OF LAWFUL GOVERNMENT IN COLORADO. — LEGISLATION BY OUR FIRST

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. ENACTMENTS BY SUBSEQUENT TERRITORIAL

ASSEMBLIES. — THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO. — ITS

EMASCULATED BILL OF RIGHTS. WRONG AND OPPRESSION THEREBY MADE

POSSIBLE. IMPAIRMENT OF THE RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY. — CONSTITU-
TIONAL PROVISION FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE. — RESULTS OF THIS EXTENSION

OF THE RIGHT TO VOTE. ITS EFFECT UPON THE MARRIED RELATION AND

UPON "politics." OBSTACLES TO AMENDMENT OR REVISION OP THE

constitution op the state. — constitutional provision for ap-
propriation of natural water supply. — extra constitutional
means op adopting a new fundamental law. — codifications op
Colorado's statutes. — the state's law of divorce. — consequences

OF THE "sentimental-cruelty CLAUSE." — STATE SUPERVISION OP
the DISTRIBUTION OF WATER FOR IRRIGATION AND MINING. — NATURE
OF THE LAW OF TITLES TO REAL ESTATE AND OF ATTACHMENT AND FORE-
CLOSURE. — LEGISLATIVE REVISIONS OF THE LAW OF PRACTICE. GEN-
ERAL CHARACTER OF COLORADO'S LEGISLATION. — DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
ANCIENT AND MODERN CONCEPTIONS OF METHODS OF L.\WMAKING. —
PURPOSES OF LEGISLATION AND SOURCE OP ITS LIMITATIONS IN BEHALF
OF THE people's WELFARE 637



CHAPTER XXX.

JUDICIARY DEPARTMENT. — CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH THE
AMERICAN FORM OP CIVIL GOVERNMENT WAS INSTITUTED IN THE PIKE's
PEAK COUNTRY. — CHARACTER OF COLORADO'S PIONEERS. — EARLY COURT
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE. — TERRITORIAL COURT SYSTEM. — PERSONAL
ATTRIBUTES OF THE TERRITORIAL JUDGES, AND THE DURATION OF THEIR

TERMS. — THE STATE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. AMENDMENTS TO

CONSTITUTION. JURISDICTIONS OF COLORADO COURTS. — ESTABLISH-
MENT OF APPELLATE COURTS. — POLITICS AND THE JUDICIARY'. — FIRST

ELECTION OF SUPREME COURT JUDGES. EXCEPTIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES

UNDER WHICH WILBUR F. STONE WAS ELECTED TO THE SUPREME COURT.

■ — COLORADO'S PIONEER LAWYERS. DISTINGUISHED JIEMBERS OF THE

STATE BAR. — THE "CIRCUIT OF THE TERRITORIAL COURT OF THE THIRD

DISTRICT." PRIMITIVE MEANS OF TRAVEL AND ENTERTAINMENT. —

FANDANGOS IN SPECIAL HONOR OF THE COURT AND ITS RETINUE. —
COLORADO'S ARMY OF LAWYERS. — THE STATE BAR ASSOCIATION. — BANE-
FUL INFLUENCES OF PARTY POLITICS IN THE JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
OF GOVERNMENT. PRESENT MENACES TO THE STABILITY AND INTEGRI-
TY OF OUR COURTS. REMEDIES FOR DEFECTS AND INEFFICIENCY IN THE

DISPENSATION OF JUSTICE. LAW NOT INFALLIBLE, BUT SUBJECT TO

THE UNIVERSAL LAW OF EVOLUTION. — PECULIAR CONDITIONS ENCOUN-
TERED BY OUR COURTS. DEMONSTRATED HIGH CHARACTER AND ABILITY

OF THE BENCH AND BAR OF COLORADO 649



CHAPTER XXXI.

THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IN COLORADO. — FIRST PHYSICIAN IN THE PIKe's

PEAK COUNTRY. PIKE's TRIBUTE TO HIS COMPANION AND FRIEND, DR.

