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GILLETT, THE Meteoric Career of the KANSAS "CATTLE KING." Kansas Cattle Speculator Terminates in a Magnificent Failure. IO.VA AND OROUN. he Mighty Battleships Resun.o Their Journey. Washington. D.

(Special.) The Oregon and Iowa have resumed heir long cruise to Honolulu. Cap-aln Barker, commanding the Oregon, md the senior officer of the expedition, nas notified the navy department that fiis little squadron sailed last Saturday from Rio de Janeiro for Montevideo, where another stop will be made for "oal. After leaving that port the ships will head for I'unta Arenas, in the straits of Magellan, almost at the extremity of South America, which will mark the weit? tUi.t- tiavtng m. appearance of i-iaus dieted 1.. f.

From the conditions given above a diagnosis of Texas fever is readily made. But it will appear strange to many that southern cattle should tuccumb to this malady, as the impression prevails that all southern cattle are fully immune to this disease. The fact, however, is that these animals are not absolutely immune; even mature cattle that have borne ticks for several seasons may die of this disease if from any cause the vitality of the animal is sufficiently lowered so that the Texas fever micro-parasites that are constantly carried in the blood of these animals get the up iuv commission f.r:s estimated at any where between $600,000 and a cool million. It is next to impossible to tell the exact amount. His paper for large sums is known to be held by local commission men, but the holders of this paper are naturally reticent as to the amount.

Those who know Gillett and have bargained with him at the stock exchange say he is a peculiar man. He did his first trading here in a modest wayabout six years ago. In those days he was content with buying twenty-five or thirty head of cattle and shipping them to his Kansas farm. When his luck changed, and he had made several thousand dollars by Judicious trading, he would do some most colossal buying and selling. He was recognized here as a free-handed, optimistic man, with more luck than business ability.

His luck was something wonderful. Those who knew' him best declare that this unaccountable luck, rather than business sagacity, won him his thousands. "He is a good fellow, who means well, but he has bitten off more than he can chew," a prominent commission man who knew him well said yesterday. "I believe he realized that his Job was too big for him, and that he went away to escape It all." Another one said: "When Gillett was here last Friday a week he was the jolllest man in town. He laughed and talked with several of his business friends, and looked the last man in the world to be In debt $1,000,000." tive let I tail, Siuuuj built, weighing about 180 pounds.

He is blue-eyed, smooth-shaven, with a full, ruddy face, and has heavy dark-brown hair. His voice is loud and he cuts a great dash about everything. Many people are etill inclined to think Gillett "intended all right," and a number of his creditors still hope he was "honest but careless." But one or two transactions have come to light the last few months that would indicate that if honest he certainly was most astonishingly careless. For example, here is an expsrience of Bohart of St. Joseph: Last August J.

S. Baumbaugh applied to the Boharts for a loan on 600 head of cattle. They were to be taken from Gillett's pens at Woodbine to Baum-baugh's own place at Moonlight. The Boharts loaned $35 a head. The cattle never left Woodbine.

There may have been such cattle, but Baumbaugh himself could not pick them out. He said he trusted everything to Gillett. That was why the Boharts cut off Gillett's line of credit. A similar Incident occurred In the case of W. G.

Holllster of Rhinehart, this county. He, too, is mixed up In the Gillett deals. He got a loan of $35 a head on 400 cattle he' was to take from Woodbine to his farm to feed. He never got the stock from Woodbine. How many more such little discrepancies there are Is not known.

The total amount Is 30,993 cattle, with mortgages for $849,760. A bill of sale for $3,500 worth of articles on the ranch is also filed in favor of J. Z. Reed. From Herington, this county, comes a report that just before going south Gillett borrowed money from cattlemen there to buy cattle In amounts ranging from $3,000 to $20,000.

The report Is scouted here, though it may be true. At the Woodbine farm there Is great excitement, There is a big force of cowboys on the feather edge, and there G. O. Gillett appears on, this index 124 times. Frequently the amount involved has been $40,000.

and over. Seldom has it been under $10,000. After winning In a few of his deals Gillett began to wear diamonds and expensive clothes. He would talk of buying anything in the cattle line, that was to be bought. Money was no object to him.

