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11 DESEKET EVENING NEWS SATURDAY JANUARY ij i907
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Oklahomathe Ne Star In the
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Oklahoma
I fK ncU
1 llr u1 moJcltig of tho state of
4 THIS means tim passing
of Indian Territory When
I President Koosevclt shall pro
I claim that Oklahoma actually a state
Indian Territory will bo wiped off tlio
t map By tim net of congress admitting
t a state Into the Union bearing tho
name Oklahoma tho two sections
Known as Indian Territory and tho
k territory of Oklahoma wero combined
t Indian Territory which fur lerly In
cluded moat of tho anu of tho territory
Oklahoma novoI vas u territory In
Mm Hen o In whfcli that term ordinari
ly IM applied a faction of country bo
longjnK tho United States it occu
pied u unique position In Its legal and
I governmental aspect It stood ulone
L There never was In tho world another
V largo section Of country occupying
FA mich a curJotitflyInteresting position
I Tio Oklahoma constitutional convon
itpn Is iiinv In 1I0111l10n at Oudirlo the
1i capital of JIB territory which will bo
Hlsn the capital of tho now atato unli
1913 under tho provisions of the act of
i admission Delegates sit In this con
vention from both tha territories It IB
t4 Undcratooi that the convention will
finish its worlt by the end of January
Then the new Htuto must vote on tho
1
constitution presented Upon Its
adoption President Jloosovelt will Is
mto a proclamation to tho effect that
Oklahoma having compiled with all
tho requirements of the act of congress
la a full fledged state tho fortysixth
In the American Union A governor
and other stale officers will be elected
IWO members of the national house of
representative1 will bo chosen and the
first stato legislature will elect two
United States senators
Tho area of the new state Is about
70000 anunre miles the Indian Terri
tory portion being a Tow thousand
squaro miles less than the western BeeT
ton orHlio territory of Oklahoma The
population Is estimated at a million
and a half Indian Territory furnish I
Ing perhaps small majority of tho
people Already u high degree of civ
ilization baa been attained by both sec
tions of tho state ad that Olclahpma
stops upon tha stage of Statehood and
makes her bow to her fortyflvo sis
ters an tho latest graduate In tho
group averaging in all branches well
up toward the front She has thriving
cities with all up to date Improve
ments colleges and athorough public
school system hundreds of churches
and newspapers thousands of well i
Wrw W W w wnfl
IImlU CHOICE BITS
I The rft ru 1111ce buon ordlnl
c IOl11ol
i Oernmny proauccB goopo UOVIIIB ma
I hlIlUIi > ttrly
II Tliu Atrlcflu rplll hardly over e
conO ninety PHUIKJH In weight
Oxloul linn 134 fellows uiul prifev
tur tuiubildtvc 161
I Tl < uverane ylehl of milk from u
llW tll 400 Kiollotm n ycur
The blue measure used In
Wnlc hwltlsi twothird of 1 Phil
Thu urchfilltr ut Drury Lana or at
i
the present status of women and an
Innlstcr on the serious In art
It might have been a good definition
for Bhaw as ho understood himself nt
the tlmo but It would be wide of the
mark at present It would have to be
expanded In some directions and cur
tailed In others Since then ho has be
come a Benedict a tmcccBSful play
wright and a man of affairs ° the vic
tim of a bank account 1111 ho asserts
humorously
Shaw was born In Dublin fifty years
ago Ho docs not seem Inclined to
apeak of his early life except to deny
almost everything that ban been ald
of It by others Ho admits that ho
made nn his mind at a very early age
to earn hits living by the pen nnd that
nine years effort brought him about
J30 moHt of It a prize for a patent
medicine advertisement At tho ago
of twenty ho concluded that starvation
In London was no more to ho dreaded
than tho came Into nt lionio and Win
likely In bo lean monotonous sn lie
migrated lo ICnplhh foil his com
blued roHuurccH consisting of an Itch
for BCIIbbllng that wu Incurable mid
0 capacity for abstinence that would
have been u delight to Krancls dAs
hlKlHe
He waH lit that limo the author of
no IOHK than lIve novel no ono of
which had over coon tho light Ho took
a luimhlo lodging 1114 Irish plausibility
enabling him to secure u nockn cirillt
nnd proceeded to let loose the torrent
of ideas thai was HrcthliiR within
Armed with n pocketful of nkctchCB ho
annie u tour of the newspaper ofltcas
without lodging 11 sheet At one of
