,to, 90 Oklahoma Terr,to.
80 vhIch was o,enad nm for settle.
mon, nv tho whites put oven though
,ho white mon were nermitted I'm In.
d,o, rarr,,ory u,o, snfrerance and
ot,ho,gb thov had no contracted
,l,,,,s oood 30 in,migrotio, cort,p.
vcd eow,ng into that country. and
land contracts were entered into
u,Ith tho Ird,ans whereby immense
,iroi, solds were converted into
,arms whero cotton wheat oats corn
o1,aI,a f,,,,ts tobacco and Vegetables
w. r,isod IN abundance II IS also |
a ro,ovorthv fact that oItbougb the |
cor,rocts e,tarad into nv the Indians |
"a rh,,os had No le,al standing that
tho Indiana never brol,. faith with the |
shirt or such contracts
rho cI,iyepsbin of the new state Of |
oLiohora 20 tvnicaIIv American It's
no,rIation has been drawn largely |
srnp, tha ola settled states In Indian
Torr,torv the American population
oo,,,n,,sae os ar ner cont of tho total
,,hta IN ollabomo u is about . per