The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-10
DRINK MUCH BEER
Insurance" Agent Works Hard
to Write One Policy.
Young Man Who Helps Him
Earns Little Money.
YOUTH is In GRIEF
UnWittingly Helps "SpOtter''
Get Liquor Evidence.
Warned That He Will Be Called
as Witness.

Pittsburg, kan. June 1O.-An in
dustrious insurance agent came to
Pittsburg one day about two weeks
ago. There may have been things that
Mr.. Armstrong was afraid of, but one
of those things wasn't work. He was
at work before he had registered at a
local hotel and when finally he left
town the other day, he was still work
ing on the way out.
When he arrived at the hotel which
he made his stopping place in the city,
he met among the first of his casual
acquaintance, a young man who
spends a great deal of time around the
hotel while acting as general manager
of a large manufacturing institution
now being established in a town near
Pittsburg. Finding that the young
man had plenty of leisure time while
awaiting the arrival of machinery for
his plant, the industrious Mr.. Arm
strong explained to him his business
and offered to let him take hold of it,
too. Seeing a chance to make some
easy spending money, the young cap
italist decided to accept and on the
invitation of Mr.. Armstrong accom-
panied the latter on his trips over the
fields for several days.
| The best money in this field, so Mr..
Armstrong explained, for his business,
was with the bootleggers and jointists.
| They were very easy to write, he de-
clared. And so to them went Mr..
Armstrong and his assistant.
AS the young capitalist tells 1t, the
! insurance business was not rushing
with them and the expedition was not
decided success-so far as insurance
was concerned. In fact, only one ap-
plication was secured, that of liquor
dealer at Weir. For some reason or
other, the others wouldn't apply and
in many cases the agent couldn't put
steam enough behind his talk to put
over the application on the victim.
A few days ago the agent decided
that as business had not been exceed
ingly good-perhaps because of the
dry weather-he had better quit for
the time being. Then he advised his
local associate that he was not very
anxious about selling insurance any
way, but that he was very much in
terested in acquiring information about
the liquor business and that in all
probability the local young man would
be called upon in court to verify the
story he, Mr.. Anderson, intended to
tell. OF course, he explained, the local
Young man could not be expected TO
tell anything but the truth and the
truth was that both of them had con-
: and lots of places. Then he shook
hands with the young man and left
town.
The local young man went into the
hands of his friends and has been
there ever since. He can not get out
of the state and evade the subpoena,
he says, because he has money invest
ed here. If he stays and tells the
story he knows on the witness stand
life for him here in the future will be
made unpleasant by the fear that
someone is following him, so he be-
lieves. Even his lawyer hasn't been
able yet to solve his difficulty.
Mr.. Armstrong represented a To-
peka life insurance company. In local
insurance offices nothing is known of
the company. The agent left a nice