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Show Cole Banking Company, Tremonton, Utah. Paid up Capital $10,000. Personal Re spon nihility, 50,090 Accounts and Correspondence- Solicited. All business with us will receive prompt and areful attention. OKLAHOMA Interest paid on time deposits. 8. COLE, President. u E. M WYATT, Cashier. We Invite Inspection g o of our choice line of Fine Groceries That we are receiving fresh from the best markets D Every Week jj Dand sell at Live-and-Let-L- D D Also a large stock of Men's and Boys' Furnishings, D D fiats, bnoes, uioves, &tc. L. P. Jensen, At J. C. Gates's old stand, MAIN STREET, TREMONTON. aocll LIVERY FEED ami SALE STABLE Main Street, Tremonton. Good Rigs and Careful Drivers furnished at any time at reasonable rates. Will Buy, Sell or Exchange Driving or Work Horses. All stock guaranteed as represented. Your patronage solicited. THE W. T. HUDSON, Proprietor. KLAHOMA. "the Land of OklaNow," (embracing Terrihoma and Indian tories), entered the union as a state on November 15 with a population of about The government 1,500,000. censis (four districts missing) shows a In addition to population of 1,408,000. the persons residing in the four missing districts, a number of Indians not reached by the census takers are believed to have been omitted from the government census total. The Indian is passing out of the life of Oklahoma into its history. But he is still as much in evidence in Oklahoma as the negro is in a number of northern states. Records believed to be show that the new state of Oklahoma contains Indians. Only about 10,000 of r these, however, are more than blood. The wild Indians of Oklahoma exist only in history. The red man of the present is adjusting himself to the white man's civilization. "Oklahoma" is a Comanche Indian word, signifying the "Land of the Fair God." Surely the fair god could not select a more comfortable place for a home. Fpr instance, everything good to eat which that distinguished personage might desire is obtainable from Oklahoma soil. I'pon a single Oklahoma farm can be seen growing the products that simultaneously grow in all the states from Maine to California. Corn and cotton thrive side by side. three-quarte- JIM Lieutenant governor, George Bellamy, of El Reno; secretary of state, "Bill" Cross, of Oklahoma City, whose friends say he would not be recognized if referred to as "William Cross; " treasurer, J. B. Menefee, of Ana.'arka; attorney general, Charles West, of Knid, and chairman of the commissioners of corporations, J. J. McA lister. The state in primaries has selected to represent her in the senate the first blind man who has ever sat in that He is T. P. Gore, who lost his body sigln when a boy in Mississippi, where he was born. He has served in the territorial Robert legislature. Lee Owen, who will be elected as the other senator, is a totally different Fine State University. Born in Virginia, he is type The head of the public school sysCherokee Indian, and is looked tem of Oklahoma is the state univerupon as an extreme conservative. He located at Norman, open to fe- distinguished himself as a lawyer by sity, earning a fee of $150,000 in a single case. Both these men have been chosen by the Democratic primaries, which is equivalent to their election Of the representaby the legislature. tives Bird S. McGuire, for some years territorial delegate from Oklahoma, in congress, is the only Republican of the five elected. Others are E. L. Fulton, a brother Of Senator Fulton, of Oregon, Second district; James S. Davenport, Third district; Charles D. Carter, Fourth district, and Scott Fairus, Fifth district. one-eigtu- h Metropolis of New State. The largest city on the Oklahoma side is Oklahoma City, with a population of 30,000 and 40 miles of asphalt pavements. Muskogee, in the Indian Amazing Natural Resources. Within its borders Oklahoma is Territory has a population of 25,000, known to have vast stretches of coal which represents a growth from 3,500 lands; natural gas, also, is abundant, people in 1900. The new state will whilft the state's resources in salt, as- have 700 banks, of which 275 are naphalt, oil, granite and marble, building tional, the latter with deposits of 23 cottonseed oil mills, more stone, zinc, lead, copper, gold and timber, place it among the most desirable than a hundred flour mills, 50 daily sections of the country for investors. papers and more than 400 issued Eighteen years ago this great new weekly. state was a cattle range and Indian Oklahoma alone had in 1906 86,908 families, of which more than 60,000 hunting ground. The first rush into Oklahoma was owned their homes, and of these on Monday, April 22, 1889. On the were free from mortgages. The morning of that day Oklahoma City, average price for Oklahoma land in the present metropolis of the state, 1906 was $18.25 per acre, an increase then known as Oklahoma Station, of $3.25 from the previous year. The consisted of half a dozen small build- new state has thousands of acres of ings, the Santa Fe station, section unappropriated public domain, coal 50,-00- 0 PROMINENT A , FOKI7--S xralfflSi STATE 72.