The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-02-26
dLLEII NOT COA|NG BACK.
STORIES or WILLINGNESS TO RE-
TiRN AND POVERTY UNTRUE
kiDe That the ptanxer Has No
ldea Of Voluntary Retsrn-stas
Nea~y and VIII Go Iate Ha.i.~xs

Grant c. Glssetf. ire Debating cattle
pssangvr. has 30 gateEtson OF rciaFn.ns 10
the United States. be hss usose tAaa slEss-
~ with hisa, ana ne Intends 70 Say N
Mexico ard <, ia h&sx srsesss there. says the
k@Es@s sfFy S1@r
THIS Is what a cattle man said yssser-
day who had isss r~sarnea frvnn sae feF-
nasr ha-ne OF ts.iietE. xheFv ne @Ens tfs lock
after the Interests af friends who isa6 sern
sSsraud@s as Gsllett. Tnis cattle asss
says THAI ~ STOKES r-zaywti IN Kansas
CITY aSop; Glifsit's poseYsg and pstilefce
ana anxiety 10 settle With h4s Creditors
are AL untrue. agd these stcr.ss acre etg-
csssassd ny commission men usgo had good
reason for not wishing es@&eit Ia reisTs
Mo tod these stories 80 stave 81 extra
dfsson proceedings The cattle sNaa SAYS
shas GllleSg planned his fiighs early aass
fan and nssss. a "trip 10 Mckee and ss-
isesea the p.aee 10 which he would so.
Instead az tstllssss being psnsfsns @fssi
5caa-heartssi ami having ssSerags-e al ~
ssosnaais ssi.cids, the cattle man says thai
Gssleit is fall 90 gayesy, ssesais money
freely. Arags assoa, The money ne Eas and
ahous his ''sEnartness." and says he Is GO
ing into the cattle business in Mexico on
a large sSzle. This cattle man said yssseF-
day:
II spent last week ia ana around Abilene
and WocdeEse, Kan. looking after fAe ifi-
.erests of certain friends os Er1ne xsc Reid
Glllssts worthless cattle paper. Ny OBJ
seet Was primarily 10 find ca9. II ! soa8ta,
whether or 70. the runors were Efns iRaI
Csllets Was planning 10 come back and face
his creditors FreSp what ! seasne3 asn
convinced that Gilsit has no Intention and
never has had an Intention CT Coming BACK
In fact. he would be tOa! 10 coszss back.
because II he did ne would ga straight 10
lhe pensientiary.
While IN Abilene | talked with Mr.
Hlfd, the lawyer. he Went - Chihuahua
on purpose 10 see Csliiast and ne spent sey-
eral weeks with him there. Mr.. Hara tells
me that GiIiett gels the Kansas City pa
p.ars ard reads with great deal of arnuSe-
ment the stories printed here abeat him
being out OF money and nenitent. and as
wish Ia come here and face his credlseis
Mr. Hnra SAYS that GiiSeti planned Bis
flight With great eieverness and aimed 70
take all the money he could with him.
tstllest goes about the streets OF chihuahua
with his head up. he u gay and a. 'aika-
tive as he always was. and ne boasts about
the great company he Is planning 10 form
there. IL Is 10 be- known a. the Giilet
Land and Cattle Company. ant G!liett says
ha ~ going 20 put $a.tno into IL. me
company will import fine tired cattle INTO
Mexico and VIII export cattle and horses
to the United states. Hurd says that Mrs
siileit intends 10 return 70 her former home
In woo4h.Ee to settle up same business and
VIII then return 10 take Up her psrins-
nens home with her husband In Chihuahua
II learned another thing while ! was
in Kansas on this trip. which ! have
never seen printed. found out that Two
weeks before Giiiett ran away be made
large deposits In banks. In Lawrence and
Topeka and kept adding To these depos-
- Ia had hean banking
ness In Abilene bur he knew that the
Abilene bank would be watched. so the
day that he fed he drew all % his money
ont of the Abilene hank and went To
Fort Worth aud from there he telegraph
ed the banks In Lawrence and Topeka 10
wire the money 10 him that he had de-
posted In those banks. Dir. Hillinger.
who fioated great rnany .tlseVea1i doi-
lars wortn OF Glllstt's NdttAidpss pa per.
told me this week in his home near ALL
lene. that he had investigated enough 10
learn positively that Gilleit raised sfn.-
eJe I'm cash I'm the three days before he
wen, away, and that he had nearly that
amount iii addition wired 10 him from
Lawrence and Topeka hanks.
The stories circulated In Kansas by
certain commission men that Gillett wish
ed to return and face his creditors and
help them out OF their muddle are abso-
Iutely untrue and the commission men
These commission men do not wish TO
seq Giliest brought back even by force.
The talk OF these interested commission
aen that tiiifctt was more unfortunate
than dishonest, and that he took no
money with him are meant 20 raisiead
tain people who hold Giiictt's worthless
paper soated BY these very commission
men. As "A matter Of fact, | found posi-
tive evidence. and plenty Of II. Of Giilett's
dishonesty. / found where he mort
gaged calves 10 one man calves
with cows and mortgaged the same
calves 70 another aa yeariIngs. found
where he nortgagcd cattle "a one man ur-
der the original Texas brand that the steer
bore, then he m0rtgaged the same cattle
to another man under letter brand which
he added. found that one batch Of cattle
was mortgagea. shuffled with ether cattle
and nortgagei again TO another and 80 on
ill the thing made very perp.exng mess
that can never be rightly strs! sh;enod out.
/ fs,ana another instance where Gilists had
a bunch of cattle IN a pasture four miles
west OF WoodhIns and be nortEaEeA them
TO "a man. iacss ing them west Of Wooahins.
He mortgaged the same bunch OF cattle 10
another man, locating them In a pasture
~ msay miles south from another town,
which was correct he gave first mortgage
on the same bunch to third mar, aescrlb-
ing them "a In pasture so many M les
east ~ another town, whleh was correct
too Melody knows better tran Gille that
thia work ne di. VIII land him in the peri
Tertiary II certain ef his creditors ever get
chance To catch him this side % the Nexs-
can line. The commission men who are
spreading stories designed TO create pity for
CssI.ett know 1t. too.