Buena Vista Democrat:
September 18, 1890: A Call For Aid. Buena Vista, Sept. 13, 1890. At a
regular meeting held on the 13th day of September, 1890, by L.A.
1761.
Resolved, that in
aid of those men who are now striving to uphold the right of laboring men to
organize for their own protction we express our sympathy and further will give
them such aid as we are able and further ask of all who believe in the justice
of the cause to contribute their mite towards assisting them and a committee of
three consisting of M.L. Swayze, T.J. Logan, N.T. Dodge, is hereby appointed to
solicit aid for the New York Central strikers.
J.P. Newcomb, R.S. of
L.A. 7361.
Buena Vista Democrat:
October 2, 1890: Judge Dodge is spoken of by the independents for county
commissioner.
Buena Vista Democrat:
January 15, 1891: District Court. Court convened Tuesday morning with
Judge John Campbell on the bench. It is not likely that the business of this
term of court will consume as much time as usual. Following are the members of
the grand jury: P.G. Conover, fireman; S.P. Taylor, Geo. Hummer, Smith Steele,
Wm. Wilker, P. Savard, P.M. Weston, Geo. Williams, Sam Kipper, H.J. Burghardt,
James Reed, N.T. Dodge.
Buena Vista Herald:
January 16, 1891: Court Items. Grand Jury – P.G. Conover, S.P. Taylor,
Geo. Hummer, Smith Steele, Wm. Wilker, P. Savard, P.M. Weston, Geo. Williams,
Sam Kipper, H.J. Burghardt, James Reed, N.T. Dodge.
N.T. Dodge vs. J.H. Lewis and Georgia C. Lewis; plaintiff to
have till 16th to amend his complaint.
Buena Vista Herald:
March 21, 1891: On St. Patrick’s morning the home of Judge N.T. Dodge was made
bright by the arrival of a twelve pound boy. The judge wore an extra yard of
green ribbon in consequence, and set ‘em up in true hibernian style. The mother
and child are doing splendidly.
Buena Vista Democrat:
July 15, 1891: District Court. N.T. Dodge vs. J.H. Lewis and Georgia
Lewis; trial to-morrow. [The case was decided in favor of N.T. Dodge. The defendants appealed. The defendants appealed the decision. The appellate court affirmed the trial court decision and can be read here: http://books.google.com/books?id=yDgEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA60&lpg=PA60&dq=Lewis+v.+Dodge%2BColorado&source=bl&ots=TXoSi_swTw&sig=1hKBtGesP29onxLDHwu7ETxeBBM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tW8KU4qRPJLOyAGqhYGgDQ&ved=0CEEQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Lewis%20v.%20Dodge%2BColorado&f=false]
Buena Vista Democrat:
September 28, 1892: The delegates from precinct 5 to the People’s party county
convention to be held at Nathrop on the 30th are as follows: W.C.
Gregg, W.B. Logan, Chas. Benadum, W.S. Spencer, M.L. Swayze and F. Weaver.
Precinct 4 – J.S. Halsey, N.T. Dodge, E.B. Bray, M. MCBride, E. Wilber, J.P.
Newcomb.
Rocky Mountain News:
October 21, 1892: Chaffee County is Alive to the Issues of the Day.
Gentlemen – We,
the undersigned miners and merchants of Buena Vista, County of Chaffee,
Colorado, do hereby respectfully ask you to lend us your assistance in aid in
the election of the silver electors casting their votes in the coming election.
The antagonism demonstrated by both Republican and Democratic parties gives us
no hope whatever for any legislation from either of them. The planks in both
platforms are mere subterfuges, and an endorsement of either of them by their
election in the State of Colorado would, in our judgment, retard silver
legislation for an indefinite period. The prosperity of the miners of this
section and all sections of Colorado means prosperity to the manufacturing
interests of Denver, both to merchants, workingmen and men engaged in
manufacturing pursuits.
