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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-29
NEWS NOTES.

{ Madelia-Freddie Bean. aged IL
years. son Of Peter Bean. marshal Of
this village. died shere as a result Of
Injuries received on the schoolhouse
playground about two months ago.
! A complete change in style of enter
tainment will be afforded at the Bijou,
Minneapolis, Thanksgiving week,
when K ellar and Thurston, Americas
two greatest magicians, now appear
ing jointly, will be the attraction, and
will offer some of the most intricate
and perplexing experiments IN magic
yet attempted.
Austin--Mrs Nels Goodman. of Cor.
ming. this county. was probably fatally
burned She was raking the leaves
in the yard. and after having a large
pile gathered she lighted match, and
in a moment the flames were high in
the air Her clothing caught and she
became too excited to call for help
until she was in a mass of flames,
ST. Paula meeting to form a state
federation of commercial clubs will
be held Jan 16 and II.
Hamline - Frank Markell, 1854
Hamoden avenue, died while at work
In the Minnesota Transfer yards.
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ulation Is concerned any more than It
is as far as it's agricultural products
are concerned. Northerners, south
erners, fasteners and westerners
mingle tremendously there. all grow
ing prosperous together. Every state
in the union Is represented by at least
500 natives.
A substantial evidence of the intel
lectual worth of Oklahomans generally
is the number of modern daily news
papers which they support. Further
more, they have good schools. libra
ries and churches.
Oklahoma has modern public
school system supported by the in
come from $35,000,000 public school
fund and local taxation. The "35,0O0,-
900 fund" consists of 3,10O,875 acres
of land, valued at $3O,OOO,O0O, the in
come from the rental of which
amounts to about 100000 per year;
and $5,O0O,O00 paid into the school
fund by Indian Territory in lieu of
land, all of the 3,100,S75 acres being
in the former Oklahoma territory.
The original act opening Oklahoma
territory to settlement reserved in
all thSt section of the territory then
thrown open sections 16 and SO in
every township for the benefit Of the
public schools of the future state.
Each successive act provided for SINH
lar reservations and the statehood en-
aiding act made additional grants to
the higher educational institutions, re-
sulting in the big total above named.
The state will decide whether the
school lands shall be sold. All pro-
ceeds from sale of the school lands
must be turned into the school fund
and forever remain intact.
Fine State University.
The head of the public school sys-
tenn of Oklahoma is the state univer-
sity, located at Norman, open to fe-
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Lieutenant governor, George Bellamy,
Of Ell Reno; secretary of state, bill"
Cross, of Oklahoma City, whose
friends say he would not be recog-
nized II referred to as William
Cross" treasurer, ]. B. Menefee. OF
Anadarka; attorney general. Charles
West, of Enid, and chairman OF the
commissioners of corporations. j. j..
McAlister.
The state in primaries has selected
to represent her in the senate the first
blind man who has ever sat in that
body. He is T. P. Gore, who lost his
sight when boy in Mississippi,
where he was born. He has served in
the territorial legislature. Robert
Lee Owen, who will be elected as the
other senator, is a totally different
type. Born in Virginia, he Is one
eighth Cherokee Indian, and is looked
upon as an extreme conservative. He
distinguished himself as a lawyer by
earning fee of s150,000 in single
case. Both these men have been
chosen by the Democratic primaries,
which is equivalent to their election
by the legislature. OF the representa-
tives Bird S. Mcclure, for some years
territorial delegate from Oklahoma, in
congress, is the only Republican of
the five elected. Others are E. l.. Full
ton, a brother of Senator Fulton, of
Oregon, Second district; James S.
Davenport, Third district; Charles d.
Carter, Fourth district, and Scott
FARMS, Fifth district.
Metropolis Of New State.
The largest city on the Oklahoma
side is Oklahoma City, with a popula-
ton of 10000 and 40 miles Of asphalt
pavements. Muskogee, in the Indian
Territory has population Of $4,000,
which represents growth from $500
people in 1900. The new state will
have 700 banks, of which 275 are ma
tional, the latter with deposits of $780,
100000; % cottonseed oil mills, more
than hundred flour mills, so daily
papers and more than 400 issued
weekly.
Oklahoma alone had i'll 1906 S6,90S
families, of which more than 10000
owned their homes, and of these So
900 were free from mortgages. The
average price for Oklahoma land in
1906 was $18.25 per acre, an increase
of 1925 from the previous year. The
new state has thousands of acres of
unappropriated public domain. coal
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earners. These plants include -four
mills, oil mills, cotton gins, broom
factories, brick and tile works, salt
works, cement factories, woodenware
and carriage works.
Oil Fields Are Rich.
Some of the richest oil fields In
America ore in Oklahoma. The Glenn
Pool oil district, south of Tulsa, be.
tween Red Fork and Mounds, has be.
tween 45O and 500 producing oil wells,
with a total capacity of 100000 bar
rels a day. The first of these wells
was sunk in December, 1905. Pipe
lines have been constructed for the
transportation of this oil to the Texas
seaboard and to the refineries at Whit
ing, Ind. More than $10,000,000 has
been invested in tanks, pumping sta
lions, and pipe lines in Tulsa county.
Eastern Oklahoma. which is not so
uniformly even as the western portion
Of the state, produces more than
100000 tons of coal year, for
which its mines receive about $6,000,-
- -
600. The coal field extends from the
vicinity of Tulsa on the north to the
Texas line on the south, and is more
than 100 miles broad. The state con.
tains about $50 coal mines, employing
about 10000 operators.
The principal rivers Of Oklahoma,
all of which flow toward the south
east, are, naming them from north to
south, Arkansas, Salt Fork, Cimarron,
North Canadian, South Canadian,
Wachita and Red.
The government acquired what is
now Oklahoma more than a century
ago under the terms of the Louisiana
Purchase. Early in the century the
government set this land apart for
the segregation of the various Indian
tribes, then being driven west by the
advance of white settlers. Hence,
while Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Ne
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Governor.

