Weekly Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 38, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 20, 1894 Page: 2 of 8
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The State Capital.
By Tha Slate Capital Printing Co.
FRANK H GREER. Editor.
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0PIn*requestfng a changeof poatofflce j take pleasure in testing Hit elaetieity
address always (five the nume of th® I of Sma'l He can crack at us and we
postoffice to which the paper has beftn ,|j crack back—without fatal-
•ent; otherwise their u-ay be a delay in
OTVE HIM A FRIESDLY HAXD.
The newspapers of Oklahoma are
unfraterual, ungenerous, si most inde-
cent, in the rough hand they are ex-
tending to Brother Small. Small has
as much right to start a paper in Okla-
homa as any man has to start a whole-
sale house or peanut stand. To deory
the venture strongly scents of cow-
ardice—of a fear to cope with the
famous Sam. The State Capitai. likes
Small. He advocates a cause close to
the democratic heart—national prohi-
bition—and he does it with force and
power. We delight in rivalry and will
Col. Thompson, though the opposi-
tion had all the machinery in its
hands, did not get scooped in the
Murphy resignation matter. He had a
squib about it.
A mi.i. making a state of Oklahoma
alone and providing that as fast as the
live tribes are ready to sever their
tribal relations and allot they shall
be attached to and become a part of
the State of Oklahoma, could bp ob
jeoted to by no one and would be an
easy and quick solution of the state-
hood questiou.
tent;
making the change.
Sample copies sent free.
(^"Liberal inducements to Postmaateri
and Club Atrenta
SATURDAY JANUARY 20. 18S4.
ity, we hope, to either. Pit-
tance is a great magnifier. Close
inspection and trial will prove
—5 j Small to be like other men no
j better and no worse than some other
1 newspaper men in Oklahoma. His
' MiwinmiiiT VnTH fi\ bo(|y wiu probably fall gracefully and
IMiUivlAW 1 U"1 | per force into a diet of atmophere and
If you are not a subscriber to this «lm buds. To get him in Oklahoma
paper, but at the same time are re-j will get this territory widely talked
.... ii.. about. In the end Oklahoma will get
celving it occasionally or regularly,,
more out of Small than Small will out
it is because some friend has paid for | u why ,,rethren chargc
it and ordered it sent to you, with the
hope that you may find something in
it tnat will interest and benefit you.
H will be discontinued at the expira-
tion of the time for which it has been
paid. This statement is made so that
you will know that you will not be
expected to pay for it.
Tiik position of democracy on the
statehood question is awkward, fool-
ish and, to it. very fatal.
Thk story that the Dalton gang
want to give up and get two years has
a loud smell of fish about it.
Thk paragraphs on the editorial
page of the Wichita Ragle areas flashy
and dazzling as Murdock's hair.
like scared bronchos at his advent?
Give him a kindly, generous, fraternal
hand—and the Lord will bless you for
it, with an increase in your diet of
zephyrs and elm buds. Your witti-
cisms on the coming man are unlrodly,
intemperate and protrude a green eye.
Wait, at least, until the bars are down
before you rush from the pasture to
gore your neighbor, who perhaps may
be no worse than you are, with a bare
chance that he is better.
K. C. Journal: Oklahoma is being
turned from a wilderness, overrun
by Indians and wild beasts, into one
of the most thriving communities of
the country. Cities and towns are
springing up all over the new terri-
tory, and the fanning land is being
brought to a high state of cultivation.
Men are turning to the new country
until it now rivals its adjoining neigh-
bors in population.
THE SITUATION EPITOMIZED.
Representative Burrows' Speech:
In the face of this magnificent tri-
umph, it is now proposed to call a halt
in the industrial march, and turn the
column backward over the deserted
and disastrous pathway leading to
free trade. The command has already
been given, and consternation has
or none"—what a i taken possession of all our people. The
terprisiug platform, j record of this single year's disasters
stand without a parallel in the his-
tory of our country. Fifteen thousand
five hundred and sixty business fail
ures, teventy-three railways, aggre-
gating 34,873 miles, and representing
untold millions of property, gone into
the hands of receivers and to bank-
ruptcy. Our mines and our factories
"tiiNOLK fctmU'
grand, liberal,
It needs i.o label to display its democ-
racy.
