The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-17
Grant GiIIett Wants to Quit Old
Mexico.
Would Return to the States and
Pay His Debts.
HE SELLS 8 BIG MINES.
chihuahua Paper Tells of Prop
erty Sales.
Desires to Arrange Meeting of
Kansas Creditors.

Kansas City, Kan, Nov. 17.-Accord-
ing to rumors at the stock yards. Grant
G. Gillett, the former Kansas cattle
king" whose sudden departure from
Abilene, Kan, a few years ago caused a
sensation, has accumulated a fortune
through successful speculation in min
ing properties in Old Mexico. The ru-
NOR also intimates that Gillett is plan
ming for a meeting of his creditors in
this city in the near future. At this
meeting Ginett's representatives, it is
said, will submit a proposition looking
towards a settlement of the numerous
claims against him.
After Gilletts departure for Old Mex
ico, his methods of doing business be-
came public property. He was accused
Of double dealing in many ways in or
der to secure money on worthless Sc
curities. Just how far his transactions
reached will never be known. as many
Of the creditors upon finding that they
could not recover. destroyed the papers.
His departure caused sensational
scramble among the creditors for what
he left behind on his ranches. which re-
suited in litigation, some of which is
still pending in the higher courts.
After Gillett was safely out OF reach
of his creditors, he made the statement
that he was the victim of false friends,
who profited by his manipulations and
refused him aid when he became IN
volved. He denied emphatica!ly that
he had committed a single criminal act
but had fled to Mexico solely because he
could not face the inevitable ruin. He
asserted that the questionable transact
lions which came to the surface IN con-
uection with his ruined business were
committed by others and laid at his
door because he was not present TO dey-
fend himself. Certain of his friends say
that he is anxious to return to Kansas
and prosecute the men who are SAID TO
have profited by his disappearance ana
exile.
Gillett has always declared he would
return to the United States but wanted
to remain in Mexico long enough TO
repay the men who suffered financially
through his dealings. Some of the
commission men at the stock yards
who Endorsed and fioated Gillett's
paper, and were forced to make an
assignment. have had little faith in
his promises.
Not long ago Gillett communicated
with a former friend asking that a
meeting of his creditors be held in this
city IN December to discuss a plan or
settlement with his attorneys. The let
ter intimated that the writer was in a
position to make a proposition of some
kind. The friend did not call the
meeting but referred the matter back
to Gillett for a more definite PROPOSE
ton. Gillett stated in one of his let
ters that he had been to New York
and successfully disposed of three
mining properties, located near Parral.
Mexico. from which he realized a
handsome sum in stocks and cash,
which he proposes to turn over to his
creditors.
The following interview with Mr.
Gilfett upon his return from New York
was printed in the Chihuahua (Mex)
Enterprise, on November z 1903:
Grant G. Gillett came up from Par
raj yesterday and is stopping at the
Palace hotel. He says that while in
New York, whence he returned last
week, he made three mining deals to
New York and eastern capitalists One
was the Iguna mine, almost in Parral
and now held by the house of Sta1lforth
of that place. The price was in the
neighborhood of 100000. gold. Another
was the Grenadena mine and Victor
Primrose, in the Santa Barbara camp;
price $S0,000 gold and 10 per cent cash
Mr.. Gillett says his third deal was q
mine in the Conception district, thirty
miles from Parral. and belonged to him
self L. w Knots and Ricardo Hughes
This is reported as cash deal for $780,
900 in gold.
Mr.. Gillett says he had a most ex-
cellent time in New York, that he visit
ed Washington, D. c., Chicago and St
Louis with his family who yet remain
in the states, but will return to PARA,
after an extended VISIT