He cut a swath like a Vanderbiit. He kindly let his father-in-law and his brothers-in-law and his brothers and a number of his neighbors in with him ln deals. And it must be said they made money. Father-in-law Baumbaugh was very skittish about the speculations at first, but after he had hauled ln $6,000 or so clear profit last spring and was able to clear up all his obligations against him and put money in the bank, his doubts vanished. He trusted his gifted son-in-law with everything without question.

He signed all the papers he was asked to sign, and never even read them. He was sure all was right and he sat back waiting for his dividends. What his signing has done for him. will be seen shortly. What was true of the father-in-law became true of all of Gillett's relatives and connections.

He let them all in. And most of them are now in. And Gillett became more Vanderbilt-like all the while. He got more diamonds. He used to carry a handful of the gems loose ln his pockets, and while conversing with commission men and others would take them out and carelessly play with them as other men play with keys or a handful of "Jingle money." It helped his credit, of course, but people never thought of that in the great days.

The diamonds were only one of the "king's" extravagant fads. Then Gillett developed the private car habit, and soon he organized his fa Abilene, Kan. (SpecialGrant C. Gillett, tha "cttle king." wm the most colossal bluff that Kansas ever grew. Magnificent as have been his plunges in cattle speculation, the most magnificent event in his whole meteoric career Is his failure.

No one can yet tell what his liabilities will foot. It is probable that he could not even make a respectable guess himself, for he kept no books, and before dropping out of the public view Monday night he had all the 10,000 or 11,000 cattle on his Woodbine ranch switched about from pasture to pasture till the various brands are like shuffled cards. Stockmen who are here trying to straighten out the chaos of the king's affairs say the failure will aggregate not less than 11,000.000, and may reach 12,000,000. There are mortgages of Gll-letfs on file at the court house here alone calling for 30,993 head of cattle. Only a little over half that number have up to this time been located or heard of.

In fifteen or twenty pens or corrals at Woodbine Gillett left, as has been said, 11,000 head. Then some of his stock, about 3,000 head, have been found at Herlngton, this county. He had also a partnership Interest in 6,700 head in Woodward county, Oklahoma. Then he had contracted for 5,000 head of the brand to be delivered on November 20. How much Gillett had paid on these is not known, but a $56,000 mortgage was filed against them last night.

EXPECTED THE CRASH. One thing seems certain now Gillett expected the crash. He has been busy for some time getting ready for it. It is said that he has a grip with him now, wherever he Is, containing nearly 350,000 in cash. This cash he began to get together about a fortnight ago.

He drew drafts through the Abilene National bank on various commission houses in Kansas City, St. Joseph and they marriea. After a time the future Chicago. As fast as these were hon- cattie king got into some sort of trou-ored he drew the money. He asked ble No one ls rea(jy to go into details for and got "big bills." RDout it now, but all over Abilene peo- The bank officials suspected all was pe kow was over a queer tranBac-not right, and were doubly careful with tion ln wheat.

Young Gillett, It Is said, mous cowboy brass band of twenty pieces. CUTS A WIDE SWATH. This aggregation he has taken with him everywhere the past two years. He took the whole outfit to the Fort Worth stockmen's convention on a special train and put up at the best hotel in $5-a-day style, and the whole band was with him. The band he took with him on his buying trips to Texas and the dash he cut was wonderful to see think of a bediamonded buyer who took a full brass band along with him! As for buying, he never haggled or beat his man down.

"How much?" he would say.after looking carelessly over a herd of 4,000 cattle or so. "So much," the owner would say. "Take 'em all," the king would answer. "Have 'em ready to ship at such and such a time." And off he would go. A little later he would negotiate a nice loan on the stock and pay for It.

Buying was a Joke to him. And the same extravagant largeness was shown in everything he did. He bought harness and buggies by the He took life Insurance by the $100,000. By the way, this insuring was one of his especial fads. He is said to be the most heavily insured man in Kansas.

He has now in force these policies. New York Life, through Its Kansas City agent, Union Central, through C. C. Wyandt of this city, Northwestern Mutual of Milwaukee, through its Topeka agent, On many of the policies the premiums paid six years in advance. When he disappeared he had $20,000 In accident Insurance, which he had taken out only recently.