Thk railroul his changed the name
of their station from Wharton to Per-
ry, and there i* rejoi ing among Per-
ry i Us.
Ykh, as the ti ''in
would, it has madeev
—especially labor and statesmanship.
The pe:>p'e have n .thing to buy with.
atic party said it j
rythingcheaper j aru closed; smokeless chimneys stand
like monuments above the graves of
Tiik butloea* of the country is evi-
dently at a lower ebb than was gener-
ally supposed Kveii the Dalton gang,
it appea s, wwi's t > go into the hands
of a receive.*
Thky say ck (Jovernor Seay and
Billy Grimes have joined the Admires
in management of the Free Press.
With all these h^avy-weights, on its
editorial fort", will compel the throw-
ing in of a derri,*1; with each subscrip-
tion.
Jakk Admiuk gave two and a half
columns in ih • Kingfisher Free Press
to prove th'it Sun Small's autobiogra-
phy "From liar Ito >m to Pulpit" is a
failure as a ICeeley institute. It made
some laugh, n>U< dy cry—and didn't
suit .lake at all
Cleveland authorised Willis to re-
store a queen to kill American citi-
zens, for Queeu Lit says now if she had
been seated she would have beheaded
all the leading insurrectionists. What
a record for a president of the I'nited
States!
dead industries, while an army of the
unemployed is tramping the streets
begging for bread.
Yet the half has not been told. The
record of this year's industrial and in-
dividual suffering, resulting from the
proposed legislation, will never be
made up. It exceeds the possibilities
of human calculation.
You have only to substitute for the
pending measure a joint resolution
declaratory of your purpose to main-
tain existing law in full force and
effect during the continuance of this
administration and business activity
would instantly take the place of
business ■ depression. It would
arrest the slaughter of our flocks,
open our mines, relight the tires of
our furnaces, unchain the wheels of
our industries, start every spindle and
loom, while whistles and factory bells
would call the tramping, staring mil-
lions back from enforced idleness to
profitable employment, and the Amer-
ican republic would leap with a bound
to its accustomed place in the van of
industrial nations.
A. Ban nino Notion, who declared
he would uot cut his hair or shave his
face until Henry Clay became presi-
dent. and kept his vow, died in Dallas,
Texas, last weak al th«* age of ninety.
He was in Guthrie last fall. He was a
remarkable character—an epitome of j that come high.
It is sometime since Sam Small ran
a newspaper—if he ever did. He will
discover that scintillating editorials
are the least essential to success.
Brains are the cheapest things about a
newspaper office. They are loose
everywhere, anxious to startle a gap-
ing world with rare genius for a small
weekly stipend. It is business men
Those who can run
County Tbeasuber Stiles had to
mandamus the commissioners to pay
his clerk hire. Judge Dale promptly
granted the petition. The commis-
sioners made a mistake by such pro-
cedure. The treasurer's office is avery
important one. requires a great amount
of labor, and its records must be prop-
erly kept. Of course the treasurer and
his deputy cannot do it at all seasons,
if they can at any.
Times-Journal: The Guthrie people
are worked up over the disposition of
that ten acre capitol ground. Save it,
brethren, for public purposes. If you
secure the capital, there is where the
capitol buildings ought to be located.
If you do not secure the prize, it will
make a nice park.
Not at all. There is no dispute over
Capitol square. It is the forty acre
park in the northeast corner of Capitol
Hill, which belongs to Guthrie also,
which townsite board No. G wants to
sell to individuals to gt t money to pro-
long its exhausted life.
A lot of poor depositors who have
been waiting patiently to get their
money out of the old Commercial bank
assets are getting very restless. They
say they can get 110 reports, except
those filed for allowances as salary
and expenses for the receiver and
attorney, which is rapidly vanishing
the assets. There are some two hun-
dred depositors interested and their
irritation is liable to break out at any
time, and when it does somebody will
have to jump.
Tiik Press-Gazette is the real terri-
torial organ of democracy. It sets
this down as the democratic platform:
The democrats are in harmony up?n
the vital questions which interest the
territory, and these are, that they are
in favor of one state for the old In-
dian territory, or no statehood at all.