thtin howovor IIP was given to under
Mlnml that bin work would vpcolvn con
Kldorutlon If tho coivlltloim wore ful
filled
Tho young irishman took the hint
und lifter making n Mudy of the pel
ky of thin impnr fiibmlltod another
bnlrli of Hkatfh Ono of them was
uccopt anil tho overjoyed author
win the rlchnr by n crown It was tho
entering wedgi > and It i nvo him n
foothold In the course of time ho
found favor In other literary quarters
and eNtnbllHh a connection which
prccarlmu HH It wan mnio living u
pouflbiliiy to ono or hiM abMomloun
hubiu
lOven nt thin early period of his
cancel ho wnn un ardent ccturlun
nnd had begun to Indulge little Hf
iCovmit Uuden iivorflgCH aovoily iiay
Ol
Tho common herring Is the fls h moat
dlllllllt to procure and preserve alive
qul tflvcr mining hiss u worso cifccl
UIOI1 tho leotii ihnii ariy other occu
Patton 1
Tho Kn I in a i petrol und tho pnrrpt
can live longest of uny birds without
I water
I Ihen art over 30000 > ran hand In
I 1kllllll coniprlMiiB 250090 musician
I man rc > spros lhat Id Uvuwn In
tilled and highly productive farms and
a population of Intelligent citizens re
cruited from practically every state In
tho Union
1tt addition thero Is a native popu
lation which Is the most Interesting of
all This Is mado up of the Indians
who now become citizens of tho United
State eligible to the township con
stabulary or the presidency of the re
public Most ot the Indians live In tho
Indian Territory end of the now state
There all about 100000 of them Com
paratively few of them however are
full blood Indians Some of them
aro white people and others are ne
groes AH arc classed aa Indians boo
cause they ate citizens ot the na
tions of the Five Civilized Tribes It
would require a diagram and a years
a Wr wt WMJ
Instruction to explain tho peculiar
status of these Indian citizens under
the regime that Is now passing away
A Philadelphia lawyer popularly pre
sumed to be able to untangle all twists
and solve aHpuzzles would meet his
Waterloo hone The Dawes commis
sion appointed to do the untangling
has worked twelve years at tho Job
most of the limo under the active tm
pcrvlslon of Hon Tarns Blxby tho
acting chairman until the death of
Senator Dawes when he became
chairman Mr Blxby Is now commis
sioner to tho FIve Civilized Tribes
winding up the work Muskogee tho
largest city In Indian Territory hall
been the headquarters of the commis
sion
Indian Territory was set aside three
quarters of a century ago for the oc
cupancy of the Five Civilized Tribes
and a fow Indians of other tribes The
nvo tribes aro the CheroKees Creeks
Choctaws Chickasaws and Seminoles
They were driven tram theIr native
country In the states of North and
South Carolina Georgia Florida Ala
bama Mississippi and Louisiana The
United States government herded them
In Indian Territory which at the time
was supposed to be a barren tract on
the outskirts of tho mythical Great
American desert not fit for tho habi
tation of white men but good enough
for Indians As a matter of fact It Is
ono of the most fertile and habitable
regions on the globe
The trIbes settled In tho wilderness
of the territory and built up a civlliza
wnw ww r
I GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I I I
foctailona hut Bfrved to murk him as
nn nrlglnul lu limiters of rces hn I
inisumvd tho wldoet latitude That any
Eanmnt tvun fit bit lonuth In thn prevail
ing style vu Kiiillulcnt lo obtain his
condemnation for It filurclivd linen
liicuth flxleoii to twenty times tt mln
uto or JOOOO times u day
The HrlllMi house of parliament
WIlt 7500000 which Is tho vaino
amount 1111 Hi rotcr at Homo coat In
building
A ton of wnler from the Atluntlo
octan when evaponited yloltjs St
pounds of spit a IQn of Pacific water
79 pound and water from the Dvuil
ecu U7 pounds
An olghtycarolil boy > vlin cp < jiikn
four foreign lauKuugea fluently haa
hern milled tu the Broohllite Mass
bli4Iu1ool Ills uame U WlIUH
and pollelifil hoots wcrp an obnoxious
to him cm Is tho chimney pot hat In I
Wliliucluiiiel HP went about In the
K Iull of a wnritmRii out of cinployinnnt
Wfnrlng cuux iliiimel shirts with
Wide rolling collars nnd iv slouch hat
JAlllell Hldl > uinf ho Is thought to bo
tho yininuriit high school boy In tho
Unllcd H Itl tel As veIl as knowing live
language ho has u remurlmblo tnowl
cilgo or muthonimUs urnl phytlcii
At n new mill ovoncd In nndclirf
Unslnnd nccpllv unployniont has
boon round for n family of ton ulatcr