lands of wonderful capacity, oil wells,
asphalt beds of great worth, and all
of these practically undeveloped, to
say nothing of the vastness of her op-
portunities to the tiller of the soil.
The story of the rise of two dozen
other Oklahoma cities with popula-
tons exceeding 10000 is almost
synonymous with that of the rise Of
the metropolis. Such cities as Guth-
rie (the state capitaD, with $4,000
population; Tulsa Tin the center Of
the oil fields), with 10000 population;
Muskogee, Ardmore, Lawton, Shaw
nee, Enid. South McAlester, Vinita
and Ell Reno are battling enthusiastic
cally for commercial supremacy, and
present indications are that all these
cities will grow and prosper, each
supported mainly by those farm lands
for which it Is the natural outlet to
market. The casual reader may won
der how so many large cities can be
supported by mere farms. The fact
Is that Oklahoma has 25O, 1000 farms,
most of them worked by their owners,
for hundreds of thousands of Ameri-
cans have invested their small saw
ings in Oklahoma land and are getting
rich with the state by tilling the soil.
Six out of every ten farmers in Okla
homa own their own homes. Most of
them live upon the land them home
steaded. Landlords are rare in Okla
homa.
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LIEUT.. U. s. GRANT Sd.

he then spent four years In a state
military school founded by Empress
Maria Theresa. He entered Columbia
college in New York on his return to
the United States and was graduated
in 1898, when he at once Joined his
father in Porto Rico, where he had
his first experience in warfare. At
the end of year he entered West
Point, graduating sixth in his class of
1902. He was ordered at once to the
Philippines, where he did good service
for three years. and, returning to the
United States, was ordered to Wash
ington barracks.
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wild Indian camping ground.
Passing of the Indian.
AS recently as IS years ago the
American people generally knew Of
Oklahoma only as haunt of Indians
and hunting ground for big game.
Early in the eighties white settlers,
who had overrun Kansas and the new
middle west states, began to investi-
gate Oklahoma. They found the new
territory rich and appealed to the
government for the opening of it to
settlement. The government did not
readily act upon the request, and
many of these whites, becoming impa-
tient, entered the reservation forcibly
and set up their homes. They were
driven out, but repeatedly renewed
their efforts, and many clashes with
soldiers occurred.
But these pioneers, then looked
upon by the government as outlaws,
finally persuaded congress to open
Oklahoma to settlement. Hence, the
names of these same outlaws" have
been immortalized in Oklahoma his
tory.
At the time of the opening all of
Oklahoma, except that portion taken
from Texas in the Greer county bound
airy dispute and the narrow strip be-
tween Kansas and Texas, extending
to the Colorado and New Mexico lines,
was included in the Indian Territory.
Oklahoma territory, which was held
by the government for the use of the
Indians, but had never been assigned
to any tribe, consequently consisted
in those days of only about 100000
acres. There occurred the first great
rush for homes, which brought into
existence Oklahoma City. From time
to time the government transferred
other portions of land from the Indian
Territory to Oklahoma territory for
settlement by whites, until, when the
Oklahoma Indian Territory statehood
bill passed, all that remained of In
dian Territory were the reservations
of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Chero-
kee, Creek, Seminole and Quapaw
tribes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-29
FACTS ABOUT OKLAHOMA.

Oklahoma larger in Indiana Ohio
will twenty-hd in point
population.
$500 daily
metropolis City, forty asphalt
constitution biggest being
of
