The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-03-19
POOR LOS FATE
IS FORESEEN
Time Has Arrived When He
Must Improve.
WHITE MEN PUSH HARD
Bart|esviIIe Has What Wichita
Most Needs.

Guthrie, o. T., March 1s.-Charles Butch
er. formerly a prominent attorney and
Democratic politician at Newton, Kan,
and his brother, Frank Bucher. formerly
of Emporia, Kan, were IN this city last
night on business Charles now lives at
Okmulgee. l. T., where he has an exten-
sive law practice and Frank lives at
Bartlesville, and he is cashier of the First
National Bank of that place Okmuisee
is the capital of the Creek nation and
Bartlesville is in the Cherokee nation.
When one hears these men from the
Indian country talk of its resources and
its people he can not avoid the conclusion
that the Indian territory is now in the
last ditch of barbarism on this continent
and that the time is now here when he
must join the hosts of civilization, die
or seek some foreign land. He has re-
tired from the rich prairies of the mid
die west and now his last stronghold.
the Indian territory. is being invaded ny
an army of white men, urged on by the
reports of mines of fabulous wealth, the
raw material of which great manufacture
ing cities areb uilt
1--WE have about three thousand people
at Bartlesville," said Frank Bucher, ''and
it is my opinion that we are going to
have a great city. If Wichita had what
Bartlesvilie has with what it already has
II would be city of one hundred and
fifty thousand people in less than ten
years Our unused resources woull make
the city at the junction Of the two Ar
1f
1--WE have an unlimited supply of gas
and oil and we have gone down into the
earth and found a vein of serni-anthra-
cite coal under the city, seven feet eight
inches thick and nine hundred feet from
the surface. We now have practical coal
mn from the east there figuring on put
ting down a shaft to mine the coal and
we have the Santa Fe and the Katy
roads to haul II TO other markets. We
have one gas well that has furnished
light and heat for the town for two
years and other wells just as good are
spiked waiting for the time when they
will be needed
I'VE have a glass factory. vitrif6 brick
plant and three big oil supply houses.
besides an ice plant. At present the oil
but We have a pipe line nearly completed
and soon the oil will be turned into the
pipe lines of the Standard Oil company.
The Kansas City Cudahys have the
only oil well on the Cherokee side. They
have section of land and they are now
getting fifteen hundred barrels of oil
day and they are putting down more
wells. When the oil fields of that section
are fully developed / think it will rival
the famous oil district of Pennsylvania.
Yes. the people there talk of piping
gas and oil to Wichita and the other
towns along the Arkansas river. but they
are not very much in favor of that for
the reason that if that is done the men
who sell the oil ard gas will be the only
ones benefited. while if we keep it to be
consumed al home. factories will be built
that will help all the people of Bartles.
vile.
Thousands of white people are coming
into the Indian territory and getting a
foothold before the great rush of settlers
that will follow the permanent settling
of the Indian question that the people /
feel will come with the admission of the /
Indian territory and Oklahoma as one
state. The people in the Cherokee ma /
tion are in favor of single statehood. We 1
feel that the great productive praires !
of Oklahoma along with our mountains /
Of rich deposits of coal and minerals with /
our marvellous valleys OF agricultural /
lands unequaled in the world will make a /
great state.
There are of course numerous aspir- /
ing towns in the Indian country that hope /
to become the great commercially centers
of that section but We feel that Bartles-
Vile has as good a show as any of them.
Our town is now as big as Okmulgee
and it is growing rapidly. We have TO
fear that we will not have plenty OF
because the big commercial
cities of the west see the hand writing
On the wall and from 1t they are able to
iecipher that the Indian country will soon
become a great productive region and
they are all trying to get railroad con-
nections with II. Fortunes and fortunes
will be made In the Indian country in the
next few years by the men who are COM
ng there 10 grow up with it"
Territorial Charters Issued.
Guthrie. o. T. March 1s.-A charter