The sun., 1908-08-20
DID YOU HEAR OF OKLAHOMA?
rF YOU DIDN'T Y0U MISSED TT,
ron THE GIRLS HAVE GONE.

Ten OF the New states Pretuest Have Been
Here Doing Little Pleasant Booming,
shepheried by o Man Who Looks Like
the Great Man or Lincoln, Nebraska.
pg Jess Watts attorneys law Of Sallisaw,
okla.. who once called on President Roose-
Welt carrying carpetbag which contained
clean collar, pair Of socks and the Con-
tituton of the State Of Sequoyah. left town
hast night with the ten girls who have been
booming the youngest State In the Union Tor
nll they were worth.
Gov Haskell OF Oklahoma, who runs a
newspaper in Muskogee, picked the ten as
the prettiest girls In tn State and ssnt them
N New York to see the sights and tell every
body they saw that Oklahoma is the finest
stretch Of country that man ever sst foot
nm since the Garden Of Eden was wiped OF
! the map.
The girls have been attending strictly to
bu5ness Along Broadway, down in the
Wall street oafion, In Coney Island-wher-
ever they went-they have been distributing
bip red buttons ornamented with five pointed
Stars advertising the fact that Oklahoma
has more coal and gas than Pennsylvania,
more watermelons than Georgia, more corn
than Kansas and a climate several umes
more salubrious than heaven.
Miss Leila Dalton. q niece OF Bob and
Emmett Dalton. who ussd to stick up trains
and rob banks out In Kansas before Bob was
killed at Coifeyvile and Emmett went to
prison, explained yesterday afternoon at the
Hotel Marlborough what tho girls have been
doing here Miss Dalton is daughter oi
George Dalton, q farmer. who never had any
part in the exploits Of his brothers. end she
comes from Broken Arrow, Sheis small and
dark and quick as fash and born press
agent. Also in her own person she proves
that the Governors judgment in beauty con-
tests is pretty reliable.
said Miss Dalton. Now don't 60 away
and throw it into a rubbish can the
gs Ysu ySg ew sst seksrs ka~sy yousS Sp me Be wssi s
Of chance to help boom Oklahoma.
We have lots Of things out there you
never dreamed Of. Why. We raise two
crops Of potatoee every year, The biggest
oaeTmslon TIE & world Ever ever saw came from
'chusetts, New Hsmpshire. New jersey,
Rhode Island and Vermont put together.
We've got soil So rich that you could stick
a toothpick anywhere in the ground end
70 keep a circular saw busy for .. year;
We've got electric lights end libraries and
fine restaurants and shower baths and,
oh. just everything people need! What
We want is man who will come out to our
spuntry and nd g to work % os.hs az home ma maker
body to get rich.
Sightseeing? or course. We've been
everywhere. but don't you forget that wo
girls hit New York to do good for Okla
us. Personally think New York has
been overrated. but there were lota OF in
teresting things to see iust the same. The
men aren't nice enough. They will let
girl stand in car and never blink an eye
Out in oklahoma a blanket Indian viii
give up his sait to lady. Then the men
here are sich r'ibbsrnocs3 They stand
on the st-est corne q and box r woman
up and down as sac goes past, end 1t lsa't
q bit nice
Beulab Colbert. who is school teacher in
Sulphur. is threa-ausrters Chickasaw.
Emma Ingram of Fort Gi'sn Ia half Cher
okee. Ada Foronei cf Clarenore is also
half Cherokee, and Lulu 'iliiams Of Ninc7
Is Of Chcctaw tiood. rut eage for very
dark complex ions and bair t1at is black and
perfectly straight. you wouian't tSiak OF
them as India Is at al! il you met them on
broadway. 1'hey are as carefully gownei
as almost any girl you know. and their
knowledge Of Charlotte Cordays and Merry
Widows and Directoire gowns is quite as
complete az possessed by any asterp girl
Miss Ellis Picl,ari OF -SalIi:aw is a milliner
at home. and while bocrniug Oklahoma and
sightseeing ehe bought her stock for the fall
trade. The other girls are teachers or
stenographers. business women to their
finger tips.
Miss Boydie Graham Of Chickasha said
1t was too bad that President Roosevelt
wouldn't let the eastern half Of the Indian
Territory become q State all By itself, but
now that all Oklahoma was one State they
we're for Oklahoma aud preporei to let the
whole world know what great future II
has.
MIR. Watts. who is chaperoning us, you
know, mado constitution for tho eastern
become State under tho name Of Sc
quoyah-who invented the Cherokee alpine
bet-and took II to Washington" said Ada
Foreman, but Mr.. Roosevelt gave him the
marble heart. He felt very bad about that:
but it's all right now. Mr.. Watts is a grand
man He'll be senator some day. Don't
YOU think he looks like Bryan?'
Mr. Watts smiled modestly. but with his
broad brmmed Stetson. his country states
man black frock coat. boiled shirt and black
siring tic together with certain broad cas-,
d face and equatorial amplitude I'VE did
look considerably like W. j. B. He said
he had no ambition to become Senator.
that he was just modest country lawye-
and that the girls were foolishly fond OF
him His career he left entirely in the
VI loUEiO' WV Nhoi 100
kel he regarded as the greatest man in the
world, though the Democratic party pos
tessed man twice as great. William Jen-
nlnRs Bryan. tho next President Of the
United Statesl Yes. Stree! And ell the
girls nodded energetically There was no
Taft sentiment among the Oklahoma boom
ers, and as for President Roosevolt-yes
cad mol
At 10 o'clock last night the girls and Big
Jess left for Baltimore over the Pennsyl-
,Nsnia From Baltimore they will go to
Washington, then TO Cincinnati and then
hack home. The result of their efforts in
this town will be within a few weeks cheap
Iate excursion to Muskogee in the new State
ior people who want to go to Oklahoma and
help the State grow up.