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Arizona republican., 1921-04-13
Oldest Pioneers In Attendance the Opening Day At
 The Reunion

In seeking the pioneer in att tendance at the reunion in Phoe- nix yesterday who has lived the greatest number of years in Ari- zona the honor fell to James Pearce of Taylor, Arizona, who came to Arizona in 1888 and there fore has lived in this. state 63 years.
 Other pioneers at the reunion who have lived in Arizona for 50 or more years are as follows:
 63 Years James Pearce. Taylor, Arizona.
 50 Years Mrs. Lizzie K. Steele, Ajo, Ariz. (The first American born child in state.)
 W. Fourr, Dragoon, Ark
 4s Years T. D. Sanders, ClarkdAie, Ariz.
 AZ Years J. w. Osborn, 715 E. Portland, Phoenix, Arizona. Mrs. T. Shumaker, Phoenix, R. 5. (FormerIy Mrs. Jack Swiilins.) )
 46 Years R. J. Holmes, 1908 Homewood. Road, Phoenix, Ariz. Mrs. Winchester Miller, Tempe w. w. Jones, Tempe. Edward Riley, Prescott, Ariz.
 45 Years J. P. WaIdron, 427 w. Jefferson, Phoenix.
 Mrs. L. J. Fourr, Draeoon, Ariz James Allen, Phoenix. w. N. Price, Phoenix.
 A Years Jim Hester, Phoenix. George Hamlin, 1130 E. Monroe St., Phoenix.
 John s. Branaman, Price, Ark. Mrs. Anna Gray, Tombstone. c. H. Gray, Phoenix. C. s. Johnson, Phoenix. Ed. B. Wissins, 13 E. Buchanan, Phoenix.
 Mrs. Ed Wigsins, Phoenix. James Johnson, Mesa, Arizona. L. E. Williamson, Prescott. Henry Zeuner, Prics, Arix. (fe69) Johnathan Bfack-County Farm.
 Al Years w. L. Teei, R. F. D., Phoenix. Emma Feel, N. Central Ave. Mrs. w. D. Renter, Nogaies. Thomas Smith, Williams, Ariz John Richards, R. 4 Phoenix. Mrs. Ethline Osborn, t216 w. Monroe, Phoenix. Frank Miller, Phoenix, Arix. z J. Q. Morreli. 1117 E. Mckinley, Phoenix.
 40 Years H. Winton, 13tf W f2th St. D. D. Williams, Mesa, Ariz. Will Davis, Cashion. Mrs. Lola ColIines, sos E. Van Buren, City.
 R. L. Brady, Phoenix. Nile Peterson, Tempe. N. P. Moore, Phoenix. Ramona Garcia, COY S. 5th Ave-, Phoenix.
Arizona republican., 1921-04-13

peared and halted the stage. They were particularly looking for sheep man who they had expected gouiii be a passenger. with s20.ose in his possession. But the sheep men had outwitted the robbers He had hire a team and wagon and gone aroa7fl by another way. The road aseats. finding no money or jewelry on the passengers, departed without mo testing them further.
 Life in Prescott was not dull. Mrs. Osenburg recalls. the town beinE filled with a cosmopolitan crowd Qf Chinese, Mexicans. Indians and whit men and women, good and bad
 q always kept my door locked said Mrs. Osenburg. -One day aboa a dozen Indians rapped at the e9q when I was alone. my husband hefa at the store. I had an old rusty rf volver with nothing in it. But I ge5 this in my hand and went to door. Maybe the Indians suspeete1 the revolver was harmless and ma not, but anyway they gave ks laugh and a yell and ran away doTz2 the hill. On another occasion tsa Indians surrounded the house. tryin to get in. They were all drunk. as after making an attempt or two i break the windows they finally wer away. Every night was a rough nigh and Saturday night ths worst of al It was nothing for a man to b. killed.
 And now look at Prescott" adde ] Mrs. Osenburs, with . smile "Sea how nice 1t is- go there every sum mer"
Arizona republican., 1921-04-13

and gave himself up. When taken he was found to have 52 wounds.
 In the midst of this excitement the 300 Apaches who had surrendered a short time previously raided the gov ernment corral and took all the horses and cattle to their stronghold in the Tonto basin
 In addition to participating in many Indian repulses, Jim Allen was caught in the midst of the McClourey and Earp feud at Tombstone He de- tailed many of the gun fights between members of the two factions He arrived in Tombstone in 1879 and re- mained there while she was good
 Almost all the lawless element with which Arizona has been blemished was imported from the large eastern cities" Allen declared '.The real pi- oneers of Arizona were peace loving and law abiding men and women. We had to fight Indians when attacked, but we did not fight among ourselves or steal and indulge in outIawry Whatever unsavory reputation may have gained in the early days was not brought out by the real citizen ship of the state"
Arizona republican., 1921-04-13
Supposed That Only Preachers
 Refused Liquor

