Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-08-18
Sketch of Editor Cutting,

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Sketch of Editor Cutting.
The following narrative of Mr.. Cut
ting, editor of the Ell Paso, Texas
Herald, seized in Mexico for an alleged
libel published in his paper June 6,
upon a Mexican named Medina, the
substance of the libel being that Me-
dina is fraud and dead-beat for which
after an alleged trial he was sentenced
in Mexican court to one years i'm
prisonment and a fine of $500 is of
public interest:
Detroit. Mich, Aug. 6.-In the town
of Cincinnati, Mich, lives Charles j.
and H. d. Cutting, the only brothers
OF Editor Cutting, who is now figuring
as an international character. The
elder, Charles, is the village clerk and
express agent, and the younger is Presi-
dent of the Michigan Bee Keepers AS
ISOLATION. They went there in the eos
and have been respected citizens ever
since. They tell the following story of
their brothers life:
August Cutting was born in the littl e
town of Hudson, N. Y, in 1889. After
a few years in the public schools, at an
early age he went into the village news
paper Office, the Star, to learn the trade
OF printer. In those days printers
education in the art was not consider
ed complete until he had travelled from
place to place as 'jour.'' Young
Cutting rounded out his apprenticeship
in the usual way, and the rowing habits
he contracted then have clung to him
more or less through his career. He
worked in various newspapers offices
in the East, and was on the ALBANY
Evening Journal for several years. In
1858, about the time the family moved
to Michigan, Cutting was employed,
on the Cleveland Leader Growing,
tired of the place he drifted south.
The war came on, communication be-
tween the North and South was cut
off and the family lost all trace of his
whereabouts. Finally they heard that
he was at Nashville, where he had
joined an independent home company
formed to protect the city. When
Nashville was taken by the Federal
forces Cutting returned north. From
this episode in his career has arisen the
various stories that he was in the Con-
federate service and deserted it, that
he belonged to a Union Missouri rcgi-
ment. and deserted to the enemy. &c.
After his return North Cutting
worked in Cincinnati at his trade,
thence coming to Detroit where he
stayed short time. Many of the old
printers of the city still retain dim re-
collection of him. From Detroit he
went to Perrysburg, O., thence to To.
ledo. At Toledo he married. The
marriage proved an unhappy one and
the couple separated, a divorce being
subsequently obtained. Numerous
papers have said that Cutting once re-
sided at Clinton and learned his trade
there. Such was not the case. In 1865
he paid visit to his mother and broth
ers in Clinton, remaining perhaps
week. This, and his brief sojourn in
Detroit, constitute the only claim Mich
igan has upon Cutting for friendship.
After his visit at Clinton, Cutting
turned his steps to the growing West
as a fitting field for his energy. He
was located at Kansas City for a few
years, and in partnership with man
named Williams published the Daily
Times. Cutting married again at
Kansas City and bis wife has lived
with him since, being now in Ell Paso,
thus disposing of the story of his biga-
nous relations with four women. After
a disastrous fire in Kansas City, in
which Cutting lost all his personal
mr. fr7 hn ~ r@1@
started a paper at Trinidad. After
some of the viscissitudes peculiar to
journalism in Western frontier town,
Cutting left Trinidad and set up his
editorial tripod at Las Vegas, New
Mexico. Here, about three years ago,
the brothers once more lost sight of |
him, and received no intelligence of
him until the Tribune brought them
the news of his arrest and Incarceration
on Mexican soil. The brothers have |
opened communication with the Ell |
Paso authorities and expect soon to
have direct information relative to the |
real facts in this now famous case.
From boyhood A. K. Cutting has
displayed marked characteristics that
stamp him as man of more than |
ordinary mold. OF a nervous tempera-
ment and restless, adventurous dispo-
sition, he could never remain long in
one channel. His energy pushed him
to constant activity, and his combative |
nature led him into the fields where
his talents found congenial exercise.
As writer he is exceptionally vigor-
ons. fearless and bold. Some of his
experiences in border journalism were
characteristic of the man. While at |
Trinidad he fought to victory the law
less element of the town through the
columns of his paper, when such a
course was intensely unpopular, if not
dangerous. Indeed, all that
has been told of Cutting by those who
know him bear out the impression that
he is just such person most likely to
get into the ENHANCEMENT he now finds
himself.
Julian Hawthorne says that one day he
wrote for twentY-six consecutiqe hours