Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1901 — NEW STAR FOR THE FLAG. [ARTICLE]

NEW STAR FOR THE FLAG.

Congress Is quite likely to authorize a new star placed in the American -flag, and Its name will be Oklahoma. The people of Oklahoma and Indian territories have gone to work In a practical way to meet the objections to thefr desire for statehood. Whether they have succeeded Is for congress to decide, but their solution of the problem is at least promising. Oklahoma territory had in 1900 a population of 898,331, of whom 367,524 were whites, 18,831 negroes, 6,018 Indians with political rights, and 6,927 Indiana not taxed. Of whites 313,905 w«w native bora of native parents, 's- »» V ‘i •» h IT >

38,015 native born of foreign parents, and 15,(104 foreign born. Here were evidently desirable materials for an American state. The only trouble was the lack of quantity. The population of Oklahoma alone was not quite sufficient to bring it up to the average magnitude now considered desirable for an equal partner in the union. The obvious thing to do was to unite

Indian territory to Oklahoma. The 1900 census showed Indian territory to have a population \of 392,060, of whom 302,680 were whites, 36,853 negroes, 1,107 Indians with political rights, and 51,393 Indians not taxed. The latter are now being divorced from tribal relations, and will speedily come into possession of lands in severalty and of all political privileges enjoyed by other residents of the ter-

ritory. The question was whether the people of Oklahoma would care to take Into civil partnership all these Indians who, whatever their good qualities, were without experience in more than the most limited form of self-government.—Chicago InterOcean. Janies .1. Hill, the railway magnate.

is said to have two fads. One is the collecting of paintings, and in his St. Paul home he has a large numbeV of pictures which are celebrated all over the world. His other fad is the collecting of unset jewels. Eugene Dupuy of Detroit Is said to be the only man now living who assisted in organizing the American Pharmaceutical association in 1851.