Show THE FIRST battla 1 N THE SAN JUAN GOLD FIELDS A very bloody encounter over tile the discovery of several large in nu nuggets ty gets DENVER colo dec 28 special to salt lake laho herald the now san juan mining camp has followed the precedents of all great mining camps by baptising baptizing bap its golden sands with human gore the first news of what was apparently a sanguinary battle was made public today to day when two men arrived from bluff city and stated that prior to their departure a courier on horseback arrived in breathless excitement seeking 0 medical aid he said that about seventeen men wele digging in tile the bottom of a small creek and discovered several large nu nuggets ets up to the discovery of the hicl rich find the men had carmoni bously nuggets had the same effect on them as a red ra rag 0 on a mexican bull each man claimed the find as his claim and a general battle ted in which over shots were exchanged ono one man george furgerson was as killed outright and several more are ex expected pecked to die not ono one mau man engaged in ill the desperate encounter escaped without a wound tho courier stated that he loft left camp immediately after the last shot was fired and did not know how many would die there are nearly five thousand men in the now new fields and there has been very little attention paid to the pe people 0 staking their claims the prospectors have devoted their time to prospect prospecting ing and scouring the sands to find the most prominent locations there has boon a few claims staked out however in places and many colors to tb the e pan have been found but the lines of the claims it is said have not been reported in a great many in stances and causes causes trouble every day the irregularity in reporting lines has been the cause of th the 0 terrible bat tle tie tho the news of tho battle in denver created groat great excitement among prospectors P estorg who have been hitherto skeptical aa 1 of the reports of the fabulous finds I 1 in tho the now country they regard the deadly combats with fiendish dolight delight as it is to them the best evidence of the richness of the claims the battlo battle will add a raw now impetus to the boom people that hi havo have been indifferent about the now country have become intensely interested in it thousands of people will now start for the now new country that gave it no serious consideration heretofore this is demonstrated by fact that in denver tonight people are forming into parties 3 for tho the start soapy smith a loading can politician of denver and a practical gambler has made up his party of six men with records as load dead shots shota ho he will take one of the finest gambling outfits in the country with him some of the hardest characters in the west are now in camp or on oil their way and much blo blood od will flow before the camp celebrates its second birthday the associated press confirms the report and says eleven nion men were killed and a large number wounded george ferguson an old prospector aud and james cody known as blind jim one olle 0 of f the best known characters in arizona and now new mexico mining camps aro are among the slain A private dispatch from dolores this evening confirms the terrible report S L herald |