Weekly Phoenix herald., 1883-08-16

the ncw court house building
 though lhss county was, actually pa ing for il it the rate of $50 T
 menth
 It was only after series of
 changes running shrnEgh many years, that the public school at
 length reached it's present beautiful anu convenient quarters; of which as
 we'll as Of ether schools in the coun- ". J full description will bc given in our ch apter on the public schools of Maricnpa county.
 Even at this early day, Phoenix
 was very orderly comm unity. Many saloons. of course, sprung into exit.
 ance and soon outnumbered the
 stores but an l3ca may he had ol the peaceahlo nature of the popula~ ion from the fact that during the
 first six mont hs ofhe cxistance. Phoe
 nix had no jail. The pc pie .ee1n
 to have s..ttled down al once with
 the determination If making them
 selves homes, and had no time for
 useless quarreIing and brawling. Captain Hancock wto was appoint ell sheriff pending the first county l election in May Fl, and held thy 1 office from the lfreceding February, reports that In the four nontlls dur, i ing whica le held office, he only
 made two arrests, and even they were
 for minor offences.
 l The first bloodshed in CT around ! Phncnix, was the killing of J. t'av z rite by Chenowth, . | arose out of an unhappy misunderstanding be- twcel the parties, who were at that
 time candidnics for Inc office of 1 Sheriff. Chenowth, the survivor,
 gave himself up, stood his trial and
 was acquitted, though he withdrew
 from Inc canciidacv Tom Bar nu.a
 was elected she if in the May elcc>
 nons, and was the fist elected sber~ if of Maricopa county
 Meanwhile tat farmers throughout the val ey were pushing forward the varion- can l., clearing new land
 and putting in Ia ge. crops as each succeeiin year found their means more doqnate, and the citizens of the ;owyl were building new houses 1 and increasing in every way possi> ble the value of their property. Got 1 tonword cuttings were set out st
 intervals along the borders of the streets, each man planting ia front
 of his own lots. Then the town trustees purchased thgce wate rights in the Swiiling Irrigsting Canal Co |, 1 and channels If runn,ny waler were
 led through the town on either side of every street, making in all Il net work of streams thirty miles in ! length. This is one feature whereIn Phenix differs from every other town Tn Arizona. Thus while the
 streets of other Ariznna towns are
 dry and dusty under the rays of 9 l emi~tr picai sun, n this fair city, lear running streams with broad
 shady trees growing on their mar { gins, are to be seen along every side
 walk
 Cottonwood trees were planted,
 not cnIy on account of their rapid
 growth and pleasing shadr, but also
 because they were the only avail- able trees to be lad in the then is claied valley. For communication
 with the outside orld, the inhab- iants depended upon a weekly
 ''buck boar.," which m de trips be> tween Wlckeuburg and Florence on the Gl!a river. Florence was th~n
 q station On the old ovcrla d stage route, about sixty mics southeast rf Phoenix. It was sometimes many
 months befora any news arrived from the civilized world, and thus this little community was thrown almost entirely upon it's own re sources.
 Every one was poor iR those days, and every one was working It was beehive without drones; and to the energy and perseverance of those early settlers must be attributed he wealth and opulence Of PhoeniN to- day.
 Like Izernant.o Cor.ez of old, they ssl burned their ships, and resol> uiely turned their faces toward success, wi h ilt thought of f: lure. The Post Office was kept ut firsi at the pioneer store of De Inis ana Murphy, with ". A. Hancock as Postmaster and Go. E Mowrey as deputy. subsequently, 1t was moved to the store of Smiih & Stearns in tho old Goldman building, ard after
 wards to LorinG's store. lis nelt location was in peralia's store, n the building now occupied by Goldman 6 Co.
 Then Geo. E. Mowrey was ap- pointed Postmaster, and afte~ the
 failure of NJ [. Pcralta he novel the office to the Meyer block, where it s:il remains. James Grant had the mail contract between Ehrenburg to Florence and al- 50 ran weekly "buckboard'