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Show WAS KILLED IN BOLIVIA. 1 Tho Ft or I,o Thon.ps.m, Col..ra.la Miner, Who llisappffaio.l Year Ago. Denvkk, Colo., Aug. So. The mysterious mys-terious disappearance of Lee Thompson, Thomp-son, at one time one of the best know n and most popular mining men in Colorado, Colo-rado, has been cleared away. From a lellur just received in Denver from iho United States minister al Lopa., Bolivia, Bo-livia, South America, it is learned that Thompson was assassinated by a party of insurgents iu thu lato attempted revolution rev-olution in Bolivia. The minister was informed of Thompson's death by David iialeh, tho only survivor of the prospecting pros-pecting expedition of which Thompson was the leader at the time of tho insurgents' insur-gents' attack. , Thompson d'sappeared from Kansas City nearly three years ago. He had been on a visit east and stopped o er at Kansas City on his return west. He. paid his bill at the hotel and took a hack to the depot. From that time up to the "present no trace had ever been had of hiiy, and all sorts of conjectures have been pressed as to his mysterious disappearance. His friends and relatives rela-tives made diligeut search all over tho country to find him, dead or alive. Mr. (.'. II. Lawrence, who was interested in mining with him, believed ho recognized recog-nized his signature on a San Francisco hotel register, but was uncertain. The most accepted theory of his disappearance disappear-ance was that he was marie aw ay with by the hack driver iu Kansas City, for he was known to have had several hundred hun-dred dollars with him. and no trace of tho hack that conv eyed him from the hotel could be had. Ten years ago Thompson lived in Silver Clifl'; Colo., where he was mining, min-ing, in what was known as thu (treat Gunnison excitement of 1870-80, Thompson Thomp-son went into that country, and became one of the owners of the Forest Queen mine, which became famous as a producer, pro-ducer, and is still one of the noted mines of the state. In 1887 he sold out for a sum that made him a wealthy mau. In Denver organized a prospecting prospect-ing party, and slatted for Hackberry, Arizona' This locality at that time was almost totally uninhabited, and was many miles from railroad commuuica-tion.'haviug commuuica-tion.'haviug been very little prospected. The party was made up of Lee and Harlan Thompson, Jake Davis, Ked Hitchcock and Charley Harmon, all well-known prospectors. They succeeded in locating some good property, prop-erty, when a dispute arose as to proper prop-er ownership. A bloody battle followed with Davis and llitchcocK on one sine and the Thompsen brothers and Charlie Char-lie Harmon on the other. This was all reported in the associated dispatches at the time, and it was the most bloody battle that miners were ever known to engage iu. Harmon was instantly killed and Leo Thompson received a number of bullets in his body. Tho tight occurred in a gulch and Lee Thompson, Thomp-son, after being wounded took refuge behind a low rii'geof soap-weeds, with-in with-in rttugc of "tile attacking party. Ho had a repeating rifle with him. but after lying face downward behind the soapwe'ods he could not use it without exposing his person, which would bo certain death.- Neither could his murderers mur-derers approach to finish him for fear of Thompson's weapon. The attacking attack-ing party kept up a constant fusil ado, and as hour after hour went by, the soap weeds breastworks was gradually cut awav, leaving portions of 1 homp-son's homp-son's bo'dy exposed. He kept his heart concealed, but bullet after bullet found lodgement in his hips and back. V hen darkness came on tho attacking party pulled out, leaving Thompson for dead. Friends found him next day, and Thompson was carried thirty miles in a lumber wagon to the nearest settlement. settle-ment. After many weeks of suffering from his wounds he recovered, and, aside from leaving him lame he was again ready for an active - life. Six mouths later he left Denver for the east, and it was on his return to Arizona that he disappeared from Kansas City. |