The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-26
Kansas Man Has Caused Heart
fiutters in Lowell.
Garden City Farmers Fruitless
Quest for a Wife.
APPEALED TO POLICE.
They Couldn't Help Him So He
Gave Up.
Auburn Haired Young Woman
Comes to the Rescue.

REASONABLE the Garden City gentle
the auburn-haired girl in Lowell, Mass.
and whom he wants to make ms pride,
viii lcall on or address the State Journal,
he may hear something TO ms advantage
maybe.
Some girl in the old historic town OF
Lowell, Mass. has been playing havoc
with the affections of young farmer
who lives in the vicinity of Garden City,
Kan. He has represented himself, 1T
is alleged, as being quite wealthy and
the object of adorable glances from the
Garden City girls, but he has been inn
pervious to their charms and instead
has been fascinated by an auburn
haired maiden of Lowell.
Just how the affair started the State
Journal does not know. but after she
had sent him photograph Whlcn ne
supposed was of his Hearts Desire, and
after she mad promised to be his'n. or
words to that effect, her letters sudden
iy ceased and his remained uncalled for
In the Lowell postoffice.
Then he wrote to the Lowell police
force. appealing for official aid in locat-
ing his fiancee. In that way the his
tory of the case got into the Lowell
newspapers. together with description
of the girl. 1t was read by all the other
girls in Lowell and some of the roman
tic ones have been secretly signing for
the wealth of affection which the
wealthy Kansas gentleman is wasting
on the Semi-arid air.
Now comes a communication from
another Lowell girl who says the de-
scription given is of herself and she
thinks the first Lowell girl must have
had her in mind when writing the de-
scriptiOn to the Kansas man. She evil
IDENTIFY wants to sub" for the first girl
and thinks she can take the place of the
first one in his affections. The State
Journal has her name and address but
she wants them kept secret until 1.-The
man" calls for them. Here is her let
ter:
ITO whom it may concern:
What seems to be a tangled mystery
may now be solved in a few days.
For the past few days there has been
advertisement in one of our Lowell
papers in regard to a young lady of this
city CORES Donding with a wealthy
farmer in Kansas.
This young lady, it seems, gave this
young man a description of me, but not
letting on but what it was herself all
the time, she gave another name and by
what l understand sent a picture of
some person or actress and only did 1t
for joke, as she is engaged or keeping
company with a gentleman in the east,
SO she did not send her own picture or
mine. She is between light and dark,
and slender, and about feet inches
tall, and does not wear glasses. 1 am
IeeI 10 Inches Idll ana weigh l4U. L
am % years. That is her age too.
II may be misjudging this young lady
but 1 have reason to believe it is the
same mar as she told a lady 1 know
about gentleman in the west who she
is writing to and he was a farmer and
has particular regards for ladies with
red or auburn hair.
LAS there has no one called I thought
j would write but not wanting my name
to be made public 1 kept away from
hoo drtlI nrfar T rrt1
but do not know the name she gave
or the gentleman's name. only know he
lives in Kansas somewhere
Il wear glasses and L have very
heavy head of curly auburn hair. wish
that the Kansas papers will please copy
this for l want to find this gentleman
who cares so much for blondes.
II will give my name SO if he is
found ne can get it from you, but only
the initials may be used at the bottom
of this NJ E r."
"P ST only wish it to reach the
cities in Kansas, for he is in Kansas
until this farmer seeks it and can give
some details 1 understand he is a man
about twenty-eight or thirty"
The Lowell Sun contains the follow
ing account of the case:
THE story of the wealthy western
farmers correspondence with the pretty
Lowell girl and his letter of inquiry
which he sent to Superintendent of Po-
tiNC Ncildtl, dShiIlS Tic Clllcl VI LOWELL
bluecoats to hunt the city high and low
for his lovely treasure, has excited con-
siderable interest. Speculation is rife
as to who the dear girl may be.
THE Sun knows the name over which
she correspondent, but it is undoubtedly
a fictitious one. The wealthy westerner.
however, is decidedly in earnest. He
says that he has more money than he
knows what to do with; he has wealth
galore and a farm so large that the
people in Garden City, Kansas, near
where the farm is situated, call it a ter.
ritory. The Garden City girls make
goo-goo eyes at the territorial farmer
when he rides into town behind his high
steppers, but he looks neither to the
right nor left. He has lived the life of
a bachelor for many years, and admits
that he was so much pleased with the
Lowell girls train of thought and tone
of speech that a girl in Garden City, to
whom he had deigned to smile upon on
account of her loveliness of form and
features, was made to look like the
shadow of an old thought in the pres
ence of letter from the girl whom he
is now thinking about, dreaming about,