He went to C. C. Wyandt, a local agent, about two weeks ago, and asked for "all the accident insurance he could get." He said he'd like "one or two hundred thousand." He got four $5,000 policies, one each in the Aetna, the Travelers, the Fidelity and Casualty company and one in another company whose name the agent here does not recall. He paid the premiums for a year. It was the same way with fire and lightning Insurance, Agent Wyandt wrote him policies on "fifty wagons and fifty mules," on "fifteen buggies and fifteen harnesses," and so on.

Within two weeks he wrote one $8,000 fire pol- icy on the "king's" new elevator at represented at Woodbine today to agree on a receiver to take charge of Gil-lett's property and all the cattle that can be found and feed and care for them for the creditors' benefit. A man named Gillett from Marion. who said he was not a relative of the missing king, was an applicant for the receivership. He did not get it. The creditors were unable to agree.

Meanwhile the ranch Is running Itself. But Gillett was a magnificent blufT. His career is an illustration of what unlimited nerve and persistent blowing and advertising will do. Three years and a half ago he had not a dollar. Now he has failed for $1,000,000, perhaps $2,000,000, and one would think this exploit would have been particularly difficult for him, for he had an unpleasant record among the gossips of this section to overcome.

But here is the story: Beginning at the very beginning, as the old three-volume novels used to say, before Grant Gillett was born, forty years ago, an Englishman, James A. Gillett, emigrated to this country and took up a farm, which is now the site of Woodbine. He was an Industrious, thrifty man. and he got on. After a time he married a young woman of the countryside and they together built up a happy home.

They had three sons and a daughter. The sons were Grant G. and James A Jr. The daughters are now Mrs. Joseph Reed and Mrs.

W. H. Holllnger, a member of the firm of A. J. Gillespie Co.

of Kansas City. The little town of Woodbine grew up on and about the farm, and the elder Gillett became' known as a rich man; he was worth perhaps $25, 000 or $30,000. About ten years ago Grant S. Gillett, then 20 years old, went to Lost a little station on the Santa Fe, to buy grain. He met the station agent, a dashing young worn- I an, and they fell in love.

Before long shipped several cars of wheat to Kansas City. His wife, as station agent, sealed the cars and issued the bills of lading. These were Bent to Kansas City and a loan was negotiated upon them. Then, when the cars arrived, it is satd, only a sprinkling of wheat, ten or twelve bushels or so, was found in each. There was a back-fence scandal.

Young Gillett left suddenly for the south. His wife and he separated. J. A. Gillett, the youth's father, settled the matter.

It never got into the courts. But soon after the old man died. A month o. so 'after the elder Gillett's death two English women arrived in Abilene. One of them was about 50 years of age, the other 30.

They set up to be the rightful widow and daughter of J. A. Gillett, and Instituted proceedings to get the estate from the dead man's Kansas family. This suit was settled, but it Is said to have taken itn-other slice out of the property, leaving it not a very big Inheritance for four. Grant G.

returned home, and in a very short time went through the money that he had inherited, and was looked upon as rather a rockety young man. When the money was gone, however, he settled down and went to running the home farm at Woodbine. He was steady and worked hard. He soon became very popular with all the younger element, though the elders were still a bit inclined to shake their heads. DIVORCED FROM HIS WIFE.

Four years ago Grant Gillett secured a divorce from his first wife, through C. E. Rugh of this city. The allegation was abandonment. Soon after Gillett married the Woodbine school mistress, Alma Baumbaugh, daughter of a staid and quiet old farmer of Moonlight J.

S. Baumbaugh who, besides tilling his ground is a Dunkard preacher. This old man has seen lively times since his new son-in-law entered the family. So, for that matter, has C. H.

Baumbaugh, Mrs. Gillett's brother. Directly after his second marriage Gillett began to speculate ln feeder cattle. He bought a small bunch, borrowed against them, bought corn, fed the corn to the cattle, sold his cattle fat and realized enough on them to pay all he had borowed and had several thousand dollars besides. He had hit the market Just right.

This first speculation was such a success that he tried it again on a larger scale. Again the marked turned Just to suit him, and he realized a big profit. This was three years ago. He has been repeating the transaction over and over ever Bince.wlth steadily growing sums. The year of the presidential election he is said to have cleared $150,000 in fifteen months.

