OKLAHOMA 



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OKLAHOMA CITY 



if approved in each territory. This union was 

 approved, and a constitution, probably more 

 radical than any adopted elsewhere in the 

 United States, was framed by delegates from 

 both territories and adopted by the people. 

 President Roosevelt objected to some of its 

 clauses, and other statesmen strongly advised 

 the rejection of the constitution, but the peo- 

 ple adopted it by a large majority on Septem- 

 ber 17, 1907. A Democratic governor was 

 elected, and a prohibition amendment was 

 added. In 1910 the "grandfather's clause," re- 



ing the negro vote by property and edu- 

 cational tests, was passed, but in 1915 this was 



ired unconstitutional by the United S* 

 Supreme Court. The capital was removed 

 from Guthrie to Oklahoma City in 1911. The 

 state has been strongly Democratic; all gov- 

 ernors have been Democrats, and in all of 

 the Presidential elections, including that of 

 1916, held since the admission of the state, the 

 Democratic candidates received the plurality of 

 votes. E.B.P. 



Other Items of Interest. The "Panhandle" is 

 a strip of land about thirty-five miles wide 

 and 120 miles long. It originally belonged to 



is, but when Texas was admitted to the 



Union as a slave state it was compelled to 



up that part of its territory north of 



ide 36 30'. This region was a part of no 

 state or territory and had no established law. 

 and it was this fact which won it its name of 

 \n Man's Land. It became the resort of out- 

 laws, and not until 1890 was it made a part 

 of Oklahoma and brought under Federal law. 

 Prairie wolves, black bears, foxes, deer and 

 other wild animals are still to be found in 



unsettled region of this state, but they are 

 fast being exterminated. 



Many Indians of the Five Civilized Tribes 

 had become so prosperous in the years before 

 the War of Secession that they held large 

 numbers of slaves. These slave-holding In- 



> were active in support of the Confederacy, 

 and at the close of the war were compelled 

 not only to free their slaves, but to make new 

 treaties with the United States. 



estimated that \\hen. in 1S80. the rich 

 lands of this region were opened up to settle- 



t by the whites, there were no fewer than 

 20,000 people waiting to cross the line when 



signal was given. 



greatest elevation in Oklahoma in f<> m>l 

 m the extreme northwest, in the Panhandle, 



re the land is about 4,700 feet above sea 



Consult Cantonwina's Star Forty-six, Okla- 

 homa; Roberts' Essential Facts of Oklahoma 

 History and Civics; Abbott's History and Civics 

 of Oklahoma. 



Related Subjects. The reader who is inter- 

 ested in Oklahoma will find much that is helpful 

 in the following articles : 



CITIES AND TOWNS 



Ardmore 



Chickasha 



Enid 



Guthrie 



McAlester 



Cherokee 



Chickasaw 



Choctaw 



Creeks 



Five Civilized Tribes 



Muskogee 

 Oklahoma City 

 Sapulpa 

 Shawnee 

 Tulsa 



HISTORY 



Grandfather's Clause, 



The 



Indians. American 

 Public Defender 

 Seminole 



Alfalfa 



Cattle 



Coal 



LEADING PRODUCTS 



Cotton 

 Petroleum 

 Wheat : 



PHYSICAL FEATURES 



Arkansas M>sn. 



Butte Red River 



Canadian River 



OKLAHOMA, UNIVERSITY OF, established at 

 Norman in 1892, by act of the territorial legis- 

 lature. The university consists of the college 

 of arts and sciences, the college of engineering, 

 schools of fine arts, medicine, pharmacy, law, 

 nursing, journalism, education, business, social 

 service, graduate work, and an extension 

 division. The state departments of geology 

 and natural history have their headquarters 

 at the university. Students residing in Okla- 

 homa are admitted without payment of tuition. 

 The university has shown remarkable develop- 

 ment since the admission of Oklahoma as a 

 state. Here are nearly 2,000 students, and the 

 faculty numbers over 140. The library con- 

 tains more than 22,000 volumes. See OKLA- 

 HOMA, subhead Education, for illustration 



OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA., the capital and 

 the largest city of the state, and the county 

 seat of Oklahoma County. Its population was 

 64,205 in 1910; in 1916 it was 92,943 (Federal 

 estimate). The city occupies eighteen square 

 milrs of valley and upland, and is centrally 

 located in the state, thirty-threo miles south 

 of Guthrie and 210 miles northeast of Fort 

 Worth. T.-\. It is on the north fork of the 

 Canadian River and is served by the Atchison, 

 Topeka <fe Santa I-V. th. Chicago, Rock Island 

 & Pacific, the Frisco and the Missouri, Kansas 

 A Texas railroads Interurban lines operate 



h to Norni'in. th. -, .t of t IIP state unr 

 -itv. and north to Edraond. 