State wide prohibition is provided ne constitution.
municipalities
Oklahoma has 24e69 full bIooded
Many them highly civilized
Oklahoma state raising
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male as we'll as male students, and
comprising college of arts and sci
ences, school of medicine, school
of applied science, school of pharm-
acy, a school of mines, a school of fine
arts, and preparatory school. The
campus, consisting of 60 acres, lies at
slight elevation, overlooking the
South Canadian river. University
hall was built five years ago at cost
building, So by 125 feet, Of gray
pressed brick The university is also
provided with library building given
by Andrew Carnegie, and a gymnasi-
UNI, IS by 100 feet. There are four
other buildings, two of wood, devoted
to engineering work, and two devoted
to the anatomical laboratory.
The other advanced public educa-
tional institutions of Oklahoma are an
agricultural and mechanical college,
three state normal schools, univer-
sity preparatory school, colored
agricultural and normal university,
and school at Chilocco, on a reser-
walton containing $500 acres of agri-
cultural land, for the education of In
dian boys and girls in the higher
branches of learning.
Color Line Drawn.
The supervision of instruction is
vested in a board of education, of
which the state superintendent of pub
lie instruction is president and the
governor, secretary of state and at
torney general are members ex-officio.
A color line is drawn on negroes in
Oklahoma, separate schools being pro-
vided for negro children, but with the
same accommodations as the schools
for white children. Education is COM
pulsory.
The. Chilocco Indian school is one
of the most interesting educational in
situations in Oklahoma. About 5000
of its $3.50 acres are in cultivation,
the rest being in meadow or pasture
land. This school has 700 to 500 stu
dents, 20 instructors, more than 40
buildings, and is known as the best
institution in the Indian service for
imparting practical agricultural
knowledge to Indians. In addition to
agriculture, stock raising, dairying,
etc., all other lines of industry are
taught at Chilocco.
Oklahoma has more than 1000
manufacturing plants, representing in
vestments aggregating $4,000, 900,
and giving employment to 10000 wage
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President Of Constitutional
Convention.

house, United States quartermaster's
house, stage Office, and small build
ing used as a hotel Between noon
and sunset of that day Oklahoma Sta
ton became a town of 5000 people.
Within a month 1,169 buildings, many
of them ugly, temporary affairs, were
erected.
And so Oklahoma City has contin-
ued to grow until 1t now claims pop
ulation of $4,000, modern schools edu-
eating 9,484 children this year, as
against 1875 last year; buildings Qn'
Guiding ten-story skyscrapers) aggre-
eating in value $15,000,000; banks
having an aggregate capital and sur
plus of $1,060,834, and deposits aggre-
eating $6,549,O00; post office receipts
in 1906 aggregating $141,509. and
freight tonnage into and out of Okla
homa City in 1906, 1,22S.246.902 tons.
Factories are springing up. Oklahoma
City this year has 2,347 factory en-
ployes, gain Of 531 over last year;
and 1.176 jobbing house employees, a
gain of 230 for the year.
State Is Democratic.
Oklahoma will probably be Demo
cratic in politics for some time to
come. The governor-elect, c. NJ Has
kell, of Muskogee. received majority
of $1,000 votes. The state will cast
approximately 100000 votes, of which
number from 10000 to $4,000 are by
negro voters The majority for pro-
hibition was about 10000. OF the IL
Republicans in the constitutional con-
vention six came from each side of the
new state.
Gov Haskell is one of the newer
residents of the state, having gone
thera from Ohio. Other officers are:
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plaques of Nerve Sufferers.

