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lu-i'imftwwsq .;PC? gaily fgagle :- fjfridag ftoruin$r gugixst 27, 1886. i - "" " " - "" 4 KUKDOCE, Bdltor. -KBXY MORNING, AUG. 27, 1SSG. REPUBLICAN TICKET. STATU TICKET. For Associate Justice D. M. VALKNTIKK. Franklin county. For Govfcmor JOHX A.3EABTIX, Atchison county. For Untenant Governor A. P. KIDDLE Ottawa county. For Secretary of SOtto E.B. ALLEN. Sedgwick county Ft Suae Trtre- JAMES W. HAMILTON'. Sumner county. For Auditor of State TIKOTHT MCCARTHY. Pawnee county. For Attorney General S. 13. BRADFORD. Osage county. For Superintendent of Public Instruction J. H. LAWHEAD, Bourbon county. FOR CONGKESSMEX. First District HOK. E. X. MORRILL. Brown county. Second District HON. FTJK&TOX. Allen county. Third District HON". Y. PERKINS. Xeosna county. Fourth District HOK. TII03IAS RYAN. Shawnee county. Fifth District nON. A. S. "YII-SON", Washington county. Sixth District HON'.E. J. TURNER. ' Sheridan county. Seventh District HON. S. R. PETERS, Harvey county. JUDICIAL 18th DISTRICT. For Judge HON. T. B. WALL. Sedgwick County. REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION. Tha Republican County Convention for the purpose of nominating candidates for the following ollicers, Probate Judge. County Attorney, District Clerk, Superintendent of Public Instruction and Coroner, will be held in the city of Wichita on the 4th day of Sep tember, 18S0, at 11 o'clock a. m. at the opera house. There will -also be held at the same time and place, and after the adjournment of said county convention, a convention to nominate a candidate for representative for the Eighty-second Representative district. There will also be held on the same day and after the adjournment of said county conven tion, a convention in the First ward of the city of "Wichita, for the purpose of nominat ing a candidate for representative for the Eighty-fourth Representative district. uniriday, tlio tnim day ot September, 1886, at 12 o'clock m. of said day, at the city of Goddard, there will bo held a convention for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Representative for the Eighty-third Rep resentative district and for the purpose of nominating a candidate for the office of coun ty commissioner for the Third Commissioner district. Said conventions are called by order of the Republican Central CommitteCj and the townships and wards will bo entitled to the following number of delegates: First ward 15 Second Ward 10 Third Ward !) Fourth Ward 13 Fifth Ward 4 Lincoln township 4 Payne township 3 Nineha township 3 Grant township 7 Kechl t.wnshlp 4 Wichita township 0 Gypsum township s Kockrord township ( upper precinct) 3 Rockford township (lower precinct) 3 Park township (west of Big rher) 4 Park township (eastof Big river) 3 Greeley township 5 Sherman township 3 Union township 5 Delano township 5 Attica township 5 Garden Plain township (upper precinct). 2 Garden Plain township (lower precinct) 3 Grand River township 2 Waco township 0 Illinois township 2 Alton township 2 Morton township 7 Salem township 4 Ohio township 2 Ninescah township 7 Violo township 2 Erie township 2 Valley Center township (east of river) 4 Valley Center township (wtct of river; 2 Eagle towhshij) 4 The primaries to elect said delegates will be held on Thursday, September 2nd, 1SSG, at the usual voting places. In the country the polls will bo opened from 2 o'clock to 4 o'clock p. in., and in the city from 2 o'clock until 6:80 p. m. E. B. Jewett, Chairman. M. S. Rochelle Secretarv CONGRESSIONAL CENTRAL COMMIT TEE MEETING. A meeting of the members of the Sev enth congressional Republican committee is hereby called to meet at Hutchinson, on Monday, September 6, 1880, at 10 a. m. It is hoped that all members of the committee may be present, as business of great impor tance will be called up for action. E. L. 'Chapman, Chairmrn. D. M Frost, Secretary. THOSE PICTURES. For some time past the Eagle has been publishing wood cuts of Wichita's city ad dition speculators. The Bird got excited and so much confused that some of the aforesaid cuts were printed with the wrong label. This is not strange, however, as it was a job lot of cuts and all look about as much "like each other as they do like the victims they were intended to crush. Kingman Democrat. If the pictures were so poor-looked, so much alike, how did you determine that two of them were labelled wrong? which by the way was done on purpose. The truth is for wood cuts, nothing to equal mem nas ever appeared m any newspaper in the state. OHIO REPUBLICANS. The vigorous manner in which the Re publicans of the Buckeye state in conven tion assembled