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Published Locally Since 1980 Vol. 37, No. 11

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Lulu City log cabins years ago after the town was abandoned. Photo Colorado Historical Society.

A Ghost Town By P.J. Hunt

Lulu City is an abandoned gold mining camp in the mountains west of Fort Collins. It was located at the headwaters of the Colorado River just a few miles south of where the present Long Draw Road ends above Poudre Canyon. Founded in 1879, Lulu City was deserted by 1884 because its ores played out quickly, and it was in a remote area too far from railroads and smelters. The town had 500 people in 1881, numerous log cabins, some stores, saloons, and the usual bordellos. When weather permitted, a stagecoach ran from Fort Collins to Lulu City twice a week. It was an arduous trip up the Poudre Canyon on a rough, rocky road. The man who founded Lulu City, Benjamin Burnett, had a daughter named Lulu, and the town was probably named for her.

You cannot drive to Lulu City, but it is a fairly easy hike south from LaPoudre Pass where Long Draw Road ends. Or you can take the Colorado River Trail above Grand Lake and hike up the west side of the Continental Divide to Lulu City. If you hike from the Grand Lake side, you will pass the location of a pioneer dude ranch known as Squeaky Bob Wheeler’s Place (named for his squeaky voice). Wheeler was a colorful character who claimed his ancestors came to America on the Mayflower.

He was an excellent cook, and early tourists flocked to his place to enjoy the scenery for many summers after he opened the ranch in 1908. Squeaky Bob’s place was renamed Phantom Valley Ranch when Lester Scott bought it in 1926. Scott said he changed the name because of a “phantom ex-

perience” he had one evening while riding a horse down the valley from Lulu City.

In the stillness of this majestic, high mountain place, he had a strange feeling that he was in the presence of ancient spirits who had been there long before him— prehistoric Indians who first saw the area. Scott felt that the appeal of the place was so strong that the ancients’ spirits had chosen to remain there for eternity, foregoing an afterlife. He said that, for the first time, he understood the power that mountains have to captivate the human spirit. Little is left of Lulu City now. But if Scott was right, phantoms still live there. ________________ COVER PICTURE: A young wolf taken by Fort Collins photographer Ray Rafiti. See his greeting cards and award-winning pictures at www.rayrafiti.com. ■

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LIFESTYLE & HEALTH

LIVING YOUNGER & LONGER You’ve most likely seen the studies: a regular fitness regimen can help you to live longer. NEW KNOWLEDGE—it also can actually make you live YOUNGER. A study from Brigham Young University discovered that exercise allows human cells to age far more slowly than they otherwise would. Specifically, adults with high-intensity exercise levels, such as 30-40 minutes of jogging five days per week, have cells that appear nine years younger—as indicated by longer telomeres, or protein caps, on their chromosomes. The study looked at the data of 5,823 adults who took part in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Along with a host of other things, the telomere lengths of the participants were also recorded. The team found that participants with the shortest telomeres—and thus the greatest signs of cellular aging—lived sedentary lifestyles. Those with intense activity had the longest telomeres and the greatest aging advantage.

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Estate Planning

Medicare Change

By Ron Rutz, Attorney

By Susan Jaffe

Q: What estate planning advice do you have for people in their 40s or 50s? A: First, do something. As yond 21, or beneficiaries who many as two-thirds of all people need financial help or protection, under the age of 50 either have do a testamentary trust Will for nothing in place or possess inadless than $300. equate documents. For a couple with a net worth A Will containing a trust to of more than $1 million, Tax protect children or provide supWills, each costing $600 or less, port for parents can be set up for should be considered. less than $300. Don’t be dazzled Durable Powers of Attorney by all the hype that is out there also need be done—the kind that from stock brokers, etc. are all inclusive and provide au There are three choices for thorization so that any decision a Will. For a couple with a net can be made whether medical, fiestate worth less than $1 million nancial, business, etc. The format I and no minor children, all that is prefer for a set of four usually runs necessary is a standard Will for around $95 for each set of four. less than $200 for each Will. Do not plan your estate based on the expectation of future in For a couple with a net worth heritances. Put in place what is of less than $1 million but with needed now and then adjust docminor children, or with children uments as circumstances change. who need financial guidance be________________

Many mature Americans who have Obamacare will miss a September 30 deadline to enroll in Medicare Part B, and they need more time to make the change, according to Kaiser Health News.

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Medicare Part B covers doctor services. A lifetime of late enrollment penalties typically await people who don’t sign up for Medicare Part B when they first become eligible. That includes people who mistakenly thought that because they had insurance through Obamacare, they didn’t need to enroll in Medicare. Medicare officials are offering to waive those penalties under a temporary rule change that began earlier this year, but the deal ended September 30. Consumer groups have asked Medicare chief Seema Verma to extend the waiver deadline through at least December 31.

