The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-29
Dickinson County Records Show
a Total of S2,159,927.
RELATIVES INVOLVED.
Several Thousand Cattle Found
in Lyon County.
Two RepleVin Suits Filed in
Topeka Federal Court.
Creditors Rushing Cattle to
Market-Many Dead.

Abilene, Kan, Nov. ga new fea-
ture came into the Gillett case last
night in the fling here Of three new
mortgages given by W T Reams, on
October q. to the Gillespie company,
and never before filed It was not be-
fore known that any other relatives of
GilIett were in these deals Reams is a
brOther-in-Iaw and has been a fore
man Of the ranch These mortgages
amount to $4,000 and are on LOO head
Of cattle GiIlett seems to have incIud-
ed all that were near him in his plans,
and the commission men are wonder
Ing how many more will come TO light.
The total chatteI mortgages fled in
the registers Office here seems incredi-
bic, but it amounts to 81, 159, 927, suppOs-
ed to be secured by 81, go cattle Fol-
lowing Gillett's $3.50, 900, are his father
1n-laW and W. H. HOlliuger as a firm,
with S56S, 600: W H Hollinger, alone,
$50; J 5. Baum baugh, alone, S13S, 352;
C H Baum baUgh. SIS, 63S; c. R HOl-
inger, SS0,SSs; C. R. TrOxel, $S5,440; J
w GIlett, $3.50, 600; D W. NALL, $50, 434;
HoIInger Brothers, $31, 900; Joe Reed,
$500 T B. Curtis, $50 64; W. T
Reams, $34, 600.
Probably half of this paper is not due,
some Of 1t running until next spring
All OF the Nall paper is of this kind
There is, too, a blanket mortgage for
many punches, and some of it being
less than the record shows It is safe
to put the real amount at one and a
half million.
one Of the members Of a leading com
mission firm said today; The method
of the companies procedure will prob
ably be TO take to headquarters all the
cattle concerning which they feel any
doubt This means all the cattle where
We think CfiIIett has been using the
names of relatives to double up mort
cages. The cattle in safe hands out on
the farms and receiving good care Will
be let alone and fattened for market
It Will take a long time to find them all.
for the mortgages IN many cases do not
clearly locate the herds, and, If they do,
are not all in the places named"
Every firm is taking copies of its pa
per and sending its men out after the
stock. All the cattle at WOOdbine will
be gone today, the companies having
come to an agreement that this should
be done 1t will leave the place de-
serted
The GiTett failure had no startling
Developments here today, so far as the
departed cattle kings immediate at
fairs are concerned, but the effect of
his deals on those with whom he was
associated is being felt F. B. Curtis,
one of Morris COunty'S leading stock
men has filed here a deed to land in
that county amounting to $3.50 TO p
a Thompson, vice president of the J.
C BOhart company, OF st Joseph also
a bill Of sale of all articles on the ranch
J s Baum baugh, father-ln-IaW or
GiIIett. has fled several mortgages on
personal property in addition to new
mortgage to the Gillespie company for
$50. 600 on 1000 steers. 1t is said that
Mr.. Baumbaugh recently signed a num-
Der of mortgages in blank These speci-
fed that certain cattle were in Baum
baugh's feed lots and Gillett said he
would be there this week The mort
cages were filed in and Gillett got $50
OO0 on them, but no cattle ever ap-
peared-
boys unpaid are untrue. He paid every
employee and all small debts 1t is
doubtful if any one in this country will
lose a dollar except those associated
with him or his relatives, of whom he
borrowed some money before leaving
No word has been received today OF
the wherea bouts of the missing man.
Not line has reached the little tele-
graph station nor a letter to his wife
Many Of the Cattle Dead.
Woodbine. kan, Nov. 29.-Six inches
of snow covers the ground here. and
there is a bleak. raw wind The cattle
on Grant Gillett's farm suffer pitifully.
Nearly 200 of them were dead this morn
most. of course, but all the great herd
was in sad shape. The cattle of various
brands are all shufHed in together. but
two trainIOads of twenty cars each were
made up and shipped to Kansas City
One was billed TO the National Bank Of
Commerce and the other to ElnOre &
Cooper. The brand inspector viii record
all the brands and disputes as to own
erShip of cattle will be settled at leisure.
It IS reported that trainlOad after
trainload of GiIlett stock is being ship
ped from all the stations about here
W hite City, HoisingtOn- Navarro and
other points. Most Of these shipments
are made under stipuIa lions similar to
that already mentioned
GiIlett Cattle in Lyon County.
Emporia. Nov. 29.-It has come to
light that : 900 head of the GiIIett cattle
are. or were Friday, in this county Two
thousand head of cattle were purchased
October 1 by W F. Dunlap, of Strong
City. from Grant G. GiIlett. They were
recently brought to this county by Mr.
Dunlap and placed on full feed The
last carload arrived here on the day
GiIlett failed Soon after Dunlap pur-
chased the cattle he mortgaged them
for the aggregate amount OF $50. 100 to
the A J Gillespie Commission com
pauy of Kansas City The cattle were
mortga ged in lots of 200, and. conse-
QuentIy- ten morIsages We're made, COW
ering the 0G0 head These mortgages
are now on file in the register of deeds
Office here One peculiar feature Of these
mortgages is that DunlapS name IS
written Dunlop" in the body of the
mortgage. while he signs il Dunlop
at the end of the instrument It now
develops that these cattle were mort
gagged for all they were worth by GIL
lett before ne sold them to Dunlap.
The Kansas City commission men 10
whom GIIett mortgaged the cattle are
now here looking after them a local
cattle man this afternoon said that. in
addition to the cattle above mentioned,
there were ). 200 Cfillett cattle on feed
lett sent the cattle to his county about
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