exposed tho shortcomings and pretences of the present administration tells of better times to come for the people of this country. The hollow mockery that the democracy have made of civil service reform may fail to reach the conscience of the mugwump crowd, but intelligent peo ple appreciate, and with disgust, the hypoc racy which has become a national reproach. PROTECT AMERICAN LABOR. Gladstone may be the Jim Blaine of En gland, but the plumed knight stands with out a rival iu America as a comprehensive statesman. To the Democratic party and its policy, both in the executive and legisla tive departments, do the American people owe the late labor trouble, undoubtedly. These troubles were simply the result of a general distrust, :md. as Mr. Blaine says, one of tho principal remedies has not only been overlooked by the administration, but apparently studiously ignored, and that is the protection of Americau labor. Blaine struck the key-note of the next campaign. The Russian czar graciously grauts Prince Alexander personal liberty, provided he will agree to abdicate. Oh, well. A MISSOURIAN HOWLS. The 'Kansas Bird Drives an Mountaineer Mad. Ozark Some little time since the Springfield (Mo.) Republican went out of its way to misrepresent Wichita, which was made the occasion upon the part of the Eagle for a somewhat emphatic reply, in which unmis- takablc language was employed in setting out that the Missouri writer either didn't know what he was talking about or that otherwise his method was that of the mali cious slanderer. 3fost certainly the orig inal article was as uncalled for as it was untruthful. Nobody with any knowledge of the facts would or could say but that Wichita is today the most prosperous and rapidly growing city in Kansas, if not in the west. Another iswe of that paper now readies us with a colunm and a quarter editorial devoted to the abuse of the Eagle and the belittling of Wichita. As a speci men of the dense ignorance of the editor of the Missouri contemporary or of his willful misrepresentation we quote the following: "It is doubtful if either of the four trunk lines referred to, and to which half a mil lion of bonds was voted by the city and county, U ever built to Wichita, and it i3 certain that one of them will never be built. It is a fact, attested by those who have visited the town, that a very large number of the houses going up are shells, with a foundation of stilts, looking for all the world as if the owners contemplated the probability of putting them on wheels." We arc completely at a loss iu conceiving even a motive for such misrepresentations as are crowded into the two sentences quoted. Now, for the better information of the Ilcrald people, and of all other peo ple who are as densely ignorant; that Wichita is not only doing a greater and more solid busi ness than any city in the state of Kansas; that the city of Wichita is not only increasing more rapidly in popula tion than any city west of the Missouri river; that Wichita is not only spreading out wider and more surely, but that there is more money going into finer, more solid, permanent and architecturally handsomer buildings this single season than the entire city of Springfield can boast. And that is not all! The four trunk lines will not only all icach Wichita within the next fourteen or fifteen months, but Wichita for 1887 and 1888 will add more to her population and more value to her tax rolls, than can be found in Springfield's en tire population and her total wealth. In other words, there will be added to Wich ita's population and wealth in the next two seasons vastly more man wouici mane Springfield, Missouri. To show in what estimate the senseless vaporings of the Springfield paper is held by a neighbor, we quote from the Pierce City Daily Empire touching this matter: The Springfield Herald has tumbled into a good sized batch of hot water with the Wichita Eagle by a recent rather unwar rantable statement of the Herald concern ing Wichita's boom. The Herald assumes that there is nothing but wind in it, and proceeds to warn people accordingly, lie that as it may, the Herald's sources of information are not ample enough to warrant the wholesale charges against Wichita that it makes, and its at tempt to belittle other growing towns is a clear confession of the weakness of the Springfield boom. What we object to is the fact that such tactics will result in more injury to southwest Missouri than good. It does not appear that Wichita exhibited this sort of petty envy and we may rest assured that they will make it tell against Spring field. What we want is friendly rivalry, and a fair and unprejudic ed