Two amusing incidents of his early experiences in Arizona were related recently by Dr. H. A. Hughes. one of the early physl- clans to come to the valley
 When I was coming into the valley on the old stage from Mar icopa." he said, ''I met among others the late Captain Calder wood, whom l later learned to es- teem for his many good qualities.
 During the trip, the captain passed d bottle of liquor among the male passengers, l being the only one to refuse his hospitality. The captain immediately conceiv- ed that I was a preacher ana some months later explained that he supposed that only ministers of the gospel wore black suits and refused liquor.
 About q year after my arrival, l was called to see a white man, weighing probably 25o pounds, who had been badly cut by a Mex ican. The Mexican had inflicted three knife wounds. extending from the point of the left shoulder to the right hip.
 eve had no hospital here in those days and we knew but little of antiSeptiCS- When l arrived the man said
 Say Doc, if you can just steady me a little, you can go ahead with your d-d sewing
 50 sat down on his back and proceeded to put in over 50 stitches. There was an accom- pauying cuss word for each stitch and in some instances. he man aged to utter two or three 10 the stitch. He made 3 fine recovery" the doctor concluded.
Arizona republican., 1921-04-13

another drink. which opened the way for the third and soon Bob was sor- rowfully drunk.
 I will go to that funeral if it kills me-" he said to John Willis when he was in his ultra emotional mood. "I reckon not" replied Willis.
 T tell you l shall go" exclaimed Bob, waxing warm. "Oh, no, you won't retorted Willis.
 I'll bet l do." cried Bob, more warmly.
 "I'll bet you don't" said Willis, as he drew a revolver and shot his friend through the heart.
 Willis was arrested and indicted .s March, 1873. But his trial was post poned until May. On the 24th of the month. a jury announced a yer dict of guilty in the first degree but the sentence of the judge that Willis should be hanged was issued without naming the day of execution, where upon tue case was appealed to the Supreme court The forbearance of the people was now about exhausted. The general belief was that rne mur- derer would eventually bee set free or make his escape to further prey uEon the community, so they declLei to end the. matter at once.
 Accordingly they surrounded the jail on the morning of August 8 at an early hour and demanded Willis. together with the three MexicansE Cordova, Lopez and Saquairipa-im- plicated in the murder of Nincente Hernandez in Tucson five days pre- vious- In the meantime, two fork posts were planted in front of the jail door and a pole placed on them. Four ropes with nooses were then suspended from the pole. A few minutes the citizens of Tucson had the satisfaction of beholding the four outlaws, side by side, dangling be- tween earth and heaven
Arizona republican., 1921-04-13
JUDGE, ATTORNEYS AND JURY ALL HAD
 GUNS IN EARLY DAYS

Trial of criminal and civil actions at Prescott in the early days close 1y resembled the setting of a military court martial, Charles H. Bowers, un- der sheriff of Maricopa county, and for A years a resident of the state said recently in discussing pioneer days in Arizona.
 Attaches of the court. attorneys. jurymen, witnesses, spectators, and even the judge came to court armed with six shooters or rifles, Bowers said. The guns would be stacked in the corridors or adjoining rooms while the court session was held. Occasionally an Indian alarm would be sounded and court would adjourn while all went out with their guns to protect the city against hostile Apaches, he declared.
 Apache tribes were constant men ace to the entire community, he de- clared. MIX cows were herded close to the city and it was not an un- common occurrence for ehe Indians to swoop down and try to cut the cattle off from the herder. Skirmishes with the Indians invariably followed and the whites frequently killed some of the attackers, he said. Compara- lively few whites lost their lives in these little battles, although occasion ally a defender. would be wounded, Mir Bowers declared.
 At that time, Point Of Rocks was the great rendezvous of the Apache and all attempts of the whites to dis lodge them proved futile. Many gave their lives in an attempt to drive them from their stronghold. he con- tinued
 Stage robbing was a popular pas | time during the early days, MT. Bow 1 CTS declared. It was the general be- | lief in Prescott that men living in the vicinity of the city often participated 1 in these holdups. Becoming short of funds, they would plan the robbery, 1 always returning to Prescott ahead i of the stage. They would be seated about the roulette wheel or at the l three card monte or poker tables when the stage arrived and news of the robbery announced.
 The old fashioned frontier saloon
 and dance hall was a conspicuous resort during the early period of
Arizona republican., 1921-04-13
INDIAN DANGERS
 IN THE EARLY DAYS
 TOLD BY WOMAN

