sisting of his team, wagon and other things, was stolen from him by a man who pretended to be his friend, and who left for parts unknown. Being left penniless in a strange county, Mr. Chilcott turned his attention to farming and went to work by the day for a ranchman. He worked during the years 1861 and 1862, and in 1863 located on a farm of his own on the Arkansas, twelve miles east of Pueblo, which still belongs to his estate. During that year he returned to Nebraska and brought his family to this State. He was elected a member of the Territorial legislature, and sat during the first and second sessions of that body. President Lincoln, in 1863, appointed him register of the United States Land Office for the district of Colorado. When Mr. Chilcott first entered upon the duties of the office it was located at Golden, but was subsequently removed to Denver. He held that position nearly four years until he was elected in 1866 a member of Congress under the first State organization. Congress refused to receive Colorado as a State at that time, and Mr. Chilcott was refused a seat. He was elected a delegate to Congress in 1867 for the territory of Colorado, and served one. term. It was he who introduced a bill repealing the act which provided for the changing of letter postage on all printed matter west of the Kansas line and east of the eastern boundary of California, and through his efforts. the bill was passed. He succeeded,

also, in having the appropriations for government surveys in Colorado largely increased, and in having passed an important bill regarding the St. Vrain and Vigil land grant. Mr. Chilcott was a member of the territorial council and president of that body during the session of 187273. He was also a member in 1874. In 1878 he was elected a member of the House of Representatives from Pueblo county, and during the session of 1878-79, was prominently before the legislature as a candidate for United States Senator, to which position Hon. N. P. Hill was elected. In 1882, when Senator Teller resigned his position to accept the appointment of Secretary of the Interior under President Arthur, Governor Pitkin appointed Mr. Chilcott United States Senator to fill the unexpired term of Senator Teller. Mr. Chilcott discharged the duties of that high position to the satisfaction of all concerned until the election of Senator Tabor as his successor brought his term of office to a close. In 1884 he was elected to represent Pueblo county in the Senate of the general assembly and served in that capacity four years, acting as president pro tem. of that body. During that period he was instrumental in passing many important measures, but continued ill-health seriously impeded his labors.

Last fall, when the campaign for State officials was about to be inaugurated, numerous friends of Mr.

Chilcott attempted to prevail upon him to be a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor. He received a host of letters upon the subject from leading Republicans in all parts of the State, and it was agreed by the managers of the party that he could have the nomination if he so desired. The state of his health was such, however, that he feared the effect of the excitement and fatigue of a political campaign, and he was compelled to decline.

His

Few men in Colorado were so universally known and respected as he was. His genial disposition and sympathetic nature, combined with a benevolence that was remarkable, endeared him to everybody. His house was at all times open to his friends and acquaintances, and his hospitality was of that open-handed, hearty style which made every visitor feel at home under his roof. personal popularity was such that during more than forty years of political life, he never failed to be elected by the people to any position to which he aspired. Politically speaking he was invincible. As a citizen he was always foremost in advocating all movements for the public good. Through his efforts the State Insane Asylum was located at Pueblo; he built the first good hotel building, now known as the "Fifth Avenue," ever erected in Pueblo; as well as the Chilcott Block at the corner of Santa Fe avenue and Sixth street, which at first contained a large public hall on

the upper floor; was a part owner of the Chilcott-Wells Block on the lower part of Santa Fe avenue, and also of numerous other buildings in various parts of the city.

Of the obsequies of Senator Chilcott, the Rocky Mountain News says: As the afternoon sun slipped down behind the Western mountains its last rays rested for a moment upon a freshly made grave, glinted the surrounding shafts of marble with its golden glow, tinted the tops. of trees and then shot prisms of light toward the stars faintly peeping out upon the twilight world. It was the benediction of nature to the solemn ceremonies enacted over the dead body of a great man. Beneath that oval of newly disturbed earth rested all that was mortal of Hon. George M. Chilcott.

The funeral was most impressive. At 10 A. M., (March, 1891) the casket containing his voiceless form was placed in state before the pulpit of the First Methodist Church. On all sides was evidence of death in funeral, but artistic draping of columns and woodwork. Soon floral emblems began arriving, pillows of lillies and Marechal Niel roses, anchors of chrysanthemums, baskets of tube roses, crosses and crowns, in fact flowers in every design. The chapeau, belt and sword of his knighthood were upon the casket. The odor of the flowers permeated the entire edifice.

Business was practically suspended

in the city. There was no need of the mayor's proclamation.

At an early hour the church began filling, and long before the hour for the services to begin, every seat, save those reserved was taken.

IN THE CHURCH.

At 2 o'clock four closed carriages drove up to the entrance and the following relatives, clothed in mourning garb, took their places before the bier: H. Clay Chilcott, Miss Jennie Chilcott, M. Scott Chilcott and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Al Price, George Chilcott Price, Dennis Collins, Frank Parks, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Cox, Mr. and Mrs. Roy White. Also Mrs. James Rice and Mr. James MacDonald, intimate friends. Later came Senators Fred Betts, Casimero Barela, F. J. Gardner, Representatives Brown, Flickinger and Bell. At 2:20 the quartet choir Mr. and Mrs. Crafts, and Mrs. Schooley and Mr. Weston, began services by singing the hymn beginning "Come, ye Disconsolate." Rev. Dr. Vincent and Rev. Radcliffe read portions of the Scripture, the choir rendered "Abide with Me,” and Dr. E.Trumbull Lee made a most impressive prayer.