JOHN ROBINSON. — DR. EDWIN JAMES, JOURNALIST AND HISTORIAN OF
long's EXPEDITION. — MEDICAL OFFICERS WITH THE EXPEDITIONS OF
COLONELS DODGE AND KEAKNY. — FIRST PRACTICING PHYSICIAN UPON
COLORADO SOIL. — DR. HEMPSTEAD, OF FORT BENT. — FIELD HOSPITAL OF
THE ARMY OF THE WEST. — DR. LEVI J. RUSSELL, THE FIRST PHYSICIAN



XX CONTENTS

AMONG OUR AMERICAN PIOXEERS. — HIS GREAT SERVICES AS A LEADER

AND ORGANIZER. — COLORADO'S MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS IN 1859. OUR

■ FIRST MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. — REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS BY WHICH
THE "JEFFERSON MEDICAL SOCIETY'"' WAS ORGANIZED. — THE SOCIETY'S
"medical and surgical tariff." — EARLY DISINTEGRATION OF THE
ORGANIZATION. — THE NEW COUNTRY NOT A FAVOR^iBLE FIELD FOR MED-
ICAL PRACTITIONERS. — EARLY RECOGNITION OF THE HEALTH-GIVING
EFFECTS OF CLIMATIC CONDITIONS IN THE FAR WEST. — CIRCUMSTANCES
ATTENDING THE FOUNDING OF COLORADO'S FIRST HOSPITAL. — ATTEMPTS
TO ORGANIZE AND ESTABLISH IMEDICAL SOCIETIES IN THE DECADE OF
THE '"60s. — FORMATION OF OUR FIRST PERMANENT ORGANIZATION OF

PHYSICIANS, THE "DENVER MEDICAL ASSOCIATION/' IN 1871. NAMES

OF ITS CHARTER-MEMBERS. — BIRTH OF THE "COLORADO MEDICAL SOCI-
ETY." FULL REPORT OF THE CONVENTIONS PROCEEDINGS. CONSTITU-
TION AND BY-LAWS OF THE ORGANIZATION. ITS PROSPEROUS CAREER.

DISTRICT AND COUNTY MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONS SUBORDINATE TO THE

STATE SOCIETY. — NAMES OF THOSE WHO HAVE SERVED AS PRESIDENT
OF THE COLORADO MEDICAL SOCIETY. — ROSTER OF THE DECEASED MEM-
BERS OF THE SOCIETY. — THE UNOSTENTATIOUS NATURE OF THE LIFE
AND WORK OP THE TRUE PHYSICLVN 666



CHAPTER XXXII

Colorado's development under statehood. — uprising of the ute In-
dians IN 1879. — tragedy at the white river agency. — disastrous

experience OF MA.JOR THORNBURGH'S COMMAND WHILE MARCHING
TO THE RELIEF OF THE AGENCY.^REMOVAL OF THE OFFENDING IN-
DIANS FROM THE STATE. RAPID INCREASE* OF COLORADO'S POPULA-
TION AFTER ITS ADMISSION INTO THE UNION. RISE AND DEVELOPMENT

OP LEADVILLE. FIRST PORTENTOUS LABOR-STRIKE IN THE STATE.

OPENING OP THE FORMER RESERVATION OP THE OFFENDING UTES TO
SETTLEMENT. OCCUPATION OF ITS AREA BY HOME-SEEKERS. PROS-
PECTORS AND TOWN-SITE PROMOTERS. FOUNDING OF THE MUNICIPAL-
ITIES OF GRAND JUNCTION, DELTA, MONTROSE, GLENWOOD SPRINGS,
MEEKER, STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, HAHN's PEAK, THE SECOND GUNNISON

CITY, AND ASPEN. CONTEMPORARY ACTIVITIES IN THE "SAN JUAN

COUNTRY," IN SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO. ORIGIN AND RISE OF THE

CITIES OF SILVERTON, LAKE CITY, OURAY, TELLURIDE, AND DURANGO.

