The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-19

pas Know Never visit Such fiaces w ere
seen in the Rear of the Building yom-
iting Out the Poisou-The Police are
Ordered to Pull the Place, But the Or
der has a String to it That They Must
See the Act of SmokiuG-Of Course They
Don't See This.
If some of the people OF Wichita on
their way 10 church this morning would
take the pains 10 step to the rear OF
the Chinese laundry 90 on South Law
renee avenue, they would behold the
works of the heather Chinee upon the
young Americans of Wichita
The sight TO be witnessed there last
night was enough TO turn the stomach
of an old-fashioned dog-iron. or an In
dian sign in front of some Of the tobac-
CO stores OF the city. OF course they
can not behold the sight in all its hOr-
rOrs as was there to be witnessed last
night when young boys came out of
the opium den and at once began cast
ing up accounts after the fashion OF
a person affected with his first sea-sick-
ness. The place is within two blocks
of the police station and yet sons of
mothers who today will attend church
and thank God that their sons are
growing 10 manhood in land of no Sa-
looms. while at the same time heather
Chinee is permitted by the police to
conduct house that does more harm
than even a score Of saloons, TO say
nothing about the administration joints
that are allowed TO be conducted in the
city.
Judge McCanless yesterday issued his
orders to the police in a manner that
was without question energetic, but the
question is will il be obeyed? He in
formed them, so he told an Eagle re-
porter, that they should proceed to pull
the opium den, and every body found in
them. That they were not the judges
of law. That the law against opium
smoking was older than any man on
the police force, and that all they had
to do was to bring the criminals in and
he would show them the law. That it
might be true that there was no ordi-
nance against opium smoking, neither
was there any against murder but that
it was their duty TO arrest them. ''Of
course" he added, "they must find
person in the act of hitting the pipe.
and / have told them 10 watch and if
they seen a person enter the place TO
follow them in and take ALL
They probably did not see a certain
man enter the place at II o'clock yester-
day, probably not, as he went up the
alley from the postoffice. They did
not see three young men who entered
the place at o'clock last night and
afterwards came out the rear door of
the den and cast up accounts. No they
did not see this, but they and other
citizens of Wichita, can see where the
llf haf III
1t seems as though the publicity Civ
en- to this den of iniquity had brought
ii customers who have an anxiety to try
the effects OF the drug and since expos
ed in the Eagle there has been a steady
string. Once they took the pipe the ef-
fectS are so delicious, that when the
relapse comes they will do anything to
get another chance.
So profitable is this place proving,
that under what seems to be police pro-
lection, other places are about to be
opened. If the fathers and mothers of
Wichita knew that it was their own
son instead Of somebody else's son that
was being encoiled in the fangs of this
place they would doubtless rise up and
drive the opium denS from the city.
But do they know that 1t is not their
own boy?
Today mothers may feel thankful that :
1t is not their boy who is being led by J
a heather Chinee into a state a hundred /
times worse than the grave and yet 1t /
may be that it was this mothers own +
son who stood last night with one hand I
on a slop barrel while he vomited out 4
the poison which the food in his stom- (
ach refused to mingle with. One man .
who was known to a reporter was met .
last night and asked if it made a man /
sick at his stomach to smoke the pipe, !
and if it did what was there about be-
ing made sick at the stomach 70 entice
a man 10 surrender his manhood, his
family and everything on earth that
he might have the pipe. He said:
You don't understand il. If you
want to hit the pipe. say at II o'clock.
you must not eat any breakfast. and If
you want a smoke at o'clock you must
eat no supper. You can't mix food
and the smoke.
You want TO know what there is
about il that leads a person on when
he knows that there Is nothing but ruin
for him. I will tell you that when the
effect leaves you you can not imagine
the agony a person is in. He thinks he
viii only take just a little 10 stem him
over the shock. but when he gets the
pipe in his mouth and begins TO fly
again in ethereal fields he can not drop
L, and got into a. stupor where he is
King. Notwithstanding his body is borne
70 the cellar below and laid along side
# rotten potatoes.
when he awakes II his stomach Is
empty he goes away feeling pretty toll
erably we'll and with an imagination /
hat would discount a lawyer or A
preacher. You can tell them as they
walk along the street with a spring in .
heir legs as though they were string
lalt Let them come to little stream .
If water in the gutter. and you will see
lin spring Up into the air and when :
re alights on the other side he Will .
ave satisfying look on his face as ,
hough he had performed wonders.
While they are IL this state they will .
i've away the last cent they have Ia
he world. ,
But on, horrorsi When Il comes 70 !
iobering up. The worst orthodox he'll
which was ever preached from the pull
III would appear as a bed OF ease when ,
with his feelings There is ;
70 relief except 20 take another dose.
nd so the work goes on. and yet some :
'5dy viii wonder a. The increase Of :
rime. !
You want 70 know why IL don't Kill ,
he alnnon ed-eyed Chlnee. Wei don't ;
now as can tell except on the theory ,
hat the bite OF a snake wont hurr :
og- There's 10 philosophy about IL !
Il VIII wager one thing and that IL :
you viii visit the different drug stores =
\ Wichita and take the list Of names !
ecorded there who are buying and US
lg morphine and opium tha; you viii
nd the curse Of these drugs .s doing %
lore harm today in Wichita than all
q Wichita under police protection or I,
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