Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1889-10-02
Som. Interesting Loo al Facts.

John H. Marion says: "The late c. w.
 Beach owned the now defunct Arizons
 Miner some six or seven years.
 His death leaves the writer of this
 c. H. Marion) the enly surviving prin- ter of all who were in Arizona and New
 Mexico in 1864"
 Mr. Marien's memory plays him false
 else he parposely misstates facts well
 known to himself. The undersigned
 set types on, and had charge of, the
 Rio Abajo Press, published in what is
 now known as "Old Albuquerque du-
 ring moot of the year of 1863, and until | he left that place for the then new Ter l ritory of Arizona, late in the same year. I If my memory serves me right, l set type in Arizona some time prior to MT.
 Marion; in fact, was engaged sticking type and wrestling with an occasional communication from Marion, at the
 time he was mining on Big Bug. The
 Miner material was purchased at Lea V snworth City, Kansas, by k. c. Mo. Cormick, brought to Arizona, and the
 first issue (being . monthly concern)
 came out March 18th, 1864, the writer hereof assisting Mir. Hand to set up the type and "work oti" that edi ion of the Miner. The first issue of the Arizona ] Citizen came out October l5, 1870. The
 undersigned began the sticking of type
 on that paper January l2, 1871, and continued to do 60 until employed by ex-0overnor A. P. K. Stafford and other capitalists of San Francisco, to investi-
 gate the so-called diamond-fields of Northern Arizona, Mir. R. c. Brown, of the Florence Enterprise, mentioned in the article referred to, taking my place on the Citizen at that time. Mir. Marion further knows, that during the winter of '73 and "A, mad charge of the Arizona $ ntinel, then owned and published by Judge W. J. Berry, at Yuma City, Arizona. Again, late in the fall of "A and spring of 75, l set type per thousand ems on the Citizen at Tucson. All the foregoing facts are given from memory alone and are in the main true. Thus it will be seen by this statement that ante-dste Mir. Ma rion in the matter of type sticking, and, |, also, my friend R. c. Brown, by several years.
 Twas we'll acquainted with Charley Beach at the time he resided in New Mexico during the year 1863. In GA Beach was the owner of a few bull teams, and during that year had been engaged hauling hay on the Ft. Whip pie contract. One night of this same year, shortly after finishing the hay contract, Beach, Poker" Johnson, Jim Fine, Eli Pnnteney, Henry Hanson and myself csmped in little stone cabin belonging to Fine and Punteney, located in . little valley just below Prescott. Adjoining this cabin WAS corral of poles, the outlet being at one side of the cabin, the poles used for "bars" projecting into the cabin, and at night were wrapped with log-chain. Messrs. Fine and Punteney owned & pup, and sometime in the night this pup began barking, which awoke Han son, who got up, raised the blanket which was then used for door, looked out and listened, but heard nothing. l asked Hanson what it was. He re- piled, ca coyote, l suppose" and again laid down. The next morning re- vsaled the fact, that every hoof-54 head in all-oi Beach's work cattle were gone; the Apaches had killed the dog, unwound the log chain, and had driven all those cattle out of the corral, and this within six or eight feet of where all of us ware sleeping. After | the loss of his cattle, Beach returned to New exico to rustic another outfit. In the spring of '65, United States Paymaster, Major Staples, after paying of at Whipple, started thence for Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Beach, s colored man named Burk, and myself took advantage of the situation and accompanied the Major and his escort
 to that Territory. As sn incident Of this t'ip, will state that at the Colo rado river we met Mr. Henry Hun'ng,
 now of this county, from whom we first learned the news of the assassination of President Lincoln.
 To close these disjointed and some what rambling remarks, I will state
 that have not the honor to belong to
 the Pioneer Society of Arizona, the
 most of whom, however, being pioneers CD of 1876, or even much later perhsps.
 Respectfully, yours,
 | ALBERT FRANKLIN BANTA.