The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-07-12

get one cheap. He told me ne had one
for sale. He said he had offered it for
sale out west but did not get any offers
that suited him. / asked him the price.
He said he had offered it for 500. 1 told
him it was a higher priced team than I
wished to buy and that 1 thought could
do better. We then started from Gil
breath's. His horse had a lame knee and
had to travel very slow. The snow was
bad and roads were deep and drifted
with snow. He slept with me quite often
and was always talking about selling
the team to me. He seemed anxious to
sell it. He told me he did not ike Kan
sas and that when he started from
home he and the other man expected to
go north. The man he came with had
taken a claim in Kansas but he did not
like it well enough to take one. He told
me that he had been to Emporia work.
ing on the railroad. He had borne his
own expenses, horse feed, etc. That his
employers had swindled him out Of his
pay. He then went back to Mr. Hazel
bursts. His horse had been kicked and
was not fit to work He got Mr. Hazel
bursts mare and went to Emporia to
get more money to go home on This
He told me that he was not of age. I
told him if I was to buy the team his
father might come on me and take the
team away. He told me that the team
was his.
His father had given him a young
horse to trade for a wagon and fitted him
out and gave it to him; he showed me
letter from his father; in the letter he
was advised to sell the team. There were
figures put to each and every article
separate at the bottom; it was footed up,
amounting to $3.50. I told him his faith
er probably thought the team was in
good order, and everything had been
worn since he left home. I told him
was not willing to give him that
much; one horse had the sweeney in the
shoulder and was lame in one knee, and
from its appearance it would leave a bad
blemish on him and render him unsal
able. Before making any trade what
ever I had paid his bill at Mr.. Guth-
ridges and paid for hay for him several
times; he offered to sell me his watch,
but I told him was no judge of a watch.
He told me that his grandfather had
carried it for thirteen years and it had
was a good watch. I asked him his
price; he said that he would take less
than it was worth, S.. I counted up what
he was owing me; it amounted to $3.50.
I told him 1 would give him $3.50 and
call it even. He said that If he could
take the chain off that was on the watch
that I could have 1t. I told him no. that
I must have the one on it, also the one
with the key on. He concluded TO take
it just before crossing the river at Ar
row Rock. I gave him IS. He paid out
of, that bill for crossing the river and
he gave me the change. We Travelled on
and the night before we got to Paris he
/ accomplished the trade for the team.
When we traded the arrangements were
that he was to give me the buffalo
hides. 1 asked him how many there
were. He said there were five. He said
he would put them in and take the $3.50.
1 would not do it,
Then I made him a proposition. If he
was a mind to take it, all right; If not,
all right I then told him what I would
do. I told him I would give him 1925 for
the whole rig and if the horse got well
from the sweeney and the sore leg 1
:
to it. I paid him 1926 in cash. We men
toned over the articles 1 was to get,
the team and the entire outfit, horse,
wagon, harness, fly straps, comb, brush,
water bucket, and a large comforter and
the buffalo robes. He took me up and
we then started on in about ten miles of
Paris. I was driving the front team
He had tae wagon with the buffalo. He
was to have half that was made from
it if he would drive the wagon to Quincy
or as much further as he was mind to
so. A man with a team drove up behind
us Gilbert was walking. He opened
the hind end Of the wagon and the man
looked at the buffalo. Then they got in
their own wagons and they overlook
ne. Gilbert spoke to me and said if I
had no objections he would ride with the
other man to Quincy. The weather was
bad, l tod him it would leave me in a
bad fix, but he could do as he liked. I
told him if he had rather go he could so
with him. He concluded to go with the
other man. He got into the wagon and
proposed to trade his gun for my re-
volver. We traded and he said he had
: given a revolver, a musket and 81 for
the gun. He then proposed to trade his
trunk for my vaIise., He took it, put his
clothes in it and got out. He then said
he would take a piece of that dried buff
falo meat Mr.. Hazelhurst sent it to his
mother and he would take it to her. He
then got up on the double trees and cut
off two pieces and put them into the va
lise He then got into the wagon and
as he started said: You want to take
: good care of Celuen and Kit" I said:
/ Here is your dog" He said he could
not take him.
Ansel A. Gates. 81 years of age. father
+ OF the murdered man, was placed on the
stand. Mr.. Gates told in detail Of his
I search for his son in ISL, through south
! ern Kansas and Missouri, and of the sub
( sequent arrest OF Jester, in whose pos
session were found his sons wagon and
/ personal effects. The aged witness broke
down and cried while examining and
identifying some of these articles. which
+ had been preserved through the many
/ years and which were today offered in
/ evidence against the accused man. Mr.
Gates identified Jester as the man ar
+ rested in 1871 as q result of his search
and who subsequently broke jail before
he could be brought to trial. When the
attorneys for the defense. earlier in the
day, stated their case 70 the jury Of
twelve farmers they made 1t plain that
one Of the features Of the defense viii be
an attempt to show that the case against
the prisoner has been worked Cd By men
I in the hire Of John W. Gates. the million
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