Funeral Held TodayI fc'r H. D. Speneei,

' Pioneer Salidan

The main line of the D. C n. C. j

then was over Marshall Pass, so he l

found i! necessary to come to Salitla,iand there ehange trains for Lead- l

ville. Ile arrived in Saiida, and", r

standing just to the rear of thehavltrg ,g iayioVel :hetween trains;

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!q Btr$pd fowap{q phe busiqeqs,sec- l

tion. IIe saw a rath€r'largg smoke

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l-I Funeral servioes vrere held atl': ::rt0, o'clock this afteirnoon at thei Stien'art lfortfary for H,ollis D.|Jrltrwitru rr,orquary [or .hlOIlIs l].S1,'eneer, 75, who dierl at 10:4bo'cloek Manciay rnorning, .i\ugust 1,at the Red Crrcss hospital wbere hehad been taken that morning erfter ashort illness.

'I'he llev. L. D. Hammock of theBaptist church concluctecl ilre ser-vice. Thore were mtlnSr friencls inzr tterrdance nnd a prcfusion of floraloffsrings.

T,tle pallbearers, were B. Bement,Clifton Brook-qhire, Lcgan Brook-shire, Claricle Bultrard, Clinton pughancl C. R. \Tilson.

He rvas laicl to rest in fi'airvien,I rre tyas lalo rc) rest rn I'auvie\vI Cerneter.y.

I lf". Spencer lvas one of thelpioneer residents of Srr.licla. T.Ie rvasone of the early huilcler-q of the com-munity and served at one tirne asnight rnarshall for the city. He rvasrvell known ancl his cleath bringsheartfelt sorrow to his manyfriends.

Mr. ,lpencer leaves a sister,- Mrs.II,ay fi'uller of Token Cr.eek, \\-isc..five grantlchildren Mrs. Ar.lene Can-trii bf Leadville. Hollis Speneer o,fSalida, lValdo Spencer of L,eaclvilleand Cecil ancl Rotrert Spencer ofSalida. lle also leaves two greAtgrandchildren, I:ouis ancl Shirley,chilclren of Mrs. C:antril.

Mts. Cantril ancl her b,rother,Waldo Speneer, with Mr. and Mrs.Walter Snell of L,eadville have cometo attencl the funeral services.

The follorving interesting accounto,f the life of Mr. Spencer wasfound among his effeets and tellsthe facts of his life as weli as ttreearly building of the community.

Mr. Spencer gave the account to afriend il his later years.

Hollis D. Spencer

stack nearby, denoting some sort ofindnstriril activity, so he lreucled inthat direction, and discovered ilratit was the planing rnill of the Salirlaf-rumber Co. S. M, Jackson, oue ofthe ownors, the othcr was V. C.Davcnport, offerecl young Spencer ajob, nncl hc prourlitly accelrtecl, IIcsolcl the remainder of hils ticket toKansas ()ity. IIis first visit toIreaclville \ryas on 'IhanksgivingDay 1936, when he m.acle the tripwith iris grandson FIolIis Spencer.

After working three weehs for theSalida Lnm,ber Qo., lre entered theemploy of * contractor, Dale Yates,rvh'o'was erecting a bricii storeIruilding for Webb ( this building isnow occutr)iecl by Bauer's s[ore) re*ceiving $3.5CI for a ten hour ciay. Ashort time, later, howeyer, he r'g-turned to the employ of the SalidaLumber Co.

In '87 Poter Mulvaney erected afour story 'brjck hotel on the corperof ?nd and Xx streets (now oceupierlby The tr'irst National Bank builtl-ing.) Shortty af ter completion, this

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building was destroyed by fire. Thisfire, tbe wors! in Salida's history,occured on New Yeapq Day 188& oneof the coltlest dnys pver expeiiengedin the town, and completeiy destroy-ed four busine-c*q blocks, excepting asmall. frame building, which is still

(ConHnued on Bage four)

Though he sprrang from old Ne.ivfi'ngland stoclr, Spencer rvas born inOillmore Oounty, X{innes,ota, Dec-embbr 1?, 1862. IVhen he was tn'oyears olcl the awfril massaere-bythc' $ioux Indiilns-of Ulrn occurecl.Deciding that the country wils ull-safe, the Spencers cleparted for'lVisconsin. Yclung Ho.llis lived, thereuntil he was 14 ancl then x,'ent toNorth Dakota. I{e spent four orfive years there and in Oanacla. }Ieanrl a frientl going to Canatla withthe'intention of joining the 1\IountedPo'lice. Upon learning that it 'wasfirst neeessary to treeome a subjeetof the King, they decided againstjoining and so returnecl to the U. S.

After returning to, Minn., wherehe finished his schooling at the ageof 27, young Spencer then hencleclfor California; taking the D. & R.G. thru Salirla and NIarshaII Pass toGland Junction. After spencling ashort time in Stockton he deeicted togo to Leaclville. 'When he inquireclabout the fare, he learned that itwas $34 to Leaclville, yet only one r

more dollar to Kansas Clty, so he;purchased. a ticket to the latter I

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Cornnrercial National llank Build.-ing.

l!fr. SJrencer was hapirily marrieclto Carrie Snell of Fmporia Kansas,n'ebluary 29, 1888.- Trvo sons wereborn to thei coulrle, one iu 1890, theother in 1895.