comparison of our resources with theirs, in which case we haye no fears of the results. We have jut as good coun try as any other on the earth, but misrepre senting other countries, undeniably good, will not improve our chances for a share of the prosperity that awaits the great west. Just such things were said of Kansas City as the Herald says of Wichita, but .she con tinued to boom all the same. Friendly rivalry benefits all parties, but envy and pite only return to torment those who indulge in it. THE CHINESE, GEYSERS AND MOR MONS. Colonel Stewart in Another Highly En tertaining Letter. To tho Editor of tho Eaclo. Salt Lake City, Utah, Aug. 22, 'SO. The points of interest visited by the Wichita tourists after arriving at San Fran cisco were confined to Santa Cru., Mon teicy, San Jose, Oakland and Sacramento. I regret to say that the most noted places of resort, such as the Calaiwas big trees, the Yosemite and the Geysers, were totally ignored. The intense heat away from the coast the abominable dust that envelopes one like a fog when staging is attempted, had the effect of discouraging any one of our party from making a trip that Avould necessitate a ride by stage coach. San Francisco however, was well explored. As I remarked before, the miuiature empire of China in the ery heart of the city being of greatest interest to me, as it afforded an op portunity from personal observation to get a correct insight. I confess that I had no correct conception from what I had heard or read of these people, who are legardcd in San Francisco in the same light as a band of coyotes would be in the middle of a sheep pasture. I noticed this placanl in front of a store near Chinatown "Selling off below cost. We are worse than burned out, wo are crowded out by the Chinese." Many establishments advertise goods made by white labor. There are 33,000 Chinese, ninety-nine hundredths of whom arc males, residing in that portion of the city known as Chinatown. I am not prepared to state the extent of the territory they occupy. I was pointed out one building that contained three hundred, and conducted down into dark and noisome cellars w here three- or four persons without one particle of venti lation, and the air reeking with the stench of opium smoke, cooked, ate and slept in a space scarcely S by 10 feet. After night the trcets and alleys swarm with this despised though cunning nice. It is impoiblc to thread their narrow pavements without being jos tled. Here you will fund aim. -4 every vari ety of business conducted by them that is common to their race. They have whole sale tea stores, manufactories of different kinds, especially cigars, bazars, and lots of them too, filled with all manner of Chinese curiosities, fancy work and china ware of great beauty and considerable value. Here the female tourists, not only from Kansas but from thirty other states of the Union, managed to get nd ot all men pin money. I heard a New York lady say she would rather "shop" in Chinatown than in any part of the city. As a rule the Chinese shop keepers are neat in appearauce and in telligent, and for shrewdness in dealing need ask no odds of any white nationality underthe sun. It is a mistake to suppose that the Chinaman's tongue is so construct ed as to make him incapable of speaking the English language except in a ridiculous lingo. I felt like blushing for my country when a tourist from the far away east would hold up some article of ware and ask the intelligent Chinaman "how muchee takec." The shopkeepers of Chinatown all talk English quite as well as the same number of Germans, French or Italians possibly better, who might be similarly sit uated. Occasionally you find one who fail to sound the " v". It is related of John that he met an Irishman, and wishing to be friendly, remarked that it was "belly cold" (very cold). Pat replied, "Good for you, you domd haythen, if you wore your shirt in the inside yer belley wouldn't be cowld." Besides the bazars, there are numerous meat markets, where you can buy a slice of a pig smoked whole or you can buy meats which I fancy would require an educated taste to make palpable. There are groceries that contain nothing except what is import ed from China, and here is sold opium in small quanties to the debauched. Our guide conducted us to a restaurant when we sat around small tables and drank tea, and eat the kernais of a nut grown in China also a peculiar prune encased in a thin shell, preserved ginger and watermelon rind concluded the cruise costing our party of ten $3.25. From the restaurant where the continual beating of gongs during the repast set our teeth on edge. We went to a Joss house