Arizona republican., 1892-04-21
TALK ON THE STREETS.
A Wyoming Man Speaks of the
Rustler's War.
CREEDE MINING CAMP ALL RIGHT
Colonel Bannockburn Likes Our
Prospects.
He Predicts That We're Going to
Have a Big Boam in the
m Near Future.

N(,oA Claxton, OF Cheyenl.s Wyoming
Is in the city on mining business. lie
was seen last night by RErvnLlcAN
t<epreaentative, and asked his opinion
fof y, sitretion between the castlemen
xand rsStisEs. Col. C,axt> j. identified
with tlfscs slSen and .1yS their ver-
SION. he st3t THE papers have
been ttlt WsSsf,y in the Wyoming
: matter ~ paftv which left Chey-
enne Wa Eakse and deputy United
States naA
lhee4}rpatlet had organized cattle
,''st rf.0n OF sheir own and set time
Tor their round ap. sixty days previous
" hat laid down by the laws OF Wyo-
Ing. The law specifies that the first
fday in April the cattlemen should get
together and arrange round-aps for the
year with the livestock commission APP
pointed by the government. This party
went out to prevent this illegal round
up. The rGstlers stated that they did
not propose the stockmen should work
their cattle on the regular roundup.
"Sixteen rustlers were at work in the
south fork OF Powder river. when the
posse started.
lneSt TustltIs nave tlEOuSu tuc
local papers represented themselves as
small stock-owners, while we know
them personally to be thieves and out
laws. The day will come when these
small stockmen who turned in with the
band of rustlers will realize their mis-
take. The smaller owners have always
been dependent upon the larger owners
to have their cattle gathered. There is
no disposition on the part OF big stock
men to deprive any man running law
full brand OF cattle from getting his
cattle anywhere that they can be found
on the range. These men have not
only carried on an illegal business, but
have written letters threatening lives
and property and have shot down cattle
on the range"
There is stopping in the city gen.
tleman who was in at the beginning OF
the Creole boom-Col. Il. T. ,Bannock-
burn, OF Pueblo, Colorado. In speaking
OF the rush up that way last evening the
Colonel said:
"'The Creede BOOM is the common
term applied to the excitement in this
locality. 1t is mistake. The word
boom is not applicable to the mining
awakening which has followed the OPEN
ing up OF the great mines OF this vicin-
ity. There is a distinction between a
boom and rush. While the real estate
movement OF month ago may have
been a boom, the seeking OF mines
amounts to a stampede, and it comes In
the sober afterthought following the
greatest boom in creek bottom lots the
west has ever known. Creole as city
has stood the ordeal of u lull, and Creole
as a mining camp is oil the stronger and
better for it. 1t did look for time that
the town-builders had been unwise and
in too great haste, but as the snow goes
and the mountain tops ring with news
OF new finds, widening the miner al area,
it becomes more apparent that they
builded better than they knew, and that
city and mines are in proper proportion
and equally enduring.
~ think, though" he said the
colonel, "you ali here are on the eve OF
as big mining excitement as we have
had in Colorado for many a day. You
can't know, for you are not in posi-
ton to hear the outside comment, how
much inquiry is actually goingon about
your section"
Col. Bannock burn hi mself is looking
about for good mining investments.
A small why looking man was sitting
in the corridor of the Commercial hotel
last night, conversing with two or three
prominent officials. 81 em on may way
to San Francisco in connection With
what consider most remarkable in
vention," he was saying as a REPUBLI-
CAN reporter happened up. at lis the
new electrical system Of auxiliary har-
Dor defenses. 1t is claimed that by the
use OF this invention an enemy's ship
can be kept outside harbor at such a
distance as to put the place defended
beyond the reach OF her guns.
1t is claimed that the device is 30 con-
structed that ii a single ship or fleet of
any number of vessels attempt to en-
ter harbor where it has been intro.
duced each ship could be struck blow
with what or in what way it is not
stately equal to $4,000 foot tons, and
the blow would come from overhead +,
out OF the air, rs the ship crossed q
certain line.
The mysterious blow, it is stated is
to come vertically. and is TO strike upon
the part OF the ship where it will do the
most permanent harm. Twenty OF
these Thornammer blows can be struck
in ten seconds OF time. Several army
officers and naval experts are said to
have investigated the method, and are
reported to have agreed that blow
could certainly be struck within foot
or two OF the point indicated.
1t is further said that the blow can
not be warded or conducted off as
stroke OF lightning might be, but would
shstter the object struck into frag-
ments.
81 do not desire to have my name
mentioned in the papers," he con-
cluded ,iseeing the scribe taking notes.
My mission is a strictly private one"