The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-09-18
RAILROAD Is COMING
Pawhuska, |. T., VIII Be a
Thriving Town
SAID JOHN PALMER
He Talked About His People
and Country.
Id JOHN PALMER

--ln Palmer q prominent man OF the
Czase nation. was in Wichita yesterday
enrouts to his home il Pawhuska. Okla
h5ma. He stopped OF here for the par
pose Of visiting his daughter who is
one Of the bright Students - 1It Carmel
academy. N- Palmer is returning from
business trip 10 Colorado where he
has mining interests. and Is accompanied
b alr Virgil Herald. wealthy and
popular man Of TIE nation.
They were registered at the Hamilton.
and when approached by an Eagle repre-
sentative and asked Of the conditions.
educational ana commercial existing in
rhe Usage country Mr Palmer said
The Osage reservation contains 10000
acres OF tne best land IN Oklahoma. Nor
only is il the best farming land know.
b1t it Is rich in coal deposits and OIL.
stock countries. -0lsoa0 head Of cattle
roaming the ranges.
we grow corn. the staple producing
g. bushels % the acre. With wheat the
next in importance. IS wei as ali the
cereals Fruit thrives wen under the
fostering care Of the Osases. who for
mary years. have been successful fruit
growers IS wei as farmers.
"Coal crops out on the surface Of The
land in many districts and the stand
ard Ou company has sunk several wells
IN the Oh fields near BartIesvlle and
not a dry hole has been bored.
Ny town Pawhuska. IS the oldest
town in Oklahoma L has a fixed popu-
lat.oa OF 100 with q school enrolment
OF As many more. The school i fine and
the building represents a valuation Of
SO
Just now PaWhuska IS without q rail-
road. the nearest shipping point being
Eigt1. Kansas, and BartIesviue. J.
each enty-tlFe mixes away Freishrins
between these points and PawhusiSa is
done 5y teams and q thriving business
8 IS However we are not compi aiming.
Tor by uext spIng- we are going to have
the Missouri Kansas and Oklahoma
railroad touch Us at Pawhuska-
The read is being buit from Coney-
VILE kan. 70 Oklahoma city. via Bar
tsesvlle 7 T. Harmony Post. Usage "a
ton ana Cleveland Oklahoma
The original survey located the road
six miles east of Pawhlska, hut our
citizens wanted Il 30 touch the town
sad sent Major Mitchell Governor Big
head and myself 10 see Mr Finrey. the
president of the proposed line at Nh
waulzee, who promised us THAI If prac-
ticabie route could be found the COM
pany would build through Pawhusk1.
Our citizens Immediately employed
corps 81 engineers to survey such
route. and the n K. and o.. also sent
force 70 Join IN the survey. wtb the
rcslt that the engineers have already
surveyed from Bartlesvuie q P4whusza
snd found -hat bv touchiRs the latter
point many thousands of dollars would
D saved IN construction. They are
therefore unanimous in the opinion that
the Pauhuska proposition is The better
enc. which practically assures us the
road
The advent Of this road into the
Csaee couutdy viii hurry the develop
1uent ~ vast section.
.Pauhuska IS the center Of cattle
district and the santa Fe gets perhaps
s. per cent If the stock traffic. The
new road VIII get by touching the town,
surely 81 ner cent Of this business
The people are 5ubualt over ths fact
that grading on the road has already
begun. and that in few months their
anxious hopes VIII DE- realized.
-If The Osages would dispose OF the
towrslte Of ParhuslSa hy flll. as has
been done with aIasc1gee the town would
become one 81 the largest and most in-
portaat ia the northern part Of the ter
rit0ry. The lnalx IF white people would.
e. such a case he great and would
cbu1erate a condition that can only Oh
tain GA are Indian reservation
--The country Is rich; the people ener-
FetIc ana intelligent, but the handicap
CT tribal conditions can only be removed
b. making p government townsite ~
Paw husba s. that man could pre-
cure valid ttle ~ his real estate Tha
building Of sood towa then VIII ID
more towards clvlizing the Indian cl2n
anything else. it assures the educ Don
CT the Indian yoath.
-The present system ~ governmental
edrcstion ~ the Indian is q dismal fail
ure. and its staunchest advocates have
conceded tE1t flct. Captain Pratt the
founder OF the Carlisle PENN Indiaa
6 hool. admits char thu herdins tcgether
OF indian children Is entirely wrong We
Aare known for years that Is Is wrong.
The way 10 educate an Indian child Is
q, educate him IKE d white chll. ara
,-ish q white chnd. Many ~ our people
fare been do.le this Tor years. ana IL
IS "a success. sight Usage Indian girls
are now at the Sisters Convent hl
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