, 1892-03-05
NONE OF THEM WANTED
Men Without Money Have No
Show In Creede.
A Rich Mans Camp Developing
Into a City.
Queer IumbIing and Jostling of
Humanity There.

sits the most cosmopolitan town south
of the north POLE said Sheriff A. d.
Kelley Yesterday. who had just returned
from a ten days %soiourn in Creede, Colo.
what about It?" he continued. why
there is everything about it. Every avo-
cation known to the human family is fol-
lowed there. and l would gamble that
some that are not known to most people
are to be found there"
There are all sorts of people?"
Yes, and a few more thrown in for
good measure who don't count" replied
the sheriff. ''Creede has anywhere be-
tween 100 and $1,000 inhabitants. Of
these about se~venty-6ve are women and
twenty-five are children. The town now
begins to assume a metropolitan appear
ance. Stores of all classes are doing a
rushing business, and to make a long
story short, every other business Is doing
equally as well-from a game of faro in a
box car to a commercial bank with a
capital of $500, 900. Money doesn't ex-
actly grow on trees around Creole, but
blamed if the ground underfoot for miles
around there doesn't seem to be a verita-
BILE silver mine. Newsboys are as plenti-
full in Creole as prickly pears on
the prairie. and a good deal
more troublesome. They yell right
in your ears, and the cheapest way
out Of the pr~edicament, when you are
oa a1laotnI N tha,v y,oft~ 10 fn hru a
bundle OF papers. Then there stands the
irrepressible Italian upon every street
corner, with his cart filed with bananas
and oranges. The good natured negro
doesn't take a ba,k seat in the procession
either. No, not in Creole, for whatever
may have been his previous condition of
servitude. whether he cleaned cuspidors
IN some southern hotel or BACKED boots,
he wouldn't think of descending to such
degradation 10 Creole. Instead, he NAV
be found in some crap game down near
the Little Devil creek. shouting every
time he throws the bones: Seven or
'%leven; Big Bill from Boston; Little Jack
OF Buffalo; dar, niger, whad yer take me
fur2 Everything in an de moneys mine
Its a lively place. Well. l should
say 30. Generals OF armies-at least one
of them, lawyers, capitalists whose check
would be honored for thousands of dollars
going around with top boots and SLOUGH
hats, %workingmen who have lust struck
the town maybe an hour before with a
pick on their shoulders going out to dis
cover a oliver NINE are there by the
scores. IF a mine is in a good location it
sells for from 300 to IS, 900 and no ques-
tions asked.
"Hotels and restaurants are doing a
good business now and are about able to
take care of those who flock to the camp.
The lots sold the other day brought about
5000, 900, and many Of the buyers bought
these lots to build their homes upon.
This shows there are staying qualities TO
the place. While there" rehectively
said the sheriff, Il met and saw Bob
Ford. the slayer of jesse James, fire.
quently. He does not look the bold des-
perado he has been painted by fertile
minded correspondents, but | would take
him for a sncaking fighter rather than a
bravado. 1 went up the Rio Grande
river about seventv-fve or eighty miles,
and ias far up as [ went about every
quarter of a mile would be marked with
location notices. In fact the entire coun-
try IS filed up with people anxious to get
rich In an hour. but of course hundreds
of them never will. It's no place. how.
ever, for a man without money to CO."