BEGINNING OP THE GREAT STEEL WORKS AND OTHER MANUFACTURING

INDUSTRIES AT THE CITY OP PUEBLO. ESTABLISHMENT OP THE STATE 's

PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM. — FUNDAMENTAL PROVISIONS OF LAW UPON
WHICH IT IS BASED. — EDL"CATIONAL INSTITUTIONS FOUNDED AND

MAINTAINED BY CITIZENS OF THE STATE. ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT

OP THE UNIVERSITY OP DENVER AND COLORADO SEMINARY. ITS TITLE

TO THE DISTINCTION OP HAVING BEEN THE PIONEER SCHOOL OP HIGHER

LEARNING IN COLORADO. OUTLINES OF THE HISTORY OF COLORADO

COLLEGE, AT COLORADO SPRINGS. — ITS GREAT ADVANCEMENT IN RECENT

YEARS. THE STATE HISTORICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OP

COLORADO. ITS ORGANIZATION, IN 1879. — MAGNITUDE AND VALUE OF

ITS HISTORICAL AND SCIENTIFIC COLLECTIONS 685



CHAPTER XXXIII.

DETERMINATION OF THE LOCATION OF THE SEAT OP COLORADO'S STATE GOV-
ERNMENT. — RESULTS OP AN ELECTION ON THE QUESTION. — ACTION ON
THE SUBJECT IN THE LATER YEARS OP THE TERRITORIAL PERIOD. OUT-
LINES OP PROCEEDINGS THAT RESULTED IN THE CONSTRUCTION OP THE
PRESENT CAPITOL. — CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE DONATION OP THE BUILD-
ING'S SITE BY A CITIZEN OP DENVER. — CONDITIONS IN C<JLORADO IN THE



CONTENTS xxi

DECADE OP THE '80s. — THE STATE 's PEOSPERITY DURING THOSE YEARS.

GREAT RATIO OP INCREASE OF POPULATION IN THOSE YE.\RS. —

GROWTH OF URBAN COMMUNITIES. PREDOMINATING INFLUENCES OF

SILVER MINING. — ITS OVERSHADOWING OF OTHER ACTIVITIES IN THE
STATE. ONCOMING OF THE FINANCIAL CYCLONE OF 1893. — ITS DEVAS-
TATING CONSEQUENCES IN COLORADO. DESTRUCTION OF VALUES AND

PARALYSIS OF INDUSTRY. ITS IMMEDIATE EFFECTS UPON FINANCIAL

INSTITUTIONS. — HEGIRA OF UNEJIPLOYED AND MONEYLESS MEN.

FORMATION OF A " DIVISION ' ' OF COXEY 's ' ' ARMY ' '. — PERMANENT
CLOSING OF MANY SILVER MINES. — CONTINUATION OF THE PARALYSIS
THROUGH THE YEAR 1894. — THE UNFORTUNATE ADMINISTRATION OP
DAVIS H. WAITE AS GOVERNOR. — HIS PANACEAS FOR SOME OF THE CON-
DITIONS OF THE PANIC TIME. — SPECI.Ai SESSION OF THE GENERAL AS-
SEMBLY OF THE STATE. GOVERNOR WAITE 's "w.iR WITH THE DENVER

CITY HALL." — THE EXTENSION OF GENERAL SUFFR.VGE TO WOMEN IN

COLORADO. OUTLINES OF A MO\'EMENT THEREFOR IN TERRITORIAL

TIMES. PROVISIONS IN THE STATE 's CONSTITUTION FOR SUBMITTING

THE QUESTION TO .\. VOTE OF THE ELECTORS. — DEFEAT OF THE PROPO-
SITION IN OCTOBER, 1878. — TRIUMPH OF THE REFORM IN NOVEMBER,
189.3. — PRACTICAL EFFECTS OF THE INNOVATION 706



CHAPTER XXXIV

COLORADO IN THE WAR WITH SPAIN. — INTEREST EXCITED IN OUR STATE BY
THE ONCOMING OF THE CONFLICT. — THE PRESIDENT'S C^VLL TO ARMS.

— CAMP ADAMS. — FIRST REGIMENT OF COLORADO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.

— ITS ORGANIZATION. — NAMES AND RANK OF ITS OFFICERS. — DEPAR-
TURE OP THE REGIMENT ON ITS WAY TO THE ORIENT. — DISTINGUISHED
SERVICES RENDERED BY' IT IN THE PHILIPPINES. — ITS GALLANT PART
IN THE BATTLE OF MANILA. AND IN OPERATIONS AGAINST THE FILIPINO
INSURGENTS.- RETURN OF THE REGIMENT FROM ITS FIELD OF DUTY.—
RECEPTION AT DENVER. — TRANSFERENCE OF IIS COLORS TO THE STATE.

