sentences:  Devoting much time to politics and having achieved a reputation as a public speaker, he was elected city attorney, besides being a delegate to county and state conventions.His health breaking down from close confinement, Parrish crossed the plains in 1882 with a cattle party, walking most of the way to Las Vegas, New Mexico.Arriving there he discovered conditions had arisen in Wichita which left him practically moneyless and compelled him to labor at anything possible.