Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-11-30
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La,vyers Busy ConferrinE.


All day yesterday the lawyers interested
In the cases discussed matters from legal
standpoint at the yards. trying to find some
point of agreement SO a to get the neces-
sary proceeding started for forcing the Gil
lett matter into the bankruptcy court.
The attorneys interested for their clients
In that matter are Judge l.. w. Keplinser,
OF Kansas City, Kas.: Beardsley < Greg
ory, Botsford. Deatherage & Young. ID. Il.
Holmes and r. L. Ball. They are all
started SO that whatever there may be in
the failure may be taken care of and the
itors II is possible that this week the ap-
plication Will be filed In the bankrupt court
make out OF it yesterday was that they
had an awful tangle to uncover and
straighten out if they ever got at it before
the estate was grabbed and appropriated
by the ambitious creditors.
bankruptcy court proceedings are in
stituted. just what effect it would have
the cattle that Gillett left and that
now in the hands of mortgages is not GER
tam; The disposition of SO many of the
they get is making the outlook bad. The
chance is that many. fat fees are coming
1or the attorneys and the attorney who has
cute plan for getting possession of some
Of the cattle can get a big fee for making
his plan known and demonstrating its
working powers.
More GiIIett Cattle Arrive.
Two more trainloads of cattle from the
.Giilett ranches came into the yards yester-
day, and there are now several thousand
of them in the pens there, eating high
priced feed and daily reducing the profit
that may be in them. None is offered for
sale, for it would he useless Tor any such
offer TO be made until the question of Ii
lie is settled. One of the trainloads was
consigned to the National Bank of Com
merce and the other came 10 Frank Sci
gel. as he Is a disinterested party and is
trying TO help straighten out the tanele.
During the aftpFnnOn Sheriff Stone
plevined from the a. J. Gillespie Commits
sion Company about $40 head of steers for
the J. c. Bohart Commission Company. Of
81. Joseph. This bunch of stock is claimed
by both parties and there is merry row
on over the question Of ownership.
Suits growing out of the Gillet trans
actions were filed in Kansas. Nebraska.
Texas and the territory yesterday. and
each bunch of stock appears TO be sure OF
producing separate lawsuit. Each Of
the firms that are deeply interested had
their lawyers at the stock yards yesterday
and they did legal business with speed
that beats the record.
An attachment suit for $40 was filed in
the Wyandotte district court yesterday by
the Union Bank Note Company against the
A. ]. Gillespie Commission Company and
Under Sheriff Peck visited the place to take
possession of the fixtures for the debt. The
fixtures in the office are worth many times
that sum and the Office was not closed, a
deputy sheriff being stationed in charge
Of II during the day so that President Hol-
linger. OF The company. may find 1t open
FOR settlement this morning when he re-
turns from the Woodbine ranches.
A PIunger on GiIIetfs Career.
Among the plungers who have come out
OF Kansas there is one who started into
a little prominence at about the time of the
commencement of Gillett's career. He
bought cattle by the thousands OF head
without putting up a dollar. and sold them
again at enormous profit. But he was TOO
versatile In the old days of the w A.
Michael Commission Company he used TO
go into their famous bucket shop and
make and lose fortunes in a day. These
little deviatio1s were condemned of course.
by the gentlemen about the Live Stock eS-
change. who were charged with the matter
of watching over his fortunes; still as
sure was SO much moderated as TO amount
almost TO Indulgence But. unfortunately
for him. while he was making money like
dirt, and while intoxicated by success. he
one day made bold to back a comic opera.
This was too much. The ermine of cattle
kingship which his adnirins hackers were
about to place upon him was torn away.
and he was flung down with little ceremony
and scant. kindness. But that is another
story.
A well known commission man who does
not care to have his name used started
Giliett in business. He told the story yes
The first considerable bunch of cattle he
had ever owned was 1000 head of steers.
They were on the Quien Sabe ranch near
Midland, Tex. took him down and showed
them to him. The cattle looked we'll and
he was nightly pleased; He had brought
he proposed selling in case he traded with
me. Gilett knew ] was making a good.
neat sum on the deal but he didn't want
the jays TO know 1T for fear they would
think he was pricing the cattle too high,
so he asked me not to tell them anything
ei,out our trade. | presume he told them
that | was losing all kinds of money. They
were tickled to death. 1t was laughable to
see them trying TO console me.
1T was a curious kind of a deal, I
hadn't paid a dollar on the cattle and had
sold TO Gilett: Gillett hadn't paid dollar
and had sold to the jays: the jays hadn't
paid dollar and had the cattle We'll.
they brought the cattle up 10 Kansas. and
paid Gillett: he paid me. the other fellow,
and so on until everybody got his money
finally.
did 7 ever hear GiIlett's Cowboy band?
No. thanks; but before he hired that band
he used always. when he met me. to make
rome jocular allusion to my career in the
operatic world: after that l called him
down by answering that, brilliant as my
musical career had been. / must now bow
myself before the more commanding genius
of the Sousa of all the cowboys. Gillett
couldn't bear ridicule. Right then and there
he sued for peace, and he confidentially
informed me that hiring that band had
hurt his credit more than all the other
mistakes he ever committed