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Show 54 TALES OF THE COLORADO PIONEERS. a heart-rending cry-'Killed! O, my God.' He was pierced through the pelvis from hip to hip. Bliss, unharmed, except by the stain of murder on his soul, walked away, his face pallid and distorted with misery-it having been his intention not to kill, but to inflict a slight wound that would merely disable the doctor for a time. "Stone was carried to his room and lingered for several months, wasting to a skeleton long before he expired. Bliss was never quite himself after the death of Stone, and soon drifted away." Thus ended the stories at the pioneer dinner. CHAPTER XI. THE ATTACK ON THE NEWS OFFICE. In July, 1860, a series of murders were inaugurated by the desperadoes who infested Denver during the spring and summer. The News dealt vigorous blows against them, and bravely condemned the killing of a negro named Starks, by Charlie Harrison, one of the worst of the outlaws. Harrison sought the editorial sanctum to rehearse the whys and wherefores, claiming that he killed Starks in self-defensev and exhibited his pistol covered with hacks, which, he declared, were made by Starks' bowie-knife in the struggle between them. The subject was then dropped to the mutual satisfaction of the News and Harrison. Carl Wood, however, who delighted in bloodshed and violence, and who exercised a sort of despotic influence over his confederates, summoned them to his support, and one morning suddenly appeared in the News office and threatened to "clean it out." Approaching the senior |