— LIST OF ITS MEMBERS WHO DIED IN SERVICE. — THE REGIMENT'S LOW
RATE OF MORTALITY FROM DISEASE. — COLORADO'S CAVALRY ORGANIZA-
TIONS.— NAMES AND RANK OF THEIR OFFICERS. — THEIR ASSIGNMENT
TO TORREY's REGIMENT OF "ROUGH RIDERS," OFFICIALLY KNOWN AS
THE SECOND REGIMENT OP UNITED STATES VOLUNTEER CAVALRY'. — ITS
MOVEMENT TO JACKSONVH.LE, FLORIDA. — DEADLY' ACCIDENT THAT BE-
FELL IT AT TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI. — ITS LACK OP OPPORTUNITY TO EN-
GAGE IN ACTIVE SERVICE. — ITS STAY AT JACKSONVILLE UNTIL MUS-
TERED OUT. — DEATHS AMONG ITS MEN AT THAT PLACE. — BATTERY A,
OF COLORADO VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY. — ITS ORGANIZATION. — NAMES AND
RANK OP ITS OFFICERS.- ITS BRIEF EXISTENCE, WITHOUT ACTIVE SERV-
ICE.— EARLY CONCLUSION OF THE CONFLICT WITH SPAIN.— PHASES^ OP
WAR BROUGHT BEFORE THE PEOPLE OF COLORADO 728



CHAPTER XXXV.

COLORADO'S RECOVERY AFTER THE PANIC OF 1893. — CONSERVATIVE AND SUB-
STANTIAL CHARACTER OP THE STATE 's ADVANCEMENT. — AFTER-EFFECTS
OP DEPRECIATION IN THE MARKET-WORTH OF SILVER, .iND OF UNDUE
SPECULATION IN URBAN RE.\L-ESTATE.— RECOGNITION OF THE NEED FOR
A BROADER DEVELOPMENT OP THE STATE 's NATURAL RESOURCES. — CRIP-
PLE CREEK S TIMELY REVELATIONS. ENCOURAGING INFLUENCES OP

ITS OUTPUT OF GOLD. — INCREASE IN VALUES OP PRODUCTIVE LANDS. —
YIELDS OF GOLD IN THE STATE IN THE CLOSING YEARS OP THE '90s. —
INTRODUCTION OF THE CULTURE OF THE SUGAR-BEET INTO COLORADO. —
OUTLINES OF THE HISTORY OF THE PIONEER ATTEMPT TO ACCOMPLISH A



xxii CONTENTS

LIKE PURPOSE. — CAUSES OF ITS FAILURE. — THE MOVEMENT THAT RE-
SULTED SUCCESSFULLY, IN 1899. — LOC-VTION AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE
state's first sugar FACTORY. GREAT DEVELOPMENT AND VALUE OF

the new industry. results of the federal, census, of 1900.

colorado's remarkable expansion in population. — the st.\te 's
progress, and extension of agriculture, since the advent of the

twentieth century. tragic consequences of labor conflicts in

gold-mining sections of the state. new and exceptional form

of municipal government that made denver both a city and a
county. — unique political episode, in 1905. production of a sit-
uation in which colorado had three lawful governors within
twenty-four hours. growth of the state's agricultural, man-
ufacturing, and other industries. present condition of mining

for the precious metals. results op the federal census, of

1910. — Colorado's large ratio of increase of population. — prom-
ises OP GREAT EXTENSION OF IRRIGATION. STABILITY OP GENERAL CON-
DITIONS IN THE STATE. — COLORADO'S SERIES OF " UPS AND DOWNS " IN
PAST TIMES. — BRIGHT PROSPECTS THAT BECKON THE STATE ONWARD AND
UPWARD 744



INDEX



Abert, J. W., 179

Accident to Second Regiment of Cav-
alry, 74L'

