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IIhe-anis*•r-«*Peak RecionterdavsBy DORA FOSTERThis week let s have the story ^ of a little lady who came to Colo- where we lived rado almost loo years ago i5 She was Mrs Hat tienights to come from Quincy. Ill ,Muef to u. hut mother lived in fearto Denser We and dread until rnv fattier comewere quite tired after thei.home‘ After a time we moved to Canton.Louise journey My father w as not ve.y r- Hedge- Trout, a long name for a well, that being one reason for on City. tl\en to Pueblo for a turre. ■*** tiny doll-like woman with blonde our coming to Denver also he had then we moved to a ranch on the air. blue eyes and a very pretty-a brother here who urged him to Divideid,thonrs«factcome and try Colorado climatela mite northeaat of Palmer Lake. where 1 met andMv first recollection of hearing Ht' greatly benefited and liv- was married to Mr Trout, Janof tier was when my mother toid ed to be nearly 85 years old of how Pearl and Hattie Hedges. “Everything was very high-prie-two ..'tie sisters, had sung duets ed tboe days Flour was SIO per w he women ami children were hundred, quart cans of fruit orI, 1880 After a few years there we went to Denser, then, Sept. 15. 1887. we came back to Colorado City.asesec farted up in the old Anway House vegetables were 50 cents per can;! Very lively times here then assoap. 25 cents per bar; and every the Colorado Midland had but8on thing else according. Day board their road thru to the Westernwas $10 per week and later in the Slope Everyone was at work andMother had taught us the song season when snow came they paid happy no depression here thenthe two sisters had sung. ' Father. $1 per hour for shoveling snow We h,..d to live in a ter* until wem Colorado City, in 1868 while the ,,j men kept guard cm the hillsthe lookout for Indians..... Dear Fattier Come Home With.from walks and streetsnero-niff5e*Earbuilt our home at TO S 25th StMe No* \ ami always associat- “We lived \n Denver about two There were no homes to rent M#tiif §►4ed u with the grim tales of Indian years, then came to Colorado City troubles in I808 There were \erv fewHere we will have Hattie s story as told to the El Paso CountyPioneers Association one Tuesday evening. Oct l. 1933I came to Colorado with my parents and sister in September o* 1366: came in a stage coach with four big fine horses whichwere changed for fresh ones everywere employed in the MtdUiwi shops day's, and we could hear h*.-uses here at that time and none hammering ail times of the mdbi, ir Colorado Springs or Manitou— building their houses to live hijust a slab shed over the sodaspringWe came here in the stage coacfi trom Denver and stopped at“Anthony Bolt *a called the Father of Colorado City He was very benevolent and was called the Poor Man s Friend ‘ He andar. old frame hotel that stood or many of the pioneer residents have'.tie corner of Colorado Avenue, and 28th Street, where the home»0 nuies, all tne wav They would ^ the Stoekbndge*! is now locatedhave the horse*, all harnessed rea-to hitch mi when we slopped.Those were very exciting days as the Indians were on the wargone to their last reward which *fjust, will be great Clem Kins man, another pioneer who had t*v-ed here most of his life. in speaking of Colorado City one time to;dhen away we would go for another here People for miles around me somehow he could sleep bet-came and brought their families ter if he lay down in the shadowfor protection from them, and ,.e ol old Pikes Peak He too. ha«were forted up in the old Anway passed away Anthony Bolt's logwhich was located at 2818 house, where he lived in Indian W Pikes Peak As 1 remember, times still stands It is located just it was a log house with a stair*av a few blocks west of my home on going up on the out-wie It still St Anthony Street They say there stands but ha« been remodeled are portholes in it so they e—id and s.ded up ami painted so no protect themselves from the In-one could reeognue it now We dians. by shooting thru them :f were with others hi the foct white* they came here * my father with other men stood guard on the hill north of town We were living here when Lie10 miles ' Lunches could be obtained at tfu stage stations but were very high-priced V cup of tea or coffee ho^, * auk! be $ 1 We had U»ve!v weather and aVInice trip It took seven days and'prints i/i»v li87'2“I still live in my little home •hat was butt m 1887 _ lt;7 years ago 1 love it and dear old Cokvihree boys were killed by the In- rado where I have lived most, ofKIOWA AND TEJONdiarc- n» ar where the Vntlers Hotel now stami« They were herding cattle when they were watched by the Indians from the h uls The olctet of the boys »alt; young Everhart I believe he was 21 years old The Robbins boys were youngmy life and it is mv dew* to end mv da vs here and be laid .