The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-10
Luck of Dan AinsWOrth Who
Organized Harvey County.
HAS GOLD IN BRICKS.
A Topeka and Wellington Man
in With Him.
Claims to Have Been Offered
Job by Stanley.

Kansas City, March 10.-A man of
small, wiry figure, perhaps 60 years old,
stood before the desk of the Savoy yes
terday, holding small paper parcel.
His scanned and tanned features, adorn-
ed with gray chin whiskers, his care
less dress and the unmistakable drawl
of the westerner evoked no special in
terest. But in his voice there was ire
NOR that caught the attention of Clerk
Van Gunter in the words:
Would you take care of this for
me?"
You can check it at the stand" was
the reply, with a gesture.
I'D rather have it put in the safe.
It's worth considerable"
The old mans eyes danced as the
clerk took the small bundle and theft
ed'' it.
1T must be gold" he exclaimed.
brick of shining metal
Ha, ha!"chuckled the old man,at the
evident surprise of the clerks face
That's different, Ell? Say, do you know
how it feels to get rich sudden-like and
know you've got it for good, after hav-
ing lost a fortune or two in your life
time?
"A few weeks ago. he continued. 81
was pushed to pay the little bills of
$40 or SIS that were presented to me. 1
lived at Newton, Kan, and everybody
knew about my being an official in a
mining company out in Arizona. You
see,I organized Harvey county and they
know all about Dan Ainsworth down
there, and when a bill was presented
and 1 pulled out IS gold piece, that 1
might have in my pocket now and then,
they would say, just to make fun, Dan,
is that gold you got out of your Arizona
mine?'
This sounds funny to you fellows"
said the old man, settling himself COM
fOrtably, land I must own 1 can't quite
get used to myself. The fact is 1 am
I'D oil TO hn
worth, although I'm not one of these
plutocrats. That brick is worth $1,000.
There is another on the way to me now;
it must be at Newton by this time and
they will keep coming right along, two
a month. So you see I'm fixed.
Pm here. to visit some of my old
friends in Kansas City. There are lot
of them that have known me ever since
L was in the banking business in the
boom days. A good many of them are
big bankers here, and they will be glad
to know Dan Ainsworth has struck it
at last. There's L. G. Beal, receiver of
the Topeka Savings bank, who is III
with me on the gold mine. and Hon. J.
w. Hoye of Wellington. We are going
to Chicago next week to elect new Off
GERS for the company. This is not a
stock selling scheme. The ground floor
space is all taken.''
Dan Ainsworth is we'll known to the
''oldtimers" in Kansas. from his con-
nection with J. D. Sanford, the banker
of the early days, who began his career
as a bank breaker in Kansas and
through whose Vaccinations Ainsworth
lost all his property. Sanford is known
as the greatest bank breaker who ever
operated in the United States Con-
corning this part of his life Ainsworth
seldom refers. His later life is pleas
anter topic, with all its hardships, and
he proudly claims to be the only dele
gate in the last convention instructed
for Gov. Stanley. He pulled his dele
gates together after the first scattered
ballot and held them to the end.
He was offered commissioner of in
surance for his influence, he says, by
one of the candidates, but declined.