where the priest put on his robes to burn incense and worship accord ing to their peculiar forms and customs. It was rank idolatry real simon pure re ligion to them, doubtless, to us the wild est mockery of a rite which true worship of a Supreme Being holds sacred. Leaving rather unceremoniously before the benedic tion was pronounced, our guide hurried us to the theatre. In order to reach the stage without passing through the auditorium which was one mass of pig-tails wc were taken through an undergronnd passage and by "ways that are dark" conducted through the green-room to the stage where a farce was being performed by a Chinese troope assisted by an orchastra with a gong, drum, two-stringed fiddle and pipe. I have no doubt the music sounded heavenly to the celestials. It was a source of regret to me that my musical education had been neg lected in my youth. I fear our whole party failed to carry away with them a just appreciation of the performance, ow ing as in my case to a defect in their edu cation. We at home only know the Chin ese as washermen, here they are merchants, manufacturers and skilled work men. They are, likewise farmers and gaidners and the best there are in California. I have seen them in gangs of fifteen or twenty in the onion fields, everywhere busy where work was to be had. In Ne vada they raise nearly all the vegetables that are eaten besides furnishing all the available help at housework. In nearly all the restaurants and hotels they are cooks and general factotums and universally throughout the Pacific slope they relieve women of the drudgery of washing clothes. I asked a lady who had resided in Ne vada for seventeen years her opinion of the Chinese. She replied that they were "a necessary evil." She said: "We of Ne vada could not get along without them. We have no other help, and whatever they do they do well." One objection to them is that whilst they are producers they are not consumers; lor each dollar acquired by a Chinaman the country is drained to the extent of 02 cents; he will spend 5 cents and send the other 93 to China. He occu pies the land but is not a voter. He fills all avenues of labor to the exclusion of white men and works cheaper. He is an idolater, a leech on the body politic. Clearly the Chinese must go, aud under the present law, if not modified, a few decades will find this plant from the orient withered and leafless. They are the only race or nationality which our cosmopolitan coun try will not assimulate and owing to the vast preponderance of males there can be no compensating gains by birth to make up the losses by death and return to China. I have devoted more space to this subject than perhaps its merits or general interest deiervef, but this, iu connection with the Mormon question, is a live issues, and no thinking man should pass them by as un worthy of his consideration. I spent nearly a week in Nevada visiting relatives and fishing for trout iu the Hum boldt. As an episode of one of these fish ing excursion nine miles distant from Elko, I will relate that on the return to town after catching a nice mess of speckled beauties, I undertook to count the number of jack rabbits that would appear as we bowled over the dusty road behind a spanking pair of cayuscs, as they call the mountain ponies in this region I scored 421 and they tell me it wasn't much of a day for jack rab bits, either. We arrived in Salt Lake yesterday and have already visited all places of in terest. I shall not burden your columns with details which have appeared there before, and arc familiar to your read ers. I am somewhat surprised at this city, because, in general aspect, it resembles more nearly our own Wichita than I was led to expect; of course, I do not allude to its surroundings. Instead of the Mormons holding the whip hand here, it looks to me as if the trentiles were on top. In the d r i..:i..7, ,!..... ...-- , o-:-., "V ! Ui JJJ lIllilUl UiUC 3 1JU 1KU .VlllJL.1 -V- t xnundk law" to dUcourasre polvcamv, and, I under his noted leadership, Mormonism, as we understand it, was at high tide. How ,- u ..i., v, i,, tw - .,r. i ately prosperous and well-to-do They are doubtless sincere in their belief, and as long as their faith is unshaken. the 3Iormon church will hold together, vitalized as it is by the consfcuit accessions from Europe, through the efforts of their evangelists. But polygamy is practically a thing of the past. The Edmunds' law, so-called has the same withering influence upon it as the REAL ESTATE! G. W. BARTHOLOMEW, Wichita, - Kansas. anti-Chinese immigration law has upon the importation of coolies. Of course, it is met with stern opposition by