How true this is there Is no one who can say. Gillett was a prodigious "blower." But however large or small his profits, there can be no doubt about the enormous size of his transactions. It is possible, though, that his "profits" were often really losses, If he had ever stopped to balance his books, but he never stopped, and he had no books. He simply kept on buying and borrowing; selling, buying and borrowing; each time dealing ln bigger figures, till at last the amounts inscribed on his checks, notes and mortgages began to look strikingly like gun club scores. And such a boom as the register of deeds office of this county had In chat tel mortgages 1 Page after1 page of the records is devoted to the Gillett deeds In January of this year the name of was Frank Dougherty, Junior commissioner of Lackawanna county.

Mr. Foley had already made his solemn vow and the priest asked: "Will you, Margaret Moore, take Timothy Foley to be your lawful husband?" Instead of answering, the young woman Inquired: "Is it too late, father?" Father Walsh, though surprised by the unusual question, Immed'ately answered: "It is not too late," whereupon the bride-elect said: "Then I will not," and turning from the altar, she faced the startled spectators and walked down the aisle accomplishment of about one-half of the voyage, unless they are ordered at Honolulu to proceed to Manila. Only a brief reference has been made officially to the ceremonies at Rio de Janeiro attending the celebration of the anniversary of the creation of the Bra zilian government, but it is known that the visit of our battleships to the Brazilian capital made a most happy Impression on the people of that great republic, and will tend to cultivate the fraternal relations now existing between the United States and Brazil. MAYOR AND NEGRO DUEL. Fifteen Shots Fired and Nobody Hurt.

Seymour, Ind. (Special.) On Sunday night, November 6, Jos. Baird, an offensive negro in this community, was taken from Jail and horsewhipped. It was with difficulty that the mob was restrained from lynching him. When Baird was released he accused about twenty colored men of being in the mob, also Mayor A.

W. Mills and other officials. When Mayor Mills met Baird he accused the latter of making these charges. Baird was confronted by Dr. Shields, who said Baird had repeated the charges to him.

Then Baird and Mills both drew their revolvers and opened fire, keeping it up through the streets til Baird ran into his house. Fifteen shots were fired while a crowd was witnessing the chase and no one was hurt. Baird was arrested and taken to Brownston to prevent lynch Ing. Dipping Kills Many Cattle. Guthrie, O.

T. (Special.) Great numbers of cattle dipped according to the new quarantine regulations have died luring the recent cold spell In this part of Oklahoma. Out of a herd of 500 last week, fifty have died here in two days. Cattlemen protest against dipping, md declare that cattle cannot endure hard weather after being dipped. The result will be, they say, that practically no feeders will be brought into Oklahoma this winter, unless the live stock sanitary board reinstates the open season.

Governor Barnes has agreed to call a meeting of the live stock board to con-aider the complaints against dipping, it is probable that the board will suspend dipping regulations during part of December. Picquart is Sensational. Paris. (Special.) Despite attempts to maintain secrecy regarding the matter, it has leaked out that Colonel Pic-quart's deposition before the court of was sensational. Colonel Picquart, It is said, broke lown and appealed to the judges to ilmplify his terrible ordeal.

It is believed that the court's demand for the secret document will lead to a renewed conflict between the military nd civil authorities. It is understood lhat M. de Freycinet, minister of war, vainly appealed to General Zurlinden, the military governor of Paris, to grant Picquart provisional liberty. Much indignation is manifested Dy the Dreyfusites at the decision to try Colonel Picquart by court martial. Hunting Without a Gun Not long ago I tltended a dinner given Dy tne c-amp rue viuu, ca3s a.

writer in Harper's Round Table, and there I found ranged arounu me muie an array of veteran hunters. There were men there who had hunted the royal Bengal tiger in the jungles of India, men who had fought with rogue elephants, men who had ronowea tne lions to their dens in Africa, men who had tracked the white bear to its lair in the far frozen north. There eve gentlemen who hid hunted for pleasure, there were cow noya aim gcouts "Wolf" Thompson, the hunter, naturalist and artist: "Curio" Brown, the naturalist and collector, who drew first blodo in the late war with the wild black men of Africa; Yellowstone" Kelly, the American scout, frontiersman and Indian fighter, and many others equally well known in the forests or on the plains were seated at the big round table. That thev were all the Bimon-pure real Bportsmen could oe seen at a glance, and yet, when the after dinner speeches were made, the sentiments which received the most enthusiastic applause were those which denounced the killing of man or beast. It couiet be readily seen that these men only used the gun when it was necessary to procure food or in self-defense.

