Bisbee daily review., 1911-03-11
NEW STATE FROM PANHANDLE |S
 PROPOSED
Lack of Tact in Oklahoma Leads to Hard Feeling
 Among Texans

KANSAS CITY. Mar lO.-The Tex as panhandle. bristling with indigna- tion. has hurled defiance back at OK lahoma's proposal Of annexation. Also hurled a proposal, according to the latest dispatches. which puts it one lap in front of Oklahoma in the annexation business The Texans pro pose to make @ new state out of the Panhandle plus Oklahoma. "Panhand lehoma''-with capital at Shamrock; that is the Texas challenge the Tex as legislature will make that it's count CT proposal.
 Annex the Panhandle? Wow. Al so BrrrT.
 Indignation meetings were held through Northern Texas to act on the proposal embodied in a resolution in the Oklahoma legislature. introduced by Representative Patchall, of Cray in county. His resolution proposed that by concurrent action of the legis atures of Oklahoma and Texas and the congress of the United States, Oklahoma should be permitted to ac- quire certain counties to the number Cf 3S comprising the famous Texas panhandle lying between Oklahoma and New Mexico. Certain events of e-Iiy history caused the Oklahoma proposal to be viewed in the panhand !e itself with the same equanimity that a Hereford bull contemplates a haring red under-shirt on a bazing hot day when flies annoy.
 Things begun to happen, according to dispatches from various towns and cities. with great rapidity and ire quency- Shamrock beat them all to II, however, b. a town meeting at which a committee was appointed to instruct the members Of the Texas legislature representing a number of counties each about a,5 large as a New England state, on a retailiatory measure.
 They proposed a new state made cut Of Oklahoma and the Panhandle
 10 be Panhandlehoma" ]" The coun ties in question included all of those which the Oklahoma legislature was asked to go after and in recent wear. have changed from cattle range to populous farming regions. They were Lipscomb, Cohiltree, Hansford. Sher. man, Hartley. Moore. Hutchison. Rob eris, Hemphill, Wheeler Gray Pot. ter Oldham. Deaf Smith. Randall Armstrong. Don!ey, Ceilings worth. Ihiidress, Hall, Briscoe. Swisher Gas lfo' Farmer. B.iley, Lamb Hale fioyd' Motley. Cottle. Hardeman roard. Wilbarger and Wichita
 The telegrams from the mljcE-trig ger Shamrock 10 the Texas leoie,s .'ire said; Noting a resolution of. Tered in the lower house of the 0t ,Shoma legislature, the sense of which 's mat the Panhandle of Texas be annexed to the state of Oklahoma 1id believing that sane is in tbs ,,- 'uie oi a reflection on the grandeur
 the great state Of Texas ws re sfeciully request sou as oar renre
 'i'atiFe' that yojI offer resolatio,,
 'he Texas h0use or represena,f,.e.g .e.g '"at ne entire state of OsIabo,sa e annexed 10 the Panhandle os Tar as and that Shamrock. being c cent-aI ~1
 located in the new state so form ee' De made the capital of said sta,a so formed. be made The capitaI os o".a s'ate by legislative enactment Z.
 ne details Of the proposal wb,cb o-ousht on the uproar in Tera. da e,aies that Oklahoma Iesslatu-o hoe s-ten consent to the annexation ana shai copies Of the resolution sh.,I ,lI oe forwarded to Washington ana ,,. .o 1ne feTas legislature at Austin f. ,r ras paFi of the phraseoIogy to wb,oh IASs took exception that inc resof. .'n sEeeihes. regarding the anne.. . uon' that terms shall be fair sAs ens s.'i 70 the state of Texas and to tha eopie residing in the counties
 AF Patcheli declared in the Okla acme proposition that the constifn ''"Ha' questions involved have been