The Glenwood post., 1905-12-30
STRANDED IN
WEST AFRICA
Mrs. Baldwin, Of GlenwOod, and q
Friend Said to Have Received
Aid from tngliSh--.Demdnd
Return Of Money
AUTHORITIES WRITE To GOVERNOR

WI MoLueD uyluS VI sIdTNd.iou
and disease on the African "Gold
Coast furnish grim situation
which Is calling forth the efforts of
one state and two national govern
ments fer satisfactory adjustment.
Some time ago two women. one
named Baldwin and the other Dollis.
went to Sekondi, West Africa for the
purpose of securing some papers from
miner there. When they reached
Dutchtown they were unable to find
the man they sought. and being with
charity. They were stricken with
fever, and it became imperative to
get them out of Africa British sol
diers in the colony and number of
British residents of Sekondi raised a
fund Of 5000 With this, passage to
Liverpool was purchased for both
women, and they left the colony Sep
tember l2. The purser of the steamer
on which they sailed was given the
balance of the fund left after the Liv
erpool tickets were bought, with in
strnctions to ye, for the women a
steerage passage to the United States
when England was reached
Mrs. Baldwin and Mrs. DOLLS are
supposed to be friends OF the late
Major Litchfeld of Leadville and his
family. One of them is elderly and
the other middle aged, and both are
respectable They lived in Dutch
town part of the time, and por-
tion of the fund raised was used to
pay thei, rent there.
All these facts are brought out in a
correspondence between the British
and American governments and Gov
ernor Mcdonald of Colorado. The
correspondence was taken up by the
British government in an effort to
find the friends of the women in Col
orado, with a view of having the
money raised for them returned to the
contributors
Lord Lansdowne first took the mat
ter up with Ambassador Reid at Lon
don. He said the British officers and
residents of Sekondi were poor and
could ill afford to raise such sum
for persons who had no claim upon
them except that of humanity. He
said the women were in Africa on
private business. but would undoubt
edly have died had something not
been done for them.
Ambassador Reid wrote to Secre-
tary Elihu Root few weeks ago, and
Mr.. Root has in turn laid the matter
before Governor Mcdonald.
The governor received yesterday a
copy of all the correspondence and a
personal letter from Mr.. Root, asking
him to endeavor to find the friends of
the stranded women.
l remember a Major Litchfield Of
Leadville, said the governor, in dis
cussing the matter. ''He came to
Leadville in the early days and was a
prominent mining man. For time
he was manager Of the Silver Cord
mine, one of the we'll known proper
ties there. 1 think Major Litchfield
is dead, and my impression is that his
family moved to Denver. He had a
brother, Charles Iitchfield, who,
think, is resi- lent of Colorado.
have also heard of Mrs. Baldwin
and Mrs DOLLS of Leadville, but l
am not sure, of course, as to whether
they are the women mentioned in the
correspondence. l do not know Of
any better course to follow than to
give this matter to the press and
await developments. As soon as l am
able to locate the Litchfields, or any
other friends of the women, 1 shall
then take up with them the PROPOSE
ton of reimbursing the English gov
eminent for what its subjects in Afri
ca have done in their behalf. -