The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-11
THE PAoLA RAILRoAD MEEELNG.
The Trip Across the Country, lgfssss
@ - .menls, S4tlees, etc.

ON mems asstAezs1 -. All
,1.aA week in e6snpaElf WITH 7.
Hersey, one q oar business mem re
aktehded the rail- dSmestiR at PapiA. !
] Oar fohte was aeross the country via /
Sac s. Fox Agency and Ottawa. We
| had not been over the road since 7o5=i
! Just four years, and the great changes
which had taken place since that TING
made the trip one of interest las
stead of twenty-five mile stretch with
out seeing white habitation, we pass
hundreds of cabins, ffaftie houses, fields.
young orchards, and a rapidly, improv-
ing country. The Sac reserve is nav
one of the most tliickIy settled c0In-
tries in Kansas. Almost every quarter
section of land from the head of Long
Ecreek to the east side of the reserve,
and rs far as the eye could see TO the
right or left, has upon Il an eBterprising
! settler. Many of the improvements
would do credit to the older settled
iportions of the State. Those quarters
THAT have not houses upon them are
held by foundations. and patches of
broken prairie. 1t is estimated that
there are now five hundred voters Oh
this land, and from what we saw along
|. the Marais des Cygnes aud its numer
Gus tributaries, some of them large and
heavily tinbered, we should think the
/. estimate not at all unreasonable. We
always thought the erection of the nu-
merous stone buildings on this reserve
!, by the Government, for the Indians, a
stupendOus, piece of folly, aud swim
die. In travelling over the reserve here
tofore we have seen these honses used
i as pony stables by the Indians, while
they occupied their bark houses close
ri by. They never wanted the houses, and
I but few OF them ever used them except
| for stables. Those who built them
made good thing out of the Govern
ment, and it was for this reason and
this alone the hundreds of thousands of
dollars were worse than squandered on
the Sac and Fox, and Kaw reserves.
These buildings are now being occu-
pied to considerable extent by the set
tiers, and are at least of some account
to them. That's all the consolation the
people have for the, immense expend-
= iture of public funds in their erection.
T. We had Intended to make the A gency
. the first night, but after travelling down
: Long creek eight or ten miles learned
: that we cOnld not ford the BIarais dies
= Cygnes. Long creek was also up, but
i through the Kindness of some settlers
q we found shallow ford, crossed this
stream and made our way over a dim
road on the bluffs south of that stream
8 At sun down we pulled up at one OF
p the Indian houses on Tequa's creek
E CHATS the way it is spelled on the map)
and. found it inhabited by Mr.,D.i w
Houghton and family. Here we had
t a good supper and breakfast and a
o splendid nights rest. Tequa's creek af-
fOrds heavy body of timber and saw
. mill is in operation near Mr.. HOugh-
toms. We desire to return our thanks
d to this gentleman and his excellent and
accomplished wife for the hospitable
: and true-hearted manner in which we
t were entertained. The plentier such
people are on our prairics tho better of
: the State will be. Near this point is
the new town of williamsburg. And
r near Williamsburg is new French
colony who propose to start silk man.
:. ufactOry on an extensive scale. Much
of their machinery is already on the
ground, and the buildings have been
: commenced.
u Next morning we were off early fol-
: Ottawa, where we arrived at half past
J. eight. Here we spent few hours and
j took dinner During our stay we Wis
tied Kits, an old Lyon county boy
! who is now engaged. with PhiIetus
: Fales, in running the wide-awake, able
: and well printed Ottawa RepuJlic
: The town has grown wonderfully. II
It is now place of twenty-five hundred
q inhabitants. The Republic is doing a
: large business, and is growing in the
i favor of the people. 1t is bold and
\ outspoken advocate of the right, and
Il will prove n terror to shysters and bum.
II .ners of all sorts. We regret to learn
/ that the Republic has already called
down the ire of Col. George Hoyt, who
talks of suciHg Fales & Kits for libel
Kits was one of our true soldiers who
4 fought for the country from conscien.
Is tious motives, aud not liking the ap.
e pointment of Hoyt to an important pc.
it sition, has come out and given his rea.
c sons in "a good deal palmer English than
e is pleasant to George. We hope the
IS matter may be satisfactorily arranged
g but Kits is not inclined to crawfisf
e in the least. If the charges it makes
o against HOyt are true he ought to be re.
e moved, or, as we said Oh former oc
o casion, the present Administration mus
st stop prating of honesty. While ut OF
e tawa we met many old friends, among
Is them Ed. Hills who was a resident o.
e Emporia in 1858.
I At Ottawa our delegation was Joined
= by Major Elder and Mr.. TAYLOR. The
IS country between Ottawa and Paola Ina,
4 settled up wonderfully since the ''Price
z Raid" The road in many places had
l. been fenced up, so we took Major Ell
e der for q guide and travelled severa
g miles without road. The Major
(. seemed to think it was nearer to go t.
II Paola via Black Jack, and kept bearing
north. We finally found ourselves il
a road leading TO PaOla, several mile:
is out of the way. The crop prospects
/ about Ottawa aud from there to PaoIa
~ were indeed very fine. We never SAW
g better fields of wheat. Some of them
: had begun to assume the golden tinge
II and all were headed out. They are
= raising fall wheat In that section alto