Miscellaneous newspaper articles about Saguache Co.
August 29, 1881
The Globe, Atchison, Kansas
The adobe houses in Colorado and New Mexico are faring badly during the present season of floods. Pueblo papers state that of the town of Saguache, only a few houses are left, the rain having penetrated the dirt walls, and melted them down.
May 12, 1886
Yates County Chronicle, Penn Yan New York.
Henry M. Mingay, who is now at Saguache, Colorado, has been commissioned a Captain and Aid-de-Camp on the staff of Brig. Gen. F.M. Reardon, commanding the first Brigade of State troops.
September 23, 1886
The Olean Democrat, Olean New York
L.Y. Miller, of Hinsdale, is now in Saguache county, Colorado, and his brother, L.O. Miller, will soon go back to resume operations on his mine.
October 19, 1888
The Perry Chief, Perry Iowa
Mrs. Charles Phillips and children of Saguache, Colorado, have been spending a few days with Mrs. R.D. McLucas.
March 29, 1889
The Perry Chief, Perry Iowa
Mrs. R. D. McLucas, Redfield's postmistress, was in town last Friday. She tendered her resignation to the department some time ago and has made arrangements to remove to Saguache, Colo., about May 1st, the health of her children demanding a change of climate.
May 22, 1890
The Ohio Democrat, New Philadelphia Ohio
Mrs. H.L. Savidge left Friday to visit her sister in Saguache, Colorado.
June 29, 1900
The Evening Democrat, Warren Pennsylvania
At War With Squatters
Denver, June 29- Fighting has begun between settlers and the new owners of Baca
Grant, No. 2, in Saguache county, Colo. A small miners' settlement on Dead Man's
creek was blown up on Monday night. Three cabins were blown to pieces, the logs
being reduced to splinters and rocks used in the foundations hurled hundreds of
feet. Windows were broken and small buildings rocked in the neighboring town of
Duncan, where the miners spent the night under arms. No traces of the
perpetrators have been found. Judging from the latest reports, rioting may begin
at any time, and unless the federal courts interfere bloodshed will follow.
September 2, 1907
Daily Nevada Journal, Reno Nevada
RICH SHEEPMAN KILLS HERDER
To Prevent Employee From Testifying Against Him, Wealthy Master Shoots Him Dead.
"Then Go Ahead And Kill Me"
Confession Finally Explains Mystery That Surrounded a Crime of Last June
Saguache, Colo., Sept. 1-The mysterious death on July 15 of Cirio Aguilar, a
sheepherder, at a sheep camp on Carnero creek, 25 miles southwest of
Saguache, has been cleared by a confession just made here by Narcesso Martinez,
Aguilar's former employer and a rich ranchman of this section of the state.
Martinez and Pedro Tafolie, another sheep herder in his
employ, have both been arrested, charged with murder and bound over to the
district court. Their preliminary hearing was held yesterday afternoon. The
confession was made last week, it is said, but was kept secret until Tafolle
could be taken into custody.
According to the story told by Martinez, he killed Aguilar to
prevent the herder from testifying against him in a sheep-stealing case in which
he was the defendant. After the charge of sheep stealing had been preferred
against him Martinez says that he heard Aguilar wanted to resign. He went to the
sheep camp and found Aguilar in his tent putting on his shoes. Tafolle was
outside at the time, building a fire, according to the confession.
"I asked Aguilar why he wanted to resign, but he would not
give any reason," says Martinez. "I then asked him if it was because he was
going to testify against me. He would not answer, and I told him that if he was
going to testify against me I would kill him. He replied 'Then go ahead
and kill me.' I then grabbed a gun that was in the tent and shot him."
The dead man was shot three times, once through the stomach,
and then twice through the head. When the body was found in the tent it was
almost decapitated. According to Martinez, after the shooting he placed the gun
under Aguilar's body and he and Tafolle framed a story to tell about finding the
body.
Shortly after the murder was discovered suspicion was
directed to Martinez and Tafolle. The coroner's jury fixed no responsibility for
the crime, but recommended an investigation. Later, however, it became necessary
to dismiss them because of lack of direct evidence, and since that time
Aguilar's death has been shrouded in mystery.
April 24, 1927
Decatur Review, Decatur Illinois
LETTER DELIVERED AFTER 24 YEARS
Alamosa, Colo. April 23-A letter mailed 24 years ago was delivered yesterday to
Mrs. Eugene Williams of Saguache, Colorado. And it had to go only thirty miles
to reach the recipient, who in 1893 was teaching at Cochetopa.
