The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-05-27
SWEAT AND BLED FOR GOLD.
DESPERATE DoINGS IN CoLoRADo--ISDIANIAis
FORTUNES AT STAKE

| DESPERATE DoINGs IN CoLoRADo--INDIANIAs
| FORTUNES AT STAKE.
A couple of years ago young and sristo-
cratic Kentuckian named J. 81. M,Murdv
went to the city of Lafayette and succeeded
10 organizing mining company to work a
valuable mine, of which he had obtained
control, in Georgetown, Colorado. Promi-
| nent among the capitalists taking hold of it
was Elihu Hoilingsworth, a rich Quaker
| farmer OF Tippecanoe county, and a number
OF the legislature of 1873. The following
| from the Lafayette Courier of Monday even
ing is an interesting episode in the conflict
for vast wealth, to which the Lafayette
company are Justly entitled: The long
pending and bitter contest between the
Pelican Mining Company. of Georgetown,
Colorado, and the Purdue Dives Company.
of the same locality, eliminated on Thurs
day last in the shooting of Jacob Snyder, the
well known banker and principal owner of
the Pelican mine. The facts of the shoot
ing are briefly narrated in the following
telegram:
DENVER, Col. May 81.
Jacob Snyder was murdered by Joshua C.
Bishop, near Georgetown, yesterday after
noon. Snyder was we'll known capitalist
of Denver, and one of the banking firm of
Collins, Snyder & Co., also part owner of
the famous Pelican mine. Difficulties be-
tween the Dives and Pelican mines are
constantly occurring, and out of this
grew the murder. Snyder, while 60
ing to the mines on horseback, was
met by Bishop. Words passed, when Sny-
der turned and ran. pursued by Bishop, who
overlook him, knocked him down, and de-
liberately shot him. Bishop took to the
mountains. Five thousand seven hundred
dollars reward is offered for him, dead or
alive. 1t is supposed that Bishop is con-
cealed N deep recess of the Dives mine,
backed by a number of desperate men,
heavily armed.
THE ABOVE DEMANDS AN EXPLANATION.
The Purdue Mining Company, OF Lafayette,
own five hundred feet of the Dives lode.
and were operating about one hundred feet
of it with remarkable results, when Snyder
& Co., operating the Pelican lode, immedi-
ately adjoining, broke through into their
works and have for year or more fsttened
and injunction and all the various
legal proceedings incident te a con-
test involving an untold amount
of money, have followed in quick succes-
sion. Some of the best legal talent of lndi-
ana, Colorado, California, and Nevada, have
been employed. The lawyers fees, first and
last, will aggregate $4,000. Mr.. Holliugs-
worth, OF this county, an estimable Quaker,
and stakeholder in the Purdue mine, has
been for years superintendent of the work.
little avail against the lawless
violence of the Pelicans, who
seem to have the weight of
local sentiment in their favor.
II has been opsnly charged that a dis
tinguished Judge, who sat upon the csse.
was personally interested with Sayder and
the rest in the Pelican nine. The Interests
involved were estimated at many millions.
and the suspicion of corruption in the
Judiciary served to intensity the bitterness
OF the struggle for possession. Mr.. Hol-
hngsworth recently resigned and was sue
ceeded by Relief Jackson, of Lafayette, who
entered at once upon the discharge of the
trust. Meanwhile, however,
THE PELIcANs TOOK FoRcIBIE POSSESSION
OF some Neutral ground in the mine known