The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-09
SHAMRoCK'S SCHEME
Panhandle Comes Back With PROPOSE
tlon to Annex Oklahoma and
Create a New
State.

ulSudtlOu, mas nur16Q QenanCG DaCk
at Oklahomas proposal of annexation.
Also hurled proposal, according to
the latest dispatches, which puts 1t
one lap in front of Oklahoma in the
annexation business. The Texans
propose to make new state out of
the Panhandle plus Oklahoma Pan
handlehoma capital at Sham.
rock; that is the Texas challenge, the
Texas legislature will make as its
counter proposal
Annex the Panhandle? Wow! Also
Br-r-r.
Indignation meetings were held
throughout northern Texas to act on
the proposal embodied in a resolution
in the Oklahoma legislature, intro
duceu by Representative Patchall, of
Gravin county. His resolution pro-
posed that by concurrent action OF the
legislatures of Oklahoma and Texas
and the congress Of the United States.
Oklahoma should be permitted to ac-
quire certain counties to the number
OF 3S comprising the famous Texas
Panhandle" lying between Oklahoma
and New Mexico. Certain events of
early history caused the Oklahoma
proposal to be viewed in the Pan
handle itsel. with the same equanimity
that Hereford bull contemplates a
f1aring red undershirt on blazing hot
/ day when flies annoy.
T1ings begun 10 happen, accoiuana
to dispatches from various towns and
cities, with great rapidity and fre
quency. Shamrock beat them all tc
/ it, however, b. a town meeting at
! which a committee was appointed tc
instruct the members of the Texas
legislature representing number Of
counties each about as large as a New
England state, on retaliatory meas
| ure.
They proposed new state made ou1
Of Oklahoma and the Panhandle-te
j be "Panhandlehoma." The counties
in question included all of those which
the Oklahoma legislature was aske,
i to go after and in recent years have
4 changed from cattle range to popu
I lous farming regions. They were Lbs
\ comb, Ochiltree, Hansford, sherman
\ Hartley, Moore, Hutchinson, Roberts
: Hemphill, Wheeler, Gray, Potter, Old
!, ham, Deaf Smith, Randall, Armstrong
}, Donley, Collingsworth, Childress, Hall
Briscoe, Swisher. Castro, Farmer
, Bailey, Lamb, Hale, Floyd, Motley
Cottle, Hardeman, Foard, Wilbarge
and Wichita.
) The telegram from the quick-trigge
Shamrock to the Texas legislatur
r said: Noting resolution offered l.
! the lower house of the Oklahoma les
J islature, the sense Of which is that tn
? Panhandle of Texas be annexed to tn
s state of Oklahoma, and believing tha
3 same is in the nature of reflection o
/ the grandeur of the great state c
t Texas, we respectfully request you a
n our representative, that you offe
v resolution in the Texas house of rel
HI resentatives that the entire state {
Oklahoma be annexed to the Pai
handle of Texas and that Shamrocl
being centrally located in new stat
so formed, be made the capital of sal
5ldtS ny leSloldliNe tlldJlmeut.s
The details of the proposal whic
, brought on the uproar in Texas d
clares that Oklahoma legislature hs
given consent to the annexation an
!. that counties of the resolution sha
q be forwarded to Washington and
r the Texas legislature at Austin
was part of the phraseology to whic
: Texas took exception that the resol
/. ton specifies, regarding the annex
q ton, that terms shall be fair and jul
q to the state Of Texas and to the peop
r residing in the Counties
v Mr.. Patchell declared in the Okl
!. homa proposition that the constit
n tional questions involved have bee
e satisfied by the various ratification
He referred to the congressional res
9 luton by which Texas was annexe
/ to the federal union in 1887 where
!. 1t was declared that four states 9TH
than the state of Texas might
: erected within the area acquired fro
q the Texas republic.