Adams, Alva, portrait, 435; 490, 752

Agriculture — Its commencement in 1859,
551; value of farm products in 18133,
552 ; its soils and drainage, 553 ; divi-
sion of agricultural land, 554 ; sugar-
beet culture, 554, 555 ; raising of pota-
toes, 556; horticulture, 557, 5(35-7;
agriculture at high elevations, 558; in
the northwestern part of the state,
5(3U ; the " rainbelt, " 562; winning of
premiums, 568

Aikins, Thomas, 219

Alamosa, 63

Albertson, Nathaniel, 286

Alford, X. C, 578

Allen, Henry, 262, 329-31, .335, 339-40,
345, 349, 353, 355

Allen, Lydia B., 276

Allencaster, Don Joachim Real, 68

Allison, A. J., 352

Altona, 265

Alvarado, Luis iloscoso, 10, 12

Alvord, R. R., 280

Amendments to constitution, 656

Amity Canal, 584

Amslary. William, 625

Amlerson, (ieorge G., 573, 593

Animas, 4.'!l)

Annual market values of iirnducts of the
soil. 755

Annual yield of the yellow metal since
the year 1900, 756 "

Antero St Lost Park Reservoir Com
jany, 582

Anteio Rrservoir, 5S2

Anthony, Scott J., 382

Anthony, Susan B., 715

Anthony, W. I.)., 474

Aiiachc, 32

Arapahoe City, 265-7 '

Arapahoe City (see Golden)

Aiapahoe county, 222, 228, 328. 346, 351,
354, 356. 35.S 365, 616

Arapahoes, 10, 33, 146. 412, 417-32, 638

Argentine Central Railroad, 527

Aricl'aras, 150, 151

Arkansas \'alley Ditch, 583

Armour, Charles L., 319, 652

Armour, John, 286

Arnett, W. D., 338, 353

Arnold, E. A., 321

Ashcraft, Sannirl, 62]

Ashley, James H., 468, 470

Aspen, 541-2, 695, 709

Aspen District, 541-2



Associate justices, 652, 655

Atchison & Topeka Railroad Company,

521
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway,

512, 521-2
Atkins. John B., 276
Atkinson, Henry, 92
Attorney general, 652
Avery, F. C, 578

Auraria, 238, 244-5, 261, 329, 330, 343
Auraria (Gold Town), 230-4, 237
Auraria Town Company, 668
Autobeas, Charles, 571
Autobees' ranch, 24

Baca county, 188

Bailey, Dewey C, 644

Bailey, J. L., 602-3

Baker. John, 397

Baker 's Park Mining District, 460

Baldwin, H. W., 41)5

Bancroft, Frederick J., 704

Barela, Jesus M., 617

Bar of Colorado, 659

Bassett, P. T., 234

Bates, Joseph E., 508

Battery A, First Colorado Volunteer

Artillery, 743
Battle of .Manila, 732
Baylor, John R., 386, 389-90
Heidi, S. W., 302
Beck, John, 210, 211. 213, 214
Hecknell. William, 187
Beckurts, Herman, 488
Beckwith, E. G., 23, 128-31, 498
Heckwourth, James P., 175
Beecher, Frederick H., 431, 433
Beecher Island, 433
Beet sugar industry, 613
Belden, D. D.. 475
Belfor.l, James B.. 372, 489, 491, 654
Bell, John C, 492
Bell, J. R., 92, 108
Bennet, Hiram P., 321, 372, 400, 468,

471, 473, 402
Benson, James P., 319
lient Brothers, 174, 179, 181, 184
Bent, Charles, 179
Bent county, 447
Bent, George, 122
Bent, St. Vrain & Co., 179
Bent. Silas, 181
Bent. William. 179, 181), 190
Benton, Thomas H., 498
Bent 's Canon, 107
Bercaw, Albert F., 291, 292
Bercaw, Robert, 268
Bergen Park. 249



xxiu



XXIV



INDEX



Berkley, G., 621

Berkley, Junius, 620

Berthoud, E. L., 502, 520

Bessemer, 698

Bessemer Canal, 584

Bienville, Sieur de (see Jean Baptiste Le

Moines)
Bieree, H. B., 621
Big Thompson Ditch, 579
Bijeau, Joseph, 170
Biiou (Bijeau) Creek, 96
Bill of Kates, 670
Bissell, C. E.. 347, 352, 360
Bixby. E., 240
Blaeic, A. R., 583
Blackfeet, 33, 146-9
Black Hawk, 448
Black Kettle, 417-32
Blake & Williams, 238
Blake, Charles H., 238
Blanca, 5S6

