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Show ,hot by a sheriff. Billy Mc Ahan Killed at Creede by a Quick-Handed Cfucer of the Law. j THE SAME OLD STORY OF TRAGEDY. i The Reign of Lawlessness Tha; Has Characterized Char-acterized All New Mining (amps Being Reproduced at tlie Latest Colorado Boom. f The reported killing of Billy McAhan at l! Creede has been confirmed. Tyler McAhan, father of the unfertanate young man, who has been almost frantic in his solicitude since the receipt of the telegram tele-gram by Tom Dennison yesterday morning, had been haunting the telegraph office until late in the n'ght a message came confirming the shocking news. It was a bare skeleton and left the particulars of the tragedy wholly to conjecture. From other sources, h'owever, the father Larned that the fatal s'jmt had been dispatched by a deputy sheriff. .'Perhaps," said the grief stricken father, Jooking up from his reflections, "the boys A-erc drinking and that the ,;iicer was in the Jisvh:irgo of his duty when resistance was Bveru" " 'V ' ' ' U " cops Yin i "a n" t tell what will occur I j in a mining camp, however, where people get desperate and where a row is always imminent." Mr. McAhan has wired for full particulars which will come by mail tomorrow. The same old story of tragedy in a mining camp may be reasonably anticipated. Creede, which as the basis of a bona fide boom was grossly inflated and its strikes elaborated was soon filled with the driftwood of the frontier. A gin mill was located in every other building and many that couldn't secure buildings were opened in tents. Gambling in all its multifarious varieties followed and the reign of lawlessness came, side-hy-side. Fortunate for the law-abiding denizens of Creede it early procured the services of Bat Masterson as city marshal. Resolute yet conservative Masterson commanded the respect re-spect of those who did not fear him, and the camp has been fairly fair-ly well behaved. At the same time it has been infested by little offi cers and heg, all struggling for a rake off if not for notoriety, and that an officer has the life blood of young McAhan on his hands is no occasion for surprise. |