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...gambling halls and Sallie Purple's fancy parlors, the bonanza kings strutted and roistered. "Haw" Tabor brought in the rich Little Pittsburgh, then the $10 million Matchless. Silver was everywhere a man might throw his pick, and the picks were thrown everywhere. The picks were sold by Charles Boettcher who, in the end, found a slower but surer bonanza...
Methodical Man. A quiet, hardheaded German, Charles Boettcher came to the U.S. in 1869, when he was 17. For eleven years, he sold hardware-pickaxes and hammers, nails and hatchets-to get-rich-quick Leadville. Slowly and painstakingly, he built up his savings. Then he bought a cattle ranch and moved to Denver. He got to thinking it was foolish to send his cattle to Chicago to be butchered, established Denver's first packing plant (the Western Packing Co.). He got to looking at the vast, empty Colorado prairies. After a visit to Germany, he came back with...
Died. Anna Lou Boettcher, 37; a suicide by shooting; in the Denver home from which her wealthy husband Charles Boettcher II was kidnapped before her eyes...
Most crippled children never go to school, get their lessons from visiting teachers at home or hospital. The man who made Denver's school possible was famed, 88-year-old Capitalist Charles Boettcher (beet sugar, cement), whose grandson, Charles II, was kidnapped seven years ago, ransomed for $60,000. The Boettcher family put up $193,000, enabled Denver's Board of Education to get a PWA grant and build a $384,000 school. Designed in pale green concrete and glass by famed Architect Burnham Hoyt, it was easily the handsomest and best-equipped school for crippled children...
Last week, as old Charles Boettcher took his daily stroll to work down 17th Street, Denverites stopped him in the street, warmly shook his hand...