Bliss, L. W., 347, 350-2, 360
Blue Eiver Goldfield, 258
Blunt, James G., 406
Board of Capitol Managers, 709
Bonilla. Francisco Levva, 12
Bonynge. Eobert W.."492
Borton, L. W., 353
Bortou, Eeuben J., 360
Boston &: Colorado Smelter, 531
Boston Company, 266
Boulder, 617. 709
Boulder City, 240, 263, 289, 336, 435,

439. 440, .534
Boulder county. 365. 4.53, 533-5
Boulder County Medical Association, 681
Boulder Creek District, 287
Boulder District, 533-6
Bourgmont, Sieur de, 30, 36, 37
Bowen, Thomas M., 490
Bowles, J. C, 361
Boyd, E. D., 291, 404
Boyd Lake Eeseryoir. 582
Boyd Smelting Works, 535
BoVer. William J.. 223
Bracket, William, 360
Bradford, Allen A., 372. 476, 617, 652
Bradford City, 269
Breckenridge," 258, 290
Breckenridge District, 536-7
Bridger, .Jam^, 1S6
Bristol. Xoah, 578
Bromwell, H. P. H., 644
Brookfield, Alfred A., 240
Brooks. Franklin E., 492
Brown, G., 349
Brown. George W., 603
Brown, Henry C. 707
Browne. Samuel E., 417
Brush. J. L.. 603, 607
Buache, Philippe, 29
Buchrel. Henry A., 490, portrait, 6S1
Buckingham, E. G., 628
Buckskin, Joe (see Laurette)
Buell. George B., 291
Buena Vista, 124, 559
Buffalo soldiers, 687
Burkley, G., 618

Burr. Aaron (his conspiracy), 71-89
Burrell. James, 285
Bute, George A., 256
Butters, Alfred, 603
Byers, William N., 195, 203, 247, 262,

288. 293, 3.34-6. 499, 574
By-Laws Colorado Medical Society, 678



Cache a la Poudre Eeseryoir, 580
Cache a la Poudre riyer (see Poudre

river)
Cajon del Yeso, 20

California Gulch, 280-3, 287, 435, 537-8
Cameron, Eobert A., 452, 456, 457
Camp Adams, 730
Camp Alva, 734

Camp Elbert, (see Camp Weld)
Camp Weld, 382. 384, 392, 404-5
Campbell, Eobert. 186
Canadian river, 107
Canal, 584

Canby, Edward E. S., 385, 389-93
Canon City, 56, 104, 268, 290, 366, 435,

439, 709"
Capitol Board of Direction and Super-
vision. 708
Capitol Hill, 707
Captain Dodd 's Independent Company,

382, 389, 391. 404, 406
Captain ' ' Jim ' ' Ford 's Independent

Company. 382, 389, 404, 407,
Caribou Mine, 534
Carr, Eobert E., 519
Carson, Christopher (Kit), 115, 119, 120,

127, 249, 2.55. 258
Carter, Eli, 300, 339, 340, 353
Carter. Thomas J., 506, 507
Case. Francis M., 319, 508
Castle Eock, 100, 119
Castro, D. B.. 332, 334, 340

