Show OKLAHOMA AGAIN la in the dispatches today there to is a statement sent out from boid oklahoma denying the accounts of destitution in that territory as an given in our telegraphic news on monday it in if asserted that there may be isolated cases where the parties came into the territory with insufficient means to start in a now new country but that out side of this there to la no such suffering as is claimed lu in connection with this we call attention to a communication from andrew kimbell kimbal of phlp city published today elder kimball Js ie president of the indian territory mission nn salou which includes the oklahoma conference where a number of young meo men are engaged in preaching the gospel as aa did the servants of the lord anciently from these and from personal observation there elder kimball learns and states the situation none of these parties has any intercept inte int whatever in making things appear at their worst in fact all the interest would bethe be the ot biber herway way to induce the people of oklahoma to remain and by their energy thrift and industry do with that territory as the latter day saints have done with alb make it blossom as the rose as a remit of their honest unceasing tot toil hence the accounts a t of destitution I 1 given by eler eider bowring yesterday and by elder kimball today may be ba acce acceded ceped ac pled as an conservative narrations of actual events in the facie of this disinterested testimony it will be seen that the denial of bard hardship shipp whon when these exist to the deplorable extent that they do in oklahoma is a cruel mis statement there to is no difficulty to in finding a motive for the dental denial it to is in the desire of boomers to profit by increased immigration as anything that will keep people away from oklahoma will not be to the pecuniary advantage of chose land sharks and speculators they would make money for themselves even at the price of starvation bior or men women and children it to in about time for a mern rebuke to this cruelty cruelly griping arising from the greed freed of gal rain no at leapt to the extent that those these boomers shall find no fresh victims but that hat the whole truth regarding oklahoma shall be made known regardless of abede abe depressing pr effect it will have oo on the real estate speculator it Is will be readily understood by men of thought and experience that with a two years P drouth and failure of crops ucb such a as oklahoma has had we the roseate account of agricultural and even mining ing prospects there cannot be true even in an established community like a disaster would fall with terrible effect aid of course it would be much more severe to in a newly settled country with the experience of the past pasti two seasons it is in no wonder that the settlers find fiad themselves with insufficient means and are starving it would take quite a fortune to make a start in a farming and grazing country where for years in succession grain and grass are destroyed by drouth the people who rushed into oklahoma when the cherokee strip was opened now have much stronger reason to leave it if the opportunity to is given the rhe NEWS realized at the time of the of the rush that such would be the ease case and so stated although at that date the drouth was not anticipated but a knowledge of usual conditions in that part ot of the country was regarded as 8 sufficient basis for the prediction in the ibe course of bevente as a stated in elder Kim ballo letter it to Is quite probable that a few families of saints from oklahoma will seek homes bomes in utah under the circumstances referred to it to is not to be expected that they will be very well supplied having ha vine lost nearly everything where they art ar consequently the hospitality of the saints here should be extended to them hem as they extended it to those from here who were bearing the gospel message these families expect to earn their living when they come here at such labor as they can find in all probability to la the farming dis dig they have no reason to anticipate that there to is anyone to in waiting here to carry them about and sing sine to them but it la Is expected that they will be treated with that kindness kin duess and hospitality which their honesty integrity and industry entitles entities them to and which will enable them to makes make a good start by dint of perseverance in hard bard work and the deeds of good citizenship zen ship As to the general proposition to aid the destitute in oklahoma there to Is no question but the help is sadly needed in many places pieces and something ought to be done to supply it notwithstanding the assertion of well fed boomers boo merb that families who exist on halt half rations of bread and rusty bacon are not suffering from hunger |