«8 Wre.-t * th my loved ones in the shadow of Pikes PeakI am a member of the El Paso County Pioneers -ociainifl and the Half Century Club and 1TIMEONLY!BUY TWOer They were brought here and enjoy their meeting and look forward with pleasure to them and the reminiscences of the early days of the pioneers of ColoradoMllaid out in the old log budding which was the first state house It was located on the north sideot Colorado Avenue, between 26*h City and Colorado Springs md 27th Streets I can just re That evening after reading her ember erf going with my sister stcry to the Pioneers As social ton to see the bodies, as everyone was she went by request to the piano, l ocking there so horrified a n d and. accompanying herself, sang grieved over it Oh they were a her sonc. wh.eh many of ner •errible sight, scalped and spear- friends had heard her sing with td. and they had placed their her sister. Pearl, while forted up -uas to their eyes and blew them sc many years ago out. ami faces and necks all pow This is the last verse of herier burnt Even after all these songyears I dread to recall the awful Father, dear Father, comevght. for at that time I hid behind home with me now The ciock my si'ter after a horrified glance in the steeple strikes three, at them. j The house is so lonely, the' Oh thosw were terrible times hours are so long for poor werp-for everyone, so filled with fear mg mother and meirnts sko icsTwfisi.MMEI SHOES SEDUCED•edfifyles ' * hlJ.EOGERTONAh'A v JM•nd dread The Indians also stampeded stock. The trail they crosssed Sand Creek Colormio Springs with the stock they drove away was a mile wide “Different tribes of Indian* scalped differently Some just took’Yes. we are alone, poor Benny where is dead and gone with the angels east of of light.‘ Anti these are the very lastword.** that be said. ‘1 want to kias Papa good mght One dav a few months beforea very small, round place of the her death while visiting m Mrs scalp others took all mer just Trout's little home she toid of her leaving a few hairs m front of the preparations for her funeral serv-ears The Indians at that time ices, and showed us the clothe*OFF. %attacked an old man by the name of Baldwin but found him sea.ped efore so left him to die as they I'.nought but he lived many vearsshe had folded away and in which she had requested that she be laidto rest. Her family had been to 8 plot tn Fairview Cemetery, just aafter that and finally met death short distance from her cottage.ty failing into a vatdaughter house ‘‘After some time we movedm an old and with them she hoped to Lada place.to Lee Stoll, has kindly given us Pueblo and later to Wet Mountain the names on the head stooes in J Valley, three miles south of Ro- the lot as follows Lester A. -ita My father helped dig the first Hedges. 1914: Sop hr on* B Hedges, pro.*pect hole there, which I be- 1900 Hattie s parent* ; Ovaries .ieved. never developed anything Earl Trout. 1914. a much loved :o the company who were inter- son;' and Waiter G Humphrey, jested m it. While liv mg there we 1927 Pearl R Humpbery. 1913. ,*vad another experience with the probably Hattie's seder and her sIndians My father was working husband.* and their dauxfctar.n a livery stable n Denver as Grace Humphrey lSirj These last ||there was no employment for him three had been living. I think, in at home, so mother and we three Denver-hikiren were living there on the Mrs Trout's husband. James A. ranch alone. The nearest neigh- Trout. *ho died in 1923 is os theoor was over a mile away. same lot with a place unmarked One day an Indian came gal beside him. Hattie s grave, with opmg up on his horse and stopped not even a slab to tell where she md asked mother tor biscuit She herself has been placed.;a\ e him all she had. then he look •d at my sister, who was 4 years vid at that time He said. Nice quaw. YouIf a suggestion might be allowed here, it would be that the Historical Society oS the Pike* Peak give me squaw. I Region or the E! Paso Countyive u 50 buckskins for squaw Pioneers Assn place a simple ou can imagine the fear of my marker at Hattie’s grave, sinceshe has done all she could.** Her 'tone would bear the record. Hattie L Hedges Trout Feb 3. 1958other thi-kmg he n igjht taut y 'isier anyway He said to (Hher ou got mao'* Sbe said lev bavk her* ’ Sh** wa» afraid j Set him know she was alo »e.p at Perkms-Shearer, FirstDuring the last IS years, there ut after awhile he got on his has been a 77 per cent decline insc and rode away What a re . the death rate from
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Colorado Springs Gazette
Colorado Springs, Colorado, US
Mon, Jul 04, 1960
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