Catlin Canal, 584

Catterson, W. A., 291

Catterson, Wesley, 291

Central City, 264, 286, 366, 435, 439,
448

Central Colorado Improvement Co., 456

Central Overland. California & Pike's
Peak Express Co., 436

Central Pacific Railroad, 440

Central Pacific Eailroad Exploration, 23

Chaffee, Jerome B., 372, 475, 483-5, 488,
490-2, 504. 617

Chaffee Light Artillery, 730, 742

Chambers. Clark. 397

Character of Colorado pioneers, 650

Charter members of Denver Medical So-
ciety, 674

Cheesman, Walter S., 514, 527

Cherry Creek, 239

' ' Cherry Creek Pioneer, ' ' 247

Cheyenne coiwty, 358

Cheyennes. 33, 146-51, 412, 414, 416-32,
638

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Company, 522

Chicago Colony, 451

Chicago Colorado Colony, 453

Chicago Company, 251

Chicago Creek, 251, 254

Chicago. Eock Island & Pacific Company,
525

"Chicken Bill," 545

Chilcott, George M., 372, 475, 490, 621

Chiles, Henry W., 240

Chivington, John M., 381, 393-4, 396-9,
417-S, 420-7, 472

Chouteau, Auguste Pierre, 167

Chouteau 's Island, 170

Chrysolite Mine, 692

Church Ditch, 579

Churchill. John A., 224

Citizens' Ditch Company, 585

City and county government combined,
751



INDEX



XXV



City and county of Denver, 751
City hospital, 672
City physician, 673

Civil War — Military conditions in
Colorado (in lS6i), 378; Governor
Gilpin organizes military stafif, 379;
southern men attempt to form force,
380; first enlistment, 381; First Eegi-
ment organizeil, 381; financial necessi-
ties met, 384; Confederate invasion of
New Mexico, 385; Colorado volunteers
sent into that territory, 389; battle of
La Glorieta Pai-s, 395; First Colorado
Infantry becomes First Regiment of
Colorado Volunteer Cavalry, 403 ;
Colorado maile a separate military dis-
trict, 404 ; formation of Second Regi-
ment of Colorado Volunteer Infantry,
404; organization of the Third Regi-
ment, 405 ; First Colorado Battery
formed, 405; Second and Third Regi-
ments consolidated into Second Regi-
ment of Colorado Volunteer Cavalry,
407; ailvance of Colorado troops to
repel Price's invasion of Missouri,
407; number of troops furnished the
Union army, 409.
Clancy, William, 332
Clark; Gruber & Co., 288
Clark, J. Max, 576
Clark, William, 45. 169, 234
Clayton, William M., 508
Clear Creek county, 366, 440, 448
Clear Creek Mining District, 530-3
Clear Creek Mountain Road, 516
Clewell, E. F., 347
Cliff Dwellers, 569-70, 705
Clough, John A., 611
Coal-mining, 755
Cobb, Frank M., 224
Codes of 1S77 and 1887, 647
Coleman, .James T., 288
Coleman, LeFevre & Co., 274
Colfax, Schuyler, 296
Collier, D. C.'. 347
Collins, William O.. 457
Collyer, Robert, 453
C'olona, 264

Colona (see La Porte)
Colorailo — Its Spanish past, 1; De Vaca,
Alvaro Nunez Cabeza, 3-5; tirst trad-
ers in (French), 43; Spaniards pros-
pect San Juan region for precious
metals (1761), 19; first habitation
built by white men, 43 ; first American
structure, 53; Pike's exploration of
Central and Southern Colorado, 55-70;
"stars and stripes" first appear, 64;
Pike escorteil to Mexico by Spaniards,
67; arrives at Santa Fe, 68; Pike's
party liberated at Natchitoches, 69;
organization of territory, 295; terri-
tory of Colona, 296; territory of Jef-
ferson, 297; territory of Idaho, 303;
Colorado suggested, 312; Colorado bill
signed by the president, 318; other
names suggested, 319; first judicial dis-
trict, 320, 367; meeting of first legis-
lative assembly, 321; "temporary gov-
ernment" act, 321; territorial govern-
ment in operation, 363; Governor Gil-
pin's first message, 364; Colorado's
first assembly. 363 ; its seventeen coun-
ties, 365: judicial districts, 367;
second assembly, 367 ; third assembly,
369 ; capital fixed at Denver , 370 ;



territorial governors, 370; territorial
secretaries, 371; territorial congress-
men, 371; population by counties in
1866, 439; first thorough census, 446-9;
as a state, 465; first enabling act, 466,
468; bill signed by the president, 470;
rejected by the people, 472; vetoed by
President Johnson, 477; bill passed
over veto (January 9, 1867), 479;
vetoed by the president, 481; other
attempts at statehooil. 483-5; bill finally
approved by President Grant, 4.^6; elec-
tion of delegates. 486; first state idli-
cers and general asseuddy, 488; gov-
ernors ami United States senators, 490;
congressmen, 491 ; enabling act
(1875), 492; its coal, building stones,
cements, etc., 548; value of gold and
silver output, (1870-1908), .549; judi-
ciary department, 649 ; first hospital,
671; development under statehood,
685; in the year 1894, 713; cavalry,
741; recovery after the pianic of 1893,
744 ; first sugar beet factory, 748