all the poly gamous leaders in Mormondom, but the law is iaficxible, and, as a result, the Mor mon president, John Taylor, and their late delegate in congress, J. Q. Cannon, are refugees, and this morning's Herald, a Mor mon paper, publishes a list of forty-six of the saints who are now in confinement in the penitentiary for a term of six months to three years, added to which is a fine of $300 (the penalty for being a polygamist, aud being caught at it). I am disappointed in Salt Lake, because I expected to find it so intensely Mormon that you could read it in the countenances of the people, or like a Chinaman, you could tell one as far as you could smell him. I expected to find all Mormon estab lishments with the ear marks of him upon them, -and the gentiles living there merel upon sufferance. I expected to find Mor mon women dressed in homespun, with dull care stamped upon their features. Is it possible I see only the whited sepulchre which within is full of dead men's bones? Forbid it hevings! The time was when fine buildings were only erected by the boss Mormon, but the finest square of res idences here have been built and arc now owned and occupied by gentiles. The leading hotel was built and is now owned by a gentile, as well as the opera house and the lest stores, with one excep tion, are owned by gentiles. A tower sim lar in construction to the Bunker Hill mon ument is now being built of granite by a gentile on an elevation overlooking the city and the lake twenty miles away. If Salt Lake is ever to become a city of -reat magnitude I venture the assertion that it will be accomplished through the energy and wealth of the gentiles. A people who are thirty-six years in constructing a tem ple which a Wichita contractor would complete in two years will be left far to leeward in competition with such men as have built up Chicago and Kansas City, and our own city of the Nile, and I will here repeat a remark made in San Fran cisco which holds good in Salt Lake, that more buildings have been erected in Wich ita the present year than I have seen all put together in this four weeks' trip on the Pacific slope. This may scem like a wild assertion, but unless I saw with mv eves shut, the testimony of the other Wichita tourists will bear me out. At the risk of growing tedious I feel tempted to discuss at greater length the 3Ioncon question. My land lady tells mc that the imprisonment of forty-six of thdr hishcp5 and elders at Ft. Douglas, for the crime of polygamy, h looked iipon by the whole church in the liirht of reliriou3 persecution. The "blood w ot UiC martyrs wc wi o me cnurcu, and the two sermons I listened to-at the tabernacle todsy, where an audience of over ten thousand people a: under one ' roof, pointed out cleariy ths line of poJicyj ! to be pursued. These jwlyganious convicts were to pose before their adherents sad followers as martyrs, imprisoned for "con- science sake" an expression I heard used in both sermons and m prayer. The gen tile with whom I have conversed says the Edmunds law will eventually fail in its purpose, but I adhere to the opinion pre- -THE LATEST IS CAPITAL -:- HILL -:- ADDITION, Situated, between Second street and Central avenue. There are only eight lots, containing about two and a half acres each. This tract is as fine as any on the Hill just east of the city. For prices and terms call at my office. Vacant Lots in every part of the city, and dont forget we can give you some fine bargains. BUSINESS -:- PROPERTY. "We have three lots on Water street. We have twenty-five lots on Main street. We have several on Market street. We have twelve lots on Lawrence avenue. We have six lots on Topeka avenue. We have six lots on Emporia avenue and several on Fourth ave nue. These are all close to Douglas avenue, and if you want a bar gain in Business Lots do not fail to see me and get prices. We have twelve lots on Douglas avenue. RESIDENCE -:- PROPERTY. In endless profusion in every part of the city. ACRE PROPERTY: We have a number of fine pieces of land in tracts of from five to forty acres. We have several of these tracts at such prices that a fine profit could be realized at once. FARMS AND STOCK RANCHES Of every description;all over Kansas. Ranches of from one thous and to three thousand acres fine land, and farms at from $10 per acre up. Come and see me and be convinced. STRANGERS . ALWAYS .'