The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-22
LIVING LIKE A TURTLE.
An OyerbroOk Man Carries His
House With Him.
Brings His Daughter to Aunt
Lucinda For Treatment.
Inability to Sscurs Accomuodat-ons
II the RsaIer's Neigh borhood
Overcome IN q HovsI but
E6sctuaI Way

People on Kansas avenue shortly after
noon yesterday saw a miniature dwelling
house on wheels. drawn by six horses
slowly travelling northvxard- \ man sat
at a small window in the forward end ii
recting the course of the horses. and al
Fifth street turned them in the direction
of the Santa F'e depot
Many Of the people who saw the strange
conveyance stopped and looked at it d
second time 1t was built with d gable
roof and TWO small square windows were
htted in each OF Che sides There was a
door at the rear and j stove pipe pro
truded from the center of the gable ridge.
Movers. remarked d man as he stood
with several others On a corner and
watched the house OF wheels 90 down the
street Better for an overland trip than
q covered wagon remarked another.
But the occupants of the small dwelling
house were not movers IN the sense
that the term Is generally used. and The
overland trip consisted only Of the dis
tanee from Overlook 10 Topeka The
conveyance was built TO serve especially
an entirely different purpose
At the Santa Fe depot the driver cross
ed to Fourth street and along the usual
route entered Oakland The heavy con
veyauce rumbIed along the principal Oak
land road until the street leading into
the settlement Of Pleasant valley was
reached- There the driver -geed- his
horses and drove into the settlement
Today the miniature dwelling may be
seen standing in the yard Of Aunt Lucin-
da Thompson the Pleasant Valley healer
II tells Il story Of prosperity from the
lodging house standpoint in the dIlapidat-
I'd settlement It means that lodgings are
At a premium in Pleasant VALLEY
Two weeks ago the man who built the
house on wheels came to Topeka with his
little daughter TO consult Aunt Lucinda
about the child When an infant she had
fallen and injured her spine to such an
extent that curvature resulted The cor
suItatIou was sa atisfactary, and leaving
the child at the heaIer's cabin he set cut
20 ind u place where he and his daughter
could lodge during the time uhau the treat
u-euts were in progress At the end of two
hours he returned with the Information
that lodging room was not 10 be had for
love or money at any of the houses n
Pleasant Valley
It was not because the people at the set
tIement did not appreciate love and
money. or objected TO dodgers, but because
all the available room was already occu-
pied by patients under the care Of Aunt
Lucinda
During the sumner time hut few Of
Aunt Lucinda patients became rempor-
ary residents Of the settlement from the
fact that If they found the healer busy
when they called they could spend the
time of waiting under the shade of the
trees IN the heaIer's yard, and by her be
served with refreshments- Some days pa
tents spent hours IN this manner. But
since the cold weather set in it Is entirely
different and as her cabin Is small and
cannot accommodate the number wha
cau On her daily the patients must either
ind lodgings III the vicinity or stand the
I chance Of making trips to the healer
j cabin o13y to ind it impossible for Auni
Lucinda 10 give them attention that day
[ Fer Aunt L.uciuda Is rather ecceHtriC
about her treatments and considers uoth-
ing but the old rule Of first come first
served
I 50. after his frJitIess search the Over
I brook farmer took his daughter and re-
I turned 10 his home There ha built the
{ conveyance which was seen On Kansas
I avenue yesrers1ay.a IN It iourueyed from
L Overlook 70 the heaIer's home with hzs
/ wife and daughter In the house On wheels