The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-19

sons and daughters in his own house
hold he had decided to give to each
100000 and provide that the balance
should be bequeathed to the widow at
his DEATH
It was also mentioned that the fire.
quent auto trips which Mrs. Lytle
took in the Mulvane car with the To-
peka millionaire as a companion, were
discussed at length at all the fashion
able dinner parties in the aristocrattc
west end. But Mrs Hughes stopped
this discussion.
II am ready to leave this town for
good" exclaimed the daughter with
considerable feeling. ''if the privacy of
a persons home is not so sacred but
that every gossip and every newspa-
per considers it public property
Mr.. Mulvane Still Weak.
Mr.. Mulvane himself was quite weak
from his recent Illness But he SEEM
ed less i'll at ease than his daughter.
He refused to discuss whether he had
or had not proposed to the pretty
young West street widow; and the
daughter declared that the alleged
family disturbances were not proper
material for newspaper stories. When
asked for a denial or affirmation Of
any part of the reports, she refused to
/ talk and prevailed on her father not
to make himself ridiculous by giving
an interview.
Mrs. Lytle returned from a trip to
her old home in Michigan about a
month ago. For several months she
had been much in the company of the
retired capitalist She visited the
Mulvane home several times before
Mr.. Mulvane was taken to the hos
pita1. But it is said she never went
to the hospital while Mr. Mulvane was
/ there. However, his condition was
reported to her daily-whether at
Mr.. Mulvane's request, no one would
state.
Mrs. IytIe's Attorney Denies 1t.
At the office of Bennett R. Wheel
er, attorney for Mrs. Lytle, was a gen
eral denial of any cash transaction
ow. 1t was also denied that any
| knowledge of q pending marital agree
ment had ever reached the office of
Wheeler & Switzer.
Then it was mentioned that the d.
w. Mu1vane car stopped for two hours
this morning at the Wheeler home.
But Wheeler denied this also and de-
clared emphatically that there is not
| at the present time or never had been
any talk of a settlement of the sup
ence between D. w. Mulvane, attorney
for his father, and Wheeler acting for
Mrs. L.ytle.
Both Well Known.
Eloine LytIe is 46 years old Mr..
Mulvane has just passed his 74th year
post. MT. MulNdn6, wealth. ana IN
fluence have made his name prominent
not only in Topeka, but over the state.
Therefore when Joab Mulvane be-
gan to pay more than passing atten-
ton to a handsome widow of As.
there was food for the after dinner
parties that made these events worth
attending.
Then came the runner that the
wealthy Topekan was To divide his
estate-that he was to marry the
young woman of his heart=whether
the children SO willed or not. From
thence to the report of Saturday there
was but one discussion at the club
4 meetings that attracted general 'atten-
ton. Perhaps as the reports were
handed from house to house from To-
peka avenue to College Hill, they grew
with unceaSing regularity. No one
who knows seems willing to say. Per
haps Topeka will never know
But ambitious Mrs. Lyle had sud
denly stepped into the limelight OF
public discussion. Before she was
known only as the widow of George
Lytle, who was too busy for dinner
parties and cared too little for society
to buy box seats at the opera house
So Mrs. Lytles ambition for society
was visibly curbed. When Lytle died
: he left an estate of some $40 600. The
widow received a half of this Hel
| husband was an active business mar
and he it was who built up Westlawn
Not though. until Topeka came tt
look on her as the prospective Mrs
Joab Mulvane did her s;ar shine the
brightest. It is said though tha-
when the courtship reached the fevel
point; when Joab Mulvane determined
he would not remarry and the alleged
heart balm was passed. that the no
toriety was all too much for even Mrs
Lytle. Then she left for Michigan. OF
her fathers farm near Adrian Mrs
Lytle will spend the summer. To
morrow Joab Mulvane will return t.
the hospital and will retain tn,
story of the courtship and no ont
seems willing to tell the complete de
tails of the cnnrfshfn which Is I'm