The waiver offer applies not only to people over 65 who have kept their Obamacare plans but also to younger people who qualify for Medicare through a disability and chose to use Obamacare. The waiver also allows Medicare beneficiaries who earlier realized their mistake in keeping Obamacare to ask for an elimination of the penalty. In all cases, people had to be eligible for Medicare after April 1, 2013. Federal Medicare officials would not provide details about the number of waivers granted or pending applications. Nor would they comment on the waiver extension. For information on how to apply for the time-limited equitable relief waiver, go to the Medicare Rights Center’s web page or call the center’s helpline at 1-800333-4114.■

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Greeley Settler (Editor’s Note: Greeley historian Hazel E. Johnson wrote this story years ago.)

Elbridge Gerry may have been Weld County’s first white settler, arriving in the mid-1800s. He had at least two Indian wives. Early records showed that he traded five ponies for the first wife. When she died, he went back to the Indians and traded more ponies for another wife, maybe two. Gerry became known as the Paul Revere of Weld County when he rode to Denver to warn officials of an impending Indian attack. He had learned of it from one of his wives. Cavalry troops were able to prepare and ward off the attack. Years ago, H.G. Rogerson of Greeley and Fort Collins told me about Elbridge Gerry. “He must have been a wonderful character, smart and brave and ambitious,” said Rogerson. “He came into wild Indian country alone and made friends with the tribes. “His last squaw was buried with him on the old Gerry ranch east of Greeley where he had built a house of adobe blocks. “The house later served as a fort and was fairly dilapidated when we kids used to go there and dig for arrowheads. There is no trace of the old fort now.

Elbridge Gerry was called the "Paul Revere of Weld County." Photo Hazel E. Johnson Collection. “Gerry started a horse ranch that included several thousand acres of land. An act of Congress gave a grant of the land he claimed and also paid him damages of over $13,000 for stock Indians had stolen from him. That happened in 1864. “With the money, Gerry built a hotel and saloon in Evans just south of Greeley. He lived there with his Indian wife until he died in 1875,” said Rogerson. Gerry was smart to build a saloon in Evans then. Greeley settlers allowed no liquor in their town, and anyone wanting a drink had to go to Gerry’s saloon. ■

Prostate Cancer Issue A commonly used treatment for prostate cancer might put men at risk for heart disease, said a report in the British Journal of Cancer. The treatment is A.D.T. (androgen deprivation therapy). It is a drug that deprives prostate cancer cells of male sex hormones. A study by Kaiser Permanente showed that men who underwent A.D.T. had an 81% increased risk for heart failure. Researcher Re-

ina Haque said that raises some questions about whether A.D.T. “is a treatment you should use.” Although A.D.T. has been a popular and widely used treatment, studies at the University of California and elsewhere have raised questions about possible side effects that might include cardiovascular problems. Doctors should monitor patients carefully for that, said researchers. ■

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Credit Agencies By Bill Lambdin United States Senator Elizabeth Warren and other legislators introduced the Freedom from Equifax Exploitation Act to give consumers more control over their credit and personal information. The recent Equifax hack, which compromised the personal information of as many as 143 million Americans, highlighted just how little control consumers have over the collection, use, and sale of their own credit data. Warren said, “Credit reporting agencies like Equifax make billions of dollars collecting and selling personal data about consumers without their consent, and then make consumers pay if they want to stop the sharing of their own data. “This bill gives consumers more control over their personal data and prohibits companies like Equifax from charging them for freezing and unfreezing access to

their credit files. Passing this bill is a first step toward reforming the broken credit reporting industry.” The Act creates a federal requirement for credit reporting agencies to freeze (temporarily or permanently) access to credit files at a consumer’s request and at no cost. The Act would also prevent credit reporting agencies from profiting off of consumers’ information during a freeze, enhance fraud alert protections, and provide the opportunity for consumers to receive an additional free credit report. Also the Act would force credit reporting agencies to refund any fees they charged for credit freezes in the wake of the Equifax data breach. The legislation has received endorsements from the National Consumer Law Center, National Association of Consumer Advocates, the Consumer Federation of America, and other agencies. ■

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Curiosities

Here are some curios things you might not know. • It is impossible to lick your elbow.

• The percentage of Africa that is wilderness is 28%. The percentage of North America that is wilderness is 38% • The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven is $6,400 • Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th—John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn’t added until 5 years later. • In Shakespeare’s time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the expression “goodnight, sleep tight.” • It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that, for a month after a wedding, the bride’s father would supply his sonin-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month. Which we know today as the honeymoon. • In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. In old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them “Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down.” It’s where we get the phrase “mind your P’s and Q’s.” • At least 75% of the people who read this will try to lick their elbow ■

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SETTLERS

on the Plains By Naomi Johnson

In the early 1890s, there was a large influx of Russian-Jewish immigrants to the United States due to the severe treatment of them by the Russian government. These immigrants, who resided in Philadelphia, were thought to be hard-working and sturdy, just the type to succeed in the harsh winters of northeastern Colorado. Logan County had vast plains that were advertised as an excellent place to farm, and T.C. Henry’s investment company laid out a plan that would include assistance to the Russian immigrants. The plan was intended to help the immigrants come to Atwood, Colorado near Sterling and farm

the area, even though few of them had any experience in farming. They were to be given land, seeds, some implements and one cow. They were to provide the labor. It was thought that if this project was a success, it would provide opportunities for others to come west and populate the barren land. About 100 families arrived in 1894 to settle the area around Atwood. Most of the developer’s promises were kept, but the lumber for houses, seed for crops, and implements arrived late, and the colony almost starved the first winter. Most of the crops failed, and irrigation was not adequate for the

