The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-03

| woman IN Inc ar Orient.
| A year or more ago Mr. ". a. Wilson,
head of the Wilson tea company of Yoke
| homa, Japan, visited the United States
and remained over night at the Carey
enronfe east That was about the time of
| the hauling down of the American flag at
Honolulu ana it will be remembered that
Mr.. Wilson gave an interview TO a repre-
sentative Of the EAGLE on the subject
| During an hours conversation quite an &c.
qualntance sprung up between them. Mr..
Wilson, after visiting a few weeks in the
east, returned to Japan and that is the
last heard from him until last Sunday
when marked copy of the Japan Hello
graph WAS received at the EAGLE office from
him. He stated in an accompanying note
that the marked article was peculiar
construction on the subject of Mrs. Lease
The trouble now was how to get it trans
lated. Charlie Sing read the article till
his sides ached with laughter but
alas! Charlie couldn't be intelligent
ly translated himself. There was
only one man in town able to
translate it, Mr.. Zenidi Choniki, who is
going to school to one of the colleges and
paying his expenses by lecturing in the
surrounding towns, and his translation Of
1t was very slow.
The article illustrates two things; one is
that the editors of Japan are wofully
ignorant of the history of the United
States ana the geography of Kansas; the
other is that il Mr.. Shelton is a Christian
missionary ne has not carried with him to
the heather the attributes of the illus
trious father of his country. Ten to one
he has. since his departure, learned more
of the youths of Japan how to play poker
than how to reach Heaven.
The following is the article from the
Hellograph. verbatim:
q" The Steamer Navasaki which arrival
yesterday from San Francisco brought
among its passengers Mr.. Shelton, a
nephew OF Commodore Taylor of Kansas
which Is one of the independent provinces
tina; seeded from the United States in
1861. and which preciptated the civil war
III that country. Mr.. Shelton comes here
as Christian missionary, whose head
quarters will be at Toxic. Mr.. Shelton
has brought with him serious news from
his country, and was surprised why mat
ters of such great Importance on the other
side of the Pacific had not reached YOko-
boma long before this time. Shortly be-
fole his departure terrible civil war had
broken out IN Kansas between the natives
of the eastern part of the province, a
fierce tribe of Indians, who are called
Popull or Populists, aud the Wichita, a
seml-civilized and progressive mixed race
Of people who are descended from the
Griffensi ines of Germany and the Chero-
hte>, one Oh the oIue-t races OF the Anerl-
can Indian. II seems that at the last
election the barbarian Populi were
in the majority and elected one of their
number To the throne of the province OIL, as
Rev. Mr.. Shelton puts it, the governor
ship. In foyming his cabinet he catered
to IA peculiar element of the body polite
who are called suffragists, so named from
the Indian word suffragi trousers. In
other words he informs us that suffragisis
are women who desire to Wear trousers
and become factors and participants in
the politics of their nation. In recogniZ-
ing this element he selected for one of the
chief positions in his cabinet a woman by
the name of Lease, the wife, or sQuaw as
Mr.. shelton calls it, of medicine man of
the Wichiuaws.
This woman. it appears, formed con-
spiracy to dethrone Lorenza ], who is the
reigning monarch, and he, detecting her
schemes, ordered her TO be decapitatei.
The leading warriors of the WichiIaws
rallied to her defense, more. it is said, be-
cause they hated the government than
loved their psuedo queen. The result was
were commanded by General Artz. a
man who was elevated to high
rank by the Populi on account
of n memorable retreat be made before the
hostile troops of the province of Colorado
who. it Is said pursued him with great
vlgor 10 the frontier.
Madam Lease, it appears, is theleader of
her own troops and with such success,
when Mr.. Shelton left, that she was called
the Joan dare of Kansas. her methods
of organization are wonderful, She goes
among her people delivering incantitions
aud works them up 10 such enthusiasm
that instead of applauding her as we do
in Japan they throw dollars at her feet
until she sometimes stood waist deep In
the ccin of the realm, and in this way she
is enabled TO make fierce struggle for
the safety of her head Her leading sup
pore r Is General Clemens. a fierce war
rior who Is said TO he the most skilled man
in the nation in the throwing of dynamits
bombs and other explosives. Wichita is
the headquarters as we'll as the home Of
the rebellious queen and the chief COM
mercial port OF he nation. It is situated
a. the forks of two immense navigable
rivers aud Is the most favorable point in
the nation for "a naval combat. On the
date of his departure for Japan Mr..
Shelton saw in the San Francisco papers
that his uncle had been ordered TO pro-
coed to that port with fiotilla of twenty
men of war 10 engage the rebel fleet, aud
he Is naturally very anxious TO hear the
result of n he comhar -