Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-07-12

ident. were a lew copies or MS
published writings, inclusive of a vol
ume of really excellent poems, several
small volumes he had written upon his
travels in Europe, and in the Orient,
and many references to magazine and
newspaper articles, one of them, OF
considerable length, on The Building
of a State in Apache Land" having
been published in the Overland month
iy. He had written voluminously as
well upon philosophical and religious
subjects. He had his own modified
form of theosophy and had conceived
the idea that it was the same form OF
religious worship practiced by h pre-
historic Toltecan inhabitants of Ari-
IONA. Near Florence, Ariz., rises a
conical hill of considerable height, sol
itary on the plain, not far from the
ruins of Casa Grande, and itself COW
cred with potsherds and with outlined
ruins leIt by a forgotten people. For
more than thirty years this hill has
been known as "Poston's Butte.
Around and up the butte, at considera-
bile expense, Poston had built a road.
Upon the summit it vas his dream to
erect a temple, wherefrom the Diety
should be worshiped, with solemnity
on the uprising of the sun, to him the
glorious manifestation and representa-
tive of celestial omnipotence.
Poston was a native of Harden coun-
ty, Kentucky. At % he was admitted
to the bar and practiced for several
years in his native state, and in Wash
ington. He outlived the wife and sew
eral children of an early union. A
daughter married DR.. Benjamin f.
Pope, of the regular army. Pope won
distinction as chief surgeon OF the
Fifth army corps in the on
Santiago, and died at his post in the
Philippines, with the rank OF deputy
surgeon general. Mrs. Pope died on
the Pacific while returning nome with
the BODY of her husband.
After several years in Washington,
Poston went to California as a gold
seeker, later, from Guaymas, heading a
party into the land acquired through
the Gadsden purchase. He was back
again soon, conducting mining opera
tions for a company he had organized
in New York. At the outbreak of the
civil war, the Union forces abandoned
the southwest. Poston was compelled
to leave mining property on which
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the federal army as an aid on the stan
of General HeintZelman. A few years
later he was sent back to the south
west, with a commission from Presi'
dent Lincoln as superintendent OF In
dian affairs. At the same time he
served as recorder of the region now
embraced within Arizona. After secur'
ing the organization of the new terri
tory, and serving as its first delegate
in congress-, he toured abroad. Fol- a
while he was associated with several
New York papers. One OF his exper
fences was a trip to China with his
| friend, j. Ross Browne, as an accred
tied agent of the United States, bear
ing dispatches to the Chinese emperor
Again he turned toward the sunset
land TO take charge of the United
| States land office at Florence. Latel
he had appointment as special agen'
of the government along the Mexican
border. His last official place was tina
of agent OF the Agricultural bureau o.
the interior department in Arizona.
| His experience, his personality an'