Children near Atwood years ago. Photo courtesy of Naomi Johnson. families to survive. By July 4, 1896 most of the families either moved back East or to Denver. There is not much documentation about this colony, but there are several first-hand accounts that described their dire situation. These accounts can be found at

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Workman's Comp Disappearing

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A study at the Kettering Cancer Center in New York found that patients should not necessarily have surgery if their tumor did not spread and grew less than 3 millimeters “We’ve been treating things that I don’t think needed to be

treated,” said researcher Dr. Michael Tuttle. He recommends watching and waiting in many thyroid tumor cases. About 56,000 new cases of thyroid cancer are diagnosed every year. About 2,000 people die from it; mostly women. Researchers still recommend surgery for large, aggressive tumors and obviously those that have spread outside the thyroid gland. ■

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every ceiling. The carpenter would panel every room in luxurious wood. That’s how health care works.” Most Americans don’t realize that medical specialist groups determine what services are covered by insurance and the prices that can be charged for them, said Koufman. “It is a colossal network of un-accountable profit centers, the pricing of which has been controlled by medical specialists since the mid-20th century,” she said. We have come to believe that we must see a specialist for every medical problem, but we should be seeing a primary care doctor first. That could save patients and the nation billions of dollars. It would also improve the quality of care, said Koufman. She is director of the Voice Institute of New York and a professor at New York Medical College ■.

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(Early Colorado historian Caroline Bancroft wrote this story years ago.)

Denver’s red-light district was notorious from the early 1870s until 1915 when it was finally shut down. Probably the most remembered madams were Jennie Rogers and Mattie Silks, each of whom was labeled “Queen of the Row” at different times. Mattie, who was blonde, petite and pretty, came to Colorado with a bevy of girls in the 1870s. She had successfully operated houses since 1866 in Missouri and some of the wild cattle towns of Kansas. Her great love was a worthless foot racer named Cortez Thompson. Despite his infidel-

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until the end of her life. In 1909, death overtook her and she was buried in Fairmont Cemetery beside her husband, John A. Wood.

Tall brunette Jennie Rogers came to Denver from St. Louis in 1879 to look the situation over.

The funeral was widely attended by many residents, her devoted maid, and many of Denver’s leading business figures. The service was conducted by one of the finest of Episcopalian ministers, who lent the grace and style Jennie wanted for her exit.

She had operated a house in St. Louis, but the stories of gold and silver in Colorado made her restless. She was a flashingly beautiful wild one, and more than one passerby took notice. Jennie liked what she saw of Denver. She bought a brick house, paying $4,600 in cash. With her colorful personality and dashing vitality, she set out to conquer Denver, and it did not take her long. Drama, love and business deals pursued “Queen Jennie”

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Mattie Silks could not leave the cemetery fast enough. She wanted to put in a bid for Jennie’s House of Mirrors and acquire again the queenship of the redlight district. But the Denver that Mattie knew was changing, and five years later the Row was closed.

Jennie Rogers. Colorado Historical Society. She tried to run a legitimate hotel but failed. The value of her real estate declined, leaving her to eke out a meager existence. Mattie died in 1929 at the age of 81. Remaining from the great fortune she had made was only about a $3,000 estate. ■

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Laughter: Best Medicine

A man and his wife went to a marriage counselor, who listened to them explain their problems and then asked the man: “Do you even know your wife’s favorite flower?” The husband looked at his wife and said, “I think it’s Pillsbury, isn’t it?” v A husband was proud of having six children and referred to his wife as “mother of six.”

She didn’t like being called that and told him so, but he continued. One night at a party, he was ready to go home and shouted across the room to her, “Shall we go home, mother of six?” She replied, “Whenever you’re ready, father of four.” v

A husband and wife had been married 50 years, and he fought with her constantly.

As he grew older, he became worse, doing strange things to upset her. One day, in front of the neighbors, he yelled at her, “When I die, I’m going to dig my way out of the grave and come back to haunt you!” He finally died, and she held a closed-casket service. Then she began partying and having the time of her life. A neighbor said, “Aren’t you concerned about his threat to dig his way out of the grave and come back?” “Let him dig,” she said. “I buried him face down. v A preacher in Washington, D.C., went to his church one morning and saw a dead jackass

lying in the parking lot.

The preacher was well connected politically; so he called a senator he knew. “Would you have someone come over and remove a dead jackass that’s in the church parking lot?” The senator thought a moment and said, “Well, reverend, I always thought it was your responsibility to take care of the last rites.” The preacher said, “Yes, I suppose that’s true. It’s also my responsibility to notify the next of kin.” v Adam was hanging around the garden of Eden feeling lonely; so he told God he didn’t have anyone to talk to. God said, “I am going to make you a companion called Woman.

She will always speak kindly to you, cook for you, bear your children, never complain, never nag and never disagree with you.” Adam said, “What will that cost?” “An arm and a leg.” Adam asked, “What can I get for just a rib?”n

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