Show MOUNTAIN AND OOAT FACES HIS ACCUSERS I Samuel Strong Returns to Colorado j and Will Answoi Charges i I Colorado Springs Cole Nov II i Samuel Strong a prominent Cripple 1 Creole mining man has arrived home from his European tour and nnnoiincc1 I Ills readiness to ace the charges rci j conlly brought against him In connection con-nection with lie donlrucllvo explosion J which occurred at the Strong mine In Victor sIx years ago rIme Strong HlmfthousOi orehouso I and machinery wero blown up May 25 < i 1S94 The oxploHlon was one of tIme sensational sen-sational InddenlsJ of limo Bull Hill war when the minors of the Cripple Crook district wore on strike nun hundreds I hun-dreds ol deputy sheriffs were enlisted and armed In Denver to oppose the i Mtrlkera t Robert J Lyons Nicholas Kelly and several other miners were tried convicted con-victed and sentenced to lonjf terms In the penitentiary for the Strong affair Their Innocence has since been shown und they were pardoned They have brought suit for SloOOOO damages each against Mr Strong It IH alleged in the complaint that I Mr Strong himself canned the cxnlo J sion lie had agreed to sell the property prop-erty lo E W GiddlnjjR and William i Lennox At the time of Iho explosion he had already received 20000 as part I payment for the properly and i m bal t ance of 10000 was due In a few days I 11 hi claimed that ho had discovered the value of the property after ho had I sold U and lint he expected that after the workings were destroyed by the explosion ex-plosion the purchasers would fall to pay the balance due and the property would revert to him |