The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-26
WHAT THEY SAY IN HILo.
News From Miss Roses Home Town
About Her Selection as Queen.


Miss Anna Rose is going to your
town and I bespeak for her the kindest
consideration of yourself and your Kan
sas friends. She is what our Kansas
and Oklahoma friends would call a
peach Miss Rose is one of the sweet
est ladies in our islands, and have no
doubt that by her culture and winning
manner she will win the hearts of the
people of your state capital"
So writes Charles Galbraith, an attOr
ney of HilO, Hawaii, the home of Miss
Rose, to Dave Leahy, in letter received
by Mr.. Leahy Saturday. Mr.. Galbraith
was formerly attorney general Of Okla
hOma, but at the expiration of his term
two years ago he went to Hilo and went
into partnership with a gentleman by
the name of Little in the law business.
He is a friend of Miss Roses family and
eulOgizeS her in the highest terms He
also encloses clipping from the Hilo
Tribune of August 27, containing the
letter written to HilO gentlemen, asking
them to lay the matter of coming to
Topeka before Miss Rose. The Mr.. Lit
tie spoken or in the clipping is the part
ner of Mr.. Galbraith. The HiIo Tribune
says:
Kansas is nothing if not original, and
| this trait is shown by the request that
has come from that state for a Ha-
Waiian beauty to grace the Topeka
Fall Festival as the Queen of the Car
nivaI Knights. A committee appointed
for this purpose communicated with At
tOrney D. H. Case of Honolulu, for
merly a resident of Topeka. The fol-
lowing is a portion of the letter:
What we want is that you use your
best judgment and select for US some
| handsome Hawaiian girl to be queen Of
! the carnival
'fOur people are all anxious to have
one of our neighbOrs visit US and to
come in this capacity. We will pay all
| of the expenses incident to the trip,
and will have committee in San
Francisco to meet her and make her
! trip from there on to Topeka as easy
/ and pleasant as possible. She will be
| able to see great deal of our country
| and hers under the most favorable
auspices, and the right person would
| have grand time. We would return
/ her in the same splendid shape and give
1 her attention that would honor real
| queen"
The following is a copy of the letter
| received by Messrs. Wakefield, An
| drews, Little and Wilder from the COM
| Honolulu, Aug. 10. sgs-Gentlemen:
/ Tt is the earnest desire of the commit
1 tee of fifteen having in charge the Kan
sas Fau Festival to secure a repre-
/ sentative Hawaiian girl to act as Queen
! of their Karnival this coming Septem-
| Der. Doubtless you gentlemen will
| understand the nature of these fall
| festivals, taking place in quite a num-
| Der of our western states annually.
| Much money and time are spent by the
| influential citizens of the states to make
| them in every particular grand affairs.
/ and the ladies who are fortunate enough
! to be selected as queens are considered
J to be in enVia bic positions indeed. As a
! rule there are two queens. a queen of
/ the festival and a queen of the Karnival
| Knights, each lady beirg supreme in
her sphere. These positions of honor
/ are always sought after by the most
| refined girls, and every attention is
| shOWered upon a queen The best and
| most prominent men and women are
| back of the enterprise. and it is need
| less to say that any proposition coming
/ from their committee of fifteen can be
| absolutely relied upon
As your Mr. Little is aware I am a
| former Kansas man and came to Ha-
/ waii from Topeka some two years ago.
| By reason of annexation and Ha-
| waits being brought to the attention
| of our fellow citizens in so many ways
! of late our home people have conceived
| the idea that a queen from Hawaii
! would be eminently fitting for their
/ 1898 festival and karniyal, and some
of the members being acquainted with
/ me concluded to write me to procure
| the young lady. I in turn, by reason Of
| my short residence in the Islands (twC
| years), do not feel justified in taking
| the matter all on my own shoulders
| and am therefore asking representative
| gentlemen to assist in securing some
| girl whom we viii all, as Hawaiians
| be Justly proud. Mr. Kinney. Mr.
Ballou, Marshal Brown, Deputy Attor-
! -,