Show LIBEL ON OH LOCK LOCAL characters new york sun story of mercur life MAKES THE VICTIMS ANGRY describes jack scott bill tanner and jack with a fearful disregard for truth scotts accidental shooting of campbell one way to klin ban a camp bonfili boardinghouse n bailey youngs 17 career utah has contil buted its pro fain to the vast aggregation of untruthful im bealles be ciles elles pei hope hupfl but it remained tor for the new york sun to develop the curio who lias has found a market in its columns for the lite rot which Is found in the sabboth sabbath issue of that esteemed journal under suit salt lake date of january hill tile the sun publishes this dispatch murcur r tho the now new mining camp fifty nil miles couth ou th ot of t this his city which valc hr by reason of the peculiar chat acter of its ore ties been called the johannesburg ot of america ts is already assuming the characteristics acte of tile the typical western mining town although the lite place la Is scarcely three months old it haa boa it a population of and rainor 9 front from all over the west are pouring in 1 dally daily among them of course are arc some of the tough characters who he drift from one ascelio of oc excitement to another slid and marcur lins las its share with creede crip plo creek and other new camps FASHION IN GUNS an impression has gone abroad that the bad man has lived its ills day but such Is not the case by any means while lie ho has been toned down to a certain extent lie ho Is still in the land and although hla his conversation con venial ion has improved p to it a certain extent ho he la Is just as dangerous as ever NN when lien crossed the I find and athars of the old fron tier tl ereman sulan are no longer in his vocabulary but improved revo revolvers lers continue in fashion with mith a change in the astle of wearing the arsenal on the outside it Is no longer the thing to exhibit the tutt of EL a weapon the proper caper la Is the concealing of the pan same I 1 e underneath the coat and just outside de the waistcoat coat Bler cur had a killing et save one or two in the mines but bul this condition of affairs Is not the fault of jack scott who nho at one time lime was city marshal of tellei ide colo when that town ton n m was as a u warm arm location for a tenderfoot jade jack has a couple of notches on tile the handle of his alron carved there while fill lie he was acting in his bis om 1111 caal capacity and on christmas night night he sought to add another it was in one of the fifteen saloons which nourish flourish in the town ton and jack was visa full of the liquids under various titles lit his a aim was nas bad and as a result jim campbell Is nursing a broken thighbone instead of ornamenting t ing a new mav cemetery jack claims I 1 it was wag an accident and considering his past record as a good shot this appears to be a fact there ric no officers cers in ile marcur cur and it required a deputy marshal from the city to pet get him before the nearest justice who with a degree of legal acumen in the extreme fined tho the shooter 25 and costs coats jack Is nothing if not generous however and Is paying the doctors bills for hla his victim and declares he will mill restore him to sound bound condition balley bailey young is a gambler who ho at one time killed a min man at leadville lie he la is dealing faro at mercur and making a good thing of it it young declares he h wants to live in peace with his fellow man and abandon the slaughtering business buto few nights ago when an outsider attempted to copper copp cr a stuck of it whites bites belonging to one of the players he playfully slashed off 0 a couple of the fellows fl flangers ingers with a bowle I 1 since that time betters and players in youngs joint make sure uro they are arc playing their own chips I 1 MEETING G OF TWO BILLS bill tanner who Is known all over the west as an ex government scout and a man who nho at ono one time made mad buffalo bill throw his hands over hie his a head Is a member of the fraternity at mercur bill Is one of the mildest man acred men nho w ho ever looked over the barrel of a pun gun ile he Is a terror though when aroused and when a wild and woolly stranger from pioche nov nev happened into the camp a night or two aco and threatened to w u ipe ills the location oft off the map bill extended an invitation to begin at the place I 1 where here he was doing business the find bad man began by shooting out a light accompanying this demonstration with a series of 0 Y acl ells which resembled a cross crogg between then wall of a dying pah uto ute