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Show NAMING FAIRPLAY. 171 Two days afterwards one of the band was captured alone, and several days afterward all except two were captured and taken to Denver by Lieut. Shoup, with a detachment of the First Colorado Cavalry, Governor Hunt, then U. S. Marshal, and Wilbur F. Stone, Assistant U. S. Attorney, of the Park county forces. At Denver the prisoners were turned over to the military authorities. Col. Chivington, commanding the District, ordered them to Fort Lyon. They were placed in charge of Capt. John Cree of the Third Colorado Cavalry. When near the head of Cherry creek, in Douglass county, the prisoners, as afterward reported, attempted to escape, and were all killed by the troops in charge of Capt. Cree. The fact is, they were all placed in line, blindfolded and deliberately shot down under orders. The troops returned to Denver, leaving the bones'of the robbers to bleach and whiten on the plains. While following the guerrillas to their fate the train has arrived at Como. CHAPTER XXXIX. NAMING FAIRPLAY. Arriving at the hotel, we were ushered into a large, square room, called the parlor. The only articles of furniture visible were a round table, as large as King Arthur's, and a few chairs. When the proprietor became aware that I was gathering material for a book, he kindly brought in the pioneers to see me. One of them told me of the naming of Fairplay. "In 1859," said he, " certain parties made a discovery of rich |
