The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-04-28
DON'T WANT ANNEXATION

Kansas City, Mo, April 2S The
2 exas Panhandle, hristlng with indig
nation, has hurled defiance back al
oklahoma proposal Of annexation.
Also hurled proposal, according TO
the latest dispatches, which puts It
one lap in front of Oklahoma in the
annexation business. The Texans
r0pose TO make new state out Of
the panhandle, plus Oklahoma. Pan
handlehoma with capital at sham
rock: that is the Texas challenge,
the Texas Legislature will make as
Its counter proposal
Annex the Panhandle? Wow. Also
nr-r-r!
Indignation meetings were held
throughout Northern Texas TO act on
the proposal embodied in a resOlu.
ton in the Oklahoma Legislature, in.
troduced by Representative Patchell
of Garyin county. His resolution pro
posed that by concurrent action OF
| the legislature of Oklahoma and
| Texas and the congress OF the Unit.
/ ed States, Oklahoma should he per.
mitted to acquire certain counties to
the number Of So, comprising the fam
GUS Texas panhandle" lying be-
tween Oklahoma and New Mexico.
Certain events Of early history caus-
ed the oklahoma proposal 10 be view.
ed in the panhandle itself with the
same equanimity that Hereford bull
4 contenlplates flaring red under
shirt on a blazing hot day when flies
annoy
4 Things begun 10 happen, according
Ito dispatches from various towns and
| cities with great rapidity and fre.
Quency Shamrock beat them all TO
liS. however by town meeting at
which a committee was appointed 70
instruct the members Of the Texas
/ Legislature representing number oi
counties, each about as large as a
New England state, on retaiatory
measure
They proposed q new state made
4 out ol Oklahoma and the panhandle
10 be "panhandlehoma The counties
\ iii question included all OF those
/ which the Oklahoma legislature was
Iasked TO 20 after and in recent years
iNi4AG AldHEtu ~ lOAu NAtiiQ lhhtaN W
! pppuious farming regions They We're
1 L.tlG0mb. Ochiltree, Hansford, Sher-
man, Hartley Moore Hutchinson,
Roberts. I1emphin Wheeler Gray,
4 Potter, Oldham, Deaf smith Randall,
Armstrong. Donley, Collingsworth,
Castro, Farmer, Bailey Lamb, Hale,
| fl0yd. Motley, Cottle, Hardeman
/ Foard, Wilbarger and Wichita
The telegram from the qnicdrig-
ger Shamrock to the Texas egisla'
! tire said Noting q resolution Offer.
ed In the lower house OF the Oklaho,
lima legislature, The sense OF which is
| That tile Panhandle Of Texas be an
\ lnexed TO the state OF Oklahoma, and
/ believing that same is in the nature
0t n reflection on the grandeur OF
| the great state OF Texas, we respect
IfHlly request you as our representa-
lt,3e, that YOU offer resolutions tn the
/ Texas house al representatives SHAT
4 the entire state OF oklahoma be an.
neAed to the panhandle of Texas and
! that Shamrock, being centrally locat-
ed in the new state SO formed, he
made the capital of said state by les
/ islatiye enactment"
! The details Of the proposal which
brought on the uproar In Texas de,
cIares that Oklahoma legislature has
given consent to the annexation and
that copies Of The resolution shall
lhe forwarded TO Washington and TO
4 the Texas legislature at Austin II
was part Of the phraselogy 10 which
Texas took exception That the feso-
luton SPECIFICS, regarding the annex.
lation, that terms sholl be fair and
liust 10 the state OF Texas and 70 the
people residing insthe countless
Mr., Patched declared in the ORA.
ihoma proposition that the consttu
t'ona questions involved have been
satisfied bY the various ratiflcations,
He referred TO the congressional res
olation BY which Texas was annexed
\ tG the federal union In 1897, wherein
NJ WAS declared thag Iour states otn.
Ter thar the state of Texas might be
erected within the area acquired from
the Texas repuhHc