Show MINE MANAGER COLLINS c IS SHOT FROM AMBUSH 0 of Union Smuggler-Union at Telluride Colo Cob the Victim of Midnight Assassin DENVER DENYER Nov lov Arthur ro-Arthur 0 Arthur I. I L. L Collins Colllns manager of tho famous Union Smuggler mine near ncr TellurIde was ws assassinated at 94 o'clock la last lait t night by an unknown unknown un un- unI I known man At midnight Collins was I still BUn alive aUe but the doctors said he could not live but a n few hours Mr Nr Collins Colllns 1 i ione 11 one of tho best beat known mining men inca In tho the State n anti and tl Is president of the Colorado Color State Stale Owners Owners' association which was formed about six months ago ngo Mr l Collins was seated In tho the office of the tho mining company compan when shot down and was as playing cards with Mr Ir and Mrs Irs A.D. A. A B. B Blaney Bianey and Mr Ir O. O E E. Kemp llIan Blaney Is the tho electrical engineer for tho the Smuggler Smuggler- Union mine and Mr Kemp Is the head bookkeeper o of tho company compan Mr l and Mrs Blaney live He In a house near the tho mine office office of of- fice lice and were wore spending a social evening e with Mr Collins They wen elU sitting In Inthe Inthe Inthe the library around n a small table when the shot hot was fired There was the report ot or a agun agun gun a crash of ot glass and Mr Collins jumping to ift Ms his tet-i. tet exclaimed My 1 God 1 I am shot His ills friends assisted him to a loungo lounge and he soon oon became unconscious Later It was found that eight buckshot had penetrated his body bOlly seine gome o of them going through the abdomen and amI chest t I The rhe weapon used was evidently c a ti shotgun I Tho office o of tho the Union Smuggler mine Is at It P Pandora twelve O miles from Telluride It Jt Is Js connected by 11 with the town Iowa and amI soon loon doctors and officers were hastening to the tho c nt Among inong the partY parly I arc nrc Dr Sheldon Manager tan Man tanager ager Herron of the Tomboy Tombo Manager r Chase of ot th the Liberty Hell and m State S Senator Sen Sen- n- n ator aCer Buckley a n heavy Y mine OIl operator Two Union Smuggler miners who t coming down the trail from rom tho the mine aw awI I a l man running away the build build- Jn ing lie He carried what appeared to be a a sawed oft shotgun ire He wa was as dressed In n miners miner's cl theR but owing to the d darkness no rio description of or the man could bo be h had There arc are porches porch on t two YO sides cs of or the of- of nee lice building and the shot hol must mut c have been heen tired fired from froni a n distance of ot about tort forty fort feet Mrs Flancy was hit with splinters and md h b her r face tace cut with sith Sla glass g and at nl first It was thought she had also been shot but she shela la Is not seriously Injured Tho The first memorial anniversary In honor honorof of or the thirty odd miners who lost their lives In a Jast ast winter was to have Lave be been ti 11 hell held today all and l nearly all nil |