The dangers of life in Arizona in the early days are portrayed in Mrs L. J. Fourr's story of her experiences as a pioneer MT and Mrs. Four were married in this state in 1868, and the two old residents have promised to attend the ~eunio1-
 My parents crossed the plains from Texas to Arizona in 1866, Mrs. Fourr relates. We stopped on the Gila river at Gila Bend. and l was married there in 1868, and have lived in Arizona ever since.
 We came over by the old immi grant road by Pacha pass and camped there. There were soldiers stationed there then and the Indians were on the warpath all of the time
 The Indians came near getting my scalp, too. and that of another girl, on the San Pedro river, where Benson now stands. Like children, we went to gather wild flowers and wandered a little too far from the camp. An Indian was crawling up on us when man on the wagon, on the lookoUs, saw our danger and called to us. After that we were afraid to leave the camp. We then went on to Tucson. where we stopped for two days to rest our teams.
 After our marriage, MT. Fourr tried to farm on the Gila, but the Indians were too bothersome. They stole GO head of cattle while we were stopping at Burks station on the Gila before we went tos Gila Bend TO farm. We went back to Oatman Flats and took charge Of a little station and lived there until we came to CochiSe county. We moved to Drag goon in 1879, and I ~as the first whire woman in the town
 We have seen some pretty scary times since I came 10 ArlZCua. have stood guard ma ny times over our little family while my husband
Arizona republican., 1921-04-13
YUMA PEN|TENT|ARY SCENE IF GENERAL
 ATTEMPT ID ESCAPE

A wholesale attempt at escape by prisoners Of the old Arizona peni- tentiary at Yuma, October 2l, 1887, in which Superintendent Gates was seriously wounded, three prisoners
 killed and two others shot, is one of the events of early Arizona history we'll remembered by a big majority of pioneers.
 The delivery had evidently been carefully planned by number of the inmates As Superintendent Gates was making his morning rounds, a convict named Puebla attacked him
 without warning. This attack was the signal for other convicts to en- ter the melee, seven of the prisoners taking hand in the assault in addi- ton to Puebla
 Superintendent Gates finally sue ceedeS in working his way into the open. When he realized the purpose of the assault, he ordered guards to open fire. During the meantime, one of the convicts, Mexican named
 Lopez. had secured a revolver and re- turned the fire of the guards. Pueb- la, armed with a long knife. thrust the weapon into Gates body. He re-
 peated the slashing several times, in flicting in all about dozen wounds Lopez was finally shot down by
 Guards Portley and Dick Rule. Riggs, a life termer at the peni- tentiary, rushed to the aid of Super
 intendent Gates, securing the re-
 volver held by Lopez, fired at Pueb-
 Ia, killing him, as the latter again
 dug his knife into the prison super
 intendent.
 Lopez secured the weapon from the
 office of Superintendent Gates, it de-
 veloped, after breaking into the of
 ficer's desk. His first shots were di-
 rectly at Hartlee, on the tank sta
 tion. Hartlee, at the time. and in
 obedience to the orders of MT. Gates,
 was firing at Puebla. and did not re-
 turn Lopez fire Hartlee later on turned his gun on Lopez.
 After killing Puebla, Riggs direct ed his attentions to Gates and en-
 deavored to administer first aid treat
 ment. In the meantime, Guard Hart lee turned his fire upon another con- vict just appearing on the scene. and
 Guard Reynolds winged another as he ran down the roadside. Fred
 Freddy, captain of the prison yards, was at the same time having rat ting setto' with Rivera, another con- vict, who was endeavorfng to stick
 a pick into F'redly's head Freddy succeeded in throwing his arm around Rivera and they both fell down 20 foot embankment.
 During the meantime, Assistant Superintendent John Behan, from in . side the prison. arrived on the scene and soon convinced Rivera of the
 uselessness of his attack. John Mar kle, a nearby resident. heard the
 rumpus and came out, stopping a convict on his way down the road 1 After being stopped, the man then dropped to the ground, and an exam ination showed that he had been se- riously wounded.
 Annis Ragel and August Green pre- vented the escape of two prisoners during the progress of the gun bat tie. Not single prisoner was lost to the institution, save those that were killed
Arizona republican., 1921-04-13
LAST BIG BATTLE IN TIL
 .EAhP AND CLAYTON FUEF IS RECALLED BY P|ONEEF

