The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-11
Sad Scene at Santa Fe Depot
Brings Quick Response.
Aged Mother Cast Oh by Well 10
Do Daughter.
HELPED BY ST RANGERS
Collection Taken Up and Honey
Turned Over.
Bitter Talk by the Haughty
Daughter.
HELPED BY STRANGERS

a feeble woman IS years old sick
with rheurna tisrn. hardly able 70 move
at all ard who has been blind for the past
five years. being refused aid by we'll
to-do daughter and invoking all the in
vective she could. was the spectacle
witch greeted large number OF pas
sengers in the ladies' waiting room at
the santa Fe passenger depot this
morning
Mrs Cynthia Cock presented very
sorrowfuI appearance as she stepped OF
the ST Joe tram at the Santa Fe depot
this morning She was not able to walk
except with the assistance OF a daugh-
ter and several of the officials at the
depot She had come from her old home
On farm near Meridea where she had
gone at an early day and while she was
still in her prime and where she had
reared a family and spent forty-tvEo
years OF her life in giving her children
q start in the world She is near the
end Of her life and il was only with the
human hope that the thread OF life
could be prolonged for a brief time that
she was being taken by her daughter
to a little town out in the sand hills OF
New Mexico where it is hoped that the
rare atmosphere Of that country will
Save her
She was accompanied by a faithful
daughter. Mrs. John Leuker. whose
husband is a section foreman out in
New Mexico Mrs Leuker was accom-
panied by three small children. the old
est being about five years Of age, and
the youngest n babe in arms
Another daughter OF Mrs Cook re-
sides in Granville She is well 70 do
When the arrangements were first made
for the taking OF Mrs Cook TO New
Mexico. transportation was received for
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dren 10 New Mexico, but owing 70 the
Hepburn bill MI Leuker was unable to
secure transportation for his mother-in-
law The Leuker family Is in straight
ened circumstances and not able to pur-
chase transportation for Mrs Cook SO
that the Granville daughter was called
UP from Meridzn over the telephone and
asked TO help This she had refused to
do for several days However. yester-
day afternoon the daughter informed I
her sister, Mrs Leukar. over the phone !
that she would purchase a ticket If they I
would meet her here in Topeka this [
morning however adding the provision I
that she was never 70 be asked 70 do I
another thing for her mother and that /
this ticket was 70 keep her in New Mex
leo until the end Of her life
As the train from St Joe arrived this 4
Mrs Cook and her daughter I
and grandchildren arrived and went in \
10 the ladies' waiting room where Mrs. 1
her Oldest daughter, whom she had 4
reared from childhood and upon whom \
she had placed all her hopes as a pro-
tectOr for her in her old age While 4
she was waiting Mrs Cook at times be- I
came delirious and with her mind wan
dering she told of how much she had .
expected from her daughter and how I
little she had been helped
Finally the daughter from Granville I
arrived in z handsome buggy and went
=
I viii buy you a ticket and that is all I
will do for you 1 am not in sympathy
with you at all and would sooner give
you good thrashing; that is what you
need
After she had delivered herself OF this
bit OF invective she walked up TO the
ticket window and bought a ticket 10
New Mexico She took this and handed
il to her sister, Mrs Lauker. saying:
Here. take this old thing Get out Of
this country I never want TO see or
hear from you again I never want TO
see you OF the old thing in this country
again ard II you ever ask me for an
yrher cent you won't get it. 1 haven
any money to fool away on such people
as you are
About this time Harry Hobson. of the
signal department OF the Santa Fe. was
passing through the room when he was
attracted by the crowds which were
watching the sad proceeding OF a
daughter rejecting her helpless mother
and learning OF the Strengthened cir
OF the family handed a dol
ar 70 Mrs Leuker. tsTfngher to get Il
good dinner for herself and mother
Upon seeing this the GrantviIIe woman
said I am glad 10 see somebody do
something for the old thing because T
am done with her Upon finishing this
-ejoinder she walked of with an air OF
: greatly injured woman and getting
INTO her carriage she drove away
BY this time everyone who was in thu
1epOt was touched by the pathetic
scene and a collection was taken for the
mother Mrs Frey the
natroa of the depot. took care of the
Did lady until No. l pulled in and the