The Delta independent., 1894-06-27
IMPORTANT COLORADO NEWS.
TARREO AND FEATHEREO.
General Tsrsney tho Victim OF an Out
rageous Plot.

| General Tarsney tho Victim OF an Out
rageous Plot.
| Adjutant General Tarsney was kidnape d
from the Alamo hotel at Colorado Springs
few minutes past midnight Saturday morning,
| by masked men, taken TO the suburbs In
| hack, and there tarred and feathered.
General Tarsney had been in the city for
several days attending the examination
of the arrested Bull Hill miners, Tarsney, to-
gethcr with Colonel b. F. Montgomery OF
Cripple Creek, appearing for the miners.
At midnight, the general, having just gone
to his room, was called to answer summons
TO the telephone purporting to come from
Cripple Creek. While at the telephone two
masked men entered and one Of them or.
dered Tarsney TO go with them. He objected
and they hit him on the head with revolver.
The clerk was guarded by another man,
while Tarsney was forced out OF doors and
put into IL hack. The drivers of the two
hacks, when they saw the struggle in the ho-
tel, started to drive away but were forced to
remain by armed men. The party went to
the foot of Austin bluffs, nearly three miles
from town.
Here the party found a large number OF
men waiting for them. General Tarsney WAS
stripped of all his clothing and coat OF not
tar and feathers applied to his body, even his
face and neck not escaping. During all this
time he had been atused and cursed In un-
measured terms. After helping the general 10
dress the men ordered him to go north ana
never show himself In Ell Paso county again.
| The men then disappeared. Ills conditloh
| was piliablc in the extreme. AS a result OF
the severe handling to which he had peen
subjected and the drying OF the tar, he could
make but SLOW progress. Toward daylight,
however, he reached the house OF Andrew j.
| Maloy, a ranchman, who had been deputy
sheriff at Cripple Creek. Mr.. Mailoy, after
giving General Tarsney his breakfast, hitchcd
up and drove him to Palmer Lake. Here the
| station men cleaned the tar from his face. lie
vas taken to Denver on a special train in the
| afternoon.
The greatest apprehension had been felt by
his family and friends as they feared he had
| been killed. Indignation was expressed by
all classes of people. The Republican Re-
demption League offered reward for the ap-
| prchenslon of the criminals. Commissioner
| Boynton of Ell Paso offered to do all In his
power TO arrest them, and messages OF sympa-
| Thy were received from all sides.
| General Tarsney on his return home was
well cared for and on Sunday 1t appeared that
the results would not prove serious. He said
that he had no idea rs to who the men were
that had SO abused him.
The kidnapping caused the greatest scnsa-
ton and excitement at Colorado Springs as
soon as the facts became public, and also at
Cripple Creek, to which place the telephone
imme ediateIy carried the news.
Governor Waite W. notified of the outrage
by n reporter of the Denver Republican, and
expressed strong indignation. He said he
would offer n reward of s., 900 out OF his own
pocket for the arrest Of the men who did It,
The police at Colorado Springs are working
diligently on the case and there are some
clues that are being followed up. The peo-
Pile Of Colorado Springs generally condemn
the outrage in strong terms
In the vicinity of Cripple Creek there is
very bitter feeling over the affair.