* * If the (iemoerats in congress
give us a state for Oklahoma, with its
present boundaries, they will do so
against the protest of the democratic
party in the territory."
Congress has demonstrated plainly
that it will not disturb the five tribes,
but it offers us an enabling act for
Oklahoma alone. The democrats re-
ject it Thereby they plant them-
selves aquarely against statehood.
They are not willing that Oklahoma
should come in now, and allot the
five tribes later. If we don't get state-
hood for five years, the people will
have no trouble in finding where to
place the sole blame.
political history,
and a genial soul
charming talker ! the business end of a newspaper suc-
cessfully are even scarcer than prohi-
bitionists in Oklahoma City. A paper
Tiik souvenir edition of the Chicka-1 may jog along with few editorials, but
saw Chieftain is al hand. It is the It won't run long with an empty till,
first effort of this kind ever made in The counting room, not the editorial
the Indian Territory. It is full of tripod, is the measure of newspaper
illustrations of Indian white men, fine
houses, etc. Its statistics give a new
and comprehensive idea of the Indian
Territory. McAil.tin has done himself
proud in this editiou and is now at
Washington with a barrel of them un-
der his arm, using tliein in stateliood's
cause.
SoMK small, contemptible enemy got
in his work on Col Thompson, of the
News. The man who sent thatcorres-
pondence to the Wichita Kagle,stating
that the News had been closed by the
sheriff and that Thompson had lied
the town, ought to be exposed by name
and have the full penalty of the law.
It is surprising that such a malicious
person could have imposed on the
Eagle. Of course the correspondent
did it deliberately and knowing it to
be false, as no one here had heard of
such a thing until the Eagle brought
the false statement. There is no ex-
cuse for such misrepresentation. None
success. They are excellent duals, but
if either is lame it had better be the
editor. Pulitzer, whose New York
World success has outrivalled all ri-
vals. hasn't written an editorial for
twenty years. He lived with his nose
in the money till ai|d made the great-
est newspaper in the world yet. That
is a good place for every newspaper
uian to keep his nose a good sharo of
the time. There are a very few men
who can run either end, or both, with
success, but such are harder to Hud
than the mote in your eve.
Thk Indian Territory papers are
talking very sassy to Gov. Fishback
about his letter to Cleveland. They
say "you're another" and declare Ar-
kansas to contain a Rougher lot of citi-
zens than the Indian Territory. The
Muskogee Phoenix says:
"There is not a more honest people
in the world than the Indians, and the
non-citizens who come here and iden-
tify themselves with the interests of
the country are the peers of their fel-
lows in the states. The lawless ele-
ment here are nearly always a shifting
class of non-citizens, who are dodging
from apprehension and do not stay at
one place long enough to be known,
and they form a very smalt fractional
per cent of the population. The social
influences that would be thrown
around the Indians in the event of
statehood would not be a whit better
than they are today, and the govern-
ors assertion that the Indians' associ-
ations are making thein criminals is a
false aspersion on both the Indians
and the whites."
MI Rl'Ii J' S REtSIOtTArrotc.
Terrttorial Treasurer Samuel Mur
phy has resigned and M. L. Turner
has been appointed in his place. That
there was no scheme between the gov-
ernor, Turner and Murphy we know
Judge Murphy did not kuow that Tur-
ner was to be appointed. We know
Judge Murphy to be an honest man.
Ue lias filled his office honorably and
accurately. His life has been one of
strict probity. His friendships have
been lasting aud his friends many. In
this matter, however, he has made
grave mistake. From the head of his
party it throws him to the foot. The
men who have been closest to him
politically will have cause to belieye
him untrue to friends and parly. The
man who lays down in the middle of
the road when a crisis is on, is the
man in whom parties and inen put
small faith. We have known Murphy
as a fighter; we have praised and ad-
mired his staunch party fealty and his
high personal honor. We know some
things about his resignation which, to
considerable extent, would vindicate
him—but this reason we can not mention
now It will keep and will fall heav-
ily on other heads than on Murphy's
when it drops.
Murphy's action practically beheads
every republican territorial official ex-
cept 1'arker. Simultaneously with
Turner's appointment comes the news
that the territorial educational bonds
have been sold. This means that
Turner will turn this money over to
the new regents, with the 819,000 of
government money now in dispute,
which will enable the new boards to
go to work. They can readily con-
struct new books, if they have the
cash to work on.