-00- 0 prices. ive - TSi; - MEN OF NEW STATE. V nlii WSKk Do You Use a Phone? If not, you are missing one of the necessities of modern life. President LET US SHOW YOU. house, United States quartermaster's house, stage office, and a small build ing used as a hotel. Between noon and sunset of that day Oklahoma Station became a town of 5,000 people. Within a month 1,169 buildings, many of them ugly, temporary affairs, were BEAR RIVER TELEPHONE COMPANY, JOHN SOMMER, Utah. Manager, Tremonton, of Constitutional Convention. erected O. S. L. TIME TABLE. MALAD VALLEY BRANCH. No. NO 33. f A. M. P. M. 10 27 31 A. Brigham Corinnc Waukugan Evans Bonita Centra! 6 44 10-3- 6:4S 8:51 iQM 11:90 U :p U;BS 11:42 1:00 TREMONTON Garland Kivorsido 7:10 7:20 1M 12-I- p.m. No BJO The mixed train en this Branca Fielding I'h ;n ilth Washakie Malad is daily Wanted! ' M t'l 3" 9:07 9:01 - 34 I I 6:10 6:20 6:28 0:33 6:33 55 10:10 10:22 10- No. 32. 31 I 9- ten-stor- DEPART ARRIVE P V. 4:f5 4:80 4:13 4:05 ') 3 rM S:.) t", I M 3:40 8:40 8:33 l:N N 8:21 9 tO 7M ' 15 And so Oklahoma City has contin ued to grow until it now claims a population of 45,000, modern schools educating 9,484 children this year, as against 7,875 last year; buildings (In eluding skyscrapers) aggre gating In value $15,000,000; banks having an aggregate capital and sur plus of $1,060,834, and deposits aggre gating $6,549,000: post office receipts and In 1906 aggregating $141,509, freight tonnage into and out of Okla homa City in 1906. 1,228,246,902 tons Factories are springing up. Oklahoma City this year has 2,347 factory employes, a gain of 881 over last year; and 1,176 jobbing house employes, a gain of L':!0 for the year. IJ8 2:52 2:45 25 tlM except Sunday. Everybody to advertise in The Times. Our service reaches all parts of the Valley. Try it. State Is Democratic. Oklahoma lll probably le Demo cratic in politics for some tle; to C. M Hascome The governor-elect- , kell, of Muskogee, received a triajorih of 27,000 votes. The state will cast approximately 250.000 votes, of which number from 10.000 to 15,000 are by negro voters. The majority for pro hibitlon was about 20.000. Of the U Republicans In the constitutional convention six came from each aldf of the new state. i'v Haskell Is one oi fie newer residents of the state, having gone there from Ohio. Other officers are: ulation is concerned any more than It is as far as its agricultural products are concerned. Northerners, southerners, eas'erners and westerners mingle harmoniously there, all growing 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 newspapers which they support. Further- more, they have good schools, libraries and churches Oklahoma has a modern public school system supported by the income from a $35,000,000 public school fund and local taxation. The "36,000,-00fund" consists of 3,100,875 acres of land, valued at $30,000,000, the income from the rental of which amounts to about $600,000 per year; and $5,000,000 paid into the school fund by Indian Territory in lieu of land, all of the 3,100,875 acres being in the former Oklahoma territory. The original act opening Oklahoma territory to settlement reserved in all that section of the territory then thrown open sections 16 and 36 in every township for the benefit of the public schools of the future state. Each successive act provided for similar reservations and the statehood enabling act made additional grants to the higher educational institutions, resulting in the big total above named. The state will decide whether the school lands shall be sold. All proceeds from sale of the school lands must bfl turned into the school fund and forever remain intact. Governor. lands of wonderful capacity, oil wells, nsphalt beds of great worth, and all of these practically undeveloped, to say nothing of the vastness of her opportunities to the tiller of the soil. The story of the rise of two dozen other Oklahoma cities with populations exceeding Is almost 10,000 synonymous with that of the rise of the metropolis. Such cities as Guthrie (the state capital), with 25,000 population; Tulsa (In the center of the oil fields), with 20,000 population; Muskogee, Ardmore, Lawton, Shawnee. Said, South McAlester, Vinita and El Reno are battling enthusiastically for commercial supremacy, and pri nt Indications are that all these cltli 1 will grow and prosper, each supported mainly by those farm lands for which It is the natural outlet to mat ket. The casual reader may won'tiow so many large cities can be supported by mere farms. The fact ,1s that Oklahoma has 250,000 farms, most of then) worked by their owners. for hundredr of thousands of Americans have Invested their small sav- ini - in Oklahoma land and are getting rich with the state by tilling the soil. Six out of every ten fanners In Okla homa own their own homes. Most of tin d live upon the land them borne d. Landlords are rare In Okla HBU Drav.n from All States. Pi'.bably not more than 200,000 of Oklahoma's 1,600,000 residents are na This new stale is live ''klahomans BOl plcal of any particular section of the United Slates so far as Its pi p earners. These plants Include