Williams news., 1903-09-12
TITLES GIVEN
 BOUNTIFULLY
Chapter of Early History GiVms an Incident in the Life
 of Bucky O'Neill.

battlefield in Cuba of the late Cap tain w. O. O'Neill the newspapers of the country have teemed with stories concerning his iife. Some have been wierd and fantastic with little semblanee of truth while oth- hers, embellished from the imag9- nation of the writers, have been based upon facts. Several accounts have been written in reference fa the manner in which he obtained the title by which he was so fansit- iarly known, aBucky," bat all of them have been purely ina gina tive and in conversation recently with Charles Mosher, an old time news- paper writer of Phoenix and a warm and intimate friend of MT. O'Neils, the editor of this paper requested him to write true story of the con ferring upon him of the title of "Bucky." Mr. Mesher was a mem ber of a sort of unorganized Bo- hemian club of that day, to which O'Neill also belonged, other mean bers being P. c. Bicknell, Frank Cox, D. s. White and others, and all are familiar with the early his tory of the brilliant Bucky O'Neill in this territory. Mir. Mosher has kindly complied with the Journal Miners request, and the story is herewith given:
 When the lamented Captain w. O. O'Neill was engaged in editorial work in the early days of Phoenix he was bountiful in bestowing mili- tary honors upon the sturdy ranch men then engaged in developing the agricultural resources of the Salt River valley. Men who had managed to pass the meridian of life in a creditable manner with nc greater distinction than their names of Bill, Ike or Jack gradually be- came to their friends Captain, Ma jor or Colonel. That there was some peculiar fitness in the appli- cation of these titles is justified by the fact that many of the beneficiar- ies have gone to their grave bearing the same, while it is not improb- able that among the survivors who have so long been thus distin- guished there are some in whose minds now turk in a vague and hay manner, the idea that some where in the mildewed past they performed service other than turn- ing in water on the slcculent al- falfa to earn their spurs.
 After O'Neill had succeeded in gratifying his quiet sense of humor in properly grading the staider DOT tion of the community he turned his attention to the younger class his associates. Thus Joe Campbell the we'll known lawyer, young in years and younger in practice, be- came "Judge" in about two months after his arrival in the territory Frank Cox was Senator" and D. J. White, printer, journal clerk of the house in the session of the legislature in 1885 found himself suddenly promoted from corporal in the old Phoenix Guards to a. colonelcy. White is now in San Francisco, an employe of the Ex- aminer, and is better known by his military title than by his true name or initials. The writer for a time bore the somewhat suggestive title of Count" but the community did not take to this innovation from foreign lands and 1t neSer became a permanent burden to him.
 Another White lived in Phoenix at the time and he and Captain O'Neill were great friends, but the latter's ingenuity at christening seemed sorely tried at this point. White had charge of the old mili- tary telegraph station there, was under the average size and O'Neill's
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