Arizona republican., 1921-04-13

out for him. An escort of eight sol- diers accompanied the stage out of Prescott to Date creek. There the horses and the escort was changed Just as we were going through Bells canyon, where Johnny and Arthur Robinson own a ranch now, we found dead man who had been killed by Indians and left in his tracks. About two miles further on, we passed another dead man who had been killed and his head smashed in with rocks. This was my introduction to stage driving.
 Tt is odd, but during the time I was driving stage, and it was two years and four months, I never saw hostile Indian My section of the trip was from Wickenturg to LaPaz We started early in the morning and arrived late the nex. day. This meant two days and a night of con- tinuous service. It makes me smile when I compare this with "eight hours and time and a half for over time" of the men engaged in trans portation work today. For this I got $75 month. But I was soon earn ing extras that began to average $500 monthly. It was because folks would rather trust their valuables to me, paying me s1 on each $100 valuation for the bullion and money transport ed, than to put 1t in the company's strong box, that I finally lost my job. The boss tried to establish what he called express service" after he 1 found out how much I was making and then he got sore because the peo- 1 pie for whom I had been carrying 1 valuable continued to turn them over to me.
 | Although I never clashed with the Indians or with stage robbers my self. they frequently made trouble. always went heavily armed but my ' rifle and pistol would have been use less if l had to hold down four jump ing horses One night in going l through what we caled the Deep ! Wash. about 60 miles beyond Cullen S | Wells, we ran into a war party of at least 50 Apaches. They were lying in the sands and some of them were in the middle of the road. They had a sort of superstitious fear of attack ing in the night. I think; at any rate they let us pass. although some of l the warriors had to move for us to get by.
 'AThere was a very bloody attack made on the stage on November 5 1872 The Indians ambushed the stage at the bottom of a dep draw a little ways out of Wickenburg. John Lenz. the driver, tried to rush away But they killed his nigh leader and the frightened team was drawn around into the bank Lenz was killed. So was a man named 1oring a reporter for the New York Times who had come out to write up the camp at Prescott. Mir. Adams, who kept a flour store at Phoenix. was killed and robbed of S14.00o A mar named Shohome. who had jewelry store at Prescott. ran up the road
 quite a way When the Indians caught him tEey took his hair He was the only one of the party wht !. was Scalped.
 "A man named Krueger. who va:
 Iuartermaster's clerk for Colonel Ba- ker at Fort Whipple, and his sweet heart, Molly Shepherd. a girl of tn,
 town, who was going out with he
 though both were badly wounded
 The Shepherd girl lost her money an. finally died from the effects of hel
 wound The Indians made a big hau
 that time, as there was lot of none,
 on the stage and they got it all
 Krueger and the girl were chased b.
 the Indians for a while, but Kruege
 frightened them orr by a tIlck O
 making them think the blackboard
 that came out with water for tn
 stage horses had come up. The pur
 suers rejoined their comrades and tn
 Indians got away with the loot
 "The Point of Rocks at Granite Dells was a great rendezvous fo
 the Indians. They made a good man
 kills in the immediate vicinity O
 Prescott. One man, who graZed hi
 cows below the post. was killed ove
 where the cemetery is now
 Prescott was always remarkabl
 town for money. The miners
 brought it in from the hills. Out
 siders brought it in to be spent in tn 1 mines. Always a large part of i
 and sometimes all Of it went to tn
 places along what was then calle 1 Whiskey Row. that is, Montezum
 street. Joe Crane. who had an elab l crate place where the St Michae
 hotel now stands. would frequentl
 clean up as much as s30,000 in
 single night. For d little town of e few thousand inhabitanLs- thai naaan s- a great deal"