With the
free and unlimited coinage of silver our stores will be well stocked with goods
manufactured in your city, and fifty percent more mines will be in operation,
thereby increasing the volume of your business in the same propostion. Denver
must depend upon the mining industries of the state for its success, without
which it would lose one-half of its valuation at the present date. We therefore
call upon you at this time to assist us in the election of men that will give
some assistance to silver. We will most favorably remember all who now assist
in this fight for our property and prosperity.
[This
petition was signed by several dozen residents of Buena Vista, Colorado,
including N.T. Dodge, ranchman.]
Buena Vista Herald:
September 9, 1893: Bray, Newcomb, Dodge, Halsey and other wheel horses in the
Populist party were sat upon at the caucus Saturday night by the recent
converts. But of course they will be called upon to demonstrate their voting
strength election day.
Buena Vista Herald:
November 4, 1893: This is our last opportunity to appeal to the people of
Chaffee County to vote for principle and not men on election day. The Free
Coinage reporesents a great principle, while the Populist ticket represents
nothing but a scramble for office by a lot of men who have only been Populists
for thirty days. Some of the candidates even assisted in defeating a Populist
ticket named here last spring by such old wheel horses as Halsey, Dodge, Bray,
Newcomb and others.
Colorado Democrat:
January 17, 1894: O.W. Johnson, C.C. Simpson and N.T. Dodge seem to have struck
quite a lead of good looking mineral at Riverside.
Colorado Democrat:
March 14, 1894: Mining Gossip. Steady work still progresses in the gold
mining districts around Buena Vista. Fifteen locations have been surveyed and
recorded during the past week, while several good sales have been made. There
is, however, but little disposition to sell, by those who can afford to hold
on, not out of a desire to obtain high prices, but from a strong feeling of
confidence in the outcome of development work. In a very short time the two
mills will be completed and ready for work. It will be then practically demonstrated
what can be done. While there is an immense amount of high grade ore, the body
of low grade ore is virtually inexhaustable.
N.T. Dodge
has some splendid or ein the Rocky Fall in which he is jointly interested with
Arthur Vences. Spencer & Son are taking ore out of their claim, which is an
extension of the Midland, running $20 to $40 right along. Messrs. Ferris and
Shockley are keeping their men at work with most satisfactory results, also the
Nellie Bly lessees, also A.H. Wade and others. Time will prove to doubters the
immense value of this camp and many will fild when too late, it will cost a
fortune to get in on the ground floor.
Buena Vista Herald:
September 1, 1894: The baptismal rites of the Adventist church were
administered last Sunday afternoon to the following converts: Mr. & Mrs.
N.T. Dodge, Mr. & Mrs. Bray, and son, Mrs. V.S. White, Misses Alma and
Lydia Moore, and Robert Moore.
Denver Post:
February 11, 1895: Cruelty at Buena Vista. – Governor McIntire Appoints
a Committee to Investigate.
Governor
McIntire has appointed a special committee, consisting of J.S. Appel, J. Warner
Mills and J.H. Gabriel to investigate the Buena Vista reformatory management.
It is charged that one of the officials has been guilty of extreme cruelty to
inmates of the institution. Distinct acts of cruelty are named, among them
being that he caused prisoners to be handcuffed and suspended in the air by
their wrists until the victims fainted. The brutal punishments are said to have
been inflicted with the prison physician was not present. The law requires that
all punishments shall be inflicted in the presence of the prison physician.
The charges
upon which the investigation is ordered were placed in the hands of the
governor by a man named Garahty, a former guard of the reformatory. Witnesses
called to substantiate the charges are Spencer, Van White and Gregg, former
guards; Charles Robbie, a stome mason; Nathaniel Dodge, a brickmaker, and
several inmates of the institution.
The
investigation commenced today at Buena Vista and is expected to be concluded
tomorrow evening. A report will be made to the governor immediatelt on the
return of the investigators to the city.
Colorado Democrat:
February 13, 1895: Reformatory “Lexowers.” Last Monday a special
investigating committee appointed by Governer McIntire, consisting of J.S.
