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Show STORY OF Ell fill; DAYS l!i urn nil Mining And Scientific Press Tells Of Early Days In The Great J Copper Camp Describes Shooting Affray Over Mining Property In Which Two Partners In Mining Property Are Put Out Of The Way The First Prospect. The following story of an Interesting Interest-ing affair which took place In B'ng- -ham In the early days of the camp -appeared in last Saturday's Issue of the San Francisco Mining and Scien i tlfic Press and will bo read with ln terest by many of the old timers here: ' ' -' Editor The Mining and Scientific Press: Reading the fourth article of this series recalls vividly to my mem s ory the following which will be of in-' terest to many of the early residents at Bingham. "In th9 yoar 1871 I was employed ub a contractor ut tlio WJnnomuck " mine. Al iliemis was the manager of the mlno and' smelter, about half a . mile below "the town. ' The principal hotel was named Hotel Clark. He- , low it, and on the west side of the gulch, was a large rooming house owned by Richard Predcux. George A. Jackson, one of the first miners to reach Central City, Colorado, during the Pike's Peak excitement, was placer plac-er mining just above the Clark hotel, and close to the junction of the two gulches. Warren 1 lick man, son of Bill Hickman, a notorious Mormon character, was postmaster. A short distance above the junctton, In the left hand gulch, the post office, main store, and Justice of the Peace were located. Some tunnels had been driven Into tho mountain, but abandoned aban-doned at this time. Sol. Cleveland, a nephew of Jackson, was owner and manager of a boarding house In Galena Ga-lena gulch. During a suspension of work in one of the mines, -several . mlpers continued to board with Cleveland. Cleve-land. Cleveland entered into a ver. " ' . bal contract with two, who wanted to . A . Al lTn A 4,. .... i ..1,. .' ' boards tooU, and powder; they were to find a property and do the work. I ' . "About three months after the contract con-tract waa made, a miner, returning from town, told Cleveland that his partners were about to sell a mine. . The parties did not arrive at the ' boarding house that night. About 10 o'clock the next day Cleveland went to town, and soon learned that a trade was on for the mine at, the office of the Justice of the Peace, file arrived there when the buyer was reading one of tho papers that had been drawn un. Listening carefully, he learned that he was no party to the transaction Excitedly, he told the purchaser he was a third owner In the mine, and no deal would be made unlfss his Interest was recognl'.ed. Instantlv one of his partners denied the ownership, and Invited Cleveland outside to settle the matter. Passing but of the door in advance of Cleve-, Cleve-, land, he grabbed a stone and raised himself to throw It at Cleveland, who shot him, and he fell over the steps of the office. Cleveland then entered I and shot the second partner as he stood by the side of the Justice and ' the purchaser. He drew a second revolver re-volver from his boot leg. and, with one in each lr.nd, he walked a hundred hun-dred feet up the gulch, and entered a tunnel driven Into the side of the mounta'n "By this time a Crowd began to accumulate, and many were shouting, "Uang h'rn," "Shoot him!" Among ; the number rushing up waa Jackson, who was surprised to learn that the man wanted was his own nephew. "If you want the man," Jackson said, "I will bring him to you but no shoot- . . Ing or hanging will be done until after af-ter he has had afair trial. Now, if ten men will promise me they will escort him to the Justice's office and allow him to have a fair trial, I vill go Into the tunnel and bring l.'m out.!' "This was agreed upon, and lr a few minutes Cleveland and Jackson came out, both heavily armed, anl i ' escorted between the ten mc n who ! had promised to protect him. ThcV I went to the Justice's office. A trial I was held, and Cleveland waR set free. ! OTOKT.E KISLINOnURY." |