The Red Cloud chief., 1897-07-16
iSUiCIDE TO ESCAPE a WIFE
n. q. Creole Ends His Family Troubles
Millionaire Mine owner.

N. 4. Creede Enus HIS famtIy troubles
Millionaire Min owner.
Los ANGELES, CAL. July i4.-Nich.
olas G. Creole, the millionaire Color.
ado mine owner, after whom the town
Of Creole. Col, Is named, committed
suicide with morphine last evening at
his home here because his wife, from
whom he had been separated, insisted
upon renewing their marital relations.
January 4 Creole and his wife separ-
atcd and agreed TO dissolve at once as
far a. possible without legal process
their marital bonds. Mrs Creede &C,
cepted $50, 900 In cash and surrendered
all further claims upon her husband,
Mt the same time voluntarily with
drawing from his home. II was un.
dcrstood, after the necessary time
had elapsed, that Creede would
institute legal proceedings and
begin suit for absolute divorce.
Mrs. Creole considered that the
mount Of cash settled upon her was
insignificant as compared with her
husbands wealth, and about three
weeks ago returned to Los Angeles
and proposed to her husband n recon.
ciliation. This was much to Creede's
distaste and he endeavored to avoid
her, but being unsuccessful he deter.
mined to end his life.
Last evening Creole took a large
dose Of morphine and went into the
garden to die. He was found by a
servant and medical aid was sum.
moned, but he died two hours later.
Mrs. Creole vas notified Of her hus.
bands death, but declined to discuss
the tragedy.
The 2-year-old child Of Edith Wal.
ters Walker, the actress, adopted by
Creole over n year ago, Is in the care
OF his friends ut Escondido, Mrs. Crecde
declaring that she would not be both.
cred with the child when she separ.
ated from her husband
SCOUT TO MILLIONAIRE.
Nicholas c. Creole was born at Fort
Wayne, Ind, in ls43. Two years later
his parents took him to Iowa, where
he lived until he was 10, when he vol
untecred In the United States army,
serving through the war and seven
years thereafter rs a scout with the
Pawnees. He was in the Black Hills
before gold was discovered there and,
leaving the army, devoted his life to
the search for the yellow metal. After
two nearly fatal sicknesses from pneu.
monia he made his wonderful discov-
cry In the vicinity of the present site
OF Creole, Colo. His w striking
story 10 a. follows: I'm May, 1890, I
struck some oat lon the side OF Nam.
moth mountain. I tied my burros and
began to follow IL. I climbed tho
mountain along the trail Of the float
all day. This sun was beating down
On me and the CLINT Of the float under
my feet was binding. Just when the
Western sky "a tinged with that
gorgeous red we see here sometimes I
lifteo my head and there was, psoject
Ing out in front Of me, in inviting
shape. n huge bowlder Of silicate, big
ms IL house. That's where the float I
had followed oil day came from. Good
God! almost screamed with delight.
4 NhS" ~ "oo poubu " COIno bOUl6
day, but the idea Of finding it in such
shape was appalling to me.
But, to make "a .org story short, l
stakcd 1t off and IL was mine. manned
It the Mammoth. When l went back
to my camp that night I slept as I
hadn't for months before. l knew
there must be some of 1t close around,
and kept at work for II month, until
in June ! found the Ethel. As TO the
Holy Moses, about which the ne WIS
papers have weaved SO many fairy
tales, l found that on my first trip
here In 1885. 1t was on June 25, and
l located IL the second day after
striking the float. The Cliff Is on the
same vein. They are both in Camp
bell mountain. l gave it the name
Holy Moses simply because l like odd
names"
This was only the beginning OF
Creede's wonderful good fortune.
From the mines named, and from
others and by speculation, he accumu.
lated money and property that can.
not be definitely estimated and that
varied from time to time, but that en-
titled him to be referred to as q multi
millionaire. All went we'll with hin
till domestic troubles supervened,
probably unbalancing his mind with
WORRY.