Colorado ct Kansas Canal, 584

Colorado & Southern Railway Company,
525

Colorado & Wyoming Railway, 526

Colorado Battery, 742

Colorado Cattle & Horse Growers' Asso-
ciation, 608

Colorado Cattle Growers ' Association,
605, 608, 613

Colorado Central & Pacific Railroad, 504-

7, 509

Colorado City, 102, 241, 256, 267-9, 367-

8. 435, 439, 4.55, 641, 709
Colorado Coal & Iron Company, 698
Colorado College, 702

Colorado Dollars, 713

Colorado Fuel & Iron Companv, 526,
698, 755

Colorado Insane As3dum, 633-4

Colorado in the war with Spain, 728

Colorado Medical Society, 673, 674

Colorado Midland Railway Company,
524-5

Colorado Packing Company, 612

Colorado Penitentiary, 635-6

Colorado pioneer lawyers, 659

Colorailo Seminary. 700

Colorado Springs, 119, 455-6, 627, 709

Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek Dis-
trict Railway, 526

Colorado State Bar Association, 663

Colorado State Medical Society, The, 681

Colorado Stock Growers ' Association, 599,
602,' 605-6

Colorado Suffrage Association, 715

Colorado Supreme Court reports, 6.54

Comanches ("les Choumans"), 32-3, 158

Comjilex and perplexing legal questions,
664

Conclusion of war with Spain, 743

Conejos county, 63, 440

Consolidated Home Supply Ditch &
Reservoir Company, 579

Constitution amended, 656

Constitution Colorado Medical Society,
677

Coochetopa Pass, 129, 133

Cook, Dave, 600

Cook, George W.. 352, 492

Cook, Richard, 461

Cook, Samuel H., (first Civil war volun-
teer), 381, 382



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INDEX



Cooper, Douglass H., 406

Cooper, Job A., portrait, 46-i; 490

Corkscrew District, 2.58

Corner stone of Capitol laid, 709

Coronado, Francisco de, 6-10

Cossio, Antonio A'alverde v, 16

Costilla county, 190, 366,"440

Costilla Irrigation & Power Company,
586

Costilla States Development Company,
586

Coulson, W. W., 487

Counties — twenty-six original, 015; coun-
ties established since 1870, 615-6

County courts, 657

County of Arapahoe. 751

County superintendent of schools (first),
443

Court of appeals, 657

Courts of Colorado, 656

Coxey's Army of Commonwealers, 712

Cozzeus, EilAvard, 291

Craig, William, 475

Crawford, George A., 693

Creede, 544

Cressinghani. Clara. 727

Cripple Creek, 750

Cripple Creek Central Eailway Company.
526

Cripple Creek Mines, 545-6

Crocker, G. F., 617

Crystal River Railroad, 526

Cumniings, Alexander, portrait, 128;
370, 374

Ciu-rier, T. L., 279

Curtice, W. J., 256, 320

Curtis. Samuel S., 237, 405-8, 417-8

Curtis, W. J., 443

"Daily Mountaineer," 288

"Daily Rocky ilountain Herald" (first
daily newsjjaper), 288

"Daily Rocky Mountain News," 288

Dallilia, James E., 320

Davidson, C„ 332

Davis, C. C, 625

Davis, John G., 298

Dawson, James H., 647

Dead Men 's Gulch, 259

Deadwood Diggings, 244, 248

Deadwood Gulch, 255

Decade of the '80s was a period of re-
markable activity, 709

Deceased members of Colorado Medical
Society, 682

Defiance Land and ^Town Companv, The
694