Show HERO OF OP WAR WAP AU TIMI The Glendale California News recently recently re TC- re- re published tune the following article article ar ar- about Robert Waugh father of oC Ernest I and Clyde Waugh of ot this city lint for the prompt action of or a group of even men one of whom was as Maj l Robert Hobert Waugh Vaugh of oC Colorado Colorado Colorado Colo Colo- rado Springs Colo who is at present present present pres pres- ent a resident at Cedar street I in this city West Vest Virginia would have gone gono the wa way of ot the rest of the theOld theOld theOld Old Dominion state and anti been heen lost to tollie the llie Union At the time timo when lirginia Virginia Vir lir ginia had hind seceded from the Union Maj l Waugh was a young man mun of 23 years It Il was In April 1861 that he landed lauded at Wheeling and proceeded from boat up town when he was met metat metat metat at the wharf by six men who in informed informed informed in- in formed him of the decisive act by which Virginia had thrown h herself II into the opposition and bidden gO goodbye goodbye good good- d. d bye be to the United States Slates The six men were Applegate Crother Tarr Nichols ls Henry and anel Caldwell They held a u consultation which took place in the office of one of or the banks and there resolved to 10 take such steps as might save the western part of or the state from sion The They organized themselves in into into In in- to a kind of committee and started out on their work Young Waugh Vaugh was the leading spirit in this work and by dint of organization and explanation ex ex- sentiment was created against casting in the lot of the west western rn portion of the state with the secession There was a great deal of bad feeling The F. F F. F Vs V.'s first families of Virginia had been at work and had for a year car previous to 1861 been drilling bodies of oC young oun men and fitting them thorn for war Under le legal al procedure a provisional pro government was organized for the state and loyal sentiment grew from hour to hour Eighteen months afterward afterward af at af- af West Virginia was made a state and has remained an integral part art of or the United States ever er since Yet had It not been for the meet meet- ing fug on the wharf harf of Wheeling this might n 11 ver vcr have havo been the case Maj Waugh fought all through the Civil war and was discharged at atthe atthe atthe the conclusion of the war with the grade of Sergeant He lie was wounded in the tho leg with a MInie ball which was afterward after extracted He Is an active member of the G. G A. A RI RI nI R. R I have been resident in iu Colorado Springs Colo said Maj laJ Waugh for quite a number of years I am now 78 years ears of age but in excellent health In Colorado Springs I own owna a considerable amount of property but have haYe every desire to come to California to live I think It possible possible ble hie that I may arrange it before long Mrs Waugh I and my daughter Mies lIss Clara Waugh left Colorado Springs May Mar 4 and came to this city where we have rented this property temporarily My ty other daughter Is Mrs J. J F. F Lilly She Is the twin sister sister sister sis sis- sis sis- ter of Miss liss Clara When I went to Colorado Springs It was not anything like the place It now is but out It had one thing that was valuable it valuable It had hind prohibition in its Us charter Just about two years yeara ago ago the people voted licenses to the hotels and drug stores but the recent recent re re- re- re cent prohibition election threw them all out and the time whole state went dr dry Colorado Springs is al always wars moving moving ing along It keeps growing There is a fine tourist trade trado which Increases e every err rr year ear Colorado Sprin Springs s Is only 2 5 miles from the time famous anions Cripple Creek When Shen Cripple Creek Creck came into existence Denver Demer had just been badly hadly hit lift by mining failures and not a dollar would it put into the business at Cripple Creek so it camo came cameto to pass that the mines of Cripple Creek are arc chiefly chicH owned in Colorado Springs In Iu Colorado Springs have lived men n like W. W S. S Stratton who began a as a penniless miner In Cripple Creek and ten years later was worth 12 He founded a home for the indigent poor with a large part of his wealth There are millionaires like W. W Lennox Mr l Tutt and Mr Penrose partners known as the Copper Copper Cop Cop- per kings with property at BIngham Utah It was Colorado Springs money that developed de such Buch mines as the I. I Portland the time Stratton Independence the Gold Coin Cohn El m Paso and others j i It mn may be ho worth while mentioning that on the time of ot October Mrs Waugh and I will celebrate our golden gold gold- en wedding o 0 o |