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Show A CLOUD JNJTIIE SKY. A Goilinion Between Whites and Blaoki in Oklahoma Territory ia Mora Than frobatla. ' . 2 KEQB0E3 BROUGHT SMALLPOX. . b The Disease ia Spreading and the Whites f.ra Bsgiuni 15 to Strongly TJrje a Quarantine. $ Oklahoma City, March 5. The race question is assuming a serious phase in 23 Oklahoma territory and the continuous Q agitation which the subject is raising is t 1 more than likely to result in a collision C- between the w hites and blacks. m During tho last six months negroes Q from the south have been Hocking into H the territory by hundreds in response M to glittering inducements held out by unscrupulous real estate dealers, who H have laid out a mythical town near rfj Guthrie. j The negroes arriving are destitute J; and stillering from severe cold, but tho worst feature of the ease is the fact that the new arrivals have brought smallpox small-pox with them. Tho disease is spreading spread-ing and the newspapers openly declare! de-clare! in favor of instituting a quarantine quaran-tine ngaiust the blacks. |