Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-02-13 | Page 13 | New Oil Well May Aid Negro

NEW OIL MAY AID NEGRO BOISE DOISE CITY Okla Okia Feb 12 12 By The Th Associated The Press Press negro who has had an Important In Influence on the th history of no nomans mans man's land may benefit largely from oil d developed that has madi mad the Oklahoma pan andle the tire ne new mecca of oC the states state's oil dome done Officials or of the state school land office believe that the Ram Ram- Ramsay Ran sey say sey discovery ery well In which t a showing of ot oil was waa found two weeks ago aco i Is on state land that was allotted to the Colored Agricultural and MechanIcal MechanIcal Mechanical ical college at Langston at state state- statehood stale hood hood 1 Although the negro ot of the panhandle Is probably pro pro- proportionately proportionately pro proportionately less lesa than any s cUon of ot the tha state the negro In- In Indirectly In Indirectly directly was the th cause of that territory becoming an orphan empire claimed by no state or Jr government Texas refused to accept the tract which comprises some square miles because It Itlay itlay Itlay lay north of ot the Dixon Mason Mason line the boundary established before the tho Civil war to confine slave holding J to the southern states A congressional effort to annex the territory to Ne New Mex lex Mexico ico was wa-s as unsuccessful Kansas to time north already had its boun boun- boundaries boun- boun boundaries daries dance clearly defined and the tho United States supreme court hell that the area could not be he an annexed an- an annexed to the Cherokee outlet a strip trip of land now included In th th state slate of Oklahoma Bearing the title titio of ito no uman's nn's land land th territory for many years recognized no authority and became a rendezvous where out out- outlaws outlaws out outlaws laws could remain In la security It was add added d to Oklahoma territory In 1899 1199 by presidential proclamatIon proclamation tion when what Is now nose the th west west- western western em ern half halt of ot time the lie state of ot was thrown open to white sett ment e- e ement ment and a territorial govern govern- government ment mont was established