Longtime Topeka attorney George Pearson said Wednesday he had removed a brush pile and posts he put up to block entry to a section of the Landon Trail that passes through property he owns in southeast Shawnee County.
Pearson had said Tuesday that information he received from the Shawnee County Appraiser s Office convinced him he was within his rights to place the barriers at the trail s entrance to property he owns just northeast of S.E. 101st and Shadden Road.
But he told The Topeka Capital-Journal in an email Wednesday that the potential continued involvement of the federal government led him to arrange for the removal on Tuesday of the posts and downed trees, as well as a sign telling trespassers to keep out while warning lethal force used in self-defense here.
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Next Wednesday s inauguration of Kamala Harris, a Black woman who will be the nation s second vice president of color, has brought heightened media attention to its first vice president of color Charles Curtis, a Native American from Topeka who held that office from 1929 to 1933.
Meanwhile, Curtis former mansion at 1101 S.W. Topeka Blvd. is for sale by the three siblings who inherited it from their parents, Don and Nova Cottrell, who each died recently after having restored the house.
The asking price is $750,000, The Topeka Capital-Journal learned Friday from Patty Dannenberg, who owns the house with her brothers, Gene Cottrell and James Cottrell.