The Gazette & Colorado Springs
1872-1899
1872
Gen. William Jackson Palmer founds Out West.

J.E. Liller of England first editor.

Colorado Springs incorporated.

Police department and public school system established.

1873
Out West becomes the Weekly Gazette.
1874
Colorado College founded.

Deaf and Blind School founded.

First TB sanitarium opens.

1875
Widely disliked because of his anti-alcohol crusade, Liller dies of a laudanum overdose.
1876
Colorado becomes a state.

Bell invents the telephone.

Battle of Little Bighorn.

1877
Benjamin W. Steele named editor.

El Paso Club organized.

1878
The Weekly Gazette becomes the Daily Gazette.
1879
Edison invents the electric light.
1881
Colorado Springs Opera House built.
1883
First Antlers Hotel built.
1884
Helen Hunt Jackson's 'Ramona' published.
1885
Flash flood hits Colorado Springs.
1887
St. Francis Hospital established.

Colorado Springs and Manitou Street Railway opens.

1890
Gold discovered in Cripple Creek.

Glockner Tuberculosis Sanitarium (later named Penrose Hospital) founded.

Pikes Peak Cog Railway opens.

Sioux Chief Sitting Bull killed.

Battle of Wounded Knee ends Sioux uprising.

U.S. Census Bureau declares the American frontier closed.

1891
Gazette builds $75,000 four-story office at 13-15 E. Pikes Peak Ave.

Gold fever hits city.

Five mining exchanges in operation day and night.

Cheyenne Mountain Club founded.

1893
Gazette daily circulation hits 2,000.

Katherine Lee Bates writes 'America the Beautiful.'

Silver panic devastates state mining industry.

1894
Colorado Springs women vote for first time.
1896
Gazette begins to publish seven days a week.

Palmer sells Gazette to Cornelius Vanderbilt Barton, Henry Russell Wray and William McKay Barbour for $50,000 in gold.

1898
First Antlers Hotel burns down.

Spanish-American War.

1899
Winfield Scott Stratton sells Independence mine for $11 million.

Inventor Nikola Tesla blacks out city during electrical experiment.