But the delay was no fault of the postal service. When the
Saguache post office was built, the carpenters, in cutting a slot through the
heavy door, failed to take into consideration the double panel and the space
between was just wide enough to catch letters that were not give a "push" when
placed in the deposit slot.
December 7, 1930
Coshocton Tribune, Coshocton Ohio
Pioneer's Gold, Lost For Years, Found By Heirs.
Saguache, Colo., Dec. 6-Buried Treasures! Cans full of gold
pieces! Hundreds of dollars, thousands of dollars, perhaps millions. This was
not fiction here.
Saguache was thrown into a fever of excitement over the
discovery of a bona-fide treasure.
Mrs. Drucille O'Neil, widow of the late Johnny O'Neill,
wealthy pioneer sportsman, made the discovery while cleaning out an oil house.
Johnny O'Neil, it is said, was well supplied with the world's
goods. He was reported to have a substantial amount of gold when he died Feb.
25, 1927. He made no mention of his gold on his deathbed.
Although he hadn't mentioned it, no one doubted the existence
of a vast fortune in gold somewhere about the O'Neil place. For months relatives
dug and hunted all over the O'Neil place. After weary months of failure they
gave up.
"It's there somewhere," persisted the old-timers, but the
younger generation of San Luis valley smiled.
"Just a myth," they said. "Another old settler's story, like
the prospector's lost mine."
Gradually old-timers ceased to talk about Johnny O'Neil's
gold.
And then one day Mrs. O'Neil was cleaning out an oil house,
her broom struck a large can. It wouldn't move. Mrs. O'Neil stooped and pried up
the lid.
There lay the O'Neil fortune, in gold, hundreds of
twenty-dollar gold pieces. Search revealed two more cans similarly filled.
Other heirs of the O'Neil fortune besides the widow include
two daughters living in Saguache and Mrs. Blanche Lanson of Portland, Ore.,
another daughter.
The amount of gold discovered was not revealed, but many
estimated it high in the thousands of dollars.
February 8, 1934
Oakland Tribune, Oakland Tribune
3-Legged Coyote Lamb-Killer Slain
Saguache, Colo., Feb. 8-Charles Caler, veteran Government hunter, has settled a
score.
Three years ago Caler set a trap for Limpy who wasn't limpy
then but just an unnamed coyote with a nice taste for lamb.
He walked into the trap, but not to stay. He swapped a gnawed
off front paw for the sobriquet of Limpy, and skulked away to become the worst
lamb killer on the mountain plateaus.
Caler took up the trail. But Limpy on three legs was wilier
and harder to catch than most coyotes on four. He kept slaughtering lambs, 200
of them.
Patiently Caler traced him at last to his den in a rocky
cliff wall. No steel trap this time, just a scrap of poisoned meat.
Hunger overcame suspicion and Limpy gulped it down. It was
the finish of the Saguache sheepmen's public enemy.
April 5, 1934
Edwardsville Intelligencer, Edwardsville Illinois
Miss Aline Ellis of Saguache, Colorado was the guest of Miss Virginia Noggle of this city on Tuesday.
September 10, 1934
Sheboygan Press, Sheboygan Wisconsin
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Deaner of Saguache, Colorado, arrived here Sunday to spend about a month as guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. Jahn, Evans avenue, Mrs. Deaner was formerly Miss Leona Jahn of this city.
July 29, 1936
Reno Evening Gazette, Reno Nevada
TOWN IS DARK FOR 8 HOURS
Saguache, Colo., July 29-An eagle and not a rainstorm was to
blame for depriving Saguache, southern Colorado town, of electric lights for
eight hours.
Linemen found the body of the eagle, its wingtips spread six
feet, two inches, two miles west of here today. Its talons were clutched in high
tension power wires.
December 9, 1941
Sheboygan Press, Sheboygan Wisconsin
Mrs. Russel K. Britton left today for Saguache, Colo., where she will visit at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R.W. Shallabarger, until the first of the New Year. Mr. Britton will join his wife on the 20th of December and return to the city with her.
October 28, 1956
Nevada State Journal, Reno Nevada
RICHARD MOONEY DIES
Fallon, Oct. 27-Richard Ward Mooney, 71, died Oct. 22 at the local hospital
following a long illness.
Born at Sanguache, Colo., he had lived in Fallon for about 30
years and was employed as a school janitor. He had no known relatives.
©Shauna Williams