The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-03

nlgnt-g0Wn CnQ3f the pillow, or q
watch on the mantelpiece, or an um-
brella or cane in the corner Of the
room. General Simon Cameron. with
just three minutes to reach the Broad
Street Station, started one morning in
q carriage for the eleven o'clock train.
Ten minutes afterward was surprised
to see him walk into tine hotel Office.
i had to let the train CO. he said,
laDghingly; 4 left my spectacley up
stairs. 1 can't go without them; I
swear by 'em.' A porter found tho
glasses. but General Cameron had to
stay until $50 before he got another
train.
Last week patron of the house,
who lives in Harrisburg, came down
and staid over night. When he came
to the Office in the morning to pay his
bill he fumbled through his pockets.
looked at me with puzzled expression.
and said: 4 haven't any money; why,
I've been robbed. l know all about it
now. went to q theater last night,
and afterward rode in horse-car The
car was crowded, and I stood up and
grasped strap with my right hand,
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vest. l had $500 in bills in one roll in
my right-hand vest pocket Of course
he didn't pay his hotel bill, and even
had to loan him so to take him back
to Harrisburg. He hadn't got twenty
miles out of town before the chamber
maid who fixed up the room that he
had occupied brought the mans roll
down to the Office. She said she found
it under the pillow of his bed. l tele-
graphed to Harrisburg, and that night
received a reply telling me to take the
amount of the hotel bill and 80 out of
the roll and transfer the remainder by
telegraph. We had hot time here
several months ago about a lady's soli-
taire diamond earring. She lost it in
bed, and made a great time about her
loss. We took all the furniture apart,
ripped up the carpets, in fact pulled
everything out of the room, but the
diamond could not be found. The wo-
man accused the poor chambermaid oi
stealing it. but we felt satisfied that
the servant was innocent. Two months
afterward the diamond was found in
the mattress. 1t had caught under one
of the buttons that hold the hair in
place, and had remained secreted there
all that time.
ave have several watches in the safe
that have been left under pillows, few
pairs of bracelets, lots OF gum shoes
and slippers, q bookcase full of novels,
packs of playing-cards, pocket-knives,
raZors, hair-brushes and combs, and
various other things-I suppose enough
to start regular pawn-broker's auc-
ton store. There is any number OF
umbrellas and canes. But night-gowns
beat everything. They have been ac-
cumulating for years, and we've got
over five hundred of them, some elabo-
rately embroidered. A few are trimmed
with expensive lace and great many
are prettily marked with the owners
initials. Hardly day passes without
our receiving letter asking after the
fate of a certain night-gown. Some
people won't write for them, and
wouldn't admit the ownership of them
if we should forward them. 1 received
\ letter from lady this morning ask
ing us to look up night-gown that was
left here more than two months ago.
l suppose we'll be able to find it.
Nearly every day night-gown is sent
to the laundry; label is then put on
it, showing the room it was found in
and the date, and then it is packed
away with the other night-gowns to be
kept until called for. There are hun
bred of them, yellow with age. Annie
Pixley, the actress, left white satin
here the last time she
played in this city. 1t was embroidered
al down the front with dozen differ
ent kinds of sewing silk. and must have
cost seventy-five dollars. We sent it to
her in few days after she lett here. y
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