Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-02
WEEKLY AR|zONAN
 FIRST NEWSPAPER
A Souvenir of Pioneer Days Before Arizona Was Even
 a Territory,

PHOENIX, July 1-Colonel J. H. McClintock has received from an eastern friend highly prized souye- mir of pioneer days in Arizona. It Is a copy of volume l, No. IS, of the Weekly Arizonian, dated June 30, 1859. the eighteenth issue of the first newspaper published in Arizona. The donor is General c. McC. Reeve of Minneapolis, formerly a general of the volunteer forces of the Philip pines and at present a colonel of the Minnesota national guard. He spent the winter of 1906 in this city as the guest of George w. Christian of Min. neapolis, and made the acquaintance of a great many Phoenix people, among them Colonel McClintock. He secured the paper from among the effects of his late father.
 The Weekly ArizoniaL was pub lished in the city of Tubac, in southern Arizona, one of the earliest camps established in that part of the territory It is a small fOur-page pa per but it was well edited and typo graphically as neat as any publication In the territory today. The type was
 
 SOme one who knew the printers trade very perfectly. Most likely the editor was also the compositor. though the editors name does not ap- pear. The Weekly Arizonian Pub fishing Co. seems to be responsible for the existence of the paper. There are numerous advertisements in it though most of them are only an inch long, column wide. but they show old I'ubac to have been quite a commer- cial center, with saloons, blacksmith shops, grocery stores, etc.
 The text matter is quite interest iHg. There is a condensed statement 'f the foreign news as it had perco- lated to Tubac during that week. There is also an account of the fiend- isn murder of a well known rancher in that neigbborhood by some drunk en MeXicans who took umbrage when | he tried to protect his property against their trespassing.
 There are other stories of mining prospects and of Indian outlawry. But | all the names mentioned are those of an older generation, not one name i was seen, in a nasty examination. of 'N'At -A4 A%-CAiAtA-L iO" Ou llG lltlu or dc- tion. though there are a few old timers Aere who lived in Arizona in those d2ys. Evidently though, none of them created any excitement in 1 Tubac that week.
 | Years later, in the latter egihties or early nineties, there was another Weekly Arizonian. which was also a daily for time. but it was published ! in Phoenix and was started by | Charles L. Mosher. and should not be confounded with that earlier newspa- per enterprise. Though the paper ! Coes not say so, it is quite probable | that the Tubac journal was either ed | tied or promoted by Chas. D Poston. ! the father of Arizona, who in those days was the general superintendent of the territory when at home, and it's minister plenipotentiary when travel l ing. It is rather a curious fact. too | that the paper should have had that name fer Arizona was then merely Dona Ana county, New Mexico. and the name Arizona had not yet been of iiciaIly recognized; could not have teen as there was nothing to hang it to until the territory was created. The origin of sthe name has always been matter of speculation. and the authorities give a half dozen ways in which it may have originated. though none of them seem to be able to prove anything.