The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-19
IF TRUE"
A PurpOrted Letter From Queen
LiliuOkaIani
Pleading That Miss Anna Rose
Be Not Received
WITH HONORS HERE.
Beca use 1t Hurts the Feelings
of the Ex-QUeen
But Unfortunately the Queens
Signature is MisspeIIed
And She Isn't in Washington,
So It's a Fake.
WITH HONORS HERE.

A remarkable communication came to
Secretary Anderson of the Commercial
club this morning. It purported to be
from Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii,
and bore the date of September 16 and
the address Lafayette Square, Wash
ington, D. CT
The letter came to Secretary Ander-
son from Mr.. James Lewis, private sec
retary to Governor Leedy. With it was
the following letter from Mr.. Lewis:
Dear Sir: The enclosed letter ex-
plains itself. The governor has as yet
made no reply to it. 1t seems to me it
demands a formal and courteous an
swer as well as an explanation from
the citizens of Topeka. If you will
kindly attend to this matter the COVER
nor will be under obligations to you He
will delay answering the same pending
your action"
Here is the letter itself:
THE Governor of the State of Kansas,
Topeka.
Most Respected Excellency: My be-
loved kingdom has gone from me for
ever. I have no desire my former sub
jects shall be less loyal to the United
tached to me I would not have been
in their hearts the queen I was did
not feel with all my soul the aff1iction
that has befallen me. 1t is an event of
history of which am the only victim
and before the great God L hope
will be the only sufferer. In my pro-
found afliction L am called upon to
witness still another event which seems
useless and although unintended, a bsO-
q fn
THE magnificent city of Topeka,
through which L have passed and OF
which I have known, the capital of
your great Kansas. state of America,
has, it seems to me, taken especial pains
to wiring my heart anew, at a time
when in my own pension I attempt to
hide from the world my misfortune, my
anguish, my sorrow.
1T appears from the Honolulu papers
and those of the United States that
there is to be in the city of Topeka
some time soon play of royalty, with
pretended court, S1milttude OF
crown, dream of kingdom one mo-
ment of sovereignty, and my own is
lands are used to illustrate it. It
touches my heart that this IS in very
irony of all my sorrows. 1 do not want
this to occur. beg that by some kind
ly sympathy it may stir you and your
people to defer it. If it will add to the
enjoyment of your city, if it will pro-
woke for your people additional pleas
ure, if it will give them period of
festivity, I would aid them and have
authorized Mr.. DOminis to say that my
hearty gift of one thousand sOVereigns
in gold awaits your request to take the
place of the one pretender, and who
assert can not bring one half the joy
that it will add of sorrow to my already
broken fortunes.
Il beseech your excellency, for it is
to you alone that can make this ap-
peal. The honorable secretary of state
at Washington has informed me that
the national government has no power
to command or right to request this
from the sovereign state of Kansas. 1
make this appeal to you as a woman,
not by your command, but as a kindly
act to a fOrlorn woman whose SorroWS
bear her down, to use every effort in
your power to stop this exhibition.
With distinguished consideration for
you and the sovereignty which you rep
resent, I am, with the highest regards,
your most Obedient servant,
MRS. JNO. B. DOMINIS.
LiliaukaIani.
On receipt of this remarkable letter
Secretary Anderson notified all mem
bers of the Committee of Fifteen and
accompanied the information with a
call for a special meeting to consider
the matter at the Commercial club
rooms tonight.
The letter bears the earmarks Of a
fake. Liliuokalani does not spell her
name Liliaukalani and she is not IN
lulu.
The State Journal received dispatch
this afternoon at 2:30 from Washington,
from the Associated Press representa-
tive there saying that Queen Linuoka-
lani is in Honolulu.