I think, without exception, they all indorsed the use of the camera for the hunt In place of the murderous gun; as one of them remarked: "With a kodak every good shot is registered with the click of the shutter, and an album of good shots Is a thing to be the proud possessor of." A commute of five creditors has been appointed to wind up the affairs of II B. Cohn dealers in electrical supplies ln New York City. The asset) are $40,000 and the liabilities $60,000. Indianapolis Journal: "Tlmmlns, you don't seem to be making as much lovi to the landlady ns you did." "Had ta tase up a little. She thought she had.

me so sure that she could put oft the scraps and meat ends on me, ns if were already married to her." i Chicago Record; "Aunt Madeline was very angry on her birthday." "What was the trouble?" "Everybody In the house gave her a bottle of patent medicine." per hand. The typical symptoms of this disease have been frequently observed in southern cattle that have been much fatigued from long drives on the southern cattle trail. RAPID CHANGE OF CLIMATE. A rapid transposition from a warm climate to a cold one will also develop this fever in young southern cattle if they are not in a thrifts condition. You will recall the Moody case, reported to your office last March, from Macon county.

In this case forty or more yearlings died. They were in poor con dition, lousy and bady infested with the Texas fever ticks of all sizes, from quite small to fully matured sperimens The presence of the ticks was evidence that these cattle had recently been In a warm climate. They arrived in north Missouri when the weather was cold (just a day or two before the quarantine regulations went into effect). They were not dipped, yet a large number died. The fatigue from shipment, the unthrifty condition and the cold weather combined lowered the vitality of these animals to such an extent that they were unable to withstand the destructive action of the micro-parasites with which their blood was infected.

Young southern cattle are more liable to succumb to these depressing influences than older cattle, since the latter, from a longer infestation with the ticks, have acquired a higher degree of Immunity. In the case of the Richardson cattle, the development of Texas fever is evl-dently a relapse from the mild immunizing fever that affects all southern calves that become infested with the ticks. A lowered vitality is the inducing cause of the relapse. The conditions that have brought about this depressed state of these animals are probably as follows: First. An unthrifty condition.

Second. Change from a warm climate to a cold one. (These calves came from Victoria county, Texas, near the Gulf, below the twenty-ninth parallel. Macon county, Missouri, is 750 miles north of this point.) Third. Fatigue from long shipment.

Fourth. A complication from catarrhal fever a condition so frequently Feen in young animals at this season of the year. Quite a number of these calves had a catarrhal discharge from the nose. Fifth. The chilling effects of dipping In a cold oil bath.

Mr. Moody, who saw these cattle dipped, says they shivered and arched their backs like cattle exposed to a winter rainstorm. If dipping is to be done at this season of the year the bath should he warmed. The mechanical loosening of the scurf from tho skin effected by the oil deprives the calf of a very useful protective coat against cold. Shelter against cold winds and rain will be necessary to the cattle dipped at this season, this far north.

COULD NOT JUDGE. To what extent the dipping has contributed to the fatal results in the Richardson cattle 1 can not judge. This could have been determined only by leaving a number of the calves of this herd undipped. It can be definitely affirmed that the dipping solution did not cause any inflammation of the digestive tract or of the respiratory tract from swallowing or Inhaling the dipping fluid. The effects on the skin would be regarded as very bad by one who has not seen much of this wnrk.

But it has been demonstrated In a large number of experiments that the irritant effects of this dipping solution are not serious, and In a short time pass off. I wish to add that experiments made at this station aunng me pace iu years show that the Infection brought in at this season is not likely to survive the winter. There is, therefore, no need of dipping cattle at this season if they are to be wintered north of the Missouri river. The possibility of the infection living through the winter in the litter of the barnyard and around straw stacks should not be overlooked, and a proper disposition should be made of these possible sources of Infection. I found no necessity for quarantining the Richardson cattle, as there was no possibility of the spread of the infection to surrounding farms.

Very truly, J. W. CONNOWAY. Milwaukee is wrestling with a problem of securing adequate compensation for the renewal of a street railway franchise, and has laid the foundation for a profitable deal. The terms agreed upon between the city and the corporation provides that the corporation shall pay Into the city treasury on the 1st of January next $50,000: on the succeeding new year, $60,000: in 1901, in 1902, In 1903, $90,000, and In 1904, $100,000.