. WELCOME. Correspondence promptly attended to. Money invested for non-residents when desired. Please remember that I have no other business but Real Estate. If you want Real Estate come and see me or write. viously expressed, that the death knell of polyamy has been sounded. It may not be fully consummated until the old bald-headed reprobates who now rule the church have passed in their checks. When that time comes the church of Latter-day Saints, un less the ignorant and superstitious are to rule, will pay less heed to the book of Mor mon, and more to the book of Jesus Christ. In the morning, we metaphorically "fold our tents and silently steal away" not, however, without paying our bills and we have still one trunk left. Wc hie away from the heat of this city, the most noted of modern days don't forget it to the cooling shades of Manitou for a day or two, and then home. 31. S. RAILROAD MATTERS. What May be Expected of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific. From the Commonwealth. The Rock Island company is making very little noise with regard to its Kansas and Nebraska extensions, but they are being pushed vigorously, and with a ra pidity that means an early completion of the system west of the Missouri river. The line to the junction, forty miles west of Si. Joseph, is already in operation, and it is claimed that the main line extension to the southwest, as far as this city, will be in running order In October lh. While there has been no delay in ay direction, work has been started" in various places alung the line in rather a desultory manner, owing to the fact that propositions for county and township as sistance have not leen acted on in many places iv here it was" proposed to submit the question to the people. The prelininarie have now. however, been mostly settled, and nothimr interposes towards" carrying out the project a outlined The same thing holds good with retard to the north western branch, graders having been put to work at several places along the line,and at least two hundred miles of this portion of the system will be ready to operate in time for next season's biipine.. Predictions are freely made that the seven hundred miles of road indicated in the articles of incorporatin will be completed by December, 1887. At present the Hock Island has a force of more than o,000 men at work, and they ill be kept busily employed as long as the weather errnits. It is thought that in southern Kansas winter will not interrupt the labor. The entire equipmrnt of thi, including motive power, passenger, freight and stock car, has lcen ordereu, and will lw ready as fast as required. There is not much doubt but tha: 1 Yaao is the real objective r-oint of the southern extension of the Rock Island, which will run through the Indian territo ry to that point A glance at the map will how that it -Rill be the shortest line to EI Pao by a couple of hundred miles. The first piles of the Rock Island bridge were driven on this side of the river yester- j day. A large force of lalxsrers are at work on the crade on this side, while a lanre i force of stone cutters are at work on the tone for the pier Tht work on the bridge will ojx'n up in iarnM in a few day. MONEY Af Lowest Rates and Ready for Borrowers AT 01sCE S. W. COOPER, 37 KAIX STRE2T. WJCIJITJU x-ax. REAL P. W. SWAB, CPUCCKLSOR TO F. STXCKMXV ) Merchant Tailor. Keeps on hand Fne Goods of the latest styles. The largest stock in the city. Satisfaction guaranteed. No trouble to show goods. Call and see me. F. W. SWAB, 1st door N of County Building. K. F. KIEDERHNDFR. rrcildout. A. W. OLIVER, Vtce I'rtildent. Kansas kn and Investment Co. Capital, $100,000. Money Always on Hand to Loan on Farm and City Property Office in Wichita National Bank Building, Wichita, Kan. S. D. PALLETT, -DEALER Northern I Southern Pine Lumber, LATH, SHINGLES, SASH, DOORS AND BLINDS. Qrnc Md m sswBRa.a&i gyar wichita, kan. THE ARCHER ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO. ABCHSS S1ECTEIC3ELT, Incandescent Electric Lights. Electric Bells .inn Atmnnpbtn Nickel and Silver Plating. All kins ana repairing. OFFICE: 117 SOUTH THE REVOLUTION Clothing House! 102 DOUGLAS AYE. ilN CrnZ03 BAXK BCIUJIXO ) SACRIFICE SALE Clothing, Hats, Gents Furnishing Goods NOW GOING ON. Public Land Strip. SUBJECT TO SETTLEMENT. Oily 4os tad a tsJ: tixaa tfc XET mil. irnsri- iv.vr. ESTATE! W. W. KIRKWOOD. IauA Kiaralnor. M. W I.ttTY, Trc-Murrr J. C. KUTAN. h-.n.t.ixy I.V. of Batteries, Electrical Supplies LAWRENCE AVENUE. E. C. & L R. COLE, Real Estate Dealers, 320 Douglas av., E. Wichita. OITO-flTB XA-JUTTA HOTEL. Abo Ui UScoof Sly Carey Park Land Company. -.,.-.... .. ........ E. C. & L. R. COLE, "2 XxjvrU tj, wjetlta. J. P. ALLEN, Everything wt ia a Drugstore. First-Class snchlta. ICan, DR. MORGAN, Gynaecologist and Obstetrician, W2- i-ocor-Aft -xora-ji xve. wcittrx. ix Eftllr Uttttl iftUrMtra U W.. w& f , yA y V 1 1 'mmTl . t " 51-,. ? i