The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-28
LEFT HIS CATTLE STARVING.
In the Meantime Creditors Are
STRUGGLING Over the Wreck-The
Liabilities VIII Foot Up More
Than = Million and . Half.

KANSAS CITY, Nov. g7-A special TO
the Journal from Abilene. Kan. states that
the liabilities Of Grant c. Gllstf, the eas-
tie king, Will reach u million and q half
dollars and that the assets may not reach
more than half this amount II develops
that Gfllett had filed IN Dickinson county
mortgages covering sega head OF cattle
and aggregating sS4s. TO- In addition TO
this amount, according 10 the Journals
dispatch, Giilett has outstanding nearly
sao,o0 OF accommodation paper. The mort
cages flied in Abilene show the principal
creditors and their security 10 be as fol-
lows:
Elmore & Cooper, Kansas City. seisooo:
Gillespie Commission COMPANY kansas
city, 1000 head. $4,000; Troxers q Sons
Kansas City, 4.6oo head $leo00; Vaiit &
Cafes, Kansas City. 5i2 head. sl6 10;
homes Hsn Lave Stock Company. Kansas City,
Evans Snyder Buell. Company. Kansas
SNy, o.-zN head, $i22, so; Bohart & Co., ST.
ran. says: The. creditors OF Grant g.
Giiiett. the cattle king. who left for parts
uni, a last week. spent Sunday strus-
behind him. 1t has developed into case
OF every man for himself, and The result
Is worse snarl than ever: Each COM
seems 10 devote most Of its time in cneck-
mating the moves the others make In
the meantime the losses are pilins, on loss
ss, and the million and a half estimated
Aaoliitles may so even beyond that
amount. There is 10 enc TO feed or water
the thousands Of cattle at the Gllett farm,
and while the creditors of the failed mag
nate are 9uibbiing among. themselves the
cattle in the stalls are dying. for want OF
water and feed. The employees on the
r sa, a, nave are deserted 5hsr posts In a
lords and shorthorns suffering IN the
storm, with no one to care. fer them. They
had arrived ON the date of the failure. II
is said that Gtliett has certainly mort
gagged and remortsaged the same cattle 10
different parties. In at least one case it
was stated today he rebranded cattle he
had sold TO one man and mortgaged them
TO another commission house. or. as seems
probable, to two or three commissi ion
houses. for a heavy sum, and then had 1
his farm TO another mans place, where he
arranged 10 have. it kept for the winter,
1t IS still impossible TO accurately estimate
Gillett's liabilities.
A special 20 the Journsi from Woodbine.
Kan, says:
Grant c. G!liett, the cattle king, SO cali
ed, whose failure last week with liabilities
estimated at over a million and a half OF
dollars. startled the live stock trade. is be-
neved TO be on his way TO Spain. Ihe FOL
lowing telegram is said to have been re-
ceived in this city today by Il brosher-in-
law OF the missing plunger:
New York. Nov. I'll will leave today
by steamer for Spain. Cable me at Cadiz.
&c. G. GILLETT."
At the home of the departed G.llett no
one would vouehsafe any information as 10
his whereabouts, and the receipt Of the al
legged telegram was kept secret. 1t was
generally believed that Gillett had first gone
to Texas, and from there 10 old Mexico a
travelling man claiming to have seen him
at Chihuahua. Giilett is SAID TO have tele-
graphed friends here on last Friday from
Texas that he was then en- route TO old
Mexico. and by some this Is believed TO
have been a blind to give him time to
get TO New York and set sail. In an In
of the Gillespie Commission Company.
whose attachment caused Giiletts col
lapse. Is quoted as saying that Gillett had
planned for his departure for several days
previous thereto. and that he had taken
s2o.ooo in cash with him. story was
current that also. in connection with {.
r. Troxen. young attorney. or Abilene,
who has been signing 4 good deal OF paper
for him and who has been in Utah and
Nevada much OF the summer. has been
sending cattle across the Rocky mountains
TO hide them until the storm blows over
AS a matter of fact, Troxell followed him
to Fort Worth and was with him Thurs
day last there, trying to get returns for
work he had done as Gillett's. employe'
He failed and IL is not known where he Is.
Mr. Keller of the Denver arm Of keeler
& Drake, was here looking after his firm $
interest He found some of their cattle
on which ne had MORTGAGES. but one punch
OF Oregon yearings. branded in Salt Lake
in June and shipped 20 the plains In the
summer. Gillett bought them In Septem-
Der TO place on a ranch near here, where
he has $50 acres of roughness. The rough
ness was fed TO the other stock. and no
trace that the yeariings were there was
ever found. Mr.. Keller said:
I'VE think they will come to light. for
they were not marketable stock. We sold
them without receiving a dollar on them
because We had done this before and had
always found that Gillett did az he agreed. =
The firm has also mortgages on cattle on
which are several other claims.
FORT WORTH Tex. Nov 27.-Grant
G. Gilett, the Kansas cattle king, Is well
known in Texas. During the present year
he bought from Texas cattemen nearly
5e0oo head Of cattle, paying for them 81
sooca Ciiiett. after leaving Kansas, came
10 Texas and registered at the Worth
hotel in .his city. He is thought 10 have
gone 10 Old Mexico.
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