Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1903 — OKLAHOMA’S AWKWARD SHAVE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OKLAHOMA’S AWKWARD SHAVE.

i i'ONl.vin t<i tlte admission of Oklahoma Territory to stntehood say (\JJ there are many economic reasons why action should lie deferred. The present boundaries of the Territory are, they say, absurd, and refer especially to the little tail. "No Man's Land,” at the West end, that should logically be part of Texffs. The area. too. is said to lie out of proportion to adjacent States. Statehood demands should be deferred, it is held, until the existing Indian Territory enn be added to its urea. "No Man's Land” has (1,900 square miles, Oklahoma ;i\!isß square miles and Indian Territory 31,900 square miles. Oklahoma is considered'merely a temporary internal division of Indian Territory by some statesmen. In spate of its farming prosperity, Oklahoma, if it now becomes a State, will be a small one. ami will leave the probability of having to make another petty State of Indian Territory in the future.