The latter rate Is to con tlnue each year thereafter until such time as the business of the company pays to the stockholders 6 per cent, when the company shall pay to the. city ln addition to the $100,000, one-third of the profits earned by the company after its dividend of 6 per cent. The proposed plan is the most profitable one ever proposed ln any city of the country. It means nearly $3,000,000 for the city during the life of the franchise twenty-five years. Minneapolis Times: A Balvatlon army man has broken the record by singing fifty-nine hymns in fifty-nine minutes.

No record stands very long, however. Some man with a 98-gear voice and a collection of short hymns will go after him and get him one of these days. Elliott Danforth, late candidate for lieutenant governor of New York on the "democratic ticket, failed to get of. flee, but captured a bride. She Is a widow of means, a resident of New York Effects of Dipping Cattle.

Macon, Mo. (Special.) Some time ago the state board of agriculture of Missouri ordered that all Imported cattle be subjected to the dipping process; that is, immersed in solution of 86 pounds of sulphur to 1,000 gallons of crude petroleum. The object was to remove the ticks which communicate Texas fever to native stock, and great things were hoped for it. Vats were erected in the East St. Louis stock yards, and the first lot of cattle was seventy-two head from Victoria county, purchased by George Richardson, a stock dealer residing east of Macon.

Richardson's cattle had hardly reached this place when they began to get sick, and in a day or two seventeen head had died and many others were down. Mr. Rafferty, an Illinois stockman, whose cattle were dipped next after Richardson's, lost fifty head out of 150. These heavy losses alarmed stockmen, and the dipping process was pretty generally condemned. W.

A. Moody of the Moody Commission company, East St. Louis, wrote J. R. Rippey, secretary of the state board of agriculture, who requested Dr.

J. W. Connoway of the Columbia university to make a thorough examination of Richardson's cattle and file a complete report. This report was received here today, and will prove of interest to Missouri stockmen and also stock raisers of Oklahoma, who have recently suffered heavy losses after putting their cattle through the vats. Dr.

Connoway's report follows: Columbia, Nov. 23, 1898. J. R. Rippey, Secretary State Board of Agriculture, Columbia, Dear Sir I submit the following report in regard to the sick calves visited at the farm of G.

W. Richardson, near Anabel, in Macon county: From William A. Moody, who visited the calves with me, I learned that these young cattle were shipped from Victoria county, Texas, to the national stock yards, East St. Louis, and were bought in these yards by Mr. Richardson.

Before shipping them to his Macon county farm they were dipped in the cattle vat recently constructed at the yards In order to destroy the Texas fever ticks with which they were so badly infested. The dipping was done Friday, November 11. This lot of calves was the first to be dipped at these yards. The dipping liquid Issaid to have been of the same composition as that found to be most efficient in the Fort Worth and Thayer dipping experiments namely, a mixture of dynamo oil and sulphur. The calven arrived at the Macon county farm on Saturday, the 12th Inst.

At the time of my visit, Wednesday, the 16th twelve calves had died and four more were in a dying condition. The latter were dispatched and a most careful post-mortem examination was made on thesa fnurTind others that had not been disposed of. The examination showed: No live ticks; large number of dead ticks of small size and a few fully matured. These animals must have been infested fully a month before the dipping. SKIN APPEARS SCURFY.

The skin appeared quite scurfy from the loosening up of the dead epithelium by the oil. On several the skin was wrinkled, but no cracking, bleeding or blistering was observed. Internally a yellow exudate was found in the subcutaneous connective tissue, and occasionally a black spot from extravasation of blood. The stomachs and Intestines presented Internally and externally but little or nothing abnormal. The liver showed in some cases great congestion of the bile caplllarieB.

The cut surface of the organ was of a deep yellow color. The bile ln moBt cases was of the consistency of molasBes. In two cases the urine ln the bladder was found to be bloody. Mr. J.

B. Richardson, who has charge of the salves, noticed another calf pass bloody urine before Its death. The kldneyB ln one case were greatly congested. The spleen in one case was enlarged and softened. In other cases but little change was observed ln this organ.

The lungs were healthy ln all but one case; ln this there was same congestion. The flesh and organs, as a them his aid and probably church con. veniently situated for their work. Gold Bible hill, the mound where Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mor; mon faith, claims to have dug up, under celestial direction, the1 golden plates on which were Inscribed the Mormon bible, is situated on the farm of Admiral Sampson, near Palmyra, N. Y.

