The New International Encyclopædia/Oklahoma City

OKLAHOMA CITY. The county-seat of Oklahoma County, Okla., 31 miles south of Guthrie; on the North Fork of the Canadian River; and on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf, the Saint Louis and San Francisco, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, the Oklahoma City and Western, and the Oklahoma City and Southeastern railroads (Map: Oklahoma, F 3). It has a Carnegie Public Library, and is the seat of Epworth University, an institution under the joint control of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church South. There are various manufactures, principally of flour; important wholesale interests, and a trade in cotton, grain, live stock, fruit, and produce, the city being the centre of a fine farming and stock-raising section. Settled in 1889, Oklahoma City was incorporated two years later. The government is vested in a mayor, elected biennially, and a unicameral council. The water-works are owned and operated by the municipality. Population, in 1890, 4151; in 1900, 10,037.