The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-07-13
L. q. Jansen Trying to Clear Up
His Fathers Death.
DISAPPEARED WITH A FORTUNE
The Older Jassen Left HIS Home In
Nebraska I'm December, 1897, IN
Company With Three straagers.
who said They Wished ia hey
III. rsrn-was Never Seen Again
-pflJr~nf Work OF His SON.

Azneng the annals Of mysterious aisap-
ne2rances in thIs country There IL none
more interesting and remarkable than that
o. Thomas Jansen, father Of l.. H. Jansen
W5o is one Of the best knGwn mining men
d Seattle. T.. III. Jansen Ia one OF the
largest holders OF Swauk mining property.
II Is believed that Eae elder Jansen 10
Dead. a. no trace has been found OF him
since December ls. 1881. when he left In
e.anola. Neb., sn company with three
strangers. who eiainssd that they desired
10 purchase Dir. Jansens farm, located
6fty-sIx miles from Indianoia- Mr. jan
Sen had about 900 Ia cash on his person,
- there Is grave cause 20 believe that ne
&as murdered.
Ills son aas been appointed ad-nlnistra-
Cor OF his estate, wasch 10 a large one.
ard should II turn out that Mr.. Jansen Is
stsll alive, there will be a parallel case
70 one that is famous In this state
Moses H. Scott disappeared from Thurs
Ton county In March. ISL. and more than
seven years after no dropped out of sight
his estate was proDated and certain par
GELS Of land sold. Scott came back and
demanded the return Of his property. but
the guprenie court of This state held that
be was technically dead. and therefore
could not Dust innocent purchasers. AS
lawyers say nowadays, tho court said:
''Sit down, Scott: you're dead" Scott did
not want To lie dead technically when he
was alive, and appealed 10 the United
States supreme court. claiming that ne
was being deprived OF his rights withogT.
due process OF law.
The supreme court reSarrected Scott ana
Restored his property.
If 1t should turn osit that Jansen Is s.ill
alive. Washington's famous case may be
Ge-enacted.
Thomas Ja.lsen made his headquarters
tn Topeka. Kan, but he owned large
ranches In central Kansas. a large amoun,
OF corn IN the crib. and many mortgages
and notes. He also had n farm Ia New
York state. and the Stockvilie. Neb. farm.
il IL said ahat several OF Jansen's credit
ors have paid money into the Topeka
banks. The son has not been able 10 get
81 tthe exact details of the estate yet, al
Mr. Jansen attended TO his own affairs
personally.
Recently abe son appeared before the
probate court of shawnee county, Kansas,
and asked TO he appointed administrator OF
- s., 600. alleging that he was dead. Judge
bolman granted the request and fixed
bonds at sao,os0 Ia giving bonds Mr.. JAN
Sen referred his bondsmen 10 Col. Robert
II. Lindsay, OF Seattle, who mas known
han for years and transacted much Of his
legal business in Washington.
Thomas Jansen ieei Topeka, Kan, No
vember 5, 1856, 10 80 10 Oberlin, Kan. and
thence 10 panberry. Kan He arrived at
banberfy November II. and on the same
DAY went 70 lndlanoia, Neb. From there
he took trip 10 his ranch. which Is six
miles from Siockyilie. In the western part
Of Nebraska December 10 Mr. Jansen re-
turned 10 Indianoa. where he remained
until December u. when ha left in COM
pany with thee men. who had become in
teres.ed in the Stockville ranch and want
Cd to buy IT,
From that time no trace has been found
OF Mr.. Jansen or the three men, although
the son has employed the best detectives
10 solve the mystery. In hts letter to Col.
Lindsay. MIR. Jansen. the son. says:
THE three men and any father made the
trip In "a wagon. have. learned that my
father had at,osrt Ss,eoo In money on his
person at the time no made the trip The
party started In the afternoon and could
not have made the entire trip before dark
THE ranch ~ six miles from StockvlHe
and Stockvilie is ifty miles from indian
Ola. !neF must nave spent the night In
their wagon.
''Au this information ! have obtained
iistle by little from Detectives and friends
] am convinced that my father Is dead
Further than that cannot state at the
present time"
NJ. Jansen expects 10 have the fun
story az what happened - his father With
In the next month. He q now on his way
a. Seattle. and viii arrive about the 18TH
If fhls u4nnrs,