The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1916-05-19


pleased with not only this great plant
but with its workings. Manhattan is
a beautiful town of 5000 people, in fact
| believe all of our party agree that it
is one of the most desirable towns we
have visited. From Manhattan we
went eastward over the Union Pacific
to Lawrence. Kans., where the State
University is located, and here again
we were shown real Southern hospital
ity. This institution is situated on the
crest or backbone of what Is almost a
mountain, and the view of the two
valleys is indeed beautiful and inspir-
ing. The museum at this institution is
one of the finest in the country and is
valued at $500, 900. 90. Among the collec-
tons it may be interesting to note
"Commanche," the only survivor of
the battle of Little Big Horn, where
Gen. Custer and all of his men were
killed by the Indians June rs, 1876.
They have a buffalo skeleton which was
found in making some excavations and
if biologists are to be believed he was
killed by the Indians 90, 900 years ago.
The Red man. however, failed to get
his prey as an Indian arrow was found
embedded in the bones of the shoulder
of the monster beast-a specimen much
larger than the modern buffalo. An
other specimen to be seen here is a
black bass nearly fifteen feet long.
Negroes attend these great colleges in
Kansas but out of the 5000 students
there are not 50 negroes and the fac
ulty state that their work by no means
comes up to the average. Another in
teresting point in this connection is the
fact that in the public schools of the lar
ger towns and cities, separate schools
have been provided for the negroes.
Many kansans openly and freely state
that they are beginning to see the
negro thru the spectacles of the South.
Our trip thru Kansas gave the writer a
new vision of the people; they are all
right and we are glad to claim them as
brother Americans and to have them
claim allegiance to the same flag that
Mlssissippians do.
The farms of both Oklahoma and
Kansas are not large-rarely wei 100
acres, but they are well improved and
well cultivated. In Kansas most of
corn is planted between the beds or in
water burrows. Here wheat and other
grains and alfalfa and potatoes are the
principal commercial crops. In Okla
homa We saw many fields of garlic.
The limestone rock shows itself in both
these states on every hill and hillside
and in Kansas is being largely used for
building purposes.
We saw a few Indians in Oklahoma
and some in Kansas. Near Lawrence.
Kansas, there is a large Indian school
maintained by the federal government.
AS our train swept along thru what
was formerly Indian Territory, it was
just a bit pathetic to speculate on the
scenes enacted there when the Red man
held sway. Yesterday, May -. was
Indian Day" and it may be well to in
sert just here a little data | have
gathered as to the number and present
status of these people:
'All our states have Indians, accord
ing to last years reports of the vari- !
Gus Indian superintendent. The great
number to a state is, of course,
for Oklahoma, which embraces |
Indian Territory, with lis. 1858. |
Next m Arizona, with AZ, 1876. and
South Dakota is third, with q, 082. The
number, 5, is in Delaware, and
Vermont has only 26. According to
asst year report of the special agent
the Seminoles, Florida has SIS, cor
recting the census report of 1910, which
that state only "a. OF the New
England states Maine, with S92, has the
largest number of descendants of the
Indians, who were encountered by the
NJ ayfiower people and other settlers of
those colonies. The East north central
census division, including the Ohio Val
ley, has Is, 255, of which only 127 are
credited to Ohio. During the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1915, the expendi-
ture of the United States on account
of all the Indians was 500, 592, 800. AZ. |
This included 81, 678, 627 for los board
ing schools and 2O8 day schools. There
are also 70 mission schools maintained
by various religious organizations"
Since writing the above | have been
Billy Sundays tabernacle to hear
this renowned evangelist. There were
fully $1,000 people present notwith-
standing the rain. He is unlike any
man ever before heard. His appeals
are direct and flashing. His state
ments are short, sharp and penetrat-
ing. His text was from Proverbs 29:l8,
When there is no vision the people
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From here We go to Kirksville, Mo, /
Des Moines, Iowa, and other points.
Our party is a jolly one and some
member is always being made the butt
Of some iokeor prank. Yesterday they
a bogus telegram to be delivered
to me stating that The Sentinel had
burned. Of course they had me going
for a little while.
Notwithstanding the greatness of the
we have visited, still old Mis-
leads. | am more thar ever
convinced that there is no place to
equal Mississippi for the poor man or
he man of moderate means. Lands in
oklahoma and Kansas sell at from
800 to $3.50 per acre; that is the best
ands. Ours can be bought for less and
viii produce as much and many more
'arieties. q
More when | have time.
T. Laurence