The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-23
WICHITA DONE.
The ''Texas Cattle Queen" Takes
the Town.
Even Tiger Bill is Temporarily
ObScured.
SCATTER BANK CHECKS
Like Leaves in Vallambrosa
Among the Fast Circles,
Then She Disappears and the
-
SCATTER BANK CHECKS
Then She Disappears and the
Checks Are Worthless.

WICHITA, Jan. 23.-"The Texas Cattle
Queen" has been playing a three nights
star engagement in Wichita with the
most pronounced success.
The Texas Cattle Queen" is not a
dramatic company, as one might suppose
from the name, but Mrs Belle Wagner
from Texas, who claims to own $4,000
acre rancho and 5000 head of cattle.
Last Sunday morning, twenty minutes
after midnight, buxom good looking
woman magnificently dressed in seal
skin sacque and fashionable boucle
cloth tailor made suit, stepped off the
Rock Island train and ten hackmen
fairly fell over themselves to get to
carry her." as the expression goes.
She strobe across the platform as
stately as queen, stepped into a hack,
smiled d most fascinating smile, was
driven to a hotel and paid the hackman
with liberal hand.
Sunday afternoon she took a pot of
red paint and contidentially announced
to a credulous hackman that she intend
ed to decorate the town in a manner that
no one has ever Witnessed since the days
of Rowdy Joe. ~
Money" she whispered to the hack
man, sis no object. l have more than
L
the town regardless of expense" She
then told him that she would remain a
few days in Wichita, that she broug hit
up from her ranch in the Arapahos coun-
try three or four car loads of cattle, and
that she intended selling them here for
pocket money. She actually wrote out
a check for $500 and handed it to mime
JOINTS" a local hackman. with a request
that he run down to Mr.. Brown, the San :
ia Fc agent. to pay the freight on her
cattle. 1t is unnecessary to say that the
Santa Fee offices had been closed for the
day, but the bluff worked.
The Texas Cattle Queen as she an
nounced herself was soon introduced to
the champion high rollers of the town
who steered her to where the finest
champagne is kept in stock. She asked
no questions as to expense either for her
transportation or wines but wrote out
checks on the banks, payable three days
after date explaining that her cattle
would be sold at the stos.k yards before
that time Perfectly satisfactory" said
the hickman. the wine merchant, the
hotel man, and the restauranter with
giggle as he pocketed a check of SIS, $40
or $25. signed by Mrs. W 5gner, the cat
tie queen of Texas
She was windfall for the late trade
The oyster houses were beginning to see
a revival of the boom ano the wine mer-
chants didn't care thraa straws how
much their legs were pull ed by the lad
ministration" so long as tie cattle queen
remained in town.
After reveling few q sys beneath the
queenly smiles and favor of this femin-
iue coal oil Johnny the Genefciuries of
this wOman's iberality Degan to think
they had accumulated tSo much paper
and preferred to have il converted into
cash. They presented il Is the good peo-
pie of the banks, where it was rated at
the market value of vast paper. With
vengeance in their eyes ,1sy made search
for the woman, but tho Texas Cattle
Queen was gone. She h1d 500 worth of
fun while she was IN town.