Show PATTEN BOUND TO 10 WINDY CITY Vainly Attempted to Evade the Reporters and Refused to toBe toBe toBe Be Interviewed MAY SETTLE IN COLORADO HEALTH SAID TO BE IMPAIRED BY BIG WHEAT DEAL 6 0 4 0 4 Ma May l Post oat today E Ee e says an that James Jame A Patton Patten the Chicago wheat heat dealer de Jer has Ims decided 4 4 to tl make Denver his home flome He has hasy hA hAmade y made this statement In recent let letters t tess to friends at Golden Mr Ir Pat at i tl iten ten tEon it to is asserted will bring Me his i i family to Denver as soon as na tI the 4 press of his grain dealings will willi 3 i permit the move moe The long strain traIn 4 So 4 f of or the operations incident to the z S recent tremendous wheat deal hac h ha haIt i J It Is asserted so impaired Imp his hill 4 i iI I Health eaIth that he ho has bas decided upon u i iI I this step and ami this is taken also aleo to 4 mean that Mr 11 Patten Patton will cease t to tobe tobe 4 be prominent in ill the operations of 4 4 the Chicago grain pita Mrs Pat Patten 4 f ten is a former resident of Cob Colo 1 4 5 rado Trnidad Cole Colo May S Refreshed from two weeks hunting and fishing Ashing ft in inthe inthe Inthe the northern New Mexico hills sun burner and apparently much muck improved physically James A Patten the Chi Chicago Chicago Chicago cago wheat operator is today speeding toward Chicago o over the Santa Ft Fe F railroad nil road He is 18 due to arrive there to tomorrow tomorrow morrow morning at 30 Mr Ir Patten reached ched Trinidad Itt at 4 last night from the Bartlett ranch near Springs and aDd went to a hotel where he rested quietly until train tram time He registered ed as Kd Ed Jones Chi Chicago cago and nd took every precaution to keep his identity from the press Denied His Identity The efforts of Mr 11 Patten to conceal his brought about one ne or two rather amusing situations and Inci tori Incidentally incidental dentally dental some acrid remarks by the big wheat dealer on the pestiferous ness Hess n of reporters When Mr r Patten reached readied Tercio th branch terminus of or the railroad whence two weeks ago he be took a stage stagecoach stagecoach coach for a drive across aero s the snow blocked mountain passes p miles to the Bartlett ranch he asked ked for a through ticket to Chicago The railroad agent however only wished to sell Mil him a local ticket to Trinidad I want a through ticket Insisted Mr fl Patten I 1 want to get et away wa from the reporters I came to New Mexico to get pt rid of em m he continued to the agent and ami nd it do me a bit of good rYe been bothered by them every day In hi the tM mountains after I thought I had lost them Tried to fo Dodge Reporters Mr Jr M Patten importuned the aid of the th thet agent t the Ute trainmen and the bell boys at the hotel in Trinidad to keep report reporters ers off the train and when a reporter accosted him and asked him if he were I Inot not Mr r Patten he looked the reporter calmly in the eye e e and assured him he was not The reporter looked at Mr Patten Fatten Mr Patten continued to look at the re reporter reporter reporter porter and smiled genially genI U You are going back to Chicago are you not ventured the reporter I 1 am young man that is my home But I am not Mr Patten Fatten You Y u are mis miB mistaken mistaken taken In that When hen Mr 11 Patten Fatten went into the din dining dinIng dinIng cau can cautiously cautiously ing room for dinner the reporter made his way to the hat rack picked up the hat left l ft by Mr Ir Jones and found the name James A Pat Patten Patten Patten ten on the band Hutchinson on Kan May A Patten Fatten passed through h this H He Ha morning on his hili way wa to Chicago declined to be interviewed Finally Owned Up Op Kansas City Mo May Ia S A Patten Fatten passed through here today on his way wY from Trinidad Colo Cole to Chi Chicago Cl Clego cago ego where he will arrive tomorrow morning When questioned by reporters Mr Ir Patten did not deny den his identity and talked freely Questioned Que bout about the wheat market Mr Patten declared he had never tried to manipulate It and that he had bought it because becal e he had seen since last October that the supply would not equal the too demand At no time have I held more than bushels bushel said he It Just happened that for once in my life I was Wall accurately Anyone else el e able to predict following the market reports in the could have done the same daily dally papers p per thing and there is 18 no doubt in my mind that if I I had ted not followed foll wed up my ad advantage advantage vantage vane someone else would woold have done one the same thing and the same condi condl conditions conditions would prevail today In any an case caseI I 1 did not leave Chicago because became e I Iwas Iwas Iwas was afraid but simply and solely to get set getway way away from the newspapers saw saM Mr Patten Patton when Wilen asked why he be left Idt there several weeks ago R O There is not the lest truth tenth In the statement that my life Ufe was in danger |