FORTUNE WAITS SOL RAABE

Transcribed by: Rita Timm Colorado Clues
Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colo.
July 4, 1911 Page 12

Last Heard From 18 Years Ago; May Be Auctioneer In Denver.

A share in a large estate awaits Sol Raabe, providing he can be located within a reasonable length of time. This information was conveyed in a letter to Deputy County Clerk Henry C. Smiley yesterday. The letter was written by S. Ginsberg of Los Angeles, Cal., who said that [all] trace of Raabe was lost a number of years ago and that the last heard from him was about eighteen years ago, when he lived in Colorado and followed the vocation of auctioneer.

NEW REFUGE FOR GIRLS

Transcribed by: Rita Timm Colorado Clues
Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colo.
June 4, 1911 Page 3

Presbyterian Society Rents Smedley Home on Clear Creek Avenue.

The former home of Dr. Chester E. Smedley, on Clear Creek Avenue between West Thirty-fifth and West Thirty-sixth Avenues, has been leased by the American Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church for use as the new home of the Good Samaritian Refuge for Girls, which will move from its present quarters at 2217 Market St. next week.

The Smedley residence consists of twelve large rooms with spacious gounds and pleasant surroundings. The activities of the society will be broadened and special efforts will be exerted in rescue work among the fallen women of Denver's tenderloin district. The inmates of the home will be given a better home and at the same time will be removed from the environment of the lower part of the city to the new quarters.

The location of the present quarters has proved one of the chief drawbacks in the rescue work of the mission.

Old Man Seeks Jail To Spend Winter Months

Transcribed by: Rita Timm Colorado Clues
Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colo.
October 21, 1911 Page 2

Once Killed a Trespasser and Became Addicted to Life Behind The Bars.

A score of swallows may not make a spring, but Otto Robinson, aged 64 is a sure harbinger of winter. The furnace fires at the county jail are not allowed to die after Robinson smilingly appears with "his papers," at the jail door and asks to be placed in his cell.

Robinson appeared at the county jail yesterday and asked for admittance. "Here's my papers," he said, and handed to Deputy Bert Lake an order from Judge Morris' court for his confinement for ninety days on a charge of vagrancy. He was not accompanied by an officer.

The county jail has been his only home in winter for the last six years when he came to America. His parents settled on a ranch near St. Louis in 1850. Shortly after the lad's father died and after a respectful widowhood the mother married Robinson, whose name the boy took. When he was 17 the family moved to Kansas, filing on a homstead there and building a small shanty.

Robinson and his step-son later went to work in a nearby coal mine, and while at this occupation the step-parent was killed. The lad and his mother decided to return to the homestead, prove up and make it their home. They found there a squatter who approached and brought a rifle to his shoulder.

"I, too, had a rifle," said Robinson, "and quickly realizing the danger we were in, fired upon him first. He dropped dead. I was arrested and spent several years in jail."

The trial dragged month after month and Robinson became addicted to life in a cell, before released from the charge. While confined his mother died, the cruelest blow he had suffered, and which is believed to account for the morose brooding life he has led.

FRIENDS OF BELGIAN WOMAN SEEK DAUGHTER IN DENVER

Transcribed by: Rita Timm 1895 Denver
Rocky Mountain News
January 27, 1915 Page 2

Friends of Mrs. Anne Josephine Boivin, a Belgian refugee 78 years old, now in London, Eng., made inquiries of the Denver Police Department yesterday concerning a Mrs. Tom Sawyer, supposed to be a married daughter of the Belgian exile and living in Denver.

The letter of inquiry was written by Martin De Backer from No. 8 Little Goodge Street, London, and states that Mrs. Boivin, unable to take care of herself, has been committed to an infirmary.

Enclosed with the letter of inquiry was a photograph of Tom Sawyer, his wife, the daughter of Mrs. Boivin, and two children of the Denver couple. The picture was said to have been taken in 1892, at which time Sawyer's address was either 122 Tremont , or 2823 Lawrence St., Denver. The police have found no one at these addresses who know of the family.