The Mormons tried to buy the mound in 1893 to erect upon it a memorial chapel, but the admiral refused to sell It. are a score of men representing creditors in Kansas City, St. Joseph and Chicago, all hunting for cattle. One creditor undertook to take a tratnload of stock he claimed to Identify today, but the others entered protest and threatened attachments, and he desisted. And at the farmhouse is a poor woman, left alone with her baby, to face the storm.

Mrs. Gillett is the wife of a "cattle king," but she has ever been a gentle, womanly woman. In the present crisis she can only weep and weep. She says she never understood her husband's business. It is probable she never did.

C. H. BAUMBAUGH MISSING. McPherson, Kan. (Special.) Since the developments ln the Grant G.

Gillett failure, inquiries are rife In McPherson as to the whereabouts of one C. H. Baumbaugh. Baumbaugh is a brother-in-law of Gillett, and for some months past has been engaged with Gillett In the cattle business, visiting McPherson occasionally in his rounds, and where he has invested in a house and lot valued at $6,000 or $7,000. Last week Baumbaugh was in McPherson and cashed a draft at one of the banks for $1,000, and reported that he was going to Texas to purchase more cattle, and it is since reported that he is now In Old Mexico.

Prior to engaging in the cattle business with his brother-in-law Baumbaugh was a clerk in one of the county offices at a salary of $35 per month, but at the expiration of the term of office of Hawkinson as county clerk Baumbaugh lost his job. When in McPherson last It was noticed that he appeared very blue, and speculated as to the low price of cattle, and it is thought that he had in contemplation then the coming failure of Gillett, and in cashing the draft was preparing to leave the country. THINK HE CAN NOT PAY OUT. Hurd Saterbaugh, Abilene, attorneys who are trying to straighten out the affairs of Grant Gillett, the erstwhile "cattle king," were Ju Kansas City yesterday consulting with the creditors of their client. They were endeavoring to get a line on his liabilities here, in order to decide where to begin in the work of adjusting Gillett's affairs.

It is the opinion of the Abilene attorneys that somebody will have to hold the sack. They do not think Gillett's assetswill come anywhere near offsetting his debts. This opinion, however, is not shared by some of the commission firms here which hold GM-lptt's naner for various amounts. One on. while this firm declares that GlUlett's debts -win all be paid, It has taken the precaution to send a representative to the Woodbine farm to look after its interests.

This representative tele-eranhed to the firm yesterday" for horses and saddles, which Is construed to mean that enough of Gillett's cattle left at Woodbine have been corraled to satisfy the cattle plunger's indebtedness to the firm. One prominent commission company has closed down on $8,000 worth of corn which Is yet in the almost empty mile of cribs at Woodbine. A story has gone the rounds at the stock yards that Gillett's creditors here chartered a special train and went to the deserted farm to grab everything ln sight, but it was denied in an emphatic way. "There has been a serious apprehension on the part of the commission firms here that the value of Gillett's cattle would, not meet his obligations," a prominent commission man said, His failure to pay the heavy liabilities will not materially affect the banks of Abilene, It can not but affect the credit of the commission firms whose indorsements appear on his cattle paper, however. Father Dougherty qf the Paulist Fathers, who went to Manila with General Merrltt, says ihat American priests ought to ba sent to the Philippines to minister to the American Boldiers and the population Other than Spanish and Filipinos who are pouring Into the new-ly conquered territory.

Their labors, he thinks, are needed in the barracks and hospitals. Under present conditions and those which will prevail for soma time, Spanish priests cannot per form this work. Tne arcnuiBnop win not put any obstacles ln the way of th Americans, but will, In foot, give him. They claim their bank has not lost a cent. But here are a few of his recent hauls.

On Monday he drew on the Gillespie Commission company of Kansas City for $10,000 and the draft was honored; he drew on Thos. Trow-ers' Sons of Kansas city for $5,000. He got it. Then he drew on J. C.

