The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-28
every MAN FOR HIMSELF
AaAirs Of Grant Q. oillstt in an
Awful Shape.
HIS CATTLE ARE STARVING
While the Creditors OF the Cattle King"
Are clubbing. Thousands OF Head
OF Thoroughbred Stock Are
Dying.

Kansas City. Mo. Nov. 27.-A special
20 the Times from Abilene. Kan. SAYS:
The creditors of Grant G. Grlett. the
cattle king. who left for parts unknown
last week. spent Sunday struggling
over the wreck which he left behind
him. 1t has developed into a case n
every man for himself and things are
in a worse snarl than ever. Each CONT
| mission man who holds Gillctt's paper
seems to devote most of his time N
checkmating the moves made by 9th
ers. In the meantime losses are piling
upon losses. and the 81. 800. 900 estimated
liabilities may go even beyond that
Z mount.
There is no one to feed or water the
thousands OF cattle at the Gillett farm
here. and while the creditors of the ex-
magnate are clubbing among them
selves the cattle In the stalls are dying
for the want Of water and feed. The
employees on the ranch have deserted
their posts. On a sidetrack are 20 car
loads Of Herefords and Shorthorns SUI
fering In the storm, with no one 10
care for them. They a arrived on
the date of the failure. II Is said to-
day hat Gillett has certainly mort
gaged and re-mortgaged the same cat
Gle to different parties. In at least one
case, II was stated to-day. he re-brand-
I. ed cattle he had sold to n man and
mortxared them 60 a commission house.
or. as seems probable. TO two or three
, commission houses. for a heavy sum,
and then a the herd divided and
driven quietly of his farm TO another
mans place. where he arranged TO have
IL kept for the winter. IL Is still Inn
possible TO accurately estimate Gilletts
liabilities.
At the home of n departed Gillett.
no one would vouchsafe any informa-
1 ton a. to his whereabouts n the re-
: cespt Of the alleged telegram was kept
a secret. IL was generally believed
that Gfllett had first gone to Texas
and from there TO Old Mexico. a travel
ing man claiming to ave seen him at
Chihuahua. Gillett In said to have tele-
Eraphed friends here on last Friday
from Texas that he was then en- route
20 Old Mexico. and by some this II
believed to nave been a blind to give
him time to get TO New York and set
sail.
In an Interview to-day. j. II. Holm
ger. president OF the Gillespie Commits
sion company. whose attachment caus-
ed Gillett's collapse. Is quoted as say
dng that Gillett had planned for mis-
departure for several days previous
thereto and that he had taken ssc'e"o
! in cash with him.
A story was current to-day In con-
nection with c. II. Troxen. a young
attorney of Abilene. who has been sign
ing a good deal OF paper for Gillett and
who has been In Utah and Nevada
much OF the summer. where he has
been sending cattle across the Rocky
aMountains to hide them until the storm
blows over. AS a matter of fact. Trox-
ell followed him to Fort Worth and
was with him there Thursday last. try
Eng to get from Gillett some return for
the work he had done as an employe.
He failed. and IL Is not known where he
Is.
Mr.. Keller of the Denver firm Of
: Keller a Drake was here looking after
ehis firms interest. He found some OF
the cattle on which he a mortgages.
but one bunch is entirely missing. IL
consists OF $50 head OF oregon year
lings. branded in Salt Lake in June and
shipped to the plains In the summer
Gillett bought them In September to
place on a ranch near here, where he
had $50 acres OF r~oughness. The rough
ness was fed to the other stock and no
trace OF the yearlings was ever n