The republicans will find no excuses
for Murphy. They will declare he
laid down on his friends and his party.
The change of court is no excuse. The
party, as a party, made a stand that
no territorial officer could be legally
removed. After this fight was inau-
gurated it was the duty of every re-
publican to stand by It. Murphy had
been bold in declarations of fealty to
this policy—and now he has voluntar-
ily forsaken the fight. Had he stayed
with the guns and gone down through
a partisan ruling, he would have gone
down honorably, after a good fight,
and would have had the plaudits of
his friends and his party. Instead
they can but feel that, in a weak mo-
ment, the enemy captured him, and he
yielded up the Hag, while the battle
was yet on and no immediate signs of
the right being defeated.
We regret that Judge Murphy
yielded to the lioundiDgs of the dem-
ocracy. The schemes for which they
wanted him out are more invidious
to this territory than to the republican
party. Some men wanted to get their
hands into the public treasury, ille-
gally, and Murphy was a block to their
desires. His surrender gives the
chance for plunder, and enables some
plots to fruit to which Murphy was an
estoppel—but to which his resignation
gives a free and open vent, and from
it will spring a democratic scaralal
which will early drive to oblivion all
concerned with it.
President Dole, in stating why the
Hawaiian provisional government re-
fuses to turn over to Queen I.il, chews
Cleveland up gloriously and places
him in an unenviable light indeed.
He recognizes the present Hawaii
government as a sovereign power, hav-
ing diplomatic relations with the
Press-Gazette: The sight of the Ilev-
erend Samuel Small bending over the
forms of the Daily Oklahoman at three
o'clock Sunday morning trying to
make it up to look as much as possible
like the Atlanta Constitution must
have made the Reverend McMaster
cuss a verse or two, even if the blinds
were down.
And didn't it make the laity wince
to read that "when the democratic
party declares itself on prohibition it
will be time for the Oklahoman to
speak out?" Does Brother Sam pro-
pose to surrender at once to the large
cornjuiee majority of his party—or
will he howl prohibition in the pulpit.
while his paper hangs on the fence,
afraid to squeak for fear of party dis-! the banner ot which hung
a ma small .ron.
The State Capital has, for some
time past, noted with sorrow the grad-
ual moral retrograde of the democratic
party. Always somewhat given to its
cups, last fall it got on a grand "high
lonesome" as a result of what to it
was victory but to the country woe.
This seems to have been the one
drunk from which it could not recov-
er. Last fall the spree was inaugurated
on so-called victory: it soon was fed
by remorse and by failures so thick
that the papers couldn't find space
enough to record them. Remorse is
an awful master. In its grip democ-
racy seemed to go down, down, down,
until utter ruin seemed its doom. We
sighed for it, we prayed for it—but to
no avail. We were about to give up
in despair, when a new reclaimer of
mighty power shot across the ambient
sky. That great reformed re-
former, Sam Small, seeing his party
in the gutter, determined that he and
the Lord would reach down and take it
by the nape of the neck and lift it up.
Awful task that it was. brave Sam
Small determined to tackle it! He
made it no local determination—his
eye of reform took in national democ-
racy. He decided to start an organ on
out, like
United States, and that this govern-
ment has no right, legally or morally. | favor. Brother Sam Jones will have the headlight of a locomotive, the illu-
to interfere, if the United States' to come up and stick a prod under minated motto—"NATIONAL PROHI-
but a jejune would take so infamous a | minister and the marines excelled this the prohibition department of his pu- BITION." There is no Keeley about
w y to get even with an enemy, for j authority—which Dole denies, that is pil's paper. It's none of our funeral— Sam's remedy. His science is purely
les never tackled thing so great! Hut
in the hands of such a man as Small,
if he can persuade the divine power to
assist him in such an awful job, the
democracy ought to be landed on the
high, dry platform of sobriety and
Godliness.