Bohart 6 Co. of St. Joseph for $10,000. This draft was protested. liohart Co.

had become suspicious of the "king" on account of a queer transaction early in the fall. They closed all deals with him and had since refused to handle his paper except as it came to them through others whose names protected Bohart Co. After this Bohart draft was protested Gillett seems to have decided that the Jig was up.He left "for Texas to buy one knows where he or where he is now, though It is reported here that he was seen in -Fort Worth, on Thanksgiving day, and it is also said he actually did contract for several thousand Texas cattle on Tuesday or Wednesday. While "King" Gillett may have $50,000 ln his grip and a pocketful of diamonds as people here maintain, there are other men who will not come out of his failure satisfactorily. Gillett's father-in-law, J.

S. Baumbaugh, a farmer and Dunkard preacher, who lives at the little hamlet of Moonlight, twelve miles northeast of here, says he will not have a thing left in the world except his homestead, which is exempt from execution. He has trusted his son-in-law 'implicitly, and his name appears on all sorts of deeds and mortgages, of which he knows nothing in the world beyond the fact that he signed them at Gillett's request. Then late tonight E. B.

Curtis, a farmer of Morris county, near Woodbine, filed a deed to his farm, transferring it to P. A. Thompson of Buchanan county, Missouri, who is supposed to represent J. C. Bohart Co.

The consideration is' given as $25,270.32. Curtis had Joined with Gillett ln a cattle speculation, and his name, with Gillett's, Is on a $125,000 mortgage on the stock involved. A number of other victims are said to be Involved in the same way, tho' as yet their names have not got Into the record. As has been said, Gillett kept no books. He carried all of his affairs, transactions aggregating millions, in his head.

This makes it almost impossible to straighten his liabilities out. An expert from Chicago, who Is here working on the herculean task, said Impatiently, when asked if it were true, as rumored, that Gillett had mortgaged and remortgaged the same cattle, several times over: "Now, how can any man tell about that? And if he has done It, how can any one tell how much water he has swallowed? Not until you pump him out, anyway?" And that is about as good an answer as any one can give. This expert, with lawyers and stockmen from Kansas City and St. Joseph, are busy tabulating the mortgages and segregating those on the same brand. In a day or so they expect to finish this list.

Then by finding out how many of the brand their ought, according to the mortgages, to be, they will know how many they must find. If they fail to find enough, then they will know that the brand cattle have been remortgaged. In this way the situation as to all the brandB will have to be arrived at. Not till then will the exact extent of the failure be known. An attempt was made by the creditors A marriage was suddenly Interrupted at a church In Moscow, on the 19th, by the bride, -Miss Margaret Moore, refusing to say the fateful "yes" at the proper time.

For railes around ln the Pocono mountain region the friends of Mlts Moore and Timothy. Foley had assembled td see the young couple married. The pastor of St. Catherine's, Rev. H.

Wnlsh, stood smiling at the altar rail as the bridal party advanced. The bride looked charming. She' was attended by her niece, Miss Foley, and the bridegroom's best man his Woodbine farm. He also carried 0f the best known of these firms does a $100,000 fire policy on a lot of corn not hesitate to say that It believes Gillie had In Smith county, but this was lot assets will ray off all liabilities some time ago. I which his colossal plunge has brought At Woodbine farm he made all kinds of improvements.

He built huge sheds and barns. He liked to talk of his "solid mile of corn cribs," and his "mansion." As a matter of fact, this was largely brag. His houso Is a comfortable home, but It Is not a "manor He did buy the furniture In Kansas City, and It-Is the finest ln Woodbine, but It is not palatial. His "mile of corn cribs" would fall very short If they were measured, though there are a great many of them. His "private water works plant" is not a very extensive line.

Many farms have far bigger ones, but the "king" used to 11 everybody about these things. They brought htm reputation for wealth and lavish expenditure, and that helped' his deals. Gillett is not such a man as would Impress most people used to refined city life, nor would he be apt to get very much credit la any ordinary line business. But he was a "cattle king," and he did the part to perfection. That was the secret of his success.

He was so hearty and whole-souled about everything, so lavish In his so careless about things that many people make much of, that he begot similar and yet greater care-lessness in others. Gillett Is a man of 31. He Is about toward the door. The priest, the bridegroom and the guests seemed transfixed. After waiting half an how, expecting that the bride would return, the guests dispersed.

No reason has been given for the bride's strange con-, duct. To all questioning the answer is that she simply exercised a woman's privilege and changed her mind. Chicago Tribunes He Nellie, Just' look at that man standing behind me. I don't think I ever saw any one so plain. She dear; your forget yourself!.