They Tllwlco with a widowed mollioi1
A pocket tclophonn for pollco pur
Poses IH tho most novel thlnir in tele
phony It Is sail II he seen In daily
use In Vienna where every policeman
on duty III provided wlh the incosBury I
upplluncw In every l lrtli of 1m >
that overtopped n bushy head of hair
und a lean flea decorated with red
whiskers
Such was George Bernard fihaw In
those early day s There was perhaps
not another nina In London who could
portanco arc sPecial call boxes and a
man to communicate with his station
han only to pull nut his pocket appara
tug IInd adjust It to tho wire In tho
box
boxA bridge built entirely of mahogany
claimed to be the only one of the kiwi
In tho world U In tho stat of Chiapas
Nvxlcg rite bridge spans he lllo
Mlchol and Its total length Including
Bpincches exceeds 160 feel while the
width IK feel U hi used by both
team and ptile trlann and Ihoufih
uomawhut rudo itnil prliultlvo in cont
ruction U very eubstantlal none Qt
tlon such as has existed nowhere else
Each trlbo occupied Its own section of
the territory establishing what was
known as Its nation Thus we have
the Cherokee nation the Creek nation
and so on Each nation bad Its capital
and Its legislature and elected Us
governor or principal chief The leg
islatures were modeled after those ot
tho states In the Creek legislature
for Instance the upper and lower
houses were called respectively the
house of kings and the house of war
riors Every king however was only
a commoner By the same token every
warrior was a peaceful citizen All
lands were held In common It was a
modern Utopia a new world commun
ism but like most Utopias It was not
a perfect state of being Tho Indians
had troubles of their own Over and
above all was tho great white father
at Washington who In relation to
these five little nations and their peo
ple was practically a king
The white mans advance continued
irresistibly White people poured Into
the five nations They could not own
lands there but they could occupy
lands paying ront to the Indian na
tions when necessary and helping
themselves to the use Of the land when
they felt ao Inclined nnd could do so
without trouble to themselves
In 1889 the first large tract of land
toward the western end of the big ter
ritory was opened to settlement under
the homestead laws and the territory
of Oklahoma was created This land
was wast of the five nations which
still remained under tho old regime
Later several other largo tracts wore
opened to settlement and added to
Oklahoma Including the great Chero
kee Strip and that remarkable region
which used to be called No Mans
Land because its status seemed to be
such as to place It outside the pale of
civilization and about the only atten
tion paid to it by Uncle Sam was to
exorcise passively the right of emi
nent domain Thus was created the
territory of Oklahoma while Indian
Territory was made up only of the flvo
flourish on so small a capital His
physical requirements Were so few
that they occasioned him no worry
and all of his effort could be directed
toward the business of making him
self known Ho was absolutely with
out any of the trivial vices of men of
his kind tobacco ho maintained was
Satans most potent ally und the uso
of flesh was distinctively cannibalistic
He was an extreme socialist That
enabled him to mount a box In Hyde
park on Sundays and holidays and
harangue the crowd His unkempt np
pearanco anti his extravagant lan
guage attracted considerable atten
tion and the mora the bettor for
George Bernard Shaw Ho thus be
came nn easy speaker antI later on be
gan to deliver lectures on it variety of
subjects whenever and wherever ho
could secure a hearing
This was his life for twentytwo
years At the end of that period lie
really hud little to show for all his ef
fort Ho had achieved a certain
amount of popularity no doubt but it
was of the kind that IH least of all
satisfying to Its owner Ho had cre
ated a market for his literary wares
and had become the mouthpiece or
those who make it their vir
tue to decry modern ways of doing
His iipoitolatC was not pthli1 own
choosing but wna composed of those
of nil classes who see no merit In
things aa they exist Himself n man
of wit and creative talent he must have
despised tho puny logic of those who
professed to bo his disciples
At tho ago of fortytwo nnd for the
first time on record Shaw lapsed Into
conventionality and was legally wed
led to a woman who know Hint and his
ways and was prepared to capo with
them Ho had spent twenty ypars of