There is a class of well-defined
'phobias," as they are called, with
which nerve sufferers are plagued.
"Monophobia," or fear of being alone;
"castrophobia," or fear of closed-in
crowds or of broad open spaces; Sin
spaces; agoraphobia," or fear OF
somniaphobia," or fear of not going
to sleep, and many others. The one
great remedy for all these and similar
mental miseries, writes DR.. Samuel
McComb in Good Housekeeping. n
auto-su1gestion.
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Want School Exhibit.

Rochester-Supt. George F. How.
ard. OF the Olmsted county schools,
has received letter from Errcsto
Nelson, commissioner of education of
Argentina. South America. asking him
II it would be possible to send part
OF the exhibits of the Olmsted Boys
and Girls clubs to him, to be placed
on exhibition in his country. Supt.
Howard plans on sending a part Of
the exhibit to st. Paul, after which
1t will be sent to Argentina. There
the exhibits will be placed in a new
museum now being built at Buenos
AyreS
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Found Dead.

Lakef1eld-The dead body of George
Ulfarts, prominent farmer who lives
six miles west of Lakeville. was found
In a pasture. A top buggy, badly
damaged, was near by and made 1t
evident that the man had met death
in a runaway accident. The body
was discovered by C. w. Cove and his
surveying party. Ulferts left the city
the previous evening on his way home.
His horses reached his farm about
midnight and the family began IN.
widow and a number of children sur.
vive.
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R0 KLAHOMA. "the Land Of
S Now" embracing Okla
NJ homa and Indian Terri
~ tories), entered the union
4 (LNI as a state on November Is
wv with population of about
100000. The government
censis flour districts missing) shows
population of 1,40S,O00. In addition to
the persons residing In the four miss
ing districts, number of Indians not
reached by the census takers are be-
lieved to have been omitted from the
government census total.
The Indian Is passing out of the
life Of Oklahoma into it's history But
he is still as much in evidence in
Oklahoma as the negro is in number
OF northern states. Records believed
to be ultra-conservative show that the
new state Of Oklahoma contains H.
900 Indians. Only about 10000 of
these, however, are more than three
quarter blood. The wild Indians of
Oklahoma exist only in history. The
redman of the present is adjusting
himself to the white mans civiliza-
ton.
oklahoma" is a Comanche Indian
word, signifying the Land of the Fair
God" Surely the fair god could not
select more comfortable place for a
home. For instance, everything good
to eat which that distinguished per-
sonage might desire is obtainable
from Oklahoma soil. Upon a single
Oklahoma farm can be seen growing
simultaneously the products that
grow in all the states from Maine to
California. Corn and cotton thrive
side by side.
Amazing Natural Resources.
Within it's borders Oklahoma is
known to have vast stretches of coal
lands; natural gas, also, is abundant,
while the states resources In salt, as
phalt, oil, granite and marble, building
stone. zinc, lead, copper, gold and tim
Der, place 1t among the most desirable
sections of the country for investors.
Eighteen years ago this great new
state was a cattle range and Indian
hunting ground.
The first rush into Oklahoma was
on Monday, April %, 1889. On the
morning of that day Oklahoma City,
the present metropolis of the state,
then known as Oklahoma Station,
consisted of half a dozen small build.
tngs, the Santa Fe station, section
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a Wireless Addenda.

Mr.. Bacon see Japanese cleo
trician has invented wireless system
which is asserted to be superior to
anything now, in use.
Mrs. Baeon-Gracious me! Are bus
ties comm in style once more, really!
-Yonkers Statesman.
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Above Sea Level.

