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In addition, the council determined that citizens should elect a senate and house in November. These men met in December and drafted a petition to send to Washington, D.

During the proceedings Chase was elected to represent the council in Washington. However, not everyone concurred with the council's decisions. Overstreet, John Dale, and others convened their own meeting and elected their Washington representative—Dale. These two factions refused to acknowledge each other's legitimacy, and both Chase and Dale went to Washington as the "real" spokesperson.

In December Rep. William M. Springer of Illinois delivered Chase's petition to the Fiftieth Congress. The petition proclaimed that Cimarron Territory had ten thousand residents who needed protection and who therefore had formed a provisional government. Congress tabled Chase's plea, and there, it died. In the Strip faced even harder times. People became increasingly concerned with survival; political interest waned.

Drought and crop failure plagued homesteaders, who could not secure funds to help themselves. Plans asking New Mexico Territory to annex it, or attaching it to a future Oklahoma Territory, collapsed. Regardless, a new territorial council convened.

This measure became Cimarron Territory's last gasp. Only thirteen of twenty-three elected legislators attended. Chase lost his enthusiasm and left the territory, so distillery owner L. Hubbard became council leader. The council proclaimed Territory of Cimarron a reality; it would try to attain congressional approval for the decision later.

Groundswell efforts to create Cimarron Territory continued to evaporate. Still, the council reconvened for three days in March , but few attended. They considered the Organization Act, discussed funding the election to adopt it, and argued about how to affix their signatures to the measure. With failed crops, bad weather, no secure property rights, no law, and most importantly, no broad-based, national support, the plan was doomed.

In less than a year more than ten thousand of the region's fourteen thousand occupants had left. The remaining settlers finally found relief when the area became officially attached to Oklahoma Territory in May , ending all hopes for Cimarron Territory. A History of Beaver County , Vol. Oscar A. Copyright to all of these materials is protected under United States and International law.

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