I his liCe In Inveighing Against matri
mony as It hi practiced by ulvlllzed
mankind and the news or his Darby
and Joan marrlngo canio like II shook
to those who had enrolled themsnlves
as hilt followers DIre consequences
woro predicted but they havo not
come On tho contrary there Is every I
Indication that marriage hnu done I
Jlellt things for the eccentric and
would bo Iconoclastic Irishman The
eight years of his marrM llfu have
brought him greater prosperity than
ho had ever known and dmne tlclty
has added greatly to his popularity
Ills literary output has not become
tho timbers of the flooring worn nuwn
for In that region thorn are no saw >
mills hut woro h wn and IIlll1t
Twentyfour patient In a ward of
81 Radius hospital Budapest sent an
ultimatum to tho director declaring
that tliuy hud nt tlvtd to lako up food
or medicine until a nurse wan rat
inovcid After the strike had lasted
nearly twmuyfuiir Ijpurs the director
yielded
Vienna will shortly possess a rmi
setup oxCluilyely levoted to musk In
the modern world at lea no city could
be more appropriately choieu for HI
nations and the small Quaoaw resdrva
tlon In the northeast corner
In 1S93 so many whites had con itt
Indian Territory that things were In a
terrible mess Congress determine to
allot the lands to the Indians in soy
erally with ultimate statehood In view
Tha Dawcs commission undertook thu
task The flrst thing was to nnd th
Indians Any person having one sit
tyfourth part of Indian
blood was to
bo classed as n citizen entitled to al
lotment Under certain conditions the
white men who had married Indlani
were also to be approved as citizens
Then there were the oinanclpat j
slaves ot tho Indians who also ClIme
In for allotment The full bloods
who number only about 25000 alto
gether were of course to bo cither
but many of them resisted the allot
ment preferring to cpntlnua holding
the lands In common Some ot them
took to tho woods and the hills The
commissioners had to go out and hunt
them up twist their pedigrees out ot
them In some manner and compel them J
to accept their share of tho highly valu
able acreage That was one of the
most difficult parts of the Job
There are Indians In Indian Ter
ritory now holding rich land as white
as any white person who may read
these lines There are Indian maidens
Iththe peachlest complexions and
the most glorious of raven tresses and
there are some blonds But they are
Indians they have a trace of III lan
blood Happy men no whiter than
they though altogether white hivs
married many of these maidens ud
are living happily ever after for as a
rule the girls are highly educated re
fined and pretty
General Pleasant Porter formwlj
governor of the Creek nation Is a
typical white Indian He Is a Creek
Muskogee which Is In the Creek na
tlon Is the largest city in Indian Ter
ritory It had about 5000 people four
years ago and now claims S3COO
which Is said to be not an extravagant
claim The city has trolley lines the
aters big hotels and many handioci
homes In old Oklahoma are Okla
homa City and Guthrie each rapidly
striding forward In population wd
Importance while many smaller atilt
are growing so fast that you can lee
them grow
Aside from the unusual condition
Incident to Indian Territory and b
history Oklahoma presents a nsi
fascinating story of developmcit I
is full of romance and thrill Vjfcati
might bo written about it as Itail
ing as any of tho six best sellers ill
week In Action and far more desftfc
of public attention The story 01 U
Neutral Strip or No Mans toi
already mentioned which now font
Beaver county in tho extreme weston
projection of Oklahoma has an in
written history worthy of any ro
mancers pen The facts alone could
be woven Into serial stories enough U
supply the magazines for nazi
months ROBERTU3 LOVE
1 J1 0 George Bernard Shaw Wit and Man of Letters I
r j I EOIlG1 HBItNAUD SHAW
f if fl O ono of the most thoroughly
I f exploited men of the day and
11 It la u reflection on ones ca
I It pacity for keeping up with the times
if II not to know something of him One
of the moHt Interesting things about
I I 11 him Is the method by which he has
achieved 110 great notoriety In so short
a time
I Of course there are various well au
rI thenticated ways of doing It Horn
Icldo and tho long and elaborate In
k tcrmWzo between tho act Itttclf and
i I administration of retributive justice
f4 afford u certain and rather popular
i I means of securing publicity Suicide
1 IH equally potent but It has one capi