The prohibition organ has been
launched and already some democratic
inebriates are wincing. They ac
knowledge the need o{ reform, but the
time, they say, is inauspicious. They
view their platform of "anti-sumptu
ary laws," "freedom of the individ
ual," and hesitate to swear off. In the
meantime a lot of "cross-roads" demo-
cratic organs rise up out of their dem
ocratic orgies and shout failure at
Psamuel almost before his hand is
reached out to save them.
If ltrother Small can reform the
democracy, wet or dry, America will
call him blessed^-if he can reform it
dry the day of miracles will have
again come. The experiment is hailed
with joyby everybody—except the dem-
ocrats. Cleveland and Hoke, however,
have taken time between drinks to
end a word of welcome to the organ
of reform and the god of Baccus has
called a hurried meeting of his demo-
cratic clans to discuss the promised
remarkable phenomena of a demo-
cratic platform in which is a prohibi-
tion plank. And the while ever3"body
is "taking another drink or two" that
the saloons may not be left with too
large a stock on hand when the crash
comes which will send gurgling to the
sea the balm of youth which has
buoyed democratic hopes since the
memory of man first had stamped
thereon the corn-juice prophesies of
'the fathers of democracy."
What a feline time there will be at
that democratic statehood convention
at Perry on the l'4th. The "single
statehood or none" fellows will be
chewed up by the growing sentiment
for "statehood anyway we can get it
quickest."
Those who have accused Frank Mc-
Master with having an interest in the
Oklahoman should now apologize to
Frank, since reading the editorial page
of the new venture. There are no
signs of Frank's coruscations. His in-
imitable style could be easily detected
were it there.
spite was undoubtedly the object It
is the Eagle's duty to tell who wrote
that item and tc' it quickly.
purely a matter between the United and we throw these thoughts out only spiritual and guaranteed to cure the
States and its servants, with which as an ardent seeker after the early re- worst case of spirits, of which he ex-
IIawaii has nothing to do. form of the democratic party. I hibits himself as an-example. Hercu-
Thk Oklahoma and Indian territory
statehood committee has taken the
right track at Washington. They will
argue for single statehood, but declare
they are willing for statehood in any
form congress will give It to us quick-
est. There are no "single statehood
or none" men on that committee.
Champ Ci.akk writes that he proposes
to shed his coat for Oklahoma state-
hood, and adds: "The house is in a
three-cornered fight on the Oklahoma
bill. Some want Oklahoma to come in
by itself: some want it to come in with
the five tribes and some want the
whole thing to stay out. I want to
see the whole thing come in at once."
QFEEX HL'S POSITION.
She Will Not Seek Damages, but Will tem
Her Cause to the I/ulted States.
San Francisco, Jan. 17.—In corre-
spondence from Hawaii received by the
steamer Australia it was asserted that
the deposed queen had given up the
contest for reinstatement and would
sue the United States for damages for
the part taken by the former repre-
sentatives of this country at the time
the provisional government was substi-
tuted for the monarchy.
Samuel Parker, prime minister of the
ex-queen and minister of foreign affairs,
and A. Peterson, attorney-general, two
members of the cabinet at the time of
the change of the government, who
came by the same steamer, briefly de-
nied the statement, deeming that it
was unimportant. Last night they
noticed in the telegraphic dispatches
from Washington that considerable
weight is given at the capital to this
report. In consequence, Mr. Parker
has sent a strong telegram to Secretary
of State (iresham signe f as prime min-
ister ol foreign affairs, positively deny-
ing these assertions and declaring that
the queen had submitted her case to
the arbitration of the United States
and would patiently await that ver-
dict.
Parker and Peterson said last even-
ing that they saw the queen half an
iiour before they left on the steamer
Australia and that she was firm in her
determination to maintain her claim to
the throne. At no time did she or any
of her advisers mention the possibility
of presenting a claim to the United
States for pecuniary damages.
Itohliifton No ramlulHtp.
Topeka, Kan., Jan 17.—Ex.-Gov.
Charles Robinson, who is in Topeka to-
day attending the meeting of the State
Historical society, denies any knowl-
edge of a plan to nominate him for the
governorship on a coalition ticket of
democrats and populists and denies
that he is a candidate for any office.
.Senator* in No llurrv.
Washington, Jan. 17.—The senate
finance committee to-day listened to
Secretary Carlisle's letter on the finan-
cial outlook, but adjourned without
taking any action, with the under-
standing that a meeting would be held
very soon for the further consideration
of the question.
