OKLAHOMA. 



ONTARIO. 



and live in Uii- morning. Gambling in saloons is 

 prohibited. Siilrs In inihiii-K and to lialiitual 

 drunkard- an- forbidden. Tho retail lien 



'HI, but. cities ami towns nuiv impose an ad- 

 ditional fee of from $ UK) to $500. The whole- 

 sail- liceti-e fee is $25. There shall IK- no screen*, 

 blinds, <>r painted windows to conceal the buni- 

 : li(jiior selling. 



Kdiiot ion. A school system for the Terri- 

 .-. as nut provided by the first Logi.-latun: 

 till late in the session. As a result, several dis- 

 tricts failed to organize in time to have any 

 schools during the first school year, which ended 

 on June ::n. ISIM. In the act of May 2, IHilO, 

 i-ri:ani/ing the Territory, Congress appropriated 

 $50.000 to provide temporary support for schools 

 until taxes could be levied and collected there- 

 for. Of this sum, $37,581 were expended dur- 

 ing the school year for salaries of teachers and 

 ''.17 for other school purposes. The fol- 

 lowing statistics cover the period from January 

 to June ISO, the iirst six months of the operation 

 of the school law : School townships organized, 

 111: school districts organized, 400; school pop- 

 ulation, liet ween six ana twenty-one years, 21,337 

 (of whom 20,085 were white, and 1,252 colored); 

 pupils enrolled in the public schools, 9,893 ; aver- 

 age daily attendance, 5,596 ; teachers employed, 

 virago monthly salary of male teachers, 

 s::-J..~>ii; average monthly salary of female teachers, 

 $27.12. During the year normal schools, lasting 

 two weeks each, were held in each county in the 

 Territory, at which 369 teachers were enrolled. 



On Dec. 15 the first session of the Agricult- 

 ural College was opened at Stillwater. This 

 place was selected as tho location for the institu- 

 tion by the commissioners in consideration of 

 the gift of 200 acres of land adjoining the city 

 as a site for the college. 



Agriculture. According to the report of the 

 Governor in October there were then 1,000,453 

 acres used for farming in the Territory, of which 

 287,831 acres were fenced and 712,622 were un- 

 fenced. The value of the farms with improve- 

 ments was $4,938,630. The live-stock on hand 

 on Feb. 2 was as follows : Horses, 16,003 ; mules, 

 3.296 ; cows. 16,709 ; other cattle. 42,825 ; sheep. 

 8,122; swine, 10,684. In the autumn of 1890 

 27,077 acres of land were sown for winter wheat, 

 and in the spring of 1891 85.675 were prepared 

 for corn, 7,770 for oats. 14,930 for sorghum, 300 

 for flax, 30,686 for cotton, 1.126 for broom corn, 

 272 for pea-nuts, 5,125 for Hungarian and millet, 

 and 2,072 for Irish and sweet potatoes. 



Statehood Convention. So rapid wns the 

 growth of population in the Territory during tho 

 first year of its existence that before its close t he 

 people began to consider seriously the propriety 

 of demanding admission to the Union as a State. 

 The Territorial press united in urging State- 

 hood, and a Territorial convention was called, to 

 meet at Oklahoma City on Dec. 15, for the pur- 

 pose of publicly expressing the popular will and 

 of providing means to secure the end desired. 

 The convention was largely attended by dele- 

 gates from all parts of the Territory. " There 

 was considerable difference of opinion on the 

 question whether the Territory should ask for 

 admission as one or as two States, the delegates 

 from the western section generally favoring two 

 States, one in the east and one in the west ; but 



a majority of the convention decided in favor of 

 a tingle State, and resolution* for the np|.<.ii,t 

 ni nt of a committee to ak Congrca* for an en- 

 aliling act were pawed. 



Indian Lanux opened. During the year, a> 

 a re-ult of th' action of ( 'ongret* and tin . 

 dent, nearly UdO.IMNiin-p". of land in the Territory 

 formerly held by the Indian white 



settlers. IJy an act approved Feb. KJ. ( ongTMB 

 ratified the agreement- made with the 6 

 Indians on June rj. 1890, and with the Iowa In- 

 dians on May 20, 1890, by the commissioners ap- 

 pointed by tin- President to treat with the Indian 

 tribes of the Indian Territory, and by the name 

 act it was provided that the lands ceded under 

 these agreements should beofiencd for sett leu, i -nt. 

 Later, there was incorporated in the Indian ap- 

 propriations bill, which was approved March 8, 

 a ratification of the agreement* made by the 

 same commissioners with Pottawatomie Indian* 

 on June 25. 1890, with the absentee Shawnces on 

 June 26, 1890, and with the Cheyenne and Ara- 

 pahoe tribes in October, 1890. All these agree- 

 ments provided for the allotment of certain por- 

 tions of the ceded Indian land in severally to the 

 members of each tribe, and for the opening of 

 the remainder to white settlers. During the 

 summer months such allotments were made for 

 all the tribes excent the Chevennes and Arupa- 

 hoes (the appropriation for this purpose in case 

 of the latter tribes being exhausted before the 

 allotment could be completed), and by procla- 

 mation on Sept. 18 the President declared the 

 lands so ceded by the Sac and Fox, Iowa, Potta- 

 watomie, and absentee Shawnee tribes to be open 

 for settlement on Sept. 22 at twelve o'clock noon. 

 The exact area opened, as stated in the procla- 

 mation, was 266,243 acres. There was a large 

 gathering of intending settlers on the borders of 

 the new lands, and when the appointed hour 

 arrived a rush for locations began similar to that 

 which occurred when the original Oklahoma 

 lands were entered. Two counties were formed 

 out of the new Territory, which adjoins the east- 

 ern border of the original Oklahoma, the re- 

 spective county seats Ibeing named Tecuraseh 

 and Chandler. The lands of the Chevennes and 

 Arapahoes, which will be ready for settlement as 

 soon as the allotments are made, contain about 

 3,000,000 acres. Agreements have been made 

 during the year by the commissioners with the 

 Wichitas, the Kickapoos, and the Tonkawas for 

 the cession of other lands to the I'liitcd States, 

 negotiations for extinguishing the Indian title 

 to the so-called Cherokee strip are already far 

 advanced, and in the near future the area of In- 

 dian lands in the Territory will be reduced to 

 small dimensions. 



ONTARIO. By a recent delimitation the 

 previously accepted boundaries of Ontario were 

 extended north and west, so as to make the area 

 of that province nearly equal to that of Quebec. 

 Their present respective areas are stated to bo: 

 Quebec, 188,688, and Ontario, 181,100 square 

 miles. The population of Ontario by the cen- 

 sus of 1891 was 2,112,989, the increase for the 

 preceding decade being 186.067, or at the r 

 9'65 per cent. As usual, the increase in cities, 

 towns, and villages far exceeds that of the rural 

 districts. The population of Toronto, the pro- 

 vincial capital, was found to have increased since 



