El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-26
TROXEL TALKS

Been FradulentIy Floated Since
His Flight and That Hundreds
OF INSCRIPTIONS Persons Have
proflted by His Departure.
Attorney G. H. Truxel and Captain
Charley Hunt, of chihuahua, are still
in the city. They paid the HERALD
Office q pleasant call last evening and
later Attorney Troxel was shown the
sights of the town by Captain Hunt.
Troxel is prince of good fellows.
To HERALD reporter he said it was
Gillett's desire that his property be
used to the best advantage in straight
enipg out his affairs.
to deed every dollars worth of his
property to his creditors to settle their
claims, but q number of them declined
to accept the proposition and since he
left large amount has been lost and
wasted by those who gobbled up what
ever they could find.
"There have been many harsh criti-
cisms OF, Gillett, ''ssid Mr.. Troxel, "but
no man could do more than Gillett of
fered to do.
IA large amount of duplicate mort
cages, which Gillett signed have been
sold and what they will amount to no
one knows. 1t was his custom to sign
blank notes and mortgages and permit
other persons to fill them out. They
were left at the Office of the Gillespie
commission Co. A large number OF
will attempt to collect them
from the assets of the wreck.
sin case this attempt is made. as L
have no doubt it will be, of course Gil
lett's evidence will be needed to show
that there was no consideration pass
ed to him and that in all prObaN ility
the parties now holding this paper
never gave anything of value for it. 1t
| is not likely to be q difficult matter to
prove these are frauds for the reason
that they were filed up and dated af-
ter Left
"Who holds this bogus paper?" ask
ed the reporter.
4 "I have no idea, but suppose eastern
parties"
From Kansas City paper it was
learned that q bank at Abilene or
near Gillett's home holds the bulk of
this paper, but attorney TrOxel would
neither verify nor deny the statement
"The compromise position" said at
torney Troxel, sis simply an arrange
ment whereby Gillett will pay the
greatest sum possible to his creditors y
HUNT ARRANGED EVERYTHING
Beyond doubt Charley Hunt has
been the prime mover in negotiating
the Gillett negotiations and yet that
old fakir, the Kansas City Journal. en-
deavors to deprive him of the credit
that justly belongs to him.
In it. story of the creditors meet
ing, held in Kansas City Jan. %, it
says:
'sConservative handling of what
Gillett assets they haveawithouth hoping
to get much MORE" was the sentiment
of twenty-five different banks and ss
many more private individuals, hold
ers of Gillett cattle paper, who had an
all-day meeting at the Coates house
yesterda az to discuss the situation with
some of the commission men as to how
the best interests of all could
b subserved. People were present or
were represented by attorneys from a
dozen or more different states, from
Colorado to New England. and the re-
suit of the meeting was that the loss
to investors in Gillett paper will be
very small, comparatively, much small
err than 1T was thought q few weeks
ago could possibly be the case.
The meeting was not arranged by
Charles Hunt, of chihuahua, Mexico,
as some have supposed. The invita-
tions to attend the meeting were Issued
before Hunt came to Kansas City, and
be did not figure in it in any way.
In fact the people present yes
terday had very little faith in any
thing being realized from Gillett,
either in compromise or as result OF
his being allowed to come home with
out fear of prosecution, and those
phases of the Gillett affair were scarce
ly touched upon even incidentally by
the meeting.
Bnt the meeting did decide to profit
by experience and not force any Gillett
cattle upon the market until they are
full fatened and ready. 1t decided
that when Gillett paper comes due, the
commission men who are it's in.
dorsers are to have an extension OF
time so that wherever they have now
in their possession, under the mOrtga-
ges, punches of the Gillett cattle which
are not yet ready for the market, they
can hold and feed the cattle until such
time as they are ready and will bring
the best price.
The meeting was most harmonious,
and. in addition to this action in re-
gard to the Gillett paper, also passed 6
sort of resolution affirming confidence
in the com mission men and their man
ner of doing business, and in the cattle
paper business in general. Those pre-
sent declared that the cattle business
and cattle securities are no more to o.
condemned because OF the trickery
or dishonesty of one man thai
is business in general because of th'
, few dishonest men who OCCASIONAL,
| disturb matters. This seemed abou
the way the men who had been victi
mized by Gillett seemed to feel at yes
, terday's meeting, and they expressed
!. themselves accordingly.
! La Grippe Successfully Treated.
81 have just recovered from tht
] second attack of la grippe this year,
] says Mr. Jas. A. Jones. ublisher Of tn