Bisbee daily review., 1911-11-26
No. 5

T'p to the beginning of February. 1885. and before then the Main street did not smuch resemble the Main street of today All the buildings were Of lumber, with the exception of the Ron ton. which was adobe. and the Duffy butcher shop. Opposite where the Angius building is.now. the house or John Watson stood. .Theret he street was only wide enough for one wagon. lt stood partly in the street--Watson kept sort of eating house. From the Angius building down below where the pOsiofice building Is now. with the exceptions on the North side of the street at the old butcher shop that was occupied b. Duffy for years-this building stood back from the street some two or three feet and was erected in the early spring of 1881 by Walk Williams. On the south side Of Main street and east Of the Sulch extending down from the Hendricks mine is the property of Mir. Preston. On the west send Of this property MT Preston had his residence. Below the house and about where the pOst-office is at present was PTeston's lumber yard On the west, side of the gulch
 
 built by A. C. McClain and Marshall Mitchell. and occupied at the time We write about by Gilroy. Next ad- joining on the west the store of Joe GoldwateF and A. A. CasJenada--it was built by Gen. tllen and it was the second store in nishee. Next ad. joining and west was a saloon kept by Joe May or Duncan MeGillis. think it was built by one or the Fri. bolet brothers-of this 1 am not sure
 West was the saloon afterwards owned by Sol Pierce. The next build ing west was erected by W. B. Scott who opened the first mercantile store After conducting the business for a short time. he turned it over to hiH hrotnersin-law. Ed and Ham Hardy. under compUlsion. They found out he had a wife living then. that he had been married to before marrying Miss
 Hardy He left the country shortly cfter and I never heard of him after leaving Hardy run store for year or more and then quit This is the house that Heith opened the dance hall i'm al the time of the Bis Lee murder on December Sth. 1889 on the north side of the street, and partly opposite was the building where Jordan had his saloon. mention Of which has been made; next the res tailrsnt Of Mrs. Annie Roberts: next east adjoining the saloon O. Bill Dan iels. next the saloon Ot William Rob eris, then the building run as a aa loon formerly by Frank Stahle; then the restaurant Of Manuel Simas-this vas the first restaurant in Mule Gulch then the two story frame building known as the "Bisbee House" In The room on the east side of this huilding AdOiph Steinfelt had a store. and T. D. Byrne was clerling for him. Andy Mehan later on had a saloon in the basement. All above was used as a lodging and rOomins z house. and after the big killing was run by James Mansfield, previously it had been run by Mrs Grimes and Der daughter This. building was im- mediately opposite the Bon Ton Sa- loon. NeXt the lot where Gilroy had had his tent saloon, next the DuGy butcher shOp. then the post-ofice-- Sol LOwenburg. postmaster. the drug store Ot pr. Barney, then the little noticn store or Catherine Sweeney: opposite the lower eorney Of PrestOn's lumber yard the building erected Dy Pete DevO. which he used as a shoe maker shop as long as he remained [ in Bisbee before going 10 Johnson. We come now to note fully the kill ings by bad men Of some innocent ' peOple-this was done very often by { strangers. only in a very few 'in- stances were the crimes committed by residents Of the town
 | Card Game KiiIinc.
 1 On the evening Of March eth, 1881. James Woods, with some others were playing a game Of cards ip William i hoberts saloon. < man by the name ofA William Ham, a resident of only a few days, was one Of the party in the game. Woods eHd Ham had some difference of opinion. about two dol- ' lars and Q half. but there was no quar- reling. This was abour nine o'clock. Ham left the saloon. About ten o'clock Ham awake Parshal up and tald him there was a half dozen men after him to kill him and wanted 10 borrow his gun. Parshal gave him the gun and told him to be careful He said he would and left. About halp past elev- en Woods was leaning against tbe bar talking with Roberts. Ham opened
 the door and called Woods a vile name and at the same time fired the gun. killing Woods slm0st instantly. | The only words Woods said before he died Boys. am gone. cood-b bye ''' l Woods had been in town for some time He was from Oakland and had