1 I tal drawback ho who is most con
cerned Is debarred from the full enjoyment
j
joyment of the titmsiiilon Happily for
the born egotist there more ubunilant
i other less extreme resources If ho Is
J I cleVer enough ho is pretty likely to
i Ii mid u vehicle Hiiltubio to hln purpose
i i J HIww has funnel that medium fly
j mciUiH of ii IK linn itt tflt C t coO tic at
I trntlun of the KiiRlUll npnnUIng
world purtlcuIarJy Amuvloii Tliura uro
liieiloun sit m > milan Kngllnh por
t I haps Win bclliVp him Li > be tho near
est approjrli in dihi of the time
I There MIT nli < M > plenty of them who
f riKard hitn IH an iirrant charlatan
I 4 liurtuualoly for Mr Hha v both views
I j uro liuli IMU iiluuitit equallyKO In
obtaining ic iilin hat which lio nooks
5u imli > ubl
C KB lit Urn IIIH un unploauaiH wound
A
I liui It r ally loul HO a vuVK It Is only
1 liuulii Ill in tin ignoriiii and vulgar
l In thr ImnlK of the CAlialJIo iliiil doer
j II limy ho intida tlvirouKhty nujoyahln
I uml fvea Ilctliiitile Tho egotliim of
I
HCDiKi I tlIl < < Ill Klmvv Iitruiincondmit
I and Ill pe itOliiK lint It In never com
I iiionpUiL It lx tin lunilratlon ot ii
I ILU Ii poKM trd uf u lurfolt of clover
niii iixi nn mufiiimchnhle deNim to
eipioli u
A fIw jidiM UR < I wiimi Mr Hlmw was
joist bcginnlm to unmet attention It
oconrroil in him that It would ho a
i novel thIng to dillnn lilmitalf precisely
j al It the word tfhaw wero u common
4 nuun in its corrrcl alphuliitlcnl poM
a lion n > tint dlitlunury Thin Willi tha
uutuiiio I bachelor un IrUhmun n
veguiirlun nn iKheiNt u teetotalor tt
fitiuiili 11 iimorlht a tlueiH liar u fa
duO a iiKMrui a lecturer mimI ileljuicr
t u luvir of iniKic a iiqrcj up > ohoit of
markedly less erratic but Us market
value has expanded Immensely
The Shaws live at tho top of a W
old fashioned house which stands only
a few hundred yards from the bustling
Strand Tho building dates back to
the French revolution and there Is
nothing modern looking about Its ex
terior On tho lower floors aw IM
premises of the Now Beform club In
which Mr Shaw Is greatly Interests
stairway
From the club rooms a winding
way leads up to tho Shaw mcrwjf
and halfway up this ascent Is a IIUt
wooden gate such ns Is used to prevcn
small children from falling downstair
On this gate Is a plate which bears th
legend Ills Bernard Shaw Fleas
lUng A ring brings a trim senw
who unlocks the gate and ushers ts
visitor Into a groat drawing room tu
looks out through three big wlnoow
over tho Thames embankment
Tho room Is charming and EO Ale
Its contents and 60 also arc Hid Shag
when they make their nppearanw
Mr Slmw IJlu pleasant faced niatrw
with a constant and highly speclalUw
knack of bearing the burden of tile
Ii
husband
conversation when her
present Shnw himself Is a tall thin
and quick 01
man straight In body
movement Ho wears a red ww
with white and
straggling and Hocked
tenth llIlch
white
has big and very
arcs quite prominent He Is no Jongtr
till
conspicuously unconventional In
attire but still retains certain pecui
lurltlea of dress
talker II e it
Shaw IK unique as a
unmistakably of tho sort that needs
no drawing out Om has only to 501
the W t
Shaw docs
gcst a topic and
Ha talks rapidly and with a Uht
brogue and ho never hesitates for a
tallk5 0
word or an Illustration 110
al
It Beams
fluently and so well that
delivering a cart
iiiout as It ho wore
What he 5 8I
fully prepared lecture
too U entirely worth while
Mr Bhuw Is not partial to the Jffs
and although ho Is exceedingly Pj
clouH to American visitors It Is under
0
>
stood that lie does not liP proo
whole Homo i bll
America as a
drill of mow
plays have made a great
on this nldB of the water but 118 nJ
fate
never become reconciled to the
Mrs Wnirfnd 1rofessloi whICh IIi
declares to have been the ICUm
Comstocker f
JAMES It TJN1f
mucca asenclatlond InlitMlIlelll
maiiiiKcrlpt portraits sculpture IOt
rith
If
In fact ovorytliliig awocltttea tcd
great muflclariH win be rtflreft
in
Tho collection will bo n olpflclall rJen
w
includsCr
will
its historical side It
4eP
Haml MC
Igliwl scores hv Hach
pet
Mowr
ieiohn fipohr Weber
Lie O
thoveii upi Brtthnu Thcio Ifill II
be a complete collection of pl3nQ
ID
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of
luetratlnff the dsyfilopmciit
Btrumcnt from ttx eftrile lfglJlflta II
apdiir lira Imllpon cqnlnICI l
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26U I was heated by an eBhje W
utCVII that weighed nearly halt Aen