Show BARMAN ON REEDE ff reminiscences OF A MAN WHOM A PARTNER CALLED WHITE giuy stories eliat were not true aeve L been printed about ollir iu soe t tie M w alren v reputation 5 avrich did allm great injustice enst before dawn the train stopped at hallda to cliant cn and ret helper for tho hill it wn snowing even therein bo valley ond was to bo n rough adny f OB poncha pass alio arnin ciul lean well filled on leaving denver at colorado springs it had awn packed at pueblo we picked up mother sleeper and an additional dit ional day cotch ut hallda we hit the bavy grade in two sections and when the conductor came tho ears who knew him asked in thunder is all tho goopio coln troop 1 1 coln to replied tho ticket taker without looking well e all they aid tho passenger playfully right hes lir abo rum now thero were ninny upon this train iwho had never seen the founder ot tho fa silver camp and u inon followed f the conductor to tho smoking room of tho tho door was closed and the con actor pushed it it yielded heavy iby and ho pushed again and crowded in A man was lying on tho floor against tho door and when he had acen placed upon the sofa and revived we saw a modestly drea nod man of middle age medium size with blue eyes looking out of a sad face had fainted ho guessed and then the conductor asked his name creede sald abo man and that was our first meeting my interest in the man began when I 1 met an old comrade of his who had served with him in tho sioux wars in tho sixties after fter that and I 1 became very good friends i e ho was bom on a farm not far from fort wayno ind creede put in seven years as a scout and indian fighter and helped with his hands to open the overland route to the some of his adventures recorded and many bave not been told A most important event in his life waa omitted from all narratives an event that lost to him all the glory be had galnor in the sioux wars nd put a shadow on his trail after the war he went back to his old home in bawa where he had the misfortune to fall desperately in love with his br othora sweetheart the brother triumphed and lt broke creedes heart it was his first and last lovo like abo rejected poet he was mad with grief and shame ho crossed the plains and changed his name so it camo about that in tho spring of 1870 in the register of the drovers hotel 6 knoblo he wrote his name nicholas C croudo which till then was not his name in a little while crocfe became a well known prospector was patient and and upon his trail oro many prosperous mining camps notably monarch and bonanza these camps acro J called after the first claim located and it the prospector had kept that up creado S wold have been called holy moses 1 many amusing stories have been told as to the naming of this claim but anfor S none of them is true tho first und at creede as at monarch proved to tho poorest but it helped the prospector prof it brought him in touch with t v mr monet of denver and put him in tho sr way to discover the amethyst which brought him fame and fortune his sharo anis a one third interest in the amethyst manc one day in his modest cottano at pueblo ho showed ino a small slip of from the first national bank of dan li cr upon which was written february gac 1 ahat was my rake off for last month oo 00 n honald in his quiet modest way at this was not a strong man seven plains and 13 years in thu jillie hunting tor idl enough to wreck aven the strongest constitution the one companion that he kept through all tecc 13 yeats was a little old dog whoso shaggy beaff was the color of wood ashes at Cro edos request 1 photographed him and tho dog that year 1893 said he would go to california and wo agreed ito at san francisco from frisco wo went to los angeles and when croudo saw the pretty house at pearl street ho wanted it standing in the garden he heob off hat smiled and said this Is iny aden dreaming that it would i bo bis as well cwb as the successful litterateur dis young writers did this successful liner discourage prospectors stick to your quill he wrote to a who had asked him to bay a claim fat cripple creek and you havo my t go prospecting and you locc at after a cavere and long illness ahli wine wrote gloomily and creade replied never civo up the eliop cheer jup there is much to live tor ago he wrote to his friend who ass then in washington a cheerful letter and to be tho last we too a baby a luttio yurl and do you know that 1 havo never known of eccli pic asur imy alfo as tho pir asuro of caring for ehfe child I 1 liko to dress her and wA tais lier lattio girls do with their this was the luttio girl whom ho had it to me that that letter suone shows that creedes heart was in the place what a loving father he have been what a happy home he might have inada if things had gone just attia different I 1 very few knew intimately he avoided people ashamed of having changed y this name exaggerated this bit of fool into a crauso and brooded over it 1 I disappointment of hie earlier life staid in his heart and kept it aad i and goopio who never know hlin this is especially true jf shuw who conc civo it to be their duty or t w jw think it to bate thu rich tind v follows a sample of tho that arc aimed at iho anfor c the death of N removed efrom earth rather n cwi alt tyaan eating inor phino and vi in divorce suits T anuw eo far ae 1 know ho has never nirol a divorce court and 1 no boult his morphine wax taken afternoon when ii the ship and went into tile tu ar the expression of an old prospect rf K his was n white liked by ii him bost cy in new irkson irk Sun |