Arizona republican., 1899-05-17

n arrive in town at S:45 D. m. on a
 Wabash train from the west. went to
 Iha Port Arthur station, armed and
 determined t1 kill him. As Griffin
 stepped from the platform Montgom-
 ery pushed his way through the crowd, suddenly sl.i3ved the gun into his face
 and exclaiming: Now, d-n you. 1 am
 going to kill you," pu1 his finger on | the trigger to shc0I. Quicker than thought Griffin, without even losing his ever present superior smile. raised 1 his right hand. g-asped the weapon
 and jerked it away, and, seiZing Mont
 s-mery with his left hand, threw him violently to the platform, and, put ting his foCt On his neck, held him
 there immovable. Here he st1od, smiling down at his assailant for a
 moment. after which he permitted him to rise. The next day the Advocate
 made the usual unpleasant reference
 to Montgomery with some added vigor.
 A few years after Griffin began the publication Of his paper some persons
 made 8 raid cn his office and carried away a large amount of his type. but
 the Advocate came out Cl Lime lhe
 next week, Griffin having ishsd the type cut of the old well where it had
 beGn thrown. Later another raid of the same character was made. and sub sequertly all the forms of his paper were pied a number of times, his ma chinery was broken up, and finally one night his entire press was made away with. It was supposed then that his publication would stay suppressed, at least for a week. But Griffin was re- scG- lsful. He secured the heavy roE CT of an old sorghum mill, imp-ovised himself a press. and the Advocate ap- peared as usual the next week and contained an unusually large number CT veaomous rcas,s f-r it's proprietor's enemies. Gre night in 1892. at about 10 o'clock. somebody fired a lead Of bUcksh15 into Grifin's open bedroom windcw, but he et3-sared to have q charmed life. IL peDpe-ed against the wal oyer lis body. but none s>wuck him.
 Griffin started "Grif's Maryville Daily Review four years ago. It was operated on the same plan as the Ad- v3cate. He had three daughters who did all the mechanical work in the of fee, and under whCsa name the PaEe1' was run. IL WIS Vs.-y Seldcm that he employed a princer from outside of his family; and this fact. in connection Wlt2 the further one tl2r most people took his paper entirely for the purpose cf avoiding bsing roasted, accounts very large.y fer his success-which sp- reared inexplicabIe 70 many pa-'ole- ir keeping his enterprise alive
 Fer many years tIhe people Of Mary ville have besn in tLe habit of saying to eath other that 1t would be a good thing tor the town if some body would kill Griffin: and ote latter admitted -n his deathbad hat he lad been ex-. pe ect:-lg the event to occur as it did for ton years. Ard yet. so far as is. known ke never carried 3 revolver. When Jeaaa met him and began to sheet at him., ne diI as he had done before rushed uLcn him and attempted to sLaiJch the pistol from him. His ab- salute fe3TJsssleSs Of physical danger, which appeared to amount almost tO mental alteration, did rc,@ is2Ee him even in death; his last act being to at- tempt to pull he nan who was beat ing him to death down into the mud, where he himself had f2Len.-Mary- vile Correspondence of St. Uouis