Arizona republican., 1910-01-17

the life they were compelled to lead They had chosen the life they best loved. far from the galling conven- tionalities of older communities. De- spite the commonly accepted idea, very few of them had left other states for the community's good. Manliness was their predominating characteristic and in that word honestly generosity, bravery, self sacrifice, hardness all are mere attributes. Every last one of them had maintained his keen in terest in the affairs of the nation. Hence it was that the chroniclers of the early days came close behind the prospectors, even ahead of the mis- sionary. unless you insist on remem- bering Padre Kino or Padre Garces.
 These early pencil pushers were blase over almost anything that did not concern the assured great future of their own poor little adobe built camp They were fiery jealous of every upstart of a town that might lay claim to the dignity of competi- tion. Death was only incidental and the expected thing Little did it mat ter that it came by violence. 1T the late lamented had had a square deal in the circumstances attending ms de- mise. all was well and the man who killed him was given the right hand of fellowship. Let the taking-off be attended by any suspicion Of assas- sination and the camps especlal sycamore speedily bore burden. Ana then the local newspaper printed half column about it all, fiiling up the balance of the column with string of jokes clipped from the Bur lington Hawkeye. There didn't seem to be much home grown humor in those days. out here in Arizona
 Suppose nowadays there should de- scend band of Apaches upon ranch in your nearby Rillito valley, slaying and destroying. Such an occurrence would be given columns. even pages, of descriptive writing Tn your local dailies. Here is about the way the Prescott Miner would nave handled such a story back in ls6S; "Charlie Genung is in from Peoples Valley. to buy some bacon. lhe weather is cold in his locality and there is little of news. He says that he and his neighbors were annoyed last week by a bunch of favapais, who came into the valley and ran off counIe of mules. Genung and sev- eral other ranchers pursued and klll- ed some of the redskins. George Brown got a bad arrow wound in the shoulder" That's all. It told the story. didn't it? What more do you want? Yet the Miner wouldn't even have a head on the item and 1t fol- lowed star local" that told that Merchant Bill Head had just received new goods from the coast
 Down here in Tucson you nave the real Simon pure article of pioneer beside whom I, with my little uhlrty wears of residence in Arizona, am put a tenderfoot So, from Governor Huehes and other real old timers l have gathered up a bit of informa- tion concerning the earliest news naners of the territory. The Spanlarus and Mexicans did not seem to run r,,cb to journalism. The first print ;rr, n,ess anpears to have been one hrouabt in by way of Panama and cnavmas in 1859 for The Arizonian, weekly paper published at Tupac' in your own Santa Cruz Valies' Dy Sylvester Mowrey, of the Mowrey mines in the Patagonia hloui'aii'' Its main mission was the auVer'ise- meht of the Mowrey mines. but II was pretty good sort Of iitue sheet well edited and with able coEtrip- utors. among them Charles D- Ios ton the pioneer poet, Arizoha II" S' delegate in congress. Postoh dieu III noverty in Phoenix about SIX years ago. It is a pity he could not nay lived to have seen the last oi 'he ,arritorial government that had so iovously been welcomed as a better ynsnt of the poor political conditions .h.t grexV ont of AriZona's previous nosition as an annex to Dona Ana oo,,tv of New Mexico. l nave here a copy of the old Arizonian. u ID ] to he noted that it claims to be pup lished in Arizona, showing that the Restoration was locally applied 10 the | land long before it's segregation as separate unit of government nis conv sent by a friend in Minenapoiis'
 who found it in the papers of ms | father. is well printed and arrahseu' fpu of live adpertisements ana "i'ii
 both local and states news.
 | The next newspaper came with ,he
 ,arr,torial government, The Miner I
 first issued in 1864 at Banghart
 rancb twenty miles north of Prescott,
 nearbv the present railroad station oi
 DaI Rio. The material and press came from the states in the same
 caravan that brought Governor Goou-
 win and the editor was the new ter
 ritorial secretary. Dick McCorn,ch an experienced newspaper man. "he.
 ,ha seat of territorial governmeh' and the protecting force of soidiel
 ,,,oved to Prescott. the Miner went
 alonq of course. and the presen'
 prescott Journal Miner claims iesiti-
 mate descent therefrom. The ATT
 zonian was of much shorter siife' eN-
 hiring about 1867, after year or su
 nnder the ownership of the wen
 Enown pioneer, Sidney R. DeLohs Won know it was founded on fe'e
 Kitcben's famous road to Sonora on
 ,,.hicb the stations were Tucson Iu- boo Tucumcari and Tohell.
 | About 1879 the territoriai capi'o
 was moved from Prescott to Tucson
 with the capital coming McCornieN
 n-ou,oted to be governor. ana .h'
 ,,.hola territorial administration ih-
 o,rdinp John wasson. surveyor gen,
 oraI who soon thereafter estapiisheu ,,,-,.. f,;tizen like the Miner, q