Notorious episodes in the history of Cochise county. including the Bis bee holdup and the historical battle between the Earps and Clantons, to which he was an eyewitness. were recently related here by Thomas c Raines, d resident Of Phoenix. MT Raines came to Arizona in 1874 and lured to Tombstone by the silver riches, lived through one of the most exciting events or bandiIry history in Arizona.
 Supremacy had long been an issue between the Earp and Clanton fac tions, Mr. Raines said, in reviewing the incidents leading up to the last great battle RoDberies had been frequent. the Clantons blaming the Earps and the Earps blaming the Clantons. The Earps, or most of them, were officers of the peace some serving as deputy United States marshais and others as county and city officers. In soncequence, their word was generally accepted as law except by the Clantons.
 On the night of October 25, 1881 Ike Clanton, of the opposition. had been arrested by City Marshal Virgil Earp and had been fined s50 for dis orderly conduct, which appears to have been merely in objecting to the marshafs abuse, MT. Raines said. Members of the Clanton gang then in Tombstone included Tom and Frank MeLowery and Billy and Ike Clanton. They had been told that their presence in Tombstone was un- healthy and they seemingly appre- ciated the tip" for on the morning of Oct. 26 they made plans to leave for their ranch home in the Baba : comari mountains. The horses were in the O. k. corral, which fronted on two streets Fearing trouble, they planned to leave by the rear gate on Fremont street Ike Cianton and Tom AcLowery were not armed. for the evening before both had their pistols taken from them by the city authorities. The other two had re- volvers
 The men were leading their horses out of the gate when they were con- fronted. almost from ambush, by four of the Earps-Nrgil. Wyatt. Morgan and Jim-and by Doc Holiday. NIr- gil Earp, armed with a sawed off eS- press shotgun, and accompanying his demand with profanity, yelled Hands up," But he didn't wait for the action demanded and shot almost as soon as he Spoke. Ion MtLoNeFy } showed his empty hands, and cried Gentlemen l am unarmed-' Holli- day answered with the discharge oi his shotfun. Billy Clsnton fell at the first fire, mprtaliy wounded, but he rolled over and fired two shots from his pistol between his bent knees One shot creased" Morgan Earp across the shoulder and he fell to the ground. Ike Clanton ran into a vacant lot and escaped. Frank Me Lowery remained. fighting bravely and holding his horse by the bride firing four shots at the three Earps in front of him. One bullet hit Nir- gil Earp in the calf of the leg Me Lowery became aware that Holiday was shooting at him from the rear and had turned to answer the fire when his pistol hand was hit Hs then raised the revolver with botf hands and shot, striking Holiday pistol holster At the same moment Morgan Earp rolled over and shoi from the ground, his bullet striking McLowery on the temple, killing him instantly. The Earps and Holhday then marched back to the main part
Arizona republican., 1921-04-13

PrescottS history. Bowers said The places of this nature were about the only amusements afforded the men with the results that all such re- sorts played to big audiences"
 Early in the sos, MT. Bowers fa- ther. Edward F. Bowers, was sheriff of Yavapai county. Shortly after his induction to office, two strangers, reputed bad men from Texas" ar rived After shooting up the town they rode to the outskirts of the city where they encountered q cowpunch- CT headed for Prescott.
 We've killed every sheriff we've come across and we're going to kill yours they told the cowpuncher Send him out here if he's got any backbone was the message they conveyed to Sheriff Bowers by the cowboy.
 Sheriff Bowers and his men imme- diately set out to find the men, fear ing trouble unless they were arrested or driven to another locality. After riding about three miles, they caught sight of the two Texans a short dis tance ahead.
 As the sheriffs party approached the strangers the Texans opened fire Sheriff Bowers horse wa5 shot from under him. A few seconds later Sheriff Bowers himself was hit, a bill book in his vest pocket saving him.
 One of the Texans was killed i'm stantly and the other mortally wounded, dying in Prescott few hours later Sheriff Bowers was re- elected for a second term, but died after taking the oath of office, Mir. Bowers was born at Prescott March 19. 1875, and has always lived 1 in this state His father came tc Arizona in 1854, locating in Prescott The trip from New Hampshire was made overland by OK team, few head of horses also being brought along.
Arizona republican., 1921-04-13
LIFE WAS NOT EASY
 FUR PIONEER WOMEN

