Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-01-23
HAssAYAMPER's EVENING

HhSsAYAMPER' EVENING
 Str'kingly original in it's conccp,ion ant mcri,orious in its purpose was be entertainment on Tuesday evcuir, gwen 'y the Monday Club, and dcsip. mated as " lIassayampcrs Evening :, The affair was planned by Miss Sharlo, ''"''' one of the talented literary wom. 'h oi Inc West. and whose homo b.s been m Iavapai county since her carly chiidhood. She Is n loyal Arizonan. ana her intense love for its people. if. institutions and the Territory itself prompted her io start movement hay. ing for its object the preservation of its historical records. The cn,er,aip. men' accordingly, was for the purpose Of creating fund for building n club house for the Monday Club. in connce. tion With n museum, the building to serve n double purpose.
 The program opened with an instu. mental selection, "An Apache War pancc,' composed and played by Mrs. B' u. smith of this city. The compo. sition IS one of exceptional merit and the characteristics of the theme were wildly brought out on the piano by its talented composer.
 In graceful speech Mrs. T. W. Otis introduced Miss Hall to the audience. referring io the valuable work that the latter had accomplished for Ari. zona with her pen. Miss Hall then pro. cccdcd to describe the romance of early Arizona history and explain the pur. pose of the museum plan. She said:
 "Thc early history of Arizona is pure romance. She was born, one might say, with . golden spoon in her mouth. Her very name reaches bnck to the most picturesque strike of the Span. ish occupaiion-thc 'Planchas de Plata not far from the present Can. anca, where great quantities of silver was found in the sand, like placer gold-cxcept that the silver was in
 huge chunks. ....
 "Near this region arc the Arizonac
 Mountains, and from them Col. Charles
 D. Poston, the father of Arizona,
 borrowed the name, discarding the final letter. Other names suggested were
 Gadsonia, Pimeria, Papagucria bui Col. Poston held ont strongly for the musical and suggestive Arizona.
 "Thc first Governor of Arizona
 John x. Goodwin, marched with q wagon train and n military escort to ' establish his capital in m unsettled and almost uncxplorcd wilderness. The selection of site, made roughly by latitude and longitude, was influenced | by the rich placer mines believed to b, ' in the near vicinity, but then scarccl, ' more than . prophecy. The Governor ' q party halted one days march beyon, | the line of New Mexico, the flag wal ,, raised. the oath of office taken an' | subordinate officers officially appointed ' "lt would bc interesting to know what bocamc of that flag that frs noatcd over the new Tcrritory-n n'
 doubt the tooth of time has long since
 claimed it. At Chino Valley, not fla n from the point from which the prescn # City of Prescott draws her water sup r. ply, the party again halted for rev l. weeks, and here the first paper pfinte'
 in Arizona was struck off small han'
 press. This was not, however th IT first paper to be printed within th n bordcrs of the Territory, since Col s poston issned the 'Arizonian regular fl lv. ot Tubnc, in 1856, and n few copie
 of this queer old paper arc s'iiI m eN
 istcncc- as is the first copy of the AIT f. zona Miner which is now the Jour e nal. Miner.
 d "Thc placer gold of Lynx Creek am g Granite Creek soon drew The olh'l' f marty on to the banks of the lattc ,e stream. and the capital was formal .c established on the present site \. prcscoti. the little stockadc of For 70 Whipplc, named for Lieutenant W m ,r ple. of the government survey oi i''' c. precedng the town by few week
 The town was named for the his'or'al ,c Prescott. then at the beginning '' "' Q, romantic fame
 IF "Thc name was chosen by hich"r I. NeCormick, first Secretary oi AT ,e zona, who also planned the tow" "',' m
 the Spanish towns he had see" "''
 central plaza. Robert Groom "''
 of picturesque and varied fortune Su m vcved the town and mapped ''' u" ie the streets were named for span''h ~ ue nlorers connected with sou'n"es'o'
 history, anI for Governor eur'ey' "' D ,g aopointed to the chief office, who d''