New-York tribune., 1902-07-02

hciary of that nature The last legislature
fit to enumerate the reasons for the bestowal Of
its bounty The act recites:
Charles d. Poston, January, 1854. prospected the
Alo mines, In what is now Pima County, Ariz' and
mining company to invest capital and to do devel-
after it's transfer to the United States under the
Gadsden purchase. and was, from 1890 70 1901,
that then embraced all Arizona, and IN 1853 gave
Arizona her name. and obtained President Lin
then Delegate to Congress from New-Mexico. he
thereof creat1g the errtorS Of 3rizona and IN
1864 was elected the first Delegate to Congress from
United States Land Ofice of Arizona. and. from
the above and many other we'll known facts.
Charles d. Poston among all other pioneers. was
pre-eminently the moving spirit. and in fact, may
truly be said TO be the Father of Arizona
The last check from the Territorial Auditor
found in the pocket OF the stricken pioneer so 1t
cannot be said that he died in want Yet the
scene one Of destitution. OF furniture there
was almost none. and the wardrobe Of man who
had been OF the exqusites of Washington in
his day would have i'll satisfied tramp Yet
there were evidences of a time of mental vgor and
ability. There heaps OF papers. mainly COM
prising matter descriptive of Arizonas early days
and evidently prepared for the Arizona Historical
Society. of which he had been founder and the
first president There were few copies of his
published writings, inclusive of volume of poems.
several small volumes he had written upon his
travels in Europe and in the Orient and many ref
erences to magazine and newspaper articles. one
of them of considerable length, on The Building
of State in Apache Land having been published
In The Overland Monthly
He had written vouminOusly. we'll upon phil
osophical and religious subjects He had his own
modified form of theosophy and had conceived the
idea that Il was the same form OF religious worship
practsed by the prehistoric Tolecan lnhaoltantS OF
Arizona Near Florence, AriZ rises conical hill
far from the ruins Of Casa Grande and Itself COW
cred with potsherds and with the ruins left by
fGsq XIII a bee1 psoP Known O1 ABOUND
and up the butte. at considerable expense. Pcs{on
lad built a road. Upon the summit IL was his
sbouId be worshipped With soiemnity on the upris-
and representative of celestial omnipotepce.
twenty-five he was admitted to the bar and
practised for several years in his native State
several children of an early union A daugh-
army. Pope won distinction as CHIEF surgeon Of
the Fifth Army Corps in the advance on Santiago.
Rd a6 died d 6uf at n 2s IN eaers ss p
on the Pacific while returning home with the body
After several years in Washington. Poston went
to Caorpa m as efo ana abs an goIri5
through the Gadsden Purchase. He vas back
mining company he had organized in New-York
At the outbreak of the Civil War the Union forces
to leave mining property on which A,00o,od0 had
been spent and joined the federal army as an ala
wears later he was sent back TO the SouthweSt.
with a commission from PRESIDENT 1lnColn as Su-
perintendent Of Indian Affairs. AT the same time
he served as Recorder of the region now embraced
within Arizona After securing the orga aniZa tion
of the new Territory and serving as its first Dele
gate in Congress. he went abroad For while
one of his experiences was trip 10 China with
his friend j. Ross Browne. an accredited agent
~ the United States. bearing dispatches TO the
Chinese Emperor Again he turned toward the
Sunset Land. to take charge OF the United states
Land Office at Florence. Later he had appoint
nent as special agent of the government along the
Mexican border His last official place was that
of agent of Agricultural Bureau of the Interior
II was Poston's wish that his last resting place
be the summit Of the butte that bears his name
II Is NOT improbab BILE that the historical society
will some day pury his bones on the site OF the
protected temple of the sun