There were about 75 people in our party when we started out from Kansas for Arizona early in 1864 relates Mrs. Mahala Stainbrook, a guest at the Pioneers Home. But some of the party wanted to go to Idaho and there were only eight wagons left when we passed through Fort Union My husband, Andy. and his brother, Matt, with Matt's wife and two young children settled with us at Walnut Grove, near the Me Cloud mine. It was early in the spring and we got in some corn as soon as possible and I don't remem- Der anything more welcome than the first rains that came when the corn had made a good start.
 We had one marrow escape from the Indians. We heard that they were out and as I was alone l went after the cattle and drove them up to the house. The war party must have passed without seeing them, but they killed man who had often stopped at our house and had gone on his burro.
 .In-1ST4, when we were living near Camp Wallapais, my husband was Killed. l was III Deo at tne tlhlo with a day old baby and we were 40 miles from settlement. George Thrasher was neighbor or ours One of his horses got into corn field of ours. He tried to take the horse away without settling for the damage he had done. My husband went out with his rifle and soon l heard four shots from Thrasher's gun but I did not hear my husbands at all. I could not get out of bed and did not know what had happened, al though I knew MT. Stainbrook must be badly hurt anyway because he dld
Arizona republican., 1921-04-13

Of the town and surrendered theg
 selves. They were xamined beh closed doors by Justice of the Pes
 Spicer, who discharged them as hir
 ing acted as peace officers in
 performance Of their duty.
 A little more than two years a
 this episode occurred the famCe
 Bisbee holdup in which four pers were killed, one of them. Mrs. 4
 Roberts, restaurant keeper. be
 killed by a stray bullet, he said
 This occurred on the night of cember 3, 1883 The highway,
 were Dan Dowd, James Howard
 ner w. Sample, Bin Delaney
 Daniel Kelly
 IL was about 7:So o'clock in
 evening when two of the leaders
 tered the store of Geldwater & e 1 teneda. With presented pistols, th
 stood the occupants against the M and robbed the store and safe
 money and other yaluables Outs the three others kept the street eia
 by shooting at everyone who &E-
 peared. John Tapinger was sfse
 down on a saloon doorsill as he Vs
 seeking safety. D. Tom Smith.e
 deputy sheriff, was shot twice al
 killed when he appeared on the sceEf
 Mrs. Roberts was shot throuzh F
 body when the robbers fired at a fec ing man. J. A. Molly was fssa
 wounded by Dowd- Then the out aE
 left, shooting up the lower tcH
 as they escaped out upon the plan MT. Raines declared
 James A. kreigbaum went t
 Tombstone for aid and in a sho.
 time posses were on the trail Dep uty Sheriff William Daniels hes & one of the groups and they fcun where the fugitives had thrown thei Wornout horses into A deep, rpek creviee after finding fresh mount
 a nearby ranch.
 The robber band broke up in th Chiricshua mountains, it develop but the pursuit was continued LGn iels arrested Dowd in Chihuahua ant helped by a friendly American miI.si superintendent, smuggied him h.ir int0 the United States. Delaae made his way to Minas Prietas. s nora where he was arrested b. Mexican officer who, without e< tradition papers, delivered him oss 10 be brought across the line ins box car. Kelly was arrested at Deza ing. and Sample and Howard wa1 caught near Clifton
 Among the first to join in the par suit was a Bisbee resident. Jaff Heath. Mir. Raines said. but his seS ices proved of a negative characTt He soon was looked upon with ss1s picion and after he had led the pos from the trail several times, was ia ter identified by Frank Buckles, rancher, as having been at his ranc in company with the five banois and was arrested for complicity 4 the crime. The five were tried join ly and, upon conviction. were se1 fenced to be hanged. Heath trle alone, was found guilty of murder 1 the second degree and sentenced { life imprisonment.
 The Heath verdict did not nlee with the approval of Bisbee res dents and number of them proTnpt | " set out for Tombstone. the coUn seat. On February P, 1884, a nlo took Heath from prison and hang | him to a telegraph pole in Terar stone. The five convicted and ss9 fenced to be hanged paid the des-t penalty legally March zs. 1Ssi. iuHat the direction of Sheriff Ward, til drops actuated by the cutting Of single string. Mir Rsines concluded
Arizona republican., 1921-04-13
LYNCH LAW IN THE
 EARLY7O'SPU FEAR
 |NOUTLAWS' HEARTS

The execution of John Willis and three Mexicans at Tucson in the early 70s was one of the early in stances of mob violence in Arizona, as recalled by a few of the older pio- neers of the state. It was an eX- pression of mob rule sounded as a note of warning to the unlawful, pio- neers say, and 1t had a wholesome effect in lessening crime throughout the state.
 Incidents dealing up to the execu- tions are set forth as follows:
 One night in November, 1872. at AdamsVile Ariz.. Colouey Kennedy was slain by John Rogers. The body lay yet uuburied when Bob Swoop heard of it. Bob was at Sanford at the time and being a warm personal friend of the colonel, he was deeply moved on receiving the intelligence. To have killed Rogers, even though he were a descendant of the martyr, would have afforded him some relief, but this being impracticable. he took a drink still feeling badly. he took