| Show OKLAHOMA the harvest is already being gathered in oklahoma lie sickle of the reaper being represented by the rafla of the land jam per deeds of violence and lawlessness now bid fair to succeed each other in quick succession until the virgin soil shall bo moistened as has been the caad with each new acquisition the lie arts blood of ts pioneers rio alie saddest alie settlers in oklahoma unlike the lardy beginners on other frontiers aro surrounded on all sides by peaceful civilization and all the aids of government the murders which occur nill not be the work of alie lurking indian or tho treacherous greaser but the result of jealousy covetousness or spite on the part of the victims oft n fellows tho journey to the promised land has been costly and full of rials its earli er completion was delayed by regulations which were borne with hot impatience and now eliat at last tho trials and delay are over tho spirits who havo ventured hither are in no mood to debie nice questions of priority or equity A swifter arbitration is at hand a judgment from which thero is no appeal meanwhile Mean some signs of theroigne thero ign of civilization ilgin to show themselves towns ibave 1 cen laid offard aro awing built there aro stores baneg lie never failing saloon and ho first faint vibrations of the press telegraphs and railroads they already have in greater con veniece than many far older com after tho first shock of lawlessness shall have paired an ay there will come a form of government with ample judicial and constabulary power to preserve the peace and insure anstice jn stice then alie territory will become the prosperous domain of which it ghea promise and the inexplicable frenzy which now its founders will ie told and wondered at as myths of lie frontier days growing in incident with each succeeding narration |
