Arizona republican., 1920-08-20

knew him well are vet with us. Jerry Barton, who stuttered, and who, be- cause of thls infirmity, started one of the deathless tales of the west when, in answer to judges query concern ing the number of men he had killed, replied: "D-d-d-do y-y-you c-c-count M-m -mexicanS ?" has long since passed
 to the happy hunting grounds, but
 those who drank in his saloon III
 Tombstone are still hale and hearty
 Captain Johnson, of Fort Huachuca,
 who lives in memory as the quickest
 and most deadly shot who ever carried
 a revolver in the southwest, is no
 more, but tEose who have seen him
 encompass miracles with his six-gun
 may be walking the streets of Phoenix
 today. Jack Dunn, the intrepid scout,
 who discovered the outcropping of ore
 at what was afterwards to be known
 as Bisbee, enc of the largest copper mining camps in the world has departed
 from world which vouchsafed him not even a modicum of the wealth which he unearthed in the Mule mountains. | but his friends and companions still cherish his memory.
 And the cities are as famous as the
 men. Yuma is now the center of a
 contented and prosperous agricultural
 region, in a land made almost unbe- lievably rich by the muddy waters of | the Colorado river, but there was time
 when Yuma, blistering under desert
 sun, was as hot morally as 1t was lphysically-and men still live who knew l Yuma in those days. Arizona is full of men who remember Yavapai county ] when it was as big as all outdoors and when the inhabitants of the terri tory did not know on successive days whether the capital was at Tucson Phoenix or Prescott. They still tell the stories of the days when in Yavapai county. a sheriff engaged on a man. iytSf lxo r-idfr1O until he got his
 man or failed completely, because Il
 was impossible to tell whether he was rading in Yavapai, Colorado or Utah Cities Rich In Local Color
 Tucson was the distributing point tc
 the south and west Here Jack Dunr
 and here Ed Schieffelin loaded his paci
 mules for his trip of discovery to the
 border. Where are you going?" asked a we'll wisher. Down beyond the Null. mountains" replied Schieffelin. Well, vouchsafed the well-wisher, "bettel take your tombstone with you, for th' Apaches will get you before you're } month older" But Schieffelin not onl. } hid himself from the Apaches but h. uncovered a lode that made Tombstone as he called the new camp in memory o the warning given in Tucson. a magne for treasure seekers all over the wesl . Phoenix was a desert town, as distin } guished for it's saloons as it was fo 5 it's thermometer. Douglas, destined | be the location of two of the larges copper smelters in the southwest, wa ? not even outlined on the map, wher } only the water holes at Agua Priet to mark the site of a future city.
 3 The history of these cities and c : the men who made them is a royal his
 tory. The story of New England. c
 Virginia, of Florida, of California i ? not more interestingly indeed. it Ina [ even a large part of the interest al taching to Arizona. The pioneers ( t these other states are dead-the pic l neers of Arizona are living, and thu : the pages they helped 70 write wit s pick and shovel, with burro an 1. pack saddle, with shooter and dirl l are living pages, for the authors hay T not yet "shuffled from this mortal coil 2 The Puritans have gone the way f their blue laws; Ponce de Leon ns 2 found a land of eternal youth, or shoul s have, if Sir Oliver Lodge is telling tt V truth; the brown -robed monks wh [ built the missions that dot Fl Camir y Rea1-"The Kings Highway"-frol . San Diego to San Francisco have passe f with the Indians they sought to say e but the pioneers of Arizona are in u : flesh. Let, therefore, their annals ' 2 preserved. Let their names be kep l Let their exploits be written for futu1 s day. For the time is not distant whe y their tale shall be told, when the char e ter shall be finished, and when n ,. book shaH be closed forever.
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