The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-17


Upham and j. v. Brewer returned
from their tour of Kansas last evening,
to which region they had gone a week
ago to participate in the ceremonies
attendant upon the unwilling of the
Quivira obelisk on invitation of Capt
Robert Henderson,
The monument stands in a beautiful
grove of black walnut and oak timber
in Geary county, at the Identical To-
cality where the Mississippi basin was
discovered by Coronado in 1541.
The principal address which outlined
all the historic features of the dis
covery of Quivira, and its rediscovery
in 1896, was admirably delivered by J.
V. Brewer.
Prof. Winchell described in his adj
dress the careful proceedings conduct
ed by Brewer during the period of re-
discovery and entered upon a concise
record relating to the formation of the
granite from which the obelisk was
made.
Prof. Upham's address was happily
delivered as historic reference to the
remarkable work of Brewer as an ex-
plorer and ethnologic writer.
All of the addresses are to be pub
lished in a historic volume by the
Quivira Historical society.
Minnesotans Banqueted.
Capt. Robert Henderson in the even
ing banqueted the visitors from Min
nesota, at which time there were re-
sponses by army officers, congressman
and leading citizens of Kansas, the
tables being deliberately spread in
Logan Grove under canopy hand
somely decorated.
During the day a detachment Of
United States artillery was sent to sa-
Lutte the obelisk at the time of unveil-
ing.
The entire ceremonies, beginning at
10 o'clock in the morning and ending
after midnight, were of the most exalt-
ed character and nothing occurred to
interfere with the very dignif1ed and
orderly proceedings which commemor-
ated the discovery of the area in the
very center of the United States, only
forty-nine years after the landing of
Columbus
The Catholic church sent a very
eloquent speaker, Rev. John Maher,
whose stirring address detailed the
death Of the first priest-Padilla-on
Kansas soil in 1912, after Coronado left
the region.
incidentally the Minnesota party
were hard at work in the fields of OBJ
servauon during the entire time Of
their absence.
The Ancinet Skeleton.
Mr.. Brewer had called attention to
the fact that a farmer had taken from
a pit near Kansas City, Kan, the re-
mains OF a human being not long ago,
and that the geology of the region
must be determined in order to ascer-
tain the exact Importance of this
skeleton discovery. 1t appears abso-
1utely certain that the formation above
the skeleton was of glacia origin, much
more ancient than the gravel beds at
Little Falls, Mimi, where man certain
Professors Wtnchell and Upham with
other biologists made a careful ex-
animation of the skeleton and of the
excaVated pit where it was discover
ed, and reached a unanimous conclu-
sion that the remains are Of glacial
origin, almost Theoretically sealed I'M
under the sedimentary deposits pre-
clpltated by the flowing waters which
proceeded from the ice-sheet more
than $4,000 years ago. The exact time
depends on geologic determinations
concerning the period when the hills in
eastern Kansas were originally form
ed before denudation occurred. The
remains were found seventy-five feet
into the hill and twenty-three feet be-
low the present surface Professors
Upham and Winchell are to Join in
sclenthc description of the discovery
winch is Of such great Importance to
American authropology and the same
VIII soon be published in the American
Geologist. e'--
Crossed Into Nebraska.
After the obelisk had been success
FULLY unveiled the Minnesota nartv
passed across Nebraska and made an
examination of the ancient Nehawka
hint quarries for the Nebraska His
torlcal society, the members of which
were unable to determine the identity
prehistoric oh
number. Brewer had determined over a
year ago that the quarries We're arti-
nclal ana prehistoric, and this last ex-
aminatlon confirmed him by geologic
conclusions indicating certainly that
the pits were artificially excavated by
man: The anthropologic history of Ne
praska depends largely on the char
ed, and this final exploration by citi-
zens OF Minnesota will be accepted bv
the Nebraska authorities.
AT Council Bluffs Brewer called at
tention to the fact that theEe are ter
race plains along the Missouri on both
sides of that river near Omaha, and
tnls fact to some extent affects the age
of the glacial man found under the
clay deposits of Eastern Kansas. the
question raised being one of the true
age of the terrace formations along the
Missouri.
Prof. Upham, who arrived on the
train late last night from Sioux CITY.
mas made many observations concern
Ing the glacial drift from Kansas river
to Mankato. He believes that the work
OF minnesota men in Kansas and Ne
Draska will aid very materially in lay
ing correct foundation for the very
earliest history of those two states and
of that whole region.