SEEKS FATHER IN COLORADO

Transcribed by: Rita Timm Colorado Clues
Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colo.
July 2, 1911 Section II, page 3

Christopher Finlayson, reported to have long been a resident of Colorado and a mine operator, is sought by his daughter, Mrs. Cassie Bollen of Paleston, Mich., according to a letter received by the postmaster. Finlayson is said to have left home thirty years ago and to have come to Colorado.

LOS ANGELES WEDDING SEQUEL TO DENVER AUTO ACCIDENT

Transcribed by: Rita Timm Colorado Clues
Rocky Mountain News
August 26, 1911 - page 2

Weds Girl He Runs Over
Love Affair, Interrupted Once, Is Brought To Successful Conclusion Through Chance Meeting.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25.--It isn't customary to knock the young woman down whom later you are to marry and it can't be said to soften the blow if you do it with an auto.

But anything can happen in a love story, and that's the story behind the wedding today of Veda Ella Doty, 18 years old, to John Barnes Livezey, a young mining engineer of Phoenix, Ariz., and son of John Livezey of Leadville.

For some time Livezey held the automobile record between Denver and Los Angeles via Salt Lake City. He was spinning through Denver one day when his machine struck Miss Doty, knocked her down and seriously injured her. Livezey picked her up, bundled her into the car and rushed still faster to the nearest hospital.

For the next two weeks he was a daily visitor. Then he was called away to examine a mine and when he returned Miss Doty had been discharged, cured and had left for El Paso, for her mother's health.

FINDS CHARMER AGAIN.

But Livezey knew nothing of that--he only knew that the girl he was beginning to love had gone and that he had no trace of her. Time passed as it always does in properly constructed romances, and when March came round to Los Angeles, it brought with it Miss Doty, who became a telephone operator at the Hayward Hotel.

Enter Livezey one evening to meet a business engagement. Well.......

A man tricked that way by time and distance and all the other trials of fate isn't going to be nipped at the same game twice. This time Livezey made sure. Within a week he had Miss Doty's promise and today she kept it.

BURGLARS GET HAMS, SUGAR, OYSTERS; LUNCH ON THE JOB

Grocery Store is Looted
Thieves Get Enough Provisions to Start Shop of Their Own and Make Escape.

Transcribed & contributed by: Rita Timm Colorado Clues
Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colo.
Monday, October 23, 1911 Page 1

When A. T. Sheldon opened the front door of his grocery and meat market at 1925 Welton Street, yesterday morning, he almost fainted.

The store had the appearance of having been swept with a cyclone, so thoroughly had burglars ransacked the place during the night. Everything was overturned, and as soon as Sheldon recovered himself he made an inventory, and among other things missing were:

Thirty-five hams.
One hundred and forty-three pounds of butter.
Forty pounds of coffee.
Sixty cans of vegetables.
Twenty cans of oysters.

Sheldon also found several opened cans that had contained oysters and sardines, and two loaves of bread, partly consumed. In addition, too, he found a lot of bacon missing, and sugar and miscellaneous groceries that totaled a financial loss of $375.

"The robbery is a mystery to me," said Sheldon. "The burglars must have secured a key and opened the front door and walked in. The front curtains were drawn down Saturday night when I left the store, so that they were safe from observation from Welton Street. However, they must have had a wagon to cart away all they stole."

TWEAKS LAWYERS NOSE

Transcribed by: Rita Timm 1895 Denver
Rocky Mountain News
Aug. 11, 1911 Page 3

A verbal combat that nearly ended in blows was staged in Magistrate Morris' Court yesterday with Deputy District Attorney W. R. Eaton and Attorney George W. Taylor as the principals. During the course of the trial of Mrs. Mattie Rowen, accused of grand larceny, Taylor passed the short and ugly word and Easton tweaked Taylor's nose. Taylor swore out a warrant charging Easton with assault. The court refused to affix his signature to the document.

