| Show f CAPTAIN JACKSONS DEATH I If Was Ea Hnrdind or Accidentally tl Shot i1f I 1 llll JJdr round In Ibo Blue Moil I f tlniV rlon 0111 flair me Gr an bT as I > Ter Vmtn tiC i Captain George A Jackson a rate lag man wall known In Utah and tl Colorado U no mote New telling I ol 1 his death In the Blue mountain reacuad his ralatltei In I this city yet 1 rday afternoon but It was eo Inexplicit Inex-plicit note leave doubt ai to whether I the captain bad been foully murJuro I or bad accidentally shot himself Then again the Scene of the Utility li I 11 remotely located ai to mike It rather dllUoull to gel direct tidings ot the aailrbenco up to this time his million i and unexpected LAILIZICRITAY la I mote or less I a mystery Tare be lllue mountalui T-are located In Ban Juan county slide It U said are Infested bll lawless mobst tbue cIvlDic rise to Ibo lear that Cap tain Jackson loll a victim to their rnmlty Of the killing Ibo Denver News of the lOli lilt Says The atartllns news left 0 bell here Monday ol the arcldentil mod fatal all 0 oting of Captain George A Jack eon the veteran prospector and uiluer while on his way from the lllue mountain moun-tain lu Utah to Denver The accident acci-dent occurred In a lonely mountain canyon thirty or forty Julius weal pt Manooi llli frlendt in Dinver o > uld hardly credit yesterday the report that a fronlleriman of long experience had tiled by the discharge ol a gun In blown bl-own uanill Acoirdlug h the talc graphic report the gun WAS loaded with buck shot The discharge tore away one whole aide of the oaptalna killed causing instant death Very meager is a Little ot the Billie are a > Yet received Lul It seems that JckoO who Invariably camel a Can ou Ms lips to and from the fllue mountain lawn coyote and wu In the act ol lilting lili gun to Ore when In Aetna way she hammer caught discharging the entire heavy load of shot tutu his head Five men who were with him at the time cf file accident are atlll on the road the puny having left Mou llcello In a lied ou tile miming ot the 13b Inilant Very low proKreii li made lu bringing the bojy to the railroad The accident occurred between be-tween Flute and Close Canyon and a coWMSU Who Saw the lefty BULUSY eight ut cross canyon tarried the newato Dolores A mtniouier Was dlipatoDed to Uamp Jackson ua loon us horiea could be procured tonality JIIrOwo whole foreman for the dkespedandit li expected that he willartiveln ljlorti today wltli tbe is Maine Copt Jekoo wa a member 01 Iho Piouutr aacletnnd wan one ol lur fit a known among all the men who contribute 10 laYIIIK the lauDa110to lu Ibe mate TohImI4 I civenthullu d 1pU1edpaIuIOIdl8C3v0IIn9 gold In Utareteric Canyon flle discovery win Iholmoolal cause 01 the lost 10 1lke Peakt add from Iballim dstld the develormint of the titale With ties departure of Ciot Jackion theta pleases train thestss ono ollb mot interesting characters in WlerD history Two mDlo Ago WhOll too captain ma In too oily he wm urged to devote n week to lurnlililnic malt fish for history of him adventurous Cutest He pleaded buloe clly requiring his 006 aco In the little 100Uulaln at the earlier Man 106sible and pomlod that when he l1xt Dom 10 Danr be would comply With file request the story would have been of thrilling thrill-ing Interest but It will never be writ tin The only peon Who OJulJ lell Ibo tory t of Cap Jackioni trial and adventures en the plains and In the mountains through a period eslendlmi na for back aa 1852 and embracing fortylive yearp has departed lo a world Where uoeoo of earth have lost th t It Interest C aptalso Jackson won about slItY113 g ir 01 age but 1IollIbOlodlull the ardihlps IbNUnu which ho had aned be was at Ibo lime of his death a man ol uuuiual strength and endur once Ue was born lo Ulasgow Howard How-ard county Mo Ills inoluer was a cousin ol Kit Uareon and the blood cl f Ibo On finite nwd through hi Taint Jackson was 0 natural plaint man and early In tits be learned the use of the gun becoming a llritclan shot and a hunter ol unusual ability This training proved of Invaluable service to bin no Jar period Bull miny limes ho owed his Ills to Ibo ijulcUiess with which be could make Ube of a gun lie croma the plains to California lu 1852 with a party ol which Kit Canon was guide Alter I tpeudlug years In the gold campo camp-o the coast lie returned to Missouri arriving file old homo In tbe turn nice 01 1857 Humors of gold lu Ibo lands ol Cm try Creek ou the eastern blopeof the mountains attracted too young adventurer from pence ul par suit and lu the sprln ol laSi ho lauded In Aunrlawbere West Denver lo noW looted Ou file 7111 ul Jauu ary 1859 with Ibo aid of a bunting knife uuj a tin cup be uatbcrou JO lu gold dull al the uiiulli ol CblOiRO LKek In ILe t Clear Crick canyon above done airings Ihe dUo very marked the bSluDIII 01 Ibo wlldett coU ez cltemeul With perhaps a single excel lion ever known OD the American OOuIlDnl |
