Show A chippi denver oct 20 A special to the news from cripple creek colo says town ilar elial dan banton of goldfield wae instantly afternoon and prank smith andy coyle and frank stephens seriously wounded in ft eair atod battle in the little town of goldfield at the foot of bull hill in which revolvers shot auna and ribes were all called into play A month ago trouble wag caused by the confiscation of revolver by a police officer alic weapon wag the prop frank smith a saloon keeper ho demanded that it bo returned to him today he and a friend named cook both heavily armed again pro dented the claim to marshal benton who refused to give the revolver up the machal and deputy T F burt retreated to a cabin for the purpose of arranging arr angine their 8 smith and cook stationed about hundred feet from the door and awaited the reappearance of the officers the mar ahal and his deputy eacle stepped out with revolver in hand banton called to the two men to throw up their bands and as they did not comply began fir the battle wae short but desperate though the our men kept rapidly for several minutes soon Ala rahal ben ton fell dead nith a bullet through fiig heart and smith went to the ground with two bad wounds A yell of pain came from frank stephenea enea bystander one of his arme beina al ast torn from his body andy ceylo had taken the part of the officers A bullet hit his thigh cook and smith are in custody the leattie caused intense excitement over the hills |