Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-03-20
Tri-Weekly Courier.
okL AHoMA,S CHAINS.

under the Act of Congress of March 3,
1879.
okLAHoMA'S CLAIMS.
Oklahoma, for so many years, mas
conveyed the idea of wildness and the
wcolly west that it is hard for some OF
us, and harder still for fasteners, to
think of admitting to the union such
a state. If the mention of the name
has not Immediately brought to the
mind the thought of Indians it has at
least been associated with the idea OF
some hurly-burly domain where people
from everywhere have come together
in kind of promiscuous profusion.
AS matter of fact. according to the
literature being sent out over the
country by Oklahoma people who are
anxious to have their bid for statehood
acted upon favorably, Oklahoma is
possessed of all the elements essential
to representation in the sisterhood OF
states. In the speech of Senator Lodge
upon the pending statehood PROPOSE
ton the truth about Oklahoma was
in an Illuminating fashion
and should go a long way toward elm
mating the prejudice against granting
the people down there the rights to
which they have long been entitled
Oklahoma and the Indian Territory
have four times the population OF Mon
tana and more than any New England
state except Massachusetts.
Oklahoma alone in the election OF
delegate to congress in 1904 cast 109,-
las votes. This was more than the to-
tai vote cast in any of the following
eighteen states: Alabama, Delaware,
Florida Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Mis-,
sissippi, Montana, Nevada, New Hamp-
shire, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode
Island, South Carolina, South Dakota,
Utah, Vermont and Wyoming.
Oklahoma's vote was 10000 in ex-
cess of the total combined vote of Ne.
vada, Vermont and Wyoming, and was
1000 more than the vote of Utah in
the same election.
Live stock values for Oklahoma and
Indian Territory, sol ,622,723, or great.
er than that of the combined states of
Idaho, Nevada, Utah and Vermont, and
exactly that of North and South Caro-
lima combined.
Farm products of proposed state for
1905, $5S,O56,112, or $7,000,000 more
than those of Montana, Vermont, South
Carolina and Wyoming combined, and
within $5,000,000 of those of North and
South Carolina combined.
Oklahoma and Indian Territory have
8O7 manufacturing establishments
with a capital of $13,661, 979. This is
nine times that of South Dakota; six
times that of North Dakota; ove1
twice the combined states of NORTH
Dakota, South Dakota and Nevada,
very near the total for Montana; 81,
100000 more than Utah; one-half O.
Kansas and one-fourth of Colorado.
From the report of the comptrollel
of the currency for the year ended DC
tober, 1905, it appears that Oklahoma
has ia national banks and Indian Ter
ritory 142, or total of 256 The CAPT
tai stock of Oklahoma banks-nation
ais $3,955,00 and of Indian Terri
! tory $5,730,6S0, or total for the pro
posed state of Oklahoma of $9,685,680
The capital stock of national banks
for the proposed state of Oklahoma Il
nearly as great as that of Kansas
nearly three times that of North Da
kota; four times that of South Dako
ia; twenty-fou1 times that Of Nevada
over seven times that of Idaho; owe
nine times that of Wyoming; within
a million and half dollars of the com
bined capital stock of the states o
Vermont and New Hampshire; SO pc
cent greater than that of the two Cal
olinas; nearly $2,O00,000 greater thai
| that of the combined capital stock O
Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming and Utah
| just about the same as North Caroline
| South Carolina and North Dakota con
/ bined, and three times that of Sout
/ Dakota, with a million dollars to spare
/ The number of national banks in tn
i proposed state of Oklahoma is with
five of the total number of the state
of Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, Vernon
4 1t is more than the number in Mort
! Dakota and South Dakota, and With
/ forty-three Of the number in Kansas.
From the annual report Of the pos
master general for the year ende
i June 80, 1905, it appears that Oklah,
ma has fifty-seven presidential posto
4 fees; Indian Territory has fifty-two, {
4 total of 100 for the proposed state {
4 Oklahoma.
!! Receipts from Oklahoma Office
presidential, were $425,32O; from Ii
dian Territory, s2s3.127; or a total {
4 s70SA47.
4 Receipts from the Offices in the pr
posed state of Oklahoma were with
]. about 100000 of those from the cor
bined) offices of North Dakota an
4 South Dakota; exceeded the states .
A Utah Idaho and Nevada combined
werelnearly double those of Montana
double those of Utah; over $4,000