The funeral oration, for it was that rather than a sermon, was delived by Dr. Vincent. He said in sub

stance:

THE FUNERAL ORATION.

"The glory of Grant was manifested by two incidents. When he was in Jerusalem and they asked him if they could give him a public

reception, he said: 'No, not in the sight of the Mount of Olives.' When his daughter was married and had gone away, he was found in her chamber bowed down and weeping bitterly. In the two incidents his humility and love were shown, the secret of his greatness. We are face to face with a like spirit. We are here in the presence of representatives of a large body of the brotherhood of which he was a brother; in the presence of State officials, of citizens who revere the name of George M. Chilcott; in the presence of children who know of his love, whose hearts are bowed with grief because he loved them. We are in the presence of a man whom we termed 'honorable,' yet if he could speak would say: 'Call me by no titles in the presence of the Mount of Olives.'

"He was a modest man, a humble citizen. When called upon to do good he responded for the sake of doing good. (Here the speaker read the resolutions passed by the Colorado legislature.)

CHILCOTT'S IDEAL.

"I read this in this connection to show that he was a modest citizen. His career is familiar to you all. He was a loving husband and father, a blessed heritage. From your hours of childhood he was thus. You mourn a worthy father to-day. His ideal was not honor, but efficiency. We admire him because the ideal was still beyond him. His cry was that he had not reached it. The question often

recurring to ministers, what shall we say of a man who has never made a public confession of faith, does not bother me. I revere the measure in which he has held up an ideal and struggled for it. Hence to-day we revere George M. Chilcott. Not what a man has attained is his best record, but what he has struggled for, his ideal is what makes his character. "Citizen he was, and true. Friend he was, and warm, overflowing with kindness. As a brother in the secret council, and struggle for the best, the highest, he was well known. He was faithful to his vows, because his vows were near the heart. Not many years ago I received a telegram that my father was dead and I was glad. had suffered long, slowly and patiently and death was a kind release. I went to my chamber and wept like a child. All the memories of my childhood passed before me with those tears and should he have been spared until a hundred years and I been an old man, I should have wept. We cannot form new fellowship, but the death of father or mother does not make us boys or girls together. In all in which he was highest, noblest, truest, best, you, his children, know him.

HIS RELIGIOUS LIFE.

He

"Mr. Chilcott was not a member of a church, but he was essentially a religious man. I understood he spent much time in prayer. We know little about who prays. The longing of a heart which looks up to the Infinite is

prayer. His intention was to have made a public profession of faith had he returned to Pueblo, and it was his keenest regret not to be able to do so. His favorite hymn was that beginning 'Physician of my Sin-sick Soul, to Thee I Bring my Case.' Another of his favorites was 'Nearer, my God, to Thee.' What a voice is that to open up a soul!"

The doctor concluded with a short, earnest prayer, the choir sung the latter hymn, and the pall bearers came forward. They were James Rice, W. S. Dorland, J. C. Hart, P. R. Thombs, S. C. Gallup, J. W. O. Snyder, C. J. Dunbaugh and Judge Holley. Ten times the number inside the church thronged the street and sidewalk. For blocks carriages crowded the streets.

The moment the pall bearers lifted the casket, the band on the outside began a dirge. Slowly the body was borne down the aisle and out of the door between an open column of Master Masons to the hearse. The immense crowd watched the proceedings silently, and with uncovered heads. Then the procession formed as follows:

Chief of Police O'Conner and plattoon of police; Schrieber's band; Knights Templar of Pueblo, Colorado Springs, and a sprinkling from other cities; Master Masons; hearse drawn by four white horses; carriages containing relatives; Odd Fellows.

Then about 300 carriages. The platoon of police reached the ceme

tery almost before the last carriage left the church door. The church

bells tolled all over the city. At the grave the ceremony was conducted by the Blue lodge of the Masonic fraternity, W. A. Adams, most worshipful master, in charge. It was most impressive. To-night not an

entertainment of any kind is being held in Pueblo, and the streets are almost deserted. The men in hotel corriders talk in a subdued tone. The memory of George M. Chilcott will never die.

HENRY DUDLEY TEETOR.

WHEN Æneas and Dido sailed westward for the purpose of laying the foundations of Rome and Carthage, they probably never dreamed that their successors and descendants would struggle for hundreds of years, through the mutations of war and peace, for the supremacy of the world. When Abraham, by the Divine command, left the plains of Chaldea, and journeyed westward to the land of Canaan, he could scarcely believe that he should become the father of a great nation, whose numbers should be like the dust of the earth, and which should occupy a prominent place in the world's his

*The above is a portion of an address of great historic value, delivered by Col. W. F. Prosser, of North Yakima, before the Washington Pioneer Association, at its annual session at Seattle, June 3, 1890. The remaining portion will appear in a later number.

tor for thousands of years. When the Pilgrim Fathers sailed across the Atlantic, in order that they might establish the principles of civil and religious liberty on the rocky shores of New England, they little thought that their ideas, their principles and their posterity should fill the foremost places in the estimation of all mankind. In like manner, when the pioneers of Washington left their homes and the frontiers of civilization far behind them for the purpose of making homes for themselves on the Pacific coast and extending the area of government of and for and by the people, they had no conception, either of the toils, hardships and dangers which they should encounter, or the grandeur of the Empire State, whose foundations they were to lay in the midst of struggles for existence which taxed the limits of