Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-04-26
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LINCOLN, LINCOLN COUNTY,
Kansas, April 18th, lcc2.
EDrroR posr- INrEIrIoESCgR:

Kansas, April 18th, lcc2.
EDITOR Posr-
In your WEEKLY of the 2ith ult.. in an
editorial. you say that You are in con-
slant receipt of letters from the East
begging for papers, pamphlets and maps
giving information of the country, aud
that said letters contain neither green
backs nor stamps. Now, hr. Editor,
those people should certainly be sup
pied with all necessary Information.
| and If Washington Territory Is too pc
nurious or mean to keep up a Bureau or
Board of Immigration. she deserves 10
| remain as Territory for some years to
come. 1t Is, of course asking too much
| of the PosT-lsTELLIGgScRR to furnish
| maps. etc, without pay. but you might
at least refer inquirsrs to 4. l.. Stokes,
Oregon Railway and Navigation Com
papy. 81 Clark street, Chicago. who Will
| supply the n with pamphlets des rip:I'e
oi Oregon, with good map of oregon,
| Washington Territory and Northern
| Idaho; also a pamphlet compiled 10y
| Frank J. Parker. of the Walk Wall
| St1tesm1a, descriptive of Eastern Ore
| gon, Washington Territory and North
ern Idaho, and bundle of Portland
newspapers thrown IN. And right here
1 wisn ~ state that these papers, pam
| phiets. etc, scarcely mentiou or refer to
Western Washington--is - left out.
The writer expects - bccome resi-
dent of the Puget Sound BASIN In the
near future, and feels Interested Ii the
welfare of that region. Not more than
one-haif Of the people OF this part oil
Kansas intend to remain here for lie
/ hey are dI5contented III consequence oil
severe droughts, short or total failure OF
crops and many other draw backs. and
the exodus has already commenced
some going back to their old homes III
the East. large number are headed 70;
krkans II, and many wagons will start
for the Pacific slope as sooa as the .ras,
starts up.
Il Tie mass of people Ess. know little
concerning tho far northwest. Iney
want information and should havo II
Many are applying to me. take .
postal card, write 10 Chicago and h,v,
the pamphlets, ETC., mentioned aboYe.
mailed to them. can get no others
and that il the best can do. Nester:
Washington should wake up and eotab-
lish some sort of information bureau oil
Its own. 1t would pay the Seattle peo-
pie big to have the resources of hing
county written up and sent abroad.
Gov. Newell's pamphlet should be- pub
lished, and the sooner the better. b.
the way, 1t Is to be- hoped that the peo-
pie elect members TO the next Lesista-
allure that will pay more attention Il
he wants Of the whole Territory, and
less to Sund ~ laws, woman suffrage
and othor useless iegisiation: at all
events the next Legislature should be
an improvement on the last. Your pep
pie Seem impatient to become State.
That problem IL easily solved: Do as
Texas and other States, that wish iinni-
grants, do-advertise your Territory.
let the East and Europe know what kiu.i
of country you have got; In short, in
crease your population to. 10000 10y
1884, and that will speedily settle the
Sta question.
| Kansas il trying prohibition, and it is
perhaps needless to say that 1t il fail
| ur6 throughout the State. In all the
larger towns liquor is sold openly, and
IN the small towns it is sold privately by
the bottle, winch Is far worse than All
open bar. Tho spy system is played
| and arrests for violation of the law anu
for drunkenness are frcquent, anu much
bad blood stirred up III consequence.
The opponents of the law declare that
1t has checked immigration to the state,
and Cite the fact that notwithstanding
the good crop of 1881 there has been no
Immigration to Kansas this spring. 1t
Is said that the agents of Texas and
other States post immigrants, and par
ticularly Europeans, as to the Kansas
law, anu IN consequence haye turned
them Into other States.
GEORGE III. WILSON.