and the e exultant bitant howl of a coyote who had discovered coil ered a lunch bill sized him up tip and with will the ici demark nark you woul diet aro daro shoot knoot at a man seized him by tho the colter collar took the pistol away fro from rn him and traded d ed it off to the barte bartender rider downstairs ira to irs for round of drinks for the house aliouse not or omitting nitting tho the owner ot of the gun the fellow rode away that e evening v en tanner in 1 a man with u ith a history ilia his true name Is not known those who know him best say he served with distinction in the war that he was discharged with the rank of major and that his regiment came from the state of new york lie ile came west during the mining boom of nevada and made a couple of fortunes one ot of which he bestowed upon hla his mother and sister who live somewhere in the northern northern portion of tile the state the other lie he spent upon himself and he Is now flow accumulating IL a third u vich he declares will lit be used in making its his last days on earth comfortable lie he was mith w ath geri gen austers ousters Ou s command for a long time anil and maa ft as valued highly by that unfortunate offic officer P r experience ipei with Huf 1411 fral falt bill il was at newton kan u when hen that town was the terminus of the th santa pe PC there was ss a row on oil hand in fit n which hach a friend of tanners n am a rn en gazed and he was waa on tile the spot to a fair play piny cody came in and attempted to stop the proceedings declaring that he would shoot the first ni st man who made IL a move tim tile next second PAW him in looking don down n the harrel barrel of tanners 45 cody li Is no fool and took water had he raised a ringer finger the wild west show woul boum I have never delighted tho the in 1 Z alph or drawn the from the visitors 1 mrs at the woolda columbian exposition at chicago TOUGH TOUCH ON jack mc mcnally nally another new yorker m who he been in the states for awen ty five years up to the saturday amlien utah was admitted into the union is IF inhabitant b 1 11 11 1 1 of marcur old 01 1 jack jac k ilna homely to y aa L an egyptian IRy pHan status statue hut but X old aman withal ile he to Is absolute alij devoid of fear end he won his big reau I 1 allon ion by getting away with a man illumed in elko nov nev many 3 ars ngo ago camptell was a big fellow jaci jack Is it L small man I 1 iho lie former took a cowardly advantage advant ugo of a a friend or jacks jack and shot him in the back with ali a double gun loaded with 9 goose one shot mcnally waited until tile the train man had reloaded the gun aril an then b tak lk it away from him threw it across ta allo 0 trail and whittled the murderer a pith p lh to kingdom come with his clr hunt p biff W knife lie he hits has been lit in loveral fights since but never finished his antagonist a erward afterward f of lute late years jack lips has been b boarding miners the greot great ontario silver mining company at park city a large number of Cousin jacks jacka or cornishman Corn cornish ishmen men they run ran boarding lioard lug bosses oft off the promises premises by the bozon until the management yent vent for jack jac k tho the first meal he served a breakfast at aich beefsteak oft 0 if the round formed a portion of the menu one big follow threw hla big meat on the dirt floor mao iliac grabbed it a meat mat cleaver find and made t thi L man eat it the steak covered with earth as it was made him hi vs eat all of it lie he i ian a the that house ii arm a and d nevor never lied had n a comi complaint t taint after ward tr cur will be in a short time and regular pular rc officers will adminis t er the lans ian a or OF THE MISTAKES llad the effort of the correspondent lieen been to remove himself os as far na ra hie ble front from the iho truth ll it it is doubtful it if h he could cou 1 d lutie hae accomplished ll it better belter he hm ernd eri d in hla his tc te ference to anck scott n ho he wan nam near a city marchal lla of bellu tel ill ti bu hut t who served glenwood Gln wood springs and pel alel norte lit in tant capacity lie lias has mal a player of palley Youn rmon choin tt hom ike he impersonates as aa ralley younk athen n hen in reality thre was never a more in mald d mannered man made a ruffian of bill tanner maille hilo lie he I 1 li i one of the mot most inoffensive men in the t he west notwithstanding his hl knowledge of its misdemeanors to cap tile the climax ho he hen haa perpetrated a libel upon col jack mcnally that mill not only humiliate him but hla his friende |