Show iiN WHO CREATED SCENE AT WHITE HOUSE FROM CRiPPLE CREEK I Believed to Be Former Marsha Mar-sha Big Gold Camp RECENTLY IN SALT LAKE Told Then of His Proposed Trip to S9 President Claimed to Have Just Returned From Klondike and Expected Position in Secret Service Peter Eels alias Peter O Elliott whom who-m IlJptl tI i scenpintl I I h1 iwiVliloU I cyJt torflay 5s j believed to be Peter Eels formerly for-merly Marshal of Cripple Creek RECENTLY IN SALT LAKE Ioter Eel alias Peter O Elliott was In Salt Lake throe I weeks ago and hud a tall with JL ruprcsentalivu of The Tribune with whom he was well acquainted at the Cullen hotel in this city He I told The Tribune that he bad Just returned from the Klondike 1 and was on his way to seethe see-the President lo ret a Job In the Department Depart-ment of Justice as a secret service officer Sal Eels BACK FROM 1 KLONDIKE I have Just returned from the Klondike nnd T nearly lost my vyuslght there I can hardly see thats the reason I am wearIng wear-ing those glasses roferrlnj lOlL pair of smoked spectacles OX VAY TO WASHINGTON 1r am going to Washington to seethe see-the President I have got Information that I I think can get me a position In the su cret service 1 always wanted to bo III the secret service and Im kinder knocked out now anyway anti Its going to take me a long time to get my eyesight good niain HAD WILD LOOK At the lime of the conversation Eels l I woro a neat blue suit with black buttons I on the coat which was doublebreasted I Ho was cloudy shaved and very pale I onuiclatcdlookliiff and had a wild look In his eyes which are blue or light gray I lie hud a long chat with his friend I about the Klondike and Cape Nome and mining In Alnslta and said there wan I nothing In it for any ono who WUH not In on the ruph WINTERED ON WHITE PASS Eel said he had spent one winter I on the White Piiae and made two or three rich hauls while gambling but had not made much of anything since then He complained bitterly about having to hunt around half the morning before he Continued on PIIe 3 I A CRIPPLE GREEK MAN Continued From Page 1 could get a 1 drink and then had to buy 1 bottle In order to do that When asked what he had done after leaving Cripple Crock he shut up like 3 clam and Intimated that the newspaperman newspaper-man wns threading on ground that was dangerous Then secnlng to think better of what he had said he pledged tho ru Pond to tho strictest secrecy regarding his presence In Salt Lake City and declared de-clared that he had met IL number of people peo-ple here whom hu knew but they hud not Identified him NOTED THIEFCATCHER Elliott or Eels Is a very muscular man a noted thlcfcatchor and who us Marshal Mar-shal of Cripple Creek took some of the most notations outlaws that ever Infested tho mining camp He was always while In Colorado considered a man without fear and volunteered his services In tha most desperate cases where outlaws were to be hunted down FORMER DEPUTY SHERIFF lie was for a time oms of the deputy sheriffs of El 1 Paso county Colo before Teller county which contains the Cripple Creek mining district was taken out of It und Bower who was then Sheriff of the county considered him n very bravo and reliable officer USUALLY CLEARHEADED Elliott or Eels was 1 very clearheaded man while In Colorado and his Judgment was considered good When seen In Salt Lake he appeared to be weak enervated and rattled like a man who had been on 1 long spree and very much unlike himself In that respect UNDER INDICTMENT Eel was Marshal of Cripple Creek about lSI An Indictment for perjury Is hanging hang-ing over him and he was under bond to answer to the court This bond he Jumped In 1S9S and went to Michigan City lad A few months Intel he wrote hat he would surrender If the bondsmen would send money for his return He took the mOle they sent and wont to Klondike Tho last heard 0 him until his advent Into Suit Lake was as a guard In Walla Walla penitentiary t WAS QUICK WITH A GUN Eels was very tiulck with a gun practiced prac-ticed quick shooting and wns said to be one of the mosl accurute shots with a sixshooter that ever came to Colorado Ho kept his own counsel however amino ami-no one over learned his history until sometime some-time after he left Colorado |