Clyde Mattox (iiillty of Murder.
Wichita, Kan., Jan. 17.—In the
United States court to-day the jury in
the Clyde Mattox ease brought in a
verdict of murder in the first degree.
Mattox heard the verdict as stoically
as an Indian would have. Thus ends
Mattox's third trial for the muudt*' oi
.John Mullin, a negro, in Oklahoma
City, in December, lssy.
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NO FIGHT.
Gov. Mitchell Wdl Surely Prevent It in
Florida.
HIS PLANS WELL MATURED.
If People I-ose Time and Money Colng to
Jacksonville Their Will Only Have
Themselves to Blaine—The Ad.
Jutaut-Cieneral Also Says
the Fight Will Be
Prevented.
Tallahassee, Fla., Jan. 17.—Gov.
Mitchell has no intention of abandon-
ing his fight against the Duval Athletic
club and the Corbett-Mitchell contest,
but, on the contrary, is more deter-
mined than ever, anil has laid plans
which he says cannot fail. To-day he
said: "You can announce that I'm
going- to prevent this prize tight, for
that's what it is, no matter how many
other terms are applied to it."
"Hut it is hintei that the Jackson-
ville militia has declined to aid you?"
was suggested.
4,That is not true," said the governor
sharply, "but if they did happen to so
decline, it would not affect my plans in
the slightest degree. 1 am going to
prevent that tight, and that's all there
is about it. Corbett and Mitchell can-
not fight in this state."
"Have you read that the club has
several other plans in view if Jackson-
ville is abandoned?"
"I have, and I repeat emphatically
that the tight shall be prevented in the
state of Florida. I grant you they may
sneak off in the woods somewhere and
have it out, but I don't see how even
this can be done. I shall not call upon
the Jacksonville militia. Some of them
are in favor of the tight and have
friends who are interested."
"Then you will employ the militia of
some other point of the state?"
"You may draw your own conclu-
sions. The adjutant-general has
planned to cover every point which
might be available, and his men are
men who may be depended upon. I
am prepared in any event"
"Now then," said the governor in
conclusion, "I think I have made my-
self plain. If anybody comes to Florida
to see a fight and don't see one after
spending time and money, he can only
blame himself. There will, I repeat
once more, be no prize fight here."
The adjutant-general would say
nothing of his plans further than that
the tight would surely be prevented.
Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 10.—No
move has yet been made by the Duval
Athletic club to cause the arrest of the
principals in the boxing match held
here last night. It was expected that
q t«u. phko would be made out of the
contest, but the Duval people say that
no action will be taken.
H. M. Flagler, who owns nearly all
of St Augustine, says that the Corbett-
Mitchell fight will not come off in St
Johns county if he can prevent it
Whlttaker Attacliinents Dissolved.
Wichita, Kan., Jan. 17.—In the dis*
trict court this afternoon Judge Reed
held that attachments for $200,000, run
by the National Bank of Commerce of
St Louis and Jerome Herryman, of
Kansas City, on the'property of John
Whittaker & Sons, the packers, after
the appointment of a receiver on ap-
plication of Michael McEnnis, Whit-
taker's partner, should be dissolved.
In Favor of the Democrats.
Trenton, N. J., Jan. 17.—Gov. Werts
to-day sent to President Adrian, of the
democratic senate, and President
Rogers, of the republican senate, the
opinion of Attorney-General Stock-
ton on the senatorial difficulty.
Accompanying the opinion was a mes-
sage of some length. This is of course
in favor of the deiaocratic senate.
Antic's of a Probate Judge.
Spuing field, Mo., Jan. 17.—J. J.
Ramsey, probate judge of Hickory
county, is stopping at the Ozark hotel,
and early this morning gas was discov-
ered escaping from his room. The door
was broken open and he was rerfbued
half dead. When revived he said he
had turned on the gas, but forgot to
light it. About an hour later a pistol
went oft' in the judge's room and, on
the appearance of the porter, he said
lie had dropped his gun.
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Greer, Frank H. Weekly Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 38, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 20, 1894, newspaper, January 20, 1894; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metapth352409/m1/2/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.