Arizona silver belt., 1892-08-06
TOM GRAHAM KILLED.
Shot From Ambush by 8 Man Sup.
 rosed to he Ed Tewksbury.

sume to be reasonably accurate, ap peared first in the Phoenix Herald, anC l. which, in substance, are as follows} Tom Graham started from his home
 near the Ruttes on Tuesday morning . for TSmpe with load of grain, and s had proceeded only a short distance I when he was shot from cover and fel P from his wagon to the ground uncon.
 scious.
 Mrs. Dr. Gh'egg, near whose place ? the shooting occurred, was in her yard milking a COW, ind hearing the report
 of the gun, loEked up and saw the
 smoke, saw Graham faG from his seat
 on the wagon, and man, who she
 identified as Tewksbury, mount and put spurs to his horse and disappear
 across tho country in the direction of
 Tonto Basin. It is stated that Mir.
 Frankenburg saw Tewksbury after the
 shooting mounted on large bay horse
 going at a rapid pace.
 John Rhodes, who had been in and
 about Tempe for several days, and
 whose actions, the Herald says had
 caused comment, the belief being that
 he was there to keep watch of the
 movements of Graham, was arrested as an accompIce.
 A posse was organized and started in pursuit of Tewksbury, but did not follow him far as at 4:45 p. m Charlie Mcfarland, who was with the posse, returned to Tempe and said the trail had been lost.
 Graham was shot from the left side of the road; the ball entered back of the left shoulder and came out below | the right ear Ee was conscious at intervals and tho Herald says, talked a little" but whether he made any statement of the shooting is not re- ported Graham died Tuesday after noon
 ! The report Of the killing of Tom | Graham 0ccasioned little surprise in 1 Globe, as some such denouemenb was Hooked for. Itis generally regretted, however, as the prevailing opinion is that it will revive the Pleasant Val. ! ley war
 The Herald states that the feeling at . Tempe is strongly against Tewksbury but thc opinion or the people there is formed without a knowledge of the causes which led up to the shooting The feud between the Grahans and Tewksburys is of long standing.
 The first hostile act was the murder or a Mexican sheep herdor in the em- ploy Of the Tawksburys, in the spring of 1887 The supposed murderem were tracked from the scene of the killing to Graham's home rarcb. The notorious Pleasant Valley war was be- gun in earnest on the 9th of August, 1887, at George Eewton's ranch, when John Payne and r. Blevin. were killed, and Thos, Tucker aneF N. Gillespie wers wotrded ty the Iewksbury par ty, who claimed that the Tucker party went to Newt1n's for the purpose of murder, but were foiled by their vigi- lant opponents. Newton's house was subsequently burned This was fol lowed by the killing of John Tews- bury and Wm Jacobs, near the Tewksbury ranch, and by the violent deaths of twelve others, adherents of ,he opposing factions .gom Graham's death makes he number of fatalities seventeen, not including old man Blevius who mysteriously disappeared from Pleasant Valley during the war il, 1887, and Geo. A. Newton, supposed to have drowned in Salt rver April 18th, 1892, but believed by some to have been waylaid and killed.
 It is claimed by the friends of Tewks- bury that the lives of Newton, Rhodes and himself had been repeatedly threatened, and but very recently he was in receipt of anonymous letters written from Tempe, threatening to kill him. It is also alleged that some time between July 10th and 10th, pres ent year, Graham and another man were in Pleasant Valley and lay in wait for Ed Tewksbury along the trail he was expected to travel, but he was wary and always avoided the beaten trails in the Valley country,
 Tewksbury viii most likely find his way to Pleasant Valley, where he will he interchangeable and secure from arrest | is not probable that any posse gent into tho Valley could ap- preherd him, as he would be informed of their every movement
 Following is list of the casualties in the Pleasant Valley feud Mexican sheep herder, killed on Cherry Creek; Payne and II Blevins, killed at Now ton's ranch; John Tewksbury and Wm. Jacobs, killed at Tewksbury's ranch; Henry Middleton tho relation of the family of that name in Globe and Wm Graham, killed in Pleasant Valley; Andy Cooper, Nose Roberts, and the Blevins boy, killed at Holbrook; John Graham and Chas Blevins, killed by sheriff 's posse at Perkins store, Pleasant Valley; Al. Rose, killed at the Hoodon ranch, Pleasant Valley; Jim stott, Jim Scott and JeT Wilson, lynched in the Mogollon mountains; Tom Graham, shot near Tempe; old man Blevins, missing. In addition to the above Eilenwood, Tucker, Giles pie, Jake Lauffcr and others were wounded in the encounters in the sum- mer of 1887
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