Short News March 1882  

            “In 1870 a scouting party of soldiers were over in the South Park, when, just at sundown on a summer evening, they came across the skeletons of six men.  They lay inirregular position, with pieces of saddles, bits and bridles scattered around, with here and there a horse’s bone and some cooking utensils.  The soldiers put the skeletons down as the result ooof some Indian massacre, but in looking around found in a cleft in the rocks a board, on which was rudely cut: ‘Snowed in and dying, Jan 16-58  I am the last.  Peace  Jerry Douthitt.’ 

This is perhaps the only epitaph ever written in Colorado by the hand of the man to whom it belonged.  The names of the others were never known.” 

“The fate of Mary A. McDonald, a Georgetown girl aged seventeen, may be a warning to such members of her sex as indulge in the pernicious practice of tight lacing.  Friday evening of last week, Miss McDonald attended a ball given by the Silver Plume fire company, and while dancing, was seized with a congestion of the brain, that caused her death in about fourty eight hours.  According to the autopsy of the physicians at the inquest, the congestion of the brain was superinduced  by tight lacing.  How  did the erroneous idea ever obtain belief that a woman’s form looks better when unnaturally laced?  It certainly never originated with the opposite sex.”