flour mills, oil mills, cotton gins, broom factories, brick and tile works, salt works, cement factories, woodenware and vantage works. Oil Fields Are Rich. Some of the richest oil fields In America are in Oklahoma The Glenn Pool oil district, south of Tulsa, between fteci Fork and Mounds, has between l"11 and BOO producing oil wells, with a total capacity of 100,000 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 stations, and pipe lines la Tulsa county Kastern Oklahoma, which is not so uniformly even as the western portion of the state, produces more than a year, for 3.000,000 tons of coal which its mines receive about $6,000-000- . The coal held extends from the vicinity of Tulsa on the north to the Texas Hue on the south, and is more than 100 miles broad. The state contains about 150 coal mines, employing about 10,000 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, Waehita 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, No-- COURTHOUSE I JTf male as well as male students, and comprising a college of arts and sciences, a school of medicine, a school of applied science, a school of pharmacy, a school of mines, a school of line arts, and a preparatory school. The campus, consisting of 60 acres, lies at a slight elevation, overlooking the South Canadian river. University hall was built five years ago at a cost of $70,000. Science hall is a new building, 63 by 125 feet, of gray pressed brick. The university is also provided with a library building given by Andrew Carnegie, and a gymnasium, 55 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 educational institutions of Oklahoma are an agricultural and mechanical college, three state normal schools, a university preparatory school, a colored agricultural and normal university, and a school at Chilocco, on a reservation containing 8,900 acres of agricultural land, for the education of Indian boys and girls in the higher branches of learning. wlahojia braska, Colorado and Purchase states were Oklahoma remained wild Indian camping city to f other Ijouisiana being populated, for 80 years a ground Passing of the Indian. As recently as 35 years ago the American people generally knew of Oklahoma only as a haunt of Indians and a hunting ground for big game. Early in the eighties white settlers, who had overrun Kansas and the new middle west states, began to invest! 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 impatient, 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 (he Greer county bound ary dispute and the narrow strip between Kansas and Texas, extending to the Colorado and New Mexico lines, was included in the Indian Territory Oklahoma territory, which wag 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 2,000,000 acres. There occurred the first greai rush for homes, which brought into existence Oklahoma City. From time to time the government transferred other jortions of land from the Indian Territory to Oklahoma territory for settlement by whiles, until, when tin Oklahoma Indian Territory statehood bill passed, all that remained of In dian Territory were the reservations of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, ("hero kee, Creek, Seminole and vjuapaw tribes. Color Line Drawn. The supervision of instruction is vested in a board of education, of which the state superintendent of public Instruction is president and the governor, secretary of state and attorney general are members A color line Is drawn on negroes in Oklahoma, separate schools being pro-vlded for negro CbilDen, but with th" same accommodations as the schools for white children. Education is com pulsory. The Chilocco Indian school is one of the most interesting educational stitutions in Oklahoma. About 3,000 of its 8,960 acres are in cultivation, the rest being in meadow or pasture land. This school has 700 to 800 students. 70 instructors, more than 40 buildings, and Is known as the best Institution in the Indian service for agricultural practical Imparling knowledge to Indians. In addition to agriculture, stock raising, dairying, etc.. all other lines of Industry are Above Sea Level. taught at Chilocco. The mean height of land above sea Oklahoma has more than 1.200 manufacturing plants, representing In- level, according to the most sclentltic vestments $25,000,000, geographers, is 2,500 feet. The mean aggregating and giving employment to 10,000 wage depth of the ocean is 12.480 feet. - FACTS ABOUT OKLAHOMA. Oklahoma is larger in area than Indiana and Ohio combined. itate in the union In point of Oklahoma will be the twenty-thirpopulation. Oklahoma has 5,500 miles of railroads, 700 banks and 50 daily newspapers. Oklahoma's metropolis, Oklahoma City, has forty miles of asphalt pavements. Oklahoma's constitution it the biggest in the union, being made up of sixty thousand words. Otate wide prohibition it provided in the conttitution. The "initiative and referendum ' are in the ttate conttitution ano extend alto to municipalities Oklahoma hat 24,e69 full blooded Indians and 50,670 part Indiana. Many of them are highly civilized. Oklahoma it a "corn ttate." racing 150,000,000 buthelt last year. |