The mean height of land above sea
level, according to the most scientific
geographers, is $500 feet. The mean
depth of the ocean is 12,480 feet.
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worId,s Submarine Cables.

This world contains altogether 1,75O
Submarine cables, totaling 2oO,OO0
miles in length and dropped into their
watsry bed at cost Of $275.000, 600.
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Drawn from All States.

Probably not more than 100000 of
Oklahoma's 100000 residents are ma
tive Oklahomans. This new state is
not typical Of any particular section
of the United States so far as it's pop
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Fine State University.
The head of the public school sys-
tenn of Oklahoma is the state univer-
sity, located at Norman, open to fe-
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braska, Colorado end other Louisiana
Purchase states were being populated,
Oklahoma remaineJ for 80 years o
wild Indian camping ground.
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- KLAHOMA. "the Land of
!; =: g.: !; g: !: 8: 8: E:
Now" embracing Okla
homa and Indian Terri
IL tories), entered the union
nj as a state on November Is
4 with a population Of about
500 000 Tho government
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-03
OUTSIDE HIS RIGHTS.
Colonel Bacon Says Presidents Action
Was Illegal.

New York, Jan. 3.-Colonel Alex
ander s. Bacon of counsel for the
Afro-American council in the case of
| the dismissal by President Roosevelt
| of the battalion of negro troops for
the Brownsville, Texas. affair, has
made public his opinion. His report
will be sent to Senator Foraker and
members of the senate and house
committee on military affairs. After
reviewing the evidence presented in
! the presidents message, Colonel Ba-
con declares that the negro soldiers,
discharge without honor" was Illegal
and would not be upheld by the courts
if brought before them under a writ
of certiorari. Colonel Bacon contends
that the idea prevalent that the presi-
dent, as commander in chief of the
army, can inf1ict punishment within
his discretion. is a mistaken one, be-
cause under the English and Ameri-
can constitutions. no person Except
minors, prisoners, etc., can be pun
ished in time of peace except by the
judgment of a court. The presidents
dismissal of the negro soldiers, he
says, was intended to be a punishment
and was a punishment. The presi-
dent, he AYERS, may arbitrarily dis
miss any enlisted man If he dislikeS
the color of that mans hair, but the
president has no right to libel him by
saying that such dismissal is without
honor" nor can he inf1ict the added
punishment of debarring such a dis
missed enlisted man from civil en-
plOymenC unQer the government
Colonel Bacon argues that the funda-
mental cause of the Brownsville affair
was commercial one. The people of
Brownsville, he says, had predeter-
mined not to have negro troops sta
toned at Fort Brown, because white !
soldiers spent their money with white
merchants, whereas negro soldiers
spent their money with Mexicans and
other negroes with whom the whites
had little to do.
Colonel Bacon says that he will not
invoke the aid of the courts in the
matter until all other means fail.
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COOLEY GETS BOLES.
Young Topeka Ball Player Bought
From Texas Club.

Manager Cooley of the Topeka base
ball team has closed a deal with the
management of the FIT. Worth, Texas,
league team whereby Walter Boles, the
young Topeka lad who Joined the White
Sox at the close of last season becomes
the property of the Topeka team. Boles
will prove to be a great addition to the
pitching staff of the White Sox and
Cooley is to be congratulated on secur-
ing his services for the season of 1907.
Boles has never been in faster COM
pany than a class c league but he will
undoubtedly prove fast enough for the
Western League.
Boles Joined the White Sox last fall
shortly after the close of the season in
the Texas League. He pitched three
games for Topeka, winning all of them.
His first appearance was against Blaine
Durbin, the Joplin star. Boles won his
game to 0. Boles in the post-season
games of the Topeka club played nearly
every position on the diamond and did
well in all of them.
Boles is wintering in Topeka and is
the Washburn law school. He
will report for practice the first day
next spring and he says that he will
show that he is as good a player as any
of them even if he is a little smaller
than most players. Manager Cooley said
today that he did not wish at this time
to announce the purchase price paid
for BOleS.