PRELIMINARY BIBLIOGRAPHY OF COLORADO HISTORY III 



sufifrage, like the silver question, cannot receive more than a suggestive 

 bibliography in this place. 



In an international way Colorado provoked remonstrance from 

 Baron Fava, the Italian minister, and from Secretary of State Olney, 

 when certain Itahan subjects were lynched in Walsenberg in March 

 1895. The lynching arose out of a murder of an American saloon- 

 keeper named Hixon, and became the occasion of an extensive cor- 

 respondence between the United States, Italy, and Governor Mclntire 

 of Colorado, parts of which are printed in H. Doc. 195; 54C.1; Serial 

 3420, pp. 20. Six years later a mob destroyed a fish hatchery belong- 

 ing to one WilUam Radcliffe, a British subject, at Delta, and again 

 the intervention of the federal government was provoked. In this 

 case President Roosevelt, in a message of March 14, 1904, recom- 

 mended an indemnity of $25,000 to the victim, and transmitted the 

 documents in the case to Congress, Sen. Doc. 271; 58C.2; Serial 



4592; PP- 40. 



Of slight importance in the history of Colorado, but of some conse- 

 quence in its sociological aspect, is the attempt of the Salvation Army 

 to found and conduct a community at Fort Amity, Colorado. Because 

 of an alleged inabiUty of this body to pay promptly for the arid lands 

 purchased from the United States and irrigated by the settlers, it is 

 the occasion of a number of pubhc documents, especially H. Rep. 364; 

 56C.1; Serial 4022; February, 1900, Sen. Rep. 1135; 56C.1; Serial 

 3894; May, 1900, and Sen. Rep. 2950; 57C.2; Serial 4412; Febru- 

 ary, 1903. All of these documents are very brief, but they give some 

 notion of the scope and activity of this type of poor-relief. The jour- 

 naHstic reports of the same settlement, as in "Making Successful 

 Farmers out of City Failures," in World^s Work, Vol. VI, pp. 3929- 

 3930, and in the Outlook, Vol. LXXIV, pp. 640-641, show much suc- 

 cess at Amity, and require some reconcihation with the statements of 

 the public documents. 



Miscellaneous items of Coloradoana in the middle nineties are a 

 favorable report on a pipe-Hne bill for Colorado and Wyoming, H. 

 Rep. 1563; 54C.1; Serial 3462; a report favoring the grant to Col- 

 orado of the abandoned Fort Lyons military reservation for a sol- 



