Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1893 — WAR IN THE ROCKIES. [ARTICLE]

WAR IN THE ROCKIES.

Eleven Miners Killed in a Battle in the San Juan Goldfields. Baptism of Blood for the Now Eldorado— Cue More Massacre of the Moan tains. From San Juan mining camp a courier arrived iu lfluffsCity, Colo., early Wedaes* day morning, and reported a terrific battle, Tuesday, in which over one hundred shots were exchanged. Ho reported eleven men killed and a large number wounded. Geo. Ferguson, an old prospector, and Jatnes Cody, known as “Blind Jim,”on,e of tho best-known characters In Arizona and New Mexico mining camps, are among the slain. A private dispatch, Wednesday noen, fropa Dolores to John Eddy, a Denver mining man, confirms the terrible report. Tho trouble grew out of a dispute over certain mining claims which had beenstakod out. The direct cause of the trouble was tho discovery of large nuggets in tho bottom of a 'snnijt'.yroam. Each man claimed that ho had first located tho ground, and to settle the dispute guns were brought to bear. There were over forty men engaged in tho terrible conflict. Few if any escaped. -