The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1880-08-19

both thel prospects for the future and
the resu IS already achieved are en-
inently satisfactory.
Thai HANGING.
The Cannison Nfus, in comment
ing on a recent publication in this
paper, opens its oracular jaws thusly:
The I 1ublisher has been imposed
upon. 70 such hanging took place.
We have the particulars from par
ticipant, and they are as follows: On
Sunday last some forty miners of
O,-Be-Joyful gathered to discuss the
propriety of locating town at the
head of the gu!ch, in opposition to
the recently established Cloud City.
1t was decided to locate the town site,
and then and there this story of lynch
ing was concocted, and on the follow
ing day taken to Ruby by one of the
party, a Mr.. Wells. The object was
to bring the gulch into notoriety.
The gulch is rich enough in minerals
to attract solid men, and it is poor
policy to descend to such subterfuges.
And there is no excuse for deceiving
all editor in this manner. The fact
that the name of the owner of the mules
and of the alleged executed man are
not given, is evidence that the story
was cooked up.''
There is scarcely word of truth in
all that is said in this pretentious and
ridiculous publication. We did not
get our information from Mr.. Wells,
as stated, but did get it from the
guard who watched over the man who
was hung, and who assisted the next
day in burrying him. The man who
participated" in concocting a
canard ''to bring the gulch into no
toriety'' is very poor authority for
questioning the veracity of this press.
When it is said the miners meeting
was held for locating a town Gin
opposition to the recently established
Cloud City," the animus appears of a
purpose to disCredit the miners in the
upper end of the basin and build up a
town that has only had its existence
on paper for the last two weeks. The
participant in a confessed fraud
may gull that press for sinister pur-
poses, but he can not deceive a
thoughtful public. He is unqestion-
ably one of the projectors of the
famous Cloud City, which is six miles
removed from the main group of
mines, and can not expect to draw
its support from the head of the basin.
The seventy-fve or one hundred
miners working in the upper end of
the basin, long before the fabulous
meeting spoken of, had selected a
beautiful location for a mining town
and which, since the lower location
has been dubbed Cloud City, we
suggest should be called Silver Lining.
Every cloud is said to have its silver
lining, and this constitutes its chief
hope and beauty. Possibly the
participant" may be interested in
decoying the grand jury by clubbing
the stubborn facts in this case a
"canard," but we are the more in
clined to believe that the miners who
were interested in suppressing a
knowledge Of the fact imposed upon
his marvellous credulty by discrediting
the fact of the hanging. especially as
they may have suspected that he lived
in Gunnison, and, may be SO, was a
member of the bar. The Nems is not
without authority for the decision it
SO dogmatically makes. 1t may be
found in the records of a Dutch Mag
istrate, of Pennsylvania, when party
was on trial for stealing sheep. Six
witnesses swore that they had seen the
prisoner feloniously take the sheep
from the owner, carry them off and
convert them to his own use. The
defendant then introduced twelve
burly Dutchmen who swore positively
that they did not see him do any such
thing. The justice held that the
weight of testimony was for the de-
fense, "Kase twelve witnesses isso pet
ter as six, and the prisoner must pc
discharged" The "participant" was
one Of twelve who did not see the
hanging, and the other eleven were
readily found in the editors magma
ltion.