Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1875 — A Kansas City Romance. [ARTICLE]

A Kansas City Romance.

There has been a romantic suit in Kansas City for an estate of $300,000, and it has ended, as it should have done, in the most romantic manner. T hirty years ago William Gillis was one of the pioneer capitalists of the West. At that time Lahurst, Chief of the Pion-Kashou Indians, had a daughter, lovely if dusky, and her name was musical and soft as that of any Indian maid. Kahkotequa won the heart of William Gillis, who bought her from her father for a bale of blankets, and lived with her. They had one daughter, Nancy, one of the prettiest of half-breeds and the belle of the trad-ing-post which has since become Kansas City. She grew up and had two sons, Frank Boyes and Jim Charley. Gillis did not treat his half-breed family kindly, for when he died he willed his estate, consisting of handsome business blocks and at least one hotel, to his niece, Mrs. Troost, reserving $125,000 for an orphan asylum. The half-breed' heirs claimed the whole estate and the County Court

awarded it to them jointly. The administrators appealed to the Supreme Court, and a day or two ago that tribunal affirmed the decision of the lower court. Thus the two orphans most interested, heirs of the woodland and stream, have become wealthy capitalists. The moral of this story is evident, and those who make a practice of buying up pretty Indian girls will do well to avoid willing their property away. It only gives trouble and wastes the money in legal fees besides making the legatee mad without doing him or her any good.— Chicago Tribune.