Show GEORGE DALYS COURAGE how lie life cowed A io tn in last summer george dalya dalys career in leadville was by no means pacific his connection with the great strike lat lt summer Bum roer bein being VIVI vividly y rem remembered em by y all fie he came to thia this camp in in 1878 and managed the litt little chief mine during r its most prosperous period lie he was in in ch charge arfe of tho the mine on that dint dark day in june when hundreds of excited miners appeared at the daly shaft of the chief and demanded that ho he allow them to enter george with an intrepidity born of true courage refused admittance to the mob and during the thirty days of terror that followed protected valuable property in hia his charge from damage or destruction Yest destruction ruction ho lie was the most commanding figure among mine managers during that trouble come some period and white while there was no one person at the beginning of the against whom tho the miners miners were more exasperated lie so managed strike affairs as the termination mi nation drew near as to become tho the ono one whose influence was the most respected and whose words were most attentively listened to at the final conference between the strikers and military at city half all citizens will remember the determined stand taken by daly with his little chief guard on tho the eventful saturday preceding the declaration of martiak martial law surrounded ur by eighty trusty men armed with winchesters Win chesters ho be knelt with them in front of tho the clarendon hotel every hand to the an overt act on the part of the sea ot of desperate men that checked tho the avenue its entire length daly possessed great personal courage something over and beyond bravado an n idea of thia this inay may be gleaned from an incident during luring the turbulent time times at robinsons ansons camp directly after robinson was shot daly dal had bad been sent up to take charge of the robinson mine and a majority of the workmen banded themselves against him F for or a short time the camp was un der surveillance of what was little better than a howling mob and a crowd of some or assembled below the robinson house lud in threats of lynching lunching lyn ching daly who was inside dusk was coming on oil and he desired to visit the lower part of the camp but was begge 46 by his friends to aftem attempt t nothing thi ng so suicidal it would te be almost certain death they said to venture into tb tho e crowd that blackened the street but daly scorned the idea of fear and berf perfectly estly regardless of their warning put ut on his overcoat and hat bat As fie he passed the ahm leold he lie drew a brace of huge revolvers and holding one in either land hand advanced toward the crowd in an instant the startled cry there lie comes went up from the mass of men and then catching eight of the weapons they f fell belr ii in volun olun harily back his movement surprised them and there was not a man in the crowd but knew the plucky superintendent could send at least two balls into the first of his assailants before he lie could bo be downed no one was prepared to make an aggressive movement and muttering with rage the miners parted ranks and permitted him to pa pass pam M daly did not speak but walked straight on and returned in the course of an hour by that time the crowd had dispersed and no one remained to bar his way |