ORPHANS BY THE SCORE

Transcribed by Rita Timm
The Denver Times
January 1, 1895, page 7

ST. VINCENT'S ASYLUM HAS 167 CHILDREN TO CARE FOR.

Happy Mites With Not a Thought Of Trouble–Sweet-Faced Sisters of Charity Who Make the Asylum A Home For the Waifs Who Know No Father or Mother–Noble Work Accomplished–The Ball Tonight.

Nowhere in the city of Denver is a more happy New Year being spent than in a big, light-colored house out in Highlands on the Rocky Mountain Lake line. In front of the spacious building is a big sign announcing to the public that right there, set in a wide garden, is Mount St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum.

A merry crowd of boys and girls rushed from the dormitories to wish one another a Happy New Year this morning, and at breakfast there was a subdued chatter about all the expected joys of the day. It must be understood that the children of St. Vincent's are very well behaved and that they are never rude or boisterous. They are decorous, well-trained little men and women, who dwell together in harmony. They spend busy contended days that are so full of something to do, time flies at a very rapid rate.

Beneath the hospitable roof of St. Vincent's there were today 167 children, many had never before celebrated a new year, not that they are devoid of the true holiday feeling, but you see they are so young. A score count their years–that is they would count their ages if they knew anything except to drink milk from a bottle–by weeks or months. Between the ages of 3 weeks and 4 years there are 79 little children. Twelve years is the limit in point of age.

These 167 young folks are very happy–a brighter, healthier group could not be found anywhere. They are all orphans. In most cases they have lost both parents, but some of them have come into the world without any distinct claim to a name, much less to a father and mother. But the children do not mind. They are real philosophers who take each day as it comes and don't mind looking backward or forward.

The mother superior is the kindliest gentlest most big-hearted woman in the world. She can smile on the children so that they feel the whole world must be a beautiful place. Thirteen sisters of charity assist her in caring for the home. One takes charge of the nursery, two teach in the school and one has supervision of the kindergarten. Sometimes when the babies decide to express their dissatisfaction on the subject of colic, it requires nearly all the good sisters to look after them.

Among the 167 inmates of the asylum there is not one that would have a home if the doors of St. Vincent's were not open. Such is the serene confidence of childhood that none of the orphans care for another home or harbor any fears about the length of their sojourn with the sisters whom they love with the abandon of youth. Instead of one mother, they have 14 and they would be ungrateful indeed if they borrowed any trouble.

THEY ALL WANT HOMES.

It is the aim of the management to procure home for the children. Less trouble is found in disposing of the babies than of children that are several years old. The boys are sent away as soon as they reach the age of 12, and the girls are put in private homes when they are old enough to be helpful.

St. Vincent's is a large, conveniently arranged building. It is situated where there is a wide sweep of horizon always in view–where there is pure air and plenty of sunshine. It is an ideal place to rear children. The broad doors are closed on no unfortunate little one. The sisters have gathered beneath their protecting care, babies of all nationalities children born into any and every church or into no church at all.

The expenses of running a home for 167 children are very large, although the greatest economy is used and the most self-helpfulness prevails. In order to help support St. Vincent's the Catholic societies of Denver have been for several weeks making elaborate preparations for a ball, which will be held this evening in the spacious dancing room of the handsome Progress Club building. Many tickets have been sold, and a large attendance of prominent persons is expected. Music will be furnished by a line orchestra and every arrangement will be made for the enjoyment of the guests.

WILL GRADUATE 21 GIRLS

Transcribed by: Rita Timm Colorado Clues
Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colo.
June 5, 1911 Page 10

Wolcott School Commencement Will Take Place Tomorrow Morning.

Twenty-one girls will receive their diplomas on Tuesday evening at the Wolcott School. Commencement exercises will be held beginning at 8 o'clock and at 9:30 there will be an informal reception in honor of the event and of the members of the class. The exercises will take place in the auditorium of the school.

