Bisbee daily review., 1911-04-12
TEuSTON IS ND
 LONGER ON MAP
Named After Pioneer Ii Be- comes Bowie to Re-
 gret of Many

The postmaster general has had the name of a Cochise county post office changed from Teviston to Bow ie. This office is located at the june tion of the Gila Valley, Globe & Northern railroad with the Southern Pacific. It was established when the southern Pacific reached that point Captain J. H. Tevis was at the point where Bowie is now To- csted when the Southern Pacific came along. as proprietor of q small store and stage station.
 Tevis succeeded in trading the railroad sufficient ground from his holdings for depot and terminal pur- poses In exchange for enough water to irrigate one acre of ground, and for domestic purposes. which was to be delivered from the railroad well which was bored for the supply of engines.
 At that time Fort Bowie, seven miles southwest of the railroad sta ton. was garrisoned by troops and soon the new railroad station became of sufficient importance to demand ? postofiice Then there arose a con hict of opinion as to the proper name for the office. The railroad mana gers had named the station Bowie and insisted that the post office should bear the same name. Captain Tevis insisted that he was the first on the ground that both the railroad station and the postofice should bear bis name, and sent in 2 petition asking that Lewiston be given as a name to the posoofiicc. This was done, but the railroad ob- stinately refused to change the name of the railroad station and then started a bitter war between Tevis and the company, which had built a large hotel and made 1t an eating place for passenger trains. Tevis built q hotel directly opposite the railroad eating house. just of the fifty foot right of way and the war went merrily on for years until finally the company yielded and made Captain Tevis manager of the rail road eating house and provided a bar. in consideration of the Tevis house being closed.
 Old timers will be sorry to know that the name of this old timer is to be plotted from the post office, now that he is dead and gone. Colonel Bowie was a hero of the Alamo, but II IS LID lD tue Sldle OA 1SAdS lO pCt' petuate his name and Teviston should have been retained as the name of the postoffice at Bowie station.
 Captain Tevis lived the best of g long and useful life in Arizona and New Mexico. He lived in exposed places. and where danger was thick est he bore himself as became a man. He was in the territories when but a boy, and on the breaking out of the Civil war he returned to his home and served with distinc ton in the Confederate army. These troubles over. he again returned to the land Of his adoption. He mined in the Chiricahuas long before the Southern Pacific railroad laid rail in Arizona. and through all the scenes of Indian warfare he never turned his back on danger. Always living in the zone of hostilities. he was never known to turn his back ou man, be his color what it may For thirty or more years he lived a Bowie, or Teyiston, and his name and memory was deserving of perpetua tion in the country he had so vail antly helped to make. That the sta ticn and postofice at the same place should bear the same name is not questioned, but the continuation oi an absolutely meaningless name tC Arizonans. at the sacrifice of another that has meaning. is sincerely to Dt regretted