Col…
source date: 1888
availability: public-domain

Col. Harris, owner of the Illinois mine at Kingston, who is in this city attending the Grey Eagle case before Master Posey, had a slight misunderstanding with a big miner named Marcus Fuller in which the colonel came out first best. Fuller approached the colonel at Kingston and told him that he was a good witness in the Grey Eagle case, and that he would come over and give in his evidence, but was broke. The colonel gave him $25, and after arriving here also gave him some more money. When Fuller was called as a witness his testi- mony was dead against the colonel’s side of the case, and after the court adjourned Fuller again asked for money. Some words passed, and Fuller called the colonel a liar. The colonel is getting pretty well along in years, but it didn’t take him long to knock the burly miner out, who jumped the first train and fled town.

that they are the men. Von Heine writes that they will all be shot within a month, as the Mexican laws make it a death penalty to rob a train in that country. So this settles Charley Small and his villainous gang forever. From the January 27, 1888, Issue of The Enterprise Col. Harris, owner of the Illinois mine at Kingston, who is in this city attending the Grey Eagle case before Master Posey, had a slight misunderstanding with a big miner named Marcus Fuller in which the colonel came out first best. Fuller approached the colonel at Kingston and told him that he was a good witness in the Grey Eagle case, and that he would come over and give in his evidence, but was broke. The colonel gave him $25, and after arriving here also gave him some more money. When Fuller was called as a witness his testi- mony was dead against the colonel’s side of the case, and after the court adjourned Fuller again asked for money. Some words passed, and Fuller called the colonel a liar. The colonel is getting pretty well along in years, but it didn’t take him long to knock the burly miner out, who jumped the first train and fled town.