Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-01-06
AMONG THE HoRsE MEN.

AMONG THE HORSE MEN.
A reporter visited number of sale stables |
yesterday to learn what had been done
towards supplying the horse and mule de-
mand of the coming season. At one stable |
two car loads or thirty-six horses and mules |
we're received yesterday, and the reporter |
was informed that three car loads were i'll
transit for his stables; about 100 head in all.
At three other stables Re called at, the same
filling up was reported, each one of which
had received a car load during the day.
The horse dealers said that the intention
WAS to head off all the western buyers and
keep them from going east to pu, chase what
the dealers here could supply them. The
reporter asked leading dealer in horses
and mules what the outlook was for the
coming seasons trade in horses, and got the
following reply:
$50 far as Wichita is concerned as stock
market for the future, would say that it is
an assured fact that it is destined to be one
of the foremos: in the west. 1t may be re-
tarded by the dealers failing to keep up to
the standard OF progress in supplying the
demands made On the market, but the
time will come when this will be
a head center of supply for very large ter
ritory, and from the experience of the past
believe there is no city in the country
which is building up market so fast as she
l.. H. h. txro There
IS a very fine outlook Cor the coming season,
and if we can keep the market well supplied
during the winter and spring months and
cut off all the trade that goes east We will
do business that will outstrip any other
business of the city. From the way stock is
arriving now l should judge that the ball
has commenced to roll in earnest.
The reporter asked how much stock had
been ordered for this market for the five
days of the year, and was told that the fol-
lowing parties had ordered. or had received
stock yesterday as follows:
The Wichita Horse and Mule Market, IS
head of Norman mares, and two car loads
OF mules received yesterday and three car
loads of mules and horses ordered.
Longs Sale Stable, one car load OF mules.
Martins Stable, one car load Of mules.
Bayley's Stables, one car load mules.
Morgsn's Stables, two car loads of horses.
Some other dealers are receiving stock
but the informant was not advised Of partic-
ulars.
From the way stock is coming in the ball
has evidently opened for the season and it
is hoped when the western buyers come
here they will not have to go to Kansas
City or to St. Louis to get what they want.
THE CHINESE RESIDENTS OF WICHITA.
A reporter called at Chinese laundry in
this city TO ascertain how many Chinese in
habitants there are IN it. On entering the
place where the Celestials manipulate dirty
linen, half dozen Acknowledged sons of the
Flowery Kingdom cast their little twinkling
orbs on the reporter with some degree of
surprise, mingled with fear. One chief
man among them asked the reporter to what
he was indebted for the honor of his visit.
The reporter told him that he wanted to
learn how many Cinnamon there were in
the city, and was told that there were but
thirteen altogether, and that some of thst
number We're not permanent residents, but
only here on visit.
The reporter asked "John," as II is quite
the the thing to say .'John" to a Chinaman,
how it WAS thu; Cinnamon should come to
Kansas, when so few Of their countrymen
were here, and was told that the Chinese
who go, away from the big companies that
make the contracts for the labor OF their
su'icc;s generally went away TO some dis
tsut place for self-protection, ani neces-
sa.ily had 10 fall ont with the authorities
who brought them over and claimed tribute,
or percentage OF their wages. He said
that the companies had Cinnamon hired 20
hunt up all refugees who left the companies
to whom they belonged and collect the
amount of .heir dues. When the reporter
asked the Chinanan il be would be sent
back to China If he died, he said that that
Was even so provided,th the company TO whom
he owed allegiance could get him in shape
to transport him TO the receiving bone yard
at San Francisco.
All the Cinnamon that are in this city ap-
pear to have lived years in San Francisco.
and are familiar with that city, and it is
more than likely that they arc all refugees
of some importing Chinese company Of the
Pacific slope and have taken refuge, but
where they no longer think of giving up
what they owe to the Chinese
lords who fatten on their substance. The
opposition to the Chinese in Californis
arises from the fact tba: thousands Of them
are imported and worked by contract like
slaves on public works, at a nominal figure,
by the measure of this country; but what
by them is considered princely, and as soon
as they make a certain amount are sent back
to China, to the place whence they came.