Dr. Henry G. Curtis of Clark University, Worcester, Mass., will deliver the commencement address and Chief Justice John Campbell will present the diplomas. Invitations have been sent out to friends of the girls who will graduate. The members of the class of 1911 are:

May Almira Babcock
Gertrude Louise Bent
Caroline Helen Blood
Anna Clough Farrer
Edith Hanington
Mary Olive Hensley
Elinor Hensley
Vileta Susie Jackson
Emily Corinne Johnson
Ruth Kassler
Evelyn Elizabeth Knight
Anne Elizabeth Malone
Dona Emma Victoria Medina
Katherine Maud Morley
Lucille Sands Ravenscroft
Katherine Norton Rice
Norah Leigh Robinson
Clara Gillie Sauer
Alice Margaret Schleter
Cornelia Elizabeth Schuyler
Persis Augusta Tabor

 

GIRL SEEKS FATHER TO SHARE FORTUNE WITH HIM

HE LEFT HER AS INFANT

FOSTER PARENT, TO WHOM HE INTRUSTED BABE, BEQUEATHED WEALTH TO HER WHEN HE DIED.

Transcribed by: Rita Timm Colorado Clues
Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colo.
July 31, 1911 Page (torn pages unable to read)

Special to The News
GREELEY, Colo., July 30--Determined to find the man who she believes is her father but of whom she has ony the faintest recollection, in order to share with him the fortune left her by her adopted father, Miss Madeline Simpson, of Urbana, Ill., spent most of yesterday and Friday looking over public records and talking with pioneers here.

She thought that if he died here, there would be a record of his death, but the name of Abel DuBois does not appear.

Encouraged by this, and to follow a clue which she unearthed in Greeley, she will leave tomorrow for Atlanta, Ga., to prosecute her search.

HAD HARD TIME

According to the story of Miss Simpson, her father came to Greeley from Canada in the late 80's with her mother, who died when she was born. DuBois had a hard time making a living on a homestead in this vicinity. His only intimate friend was J. B. Crook, then a Methodist minister, but later clerk of the district court and of the supreme court in Denver.

His name was the only one which she could recall, and she does not know where he is now, although she has reasons to believe that he is practicing law in the South.

APPEALED TO FRIEND

When times got hard in 1904, DuBois fell ill, and believing he was about to die, had a letter written to a Henry Clay Simpson, a boyhood friend, asking him to look after his daughter.

In the letter he stated that he felt he had not long to live, but his daughter believes he recovered.

Simpson died over a year ago and left her a comfortable fortune, with which she wishes to make her father's declining days happy. The only token of her childhood she possesses is a baby ring with the words, "Madeline D. August 12, 1885."

Pioneer and Wife Hold Golden Wedding Jubilee

Transcribed by: Rita Timm Colorado Clues
Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colo.
July 13, 1911 Page 3

Stroehle Came To Denver With His Bride Across The Plains in 1864.

(Special to The News)

BLACK HAWK [Gilpin COunty], COLO., July 12--George Stroehle and wife today celebrated their golden wedding at their home in Chase Gulch in this city and were greeted by old friends of the city and county, many of whom resided here when the family arrived from the East in 1864.

The couple were married in Rock Island, Ill., in July 1861, and in September of that year, Mr. Stroehle enlisted in the Forty-fifth Illinois regiment, serving a year, and took part in the engagements at Fort Henry, Fort Donaldson, Corinth and Shiloh. He crossed the plains for Colorado in 1864, and when crossing Cherry Creek, Denver, where the city hall now stands, his mules were caught in a bed of quicksand, and but for the prompt assistance of other teamsters his whole outfit would have been engulfed. He arrived in this city the early part of that year and has resided here ever since.

There were ten children, born to the couple, only three of whom are living, Mrs. W. W. Huntington of Denver and two sons, John and Fritz.

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