The Jasper news., 1902-04-24
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den City, which cut off this proposed
route. AS to the second propose route
from Jasper into your county, remcm-
Der distinctly that my suggestion to the
examiner was thiN That there were
-four proposed routes pointing to ward
into your county: one from Jasper City,
one from Lamar, one from Iantha, and
one from Liberal. And l further sug-
gesied that in looking over these routes
that h1 ascertain the will OF the people
along the proposed routes, and he indi-
Gated that that was the will Of the de
partment and his desire. OF course,
| Doctor, 1 do not control in the matter,
but am clearly OF the Option that ii
the Ioopln want route from Iantha
thoy onght to have it Certainly no
body ought to blame me for an agent
establishing route according to the
desires Of the people along the route.
| II is the business of agents to examine
and adjust routes where they interfere.
There are two proposed routes in my
county that interfere, and the agent will
have it to settle, or else neither route
will be established. OF course, it is not
| pleasant to the. postmaster in Lamar for
the postmaster at lantha or Liberal, or
any other point, to get some of his brsi.
ness, but it is the special agents bust
ness not to particularly look after the
interests Of the postmaster at Lamar,
Carthage, Neosho, or any other point,
but to look after the will of the people
as to when and wherc a route ought to
be establisf ed.
| have received many letters from
personal friends on the proposed route
out of lantha and from Liberal. | have
not unde rtakcn to decide between those
towns any more than between them and
Lamar, but have said wanted an
agent appointed and let him go over the
routes ard see which is the best route
and the most satisfactory to the great.
est number of people. Surely cnonot
be blamed for the peoples desire
Now, as to the other point about the
people feeling aggrjeved over allowing
Jasper County to eucroach on territory
which belongs TO Barton County, My
dear sir, there can be no sacred territory
in matter of this kind. The first
route established out of Golden City
runs fifteen miles into Jasper County.
There is a proposed route from Irwin, in
in your county, that runs up into Yer
non county. There is route from Jol =
lin ninc-senths OF which is in Newton
county, and one from Sucoxie, 10 Jas
per county, one-thir1 which is in New
ton county. \ proposed route from
Monet is almost entirely in Lawrencs
county, ard one froI. Pierce City that
runs into Newton county, The point is
to establish the routes where the mail
can be delivered most satisfactorily to
the department, OF the same time, hav-
ing reference to the desires OF the pa
tons. shall write to the agent asking
him TO so adjust the lantha route with
your route No. as not to incommode
the people who desire your route.
These matters are matters of detail,
doctor, which must finally be left to the
special agent. | do not believe MIR.
Nevins will break up or tear cut mail
service from Lamar, il the people along
, that route prefer Lamar, unless it may
be that your route No, is too long.
am perfectly willing that this letter
shall 90 into the prints. In fact, |
think it is justice to me that it does. |
have no will in this matter except 10 get
the rurcl routes il tho people want them
and no will as 10 where they shall run
from except as the people went them. |
want the people satisfied.
Ono more thing,-if It is true that the
proposed route northwest from Jasper
"crosees the creek twice at points which
are frequently impossible" then, the
roule, becaue, the route must be pass
able at all lines of the year.
l hope you will do me the justice to
state plainly TO any one who complains,
that my connection with the rural
routes is to tile the petitions, ask that