Show BATTLE IN COLORADO RIVAL POLITICAL FACTIONS IN A FIERCE FIGHT FICHT one lie men man killed and several others berl ri bously wounded resift of on n attempt to capture the hall in which the th convention was T to be b liela held Coloia colliado Colo tado do springs colo sept 8 A pitched battle occurred in this city yesterday between the two war warring factions of the sliver silver republican party of this state in which one men man was killed and three wounded the I 1 be dead man Is charles 8 harris arris 11 an employ at denver of the gulf railroad the wounded were spirited away by their friends frienda and their lud entity hoa riot not been dc definitely flu bitely established itts it la sald said that a man named palmer wall waa shot in the cheek check but not seriously to injured another man had lite his hand shot elearly off and another got a flesh aou wound nd in the aim ai m the fight was waged foi possession of the opera house to in which the silver republican republic an state convention was to meet today an armed representing the teller blood faction was in possession ex state chairman broad 0 boio o had been deposed by national chaliman towne sent an armed force to dt dailve ive the guard out of the theatre after a hot hob scrimmage in m which many shots fired the Telle rites fled in dismay harris and the men who were wounded are supposed to havo have been members of the attacking force chairman blood A it stevenson and other leading silver republicans openly chai go sheriff boynton 0 of f this and ciul internal revenue collector frank I 1 tobert of denver i with ith leading tile the attack blie sheriff riff boynton states that he be mi it t and chief of police did not go to tile the opeia oceia house until the battle began and then only to take possession of the place five men were arrested in tile tho opera house and one it is claimed by tho the police had a smoking winchester in ilia his hands ahe ate aie N V alter rush russell rushell ell 3 IV lupton upton Ij J J long A 0 balth A F r monge all of cripple creek they are charged with the murder of marl Ilar ils Is and InfOrM were aled in the district court against them A guard of twenty men under boynton and gathright hold the opera house and the teller people are re admission in a published chairman blood intimated that I 1 N stevens vice chairman chai naan of the national silver party during the last presidential campaign and s arranged wi th a gang of thugs to come from denver and assist in capturing the theatre theat re mr ir stevens salens this statement as blab absolutely sol false and says lie he knows nothing whatever about the opera house affair |