Appel, J. Warner Mills and J.H. Gabriel, all members of the state board of
pardons, began the investigation of certain charges of cruelty, use of abusive
language, and domineering conduct proferred against Warden Hoyt, also to investigate
charges that there had been a rake-off in supplies furnished to the
reformatory. The charges were presented to the governer by W.R. Geraghty, a
former guard, now working in Cripple Creek while his family lives in Buena
Vista. Witnesses called to sustain the charges are said to be Charles Robble,
N.T. Dodge, W.D. Gregg, Van White and W.S. Spencer and several inmates of the
institution. All of those named are populists, some of whom were recently
discharged by Warden Hoyt for seeking to have him removed. It is not believed
that Geraghty is responsible for the charges being brought, but that he is
acting for populist leaders of this county. The board remained in session all
day Monday and Tuesday, examining quite a large number of witnesses. Little, however,
could be learned as to the result of the proceedings. The board will make their
report direct to the governer, until which time probably no report will be made
public.
Denver Post: March
29, 1895: The Charges Proved. Horrible Practices Indulged in at the
Buena Vista Reformatory.
At a joint
session of the house and senate last night the report of Governor McIntire’s
committee appointed to investigate the Buena Vista reformatory was read. In
brief it said:
“Certain
specific charges were filed with the board, signed by one M.R. Gerraghty, and
also certified by N.T. Dodge, V.S. White and W.C. Gregg. These charges in
substance are to the effect that Deputy Warden Hoyt was guilty of cruel and
inhuman treatment of the prisoners; of using profane, foul and obscene language
in their presence and in the presence of the officers, and of suffering vile
and unnatural practices among the convicts.
“As to the
vile and unnatural practices, the committee finds undoubted evidence of their
taking place. This is confirmed by Mr. Hoyt and several of the guards in
addition to the witness Robble and others.
“It
appears, however, that Mr. Hoyt has given instructions to the guards and the
physician and endeavored by various means to suppress these practices.
Nevertheless, he, as well as this committee, are satisfied that the still
continue.
“your
committee finds that the punishment administered in this institution has been
extremely cruel. Besides depriving them of such privileges as writing, etc.,
the only regulation punishment inflicted is what is known as ‘hanging up.’ We
find that this punishment has been inflicted in certain instances without the
presence of the physician.
“In bunk
house No. 3 we found one idiot, one epilectic and one consumptive. That these
convicts are so afflicted we have the statement of the prison physician,
confirmed by our own observation. The filthy, uninhabitable and unsanitary
condition of this bunk house we cannot too strongly condemn.”
The
commissioners are found not to have made proper rules for the government of the
reformatory, that Mr. Hoyt used profane language before the prisoners, that he
took his family supplies from the reformatory stores without entering any
account of the same, that proper care was not exercised in keeping the accounts
of the supplies bought or properly weighing them, that no account was kept of
the prices of supplies, but that there is no indication of overcharges. The
method of purchasing is simply designated as “loose.” They find also that
prisoners were paroled without proper record of their behavior to show that
they were entitled to such consideration. The report was referred to a special
legispative committee.
Colorado Democrat:
May 8, 1895: Mr and Mrs. Lisle, Mrs. N.T. Dodge and Ralph Hodgdon were baptized
Sunday by the elder of the Adventist church. The ceremony took place in
Cottonwiid Creek back of Chas. Holt’s residence.
Chaffee County
Republican: December 22, 1898: District Court Docket. List of Petit
Jurors: Henry Schull, Samuel Pitman, Joseph Malkmus, J.P. Harper, H.J. Foulk,
P.H. Symons, E.T. Conquest, W.G. Sisson, Ben Disman, Lou Schultz, Chris Kirsch,
W. Cantonwide, David Albright, Joseph Brown, N.T. Dodge, Ed O’Brien, Orley
Mason, B.F. Morley, D.B. Phillips, Sam Moch, H.S. Williams, Wm. Pruitt, T.E.
Grover, Samel Sandusky.
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