In 1800 he was ap,pointetl nieihtmarshall by l\Iayor Jason Gillette I

one that ditl.ruqch torvards blacken:.ing the city's lqputatiou

Briley, an employeg of the rail-road, A rnere boy, and l'acldy Sulli-Yan, boss of an exLra 83n8, (theYw'ere laying the tirircl raii thru Sel-

and the Cit;a Couneil, three of I

whose members were Whitcornb, i

I)earrs, and Anrly ll,ogers. The City I

Clerk'at that time, according to Mr. i

Spencer, was a ceqtain Mr. Conover, j

who albscontletl with the City's funds I

in 1890, aud lvas never af,,prehgneled. I

1n 1890 there were ?? saloons, in I

Salida, each of them paying the city I

yearty, one tltousapd,doltars for the I

privilege of operating*quite an in- I

turrrlo in ifsalf rlllra ntrlw titno fhp I

iyeally, one thousald,dollars for the I

iprivilege of operating*quite an in- !

j&rt"" iI" Guri. tnJ oniv time the i

I *rrroop*; t*otit aouts ie.e-closed was I

j on election dal,si, aud theu -the

rear Ildoors were proppetl open first. Iiuuul's ,!v!jie [Jrqul,li(l r'llrErl rrrDL. I

I One of &Jr. Spencel's recoilections j

ln* rright tutrshal rvas the foul lvnch- |

lins of Briley. This was one of tho I

1ffiJ,;il; pei.rretratecl in saiida; I

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A Fine PictqfeShbwing the Other

Side of Life.

Dead End Kidstn,

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.,FAST CO]WPAI-{Y''rueu gnBageu ru. ilrl arLUru.LLr\Jn lJlcr I f, usouie coai. 'fhis took place in ttre

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icla ) engagetl in an altercation over

nood.' Sullivan, afier bcing warnecl lFoor felloqr's necli ano draggcd hirn

try Briley pot to do so,, struck the lthrottgh the streets to tittl railroacl

tatter again. I3riley pullecl a gun lglossinS rvhere lre x'as- hzrngecl. l[r.ana shrii him=-clearly in self de- |

Spencer u'as rvouuded trying tofense. The'sirot was fatal, Sullivan latert the l5rng5ino'

dying Soon after. | _ Later, a grollpr of tlre lynchers' 15

M; Sl,€ncer. going to, work that lin number, \'ery angry bccause ofevening lrtln16 the shot but thougtrt ]his grgtlc.tittq., th* 9uo* n1v, 1l:nctliing of it at the tirue. I{e n'as to I

structed him "to n-acle the Allian-becomJ veiy much involvecl in the lsa,s," . (an, expression uge(l- thep.

aftqrmath, lto1ever. Britey was Jmeanirrg, to lea've' ton'n ancl never

lndgecl in jail before lre auivecl. lreturn, -or else) III: Spencer,_ qn*Sfrirtly after this the old jail io- lciaunted, took- r^.position behind th1

c'ated Lear the railroatl crossittg at jold "iron nike" at the corner ofidil *J-C- rir".t*, it'was nothing lr,'irst and ri'streets, unlimrberecl twr>

but- old ties spit<ed together ano | 4ns; ancl rlarecl his ettemies, rlcross

corlered with a birt roof, was badly lthe street, to corne and gct irini. The

burned when a negro incarcetatecl llynchers, sensiug the atrrparent dis-

laih'oad .t'ards rvhere young Briley :

rvns o1 cluty. S'llivan, rvho r,vas o Isertecl his post' The ntob' then

huge man ancl cou1l have beat trvo j Slrined au €lltl'ilnce, securecl theirsuJt Uoys as Brilcly 1yi1[ rhis bare Ir'ir:tim. and intmedi4tely sllot hiur'lirncls, strrrcli Ilriley with a slab of | 1'lte5' -thert tietl a rope al'otlrrd the

there, startecl a fire, hoping to lib- las.trous I:Tlt :}t :ytl' a venture'

erate himself thereby. I might acld" lrvisely left the vieinity.in passing that it proved to be the I 11 April, Mr. Speneer resigued iiisnegrors death pyr.e. A builcling was lnosition -anrl'

enter-ed the employ rifseiected as a temporary .jail on lYest ltne Satida 'Iransfer qo. Later he

Second st. (now occupiecl by thelpurcbasecl this concern, selling out.

Icleal Cleaners.) It *as nothing lin tOO+, rvhen he went to WiSconsin

mr,re than a me*e snei of'a build.ing, lo" a visit. IJpon hi.s retlrn to Sat-

leg blains, trolted. to the floo'r, being liOa tre. was eleeted street an6 water

u.-.0 t" rettin the prisoners. lCommissioner, filting this positionused to retaln f,ne prrs(lflurs' l\JuuurDDrv'Lrt

Sullivan's friends formed. a mob'l for two years' Ile flien becanre

and. were determined to lynch the lheavily interested in city reai 9::-fon .o a line of guar<ls was thrown itate, r'r1!ieh. provecl to he unprofit*

on"irt the jail, Mr. Spencer being lable. lle ilren tracled^some of lrjsstationecl at tlre frorrt, wbere first ltown holdings for a 17! acre r3Ln9]r'

l1 *as tried to force . an entrance. lone fourth mile south-6f f6srl' lflter'Wapring theru that the first manlte was employed as County Super'-

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the ditch in front of the ivisor, and .also returncd.-'to tlieli"ii*r- a dead man, he slleceeded ltransfer b'siness for alvhile.

iin Lo,fding the lynchers off fot the i Botlr of Mr. Spencer's .lons -f:rol;i*" b;i"g 'Ihe guarrl at tlre rear, lnow tlead. ancl 1is u'ifc died-

lho*uo*r, beeame frightenerL ancl de- lJune 19, 1920'

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