The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-11
RAMBLING.
] AXE Stotler Writes Some Character
Sketches.

Hiawatha is a handsomely and we'll
built little city. 1t has a beautiful To-
cation and a better class of buildings
than are usually found in ether towns
in the state. It has an academy and a
free library. It's public schools are or
the best. 1t is largely indebted to ex-
Governor Morriu for its library and
| academy Web Wilder and Ewing
Herbert live here, as well as other good
men, and the society is excellent Inc
public schools are under the superin-
tendence of a Normal graduate. Mr..
Morrill, works hard in his bank. Her
bert publishes one among the very best
of weekly papers in the state. the Hia-
watha World, and it has circulation
of over 5000 copies.
Mr.. Herbert expects to push it speed
/ lily to 1000. He has made a striking
newspaper success. He charges 81 80
a. year for it. He is wise enough to
lay something aside for a, rainy day.
Mr. Wilder edits his insurance paper
here and sends his copy to Kansas City,
where his son prints it. Web con-
tinues to say things that hurt some
bOdy's feelings and humbugs have fire.
quently walled He is pretty much the
same man he was 35 years ago when he
edited the Leavenworth Conservative,
only a. little older. ''Wilder's Annals
. his greatest work, will live as long as
Kansas has a name.
The Rambler struck another interest
ing town when he reached Troy. Here
three famous men have hOur1Shed, one
of them being still with US. Rambler
refers to Judge Nate Price. Sol Miller
and Cy Leland. Price was a lawyer,
Miller edited the Troy Chief and Leland
is a. merchant with an inclination to do
/ a little in politics-sometimes he is
called a. boss" The Troy Chief is the
Oldest paper in the state. 1t will be
remembered that Judge Price was found
dead in a chair in his office one morn
ing a, few years ago. He was a mem
Der of the last Territorial Council and
also of the state legislature at various
periods and was once judge of his dis
i trict. He is kindly remembered by all
who knew him.
The Rambler saw Leland's store.
where he made a fortune in trade, and
also his residence. Both are unpreten-
tiOus. LeIand's home is such as you
will see in almost every village of the
state. 1t is near his store room, which
! is 14O feet in depth and is filed with
! everything. No matter what may be
said by those who do not know him Lee
| land is immensely popular in Doniphan
] county. Many interesting remin-
! iscences are related by the former
neighbors of the two men. When Miller
/ published the Chief at White Cloud it
! CHANGED once that he and Ly locked
horns" on local politics. 1t has been
/ spoken of as a fight in which the air
/ of DOniphan was rather a dark blue
and filled with fur for some weeks. 1t
I was never repeated. On moving to
/ Troy Sol and Cy became fast friends
and ever remained so. They were a
/ team which has never been matched in
| in disposition. Sol was inactive and
| quiet the other turned things upside
! down when he got at it. If any edi-
/ tOrial work was needed Sol took hand
| always to make it count. SOILS office
! was on a prominent corner, and his
/ home was near by in a plair twO-stOry
/ frame house. Some years ago he took
/ a notion to expand and did so by buy
/ ing a large, handsome home at the edge
! of town, where he could have a, garden
patch Before reaching it there is a
steep and long hill to climb. We guess
/ he was not bothered much with callers,
! There are only two other residences on
! the hill. The lay of the town is very
rough. We guess when Sol got home
! he staid for the evening. The climb
/ was enough to stagger a man who hates
/ walking. LelandS residence is only a
4 few steps from his store. 1t is prob
able that he was always too busy to
/ climb hills to get home and back He
/ has more leisure now and lives in To-
| pelIa.
When MiI1er's effects were moved
! from the Chief office after his death a
/ man who knows told the Rambler there
! We're ten wagon loads of store boxes
! crammed full of old files of newspapers
/ and clippings
} Rambler remarked that he had been
something of a liar himself in his time,
but the relatOr declared in the most
/ solemn manner that he had helped re-
move the boxes to the barn of the resi-
/ dence, where these relics are sacredly
/ preserved by the Miller family and that
! what he Sa1Q was SJf1cCIV true. 1t IS
/ stated that Sol could go to those boxes
| and find any clipping he might want to
I use at any time, especially if a man
was a humbug or demagOgue and was
/ figuring in any way before the public
| In his dealings with men in his office
! he was most kind and courteous, but as
/ soon as the door was closed behind him
! he was out of SoPs mind and in ten
( minutes he would not recognize the
/ same party on the street Nothwith-
/ standing this be was highly thought of
by his neighbors. Sol never took part
/ in public matters at home. but he al
! him. Leland is affabIe and courteous
in his intercourse with those around
I him. but those who beget his i'll will in
/ politics can get trouble without going
{ far to hunt it. He was always very
I kind to his neighbOrs and many men
! who are well situated owe all they have
4 to him. The writer was told that prob
/ ably so or more farmers in the county
( We're directly indebted to him for their
| money and store goods. The people of
Doriphan county fights NIT Cyl and
| that is an extremely bad place to go to
Z make war on the old man" Fellows
/ who have smacked their chops over the
celebrated apple jack" can throw
| rocks at his devoted head, because he
[ don't send them a bottle, but they had
/ better do something more effective. Cy
/ is in Kansas probably to stay.
Sol Miller died 20 years too soon He
| ought to have been governor, but was
too honest and outspoken